Mistakes From My First Month Of Affiliate Marketing

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by SOB    -->

My other post pretty much summed up how I performed, but I really didn’t mention my mistakes, and how you can probably prevent them too. They seem so obvious, but we still tend to dis-regard most of the basic rules (Ok, I do) of affiliate marketing.

Mistake #1 - If you are going to promote something, and if you can “really” avoid it, try to promote intangible products. I was promoting the hell out of Bluetooths, and was getting amazing CTR, good Q/S, everything was just great! I was promoting bluetooths via Amazon, and you would think that hey, if it is Amazon, what could go wrong? Wrong!! The headset that I was hyping, was Motorola H12, and that was out of stock on most of the days that I was pushing it. Doh! Yeah, it sucks but I realized it soon enough.

Mistake #2 - As good a tool the adwords keyword tool is, If you are new to affiliate marketing, spend some extra money and get a decent keyword generator, like keyword elite. That saved me a lot of time, and money.

Mistake #3 - When direct linking to a merchant, and Just because the payout is high, does not mean that the landing page will convert. Obvious, yeah, but do you really follow that? Lost a ton on a Clickbank direct linking. The product and payout both were good, I just didn’t think that the landing page converted well. I will however go back and promote it, but with my own landing page.

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