The Best Industries to Promote as an Affiliate Marketer



Despite the seemingly endless affiliate opportunities and programs available on the net, we’re going to be looking at the "best industries" today. The ones that are well-worth your time to explore. What are the big ones for affiliates? Health Wealth Beauty I would add one more: entertainment. These are the general interests and goals of us humans. We either want to look better, have more money, be entertained or be in good health. In this article, I’ll be sharing the best industries you could find yourself promoting – along with the networks that command the lion’s share of success products...

What Content Management System (CMS) Is Best For You?



Product? Check. Website copy? Check. Design? Check. Launch, go! Wait a minute, hold your horses. Are you forgetting one of the biggest issues with websites from the very beginning? What happens if your business takes off and you suddenly need to add hundreds of pages to your website or make dozens of changes to all of the existing ones? Believe me, going back to your website to make changes, manually, can be mind numbly dull and anti-productive. Your time is best focused on the future; not on the technical slog of keeping a website up-to-date. Enter: Content Management Systems Content...

6 Critical Website Design Tips for a Successful Site



Here are the website design tips you want to improve your site. Remove your web copy, killer product promotion, and authority and what you’re left with is your website design. Your design, at its core, has a lot more to do with conversions than you could have ever imagined. It’s one of the biggest, overlooked elements of marketing. This article will explore the relationship between your design and conversions. And, help by giving you helpful site design tricks and best practices to get the most from your online work. Follow These Website Design Tips. Make a Better Site. To say...

How to Pick Affiliate Program Offers Your Audience Will Love



What makes for an irresistible affiliate offer for your visitors? Is it the flashy design and advertising? Is it the compelling, well-written landing page? Is it the perceived value and associations that are doing the promotions? All of these factors are something to keep in mind when determining which affiliate offer is best for your business. This article will share the before and after of choosing affiliate offers. The Research BEFORE Using an Affiliate Program Here at AffiliatePrograms.com, we believe that you should use a combination of research and gut judgment when determining which affiliate offer is right for you;...

Why Affiliates Should Host Twitter Chats



Twitter chats and the platform is one of the greatest, free marketing tools available to affiliate marketers. Twitter gives you the instant connection to followers and interested parties which, in all, has the potential for incredible opportunities for your business growth. When it comes to Twitter: consistency is key. Twitter may seem random but there is a method to the madness if you know how to tap into its unlimited resources (aka. users). This article will share a technique that very few affiliate marketers have not truly understood nor have leveraged into their business: Twitter chats. What are Twitter Chats?...

Diversify Your Business: Creating Verticals



New verticals will diversify your business. They also create new ways to make money. Every business can expand and grow, rapidly, when the people behind it have an open mind. And, drive to leverage verticals into profitable opportunities. This article will share the process of identifying, testing and launching new verticals to diversify your business potential. How to Identify a Potential Vertical Identification of a potential vertical is the first step as you diversify your business. Verticals are present in every business but are only noticed under a keen eye or fresh insight from community members. Verticals come in many...

10 Easy (But Powerful) Steps to Create a Keyword Universe



Keyword universe isn’t just a cool sounding internet marketing fad name … it’s a real thing. Just to give you a simple definition: Your keyword universe is the total number of keywords and keyphrases you track (or want to track) that bring traffic to your website. This means that your website obviously ranks for those keywords. The term “universe” isn’t an exaggeration. A common scenario for most websites is to have thousands of different keywords bringing them traffic. However, only a handful of them brings 95% (or more) of this traffic. Many keywords bring as little as one or two...

Worst Black Hat SEO Tricks (That’ll Land You in Hot Water)



Feeling tempted to try Black Hat SEO tricks? Don't. This article is a lot different than other tutorials you can find here on AffiliatePrograms.com. This is a “never do” tutorial, which means that the techniques described here are for educational purposes only. We’re describing them so you can be aware of their existence, and use this knowledge only in some specific scenarios. For example, when you’re offered with certain SEO services and you don’t know if they’re black hat or white hat. Having this kind of knowledge can help you in keeping up to date with Google’s policies … something...

How to Increase Traffic and Shares with Content Unlocking



The idea of content unlocking is somewhat new to the affiliate marketing world. Well, maybe not the idea itself, but the term “locked content” certainly is. The basic principles are pretty simple. As an affiliate or a product owner doing business from your own website, you can choose to have some content locked to the general audience. In order to view this content, the visitor has to take a predefined action. The action can be anything that makes sense to you – the website owner and results in more business coming your way. The most common ways of unlocking content...