Affiliate marketing has been in existence for a long time. Many affiliate marketers are making a good income comfortably from home. Becoming an affiliate marketer and finding success is mainly about making sure you get the various factors right. Given below are a few affiliate marketing myths that you need to be aware of.
Our first misconception is that people assume that paid traffic is the only way to get a larger income.
The statement is true but not telling the entire story. Yes, free traffic such as, YouTube, SEO, and article marketing can still bring lots of visitors to your site. Free traffic is good because there is no monetary investment but it can be a bit slower and less targeted than paid traffic. You have to love that free traffic. But yes, if you want to go beyond the regular affiliate commission checks and you want to make big money with affiliate marketing, then you'll have to invest and re-invest your money in paid advertising such as Google Adwords. There are always rules to the exception, there are creative ways to makes lots of money with free methods. Free traffic has filled the bank accounts of many internet marketers who have spent years perfecting their free traffic methods. So if you want to be really successful, you can start off with the free marketing methods and then move on to the paid ones.
Another myth surrounding affiliate marketing is that it works the same way as advertising. While there are similarities, there are also vast differences from the traditional forms of advertising. Some of the basis is drawn from advertising in the way exposure is generated and ways traffic is enticed. Affiliate marketing is about promoting a product, giving feedback or giving your personal opinion about a product. You can also develop and grow an immediate network.
Some will have you believe that you must get thousands of people to your site to turn a profit.
Thousands of monthly visitors won't help you at all if they aren't targeted. Sometimes it's funny to listen to the number of marketers who brag about the number of visitors they get and wonder why thy aren't seeing conversions; they forget that the traffic has to be targeted also. Going after sheer numbers of visitors is a mistake that too many affiliates make and a problem that is stopping them from making sales. Finding visitors who are ready to spend money on your offers that solve their problems is not hard. It's simple, if you start generating targeted traffic then you will see an increase in sales. It is critical to educate yourself on affiliate marketing and stay ahead of the competition because it is surrounded by myths with no substance.
