If you want to make lots of money selling affiliate products online, then the affiliate review site method might just be what you’re looking for, but a word of caution before you get started.

Recommending affiliate products to your blog readers or email subscribers can be a very lucrative way to make a good living online however it’s important that the recommendations you make provide real value.

In the world of the internet, building your credibility is the most important thing you can do to ensure a long and sustainable business online. The caveat or warning for you is that if the product you’re recommending turns out to be trash, all the work you’ve put into developing your credibility can be greatly diminished in one fell swoop.

So how can you avoid that scenario? Simple. Buy the product.

Once you own the product you are in a much better position to determine based on your own experience with it whether or not it will help your readers and subscribers to build their businesses.

When you personally own and use the product you can spell out the advantages as well as the disadvantages. You can also tell what level of marketer would be better suited for it and advise accordingly.

Another advantage to owning the product is that you’ll be able to develop or locate products and services that you can use as bonus offers to encourage sales through your affiliate link.

The bottom line is that if you want to build buyer confidence in your recommendations, owning the product and sharing your results or findings will go a long way in building your credibility with those you sell to in your  market.

An easy way to accomplish this is by creating a simple review video, showing your prospective customers the download area. I’m not saying to show them the product, because that would just defeat the purpose and get you into legal trouble, but you can show them the page where the download links are give a brief synopsis of what the product does and what can be expected.

You can use a simple screen capture program like Jing to make your videos and upload them to Youtube or your blog.

Selling affiliate products online using the affiliate review site method or by creating video reviews is a powerful way to generate easy affiliate commissions provided your reviews are based on real time data from your own experience.

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Thanks to the variety of new blogging platforms available it’s very easy to start a business on the internet. The part of the business that consumes the most time involves working to get free targeted traffic to your business fast. In this article I’m going to share 3 ways you can get free targeted traffic to your new online business quickly and easily.

The key to getting traffic is regularity but the most important component of your traffic is that it’s targeted. It’s not very difficult to get a lot of traffic to any site at  all, if you want to speed it up you can buy truckloads of traffic from various sources and crash your server if you want to but…

Getting a lot of traffic won’t do much for your business if the return on investment is higher than the actual cost to get the traffic in the first place.

So keyword research is a paramount activity that needs to be done in order to ensure that the people visiting your site are interested in the topic your writing about and are willing to spend money for more information in connection with your niche.

This leads us to marketing in watering holes where your clients gather to review, discuss and suggest their own preferences regarding specific needs in the market place.

One such place that you can find and interact with your target market is through forum marketing. By doing a quick search on Google for forums related to your niche market, you will be able to tap into the heart of your market and get a feel for what people are looking for, what they are spending money on and work at giving them more of what they already want.

It’s a good idea to find several forums that you can begin to develop a presence in and attract targeted clientele back to your site. The best kind of links to market are the type that lead readers to an optin form offering targeted information for free in exchange for your readers name and email.

By building a subscriber base you can easily notify your readers of new blog posts and double or even triple the amount of traffic to your blog without having to find new readers all the time.

Another way you can tap into your target audience is to find the most popular blogs in your niche and regularly leave comments on them. The key to making this strategy work is to leave real comments that indicate that you’ve actually read the post and make a meaningful contribution.

A good way to keep informed of new posts is to  subscribe to the authors newsletter so that eveytime there is a new article you can be notified and make your contribution. Some blogs use keyword luv and allow you to use a keyword in the name field to increase your chances of getting super targeted traffic however…

It’s not advisable to try and spam your links on these blogs because the majority of them are moderated (just like this one) and if you leave spammy comments like ‘nice post’ or ‘thanks for the advice, looking forward to your next post’, your comment will be deleted.

Last but not least another simple way to attract highly targeted traffic back to your blog is to go to Yahoo answers and look up questions related specifically to your niche and provide solid answers to the queries made by the targeted traffic you’ll find there. The key to not looking like a spammer here is to post a link back to your site in your profile.

You can post a link back to your site in the source section, but your site may not always be an appropriate source depending on the question asked, but you will generate a lot of interest in your profile based on your answers and with your link there, you will get a lot of targeted traffic back to your blog.

There are a whole lot more ways to get free targeted traffic to your new blog, but these should get you going and keep you busy for awhile.

It’s not how many traffic sources you use, it’s how effective you become at using the ones you choose.

-Nando

It’s interesting that despite the number of traffic generation products that are available on the internet, a vast majority of marketers still struggle to get a consistent daily flow of traffic to their website. Want a simple plan to help you get more traffic to your website? Keep reading…

What I’m going to share with you is perhaps one of the easiest ways to establishing an eventual tsunami of traffic to your website and the best part about it is, you don’t have to slave away at your computer for hours on end to get it.

This routine for getting more traffic to your website works even better for individuals who don’t have much time at all to invest in their business.

Individuals with limited time appreciate the value of the time they do have so they are more apt to focus on getting results and following instructions.

So let’s get into this quick and dirty traffic routine you can use to drive traffic to any website you wish.

First of all it’s a good idea to determine which methods of traffic you wish to engage in so that you can take the next step which is to…

Schedule each method of traffic generation to be applied on specific days of the week.

As an example, let’s say you decided to use forum marketing, article marketing, social bookmarking and press releases to get targeted traffic.

Instead of pulling your hair out to do all of these things in a single day, you could perform these tasks on specific days.

Monday – Invest two hours of your time into article marketing. For the first hour you could write as many articles as you can in that hour and in the next hour you can submit your articles to as many of the top directories as you can.

If you like you can work one hour in the morning and one hour at night. You’re still putting the time in without stressing yourself out.

Tuesday – You could sign up to some of the top forums in your niche and post comments for an hour or two with a link in your signature back to your site or where ever you want your traffic to go.

Wednesday – You can social bookmark your articles to as many social bookmarking sites as you can within an hour.

Thursday – Write a press release and submit it to as many free press release sites as you can within an hour or two.

Friday – You can do some keyword research and gather up some more keywords to write your articles around and start the whole process over again on Monday.

If you’re feeling really ambitious start a blog and rewrite your articles and drip feed them into your blog using the schedule function so that you can enjoy a level of automated traffic visiting your site.

As you can see when you break it down like this getting more traffic to your website doesn’t have to be as painful as some make it out to be. It’s just a matter of managing your time wisely and getting the most mileage without running out of gas.

Consistency + Frequency = Currency (in your pocket)

There are tons of ways to get traffic to your site and hopefully this post has given you some ideas as to how to get it done as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Talk soon.

-Nando

P.S. I will be releasing my brand new membership site “The Free Traffic Assassin” very soon. I’ll keep you posted.

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