I’ve been reading up on how to make the most of your affiliate programs and the best ways to set up links. I know presentation is half of the solution, but for the rest, it seems to involve a lot of statistical research and data mining to verify the most effective links and ads- and it has to be done by hand.
In the past I have tried a few affiliate programs and made under a dollar total. So to make respectable amounts of money using affiliate programs you have to do a lot of extensive trial and error it seems, keep track of your results and change strategies on them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a very technical person since my main job is web development. I can solve problems programmatically, but working with statistics doesn’t thrill me as much.
I guess you can say I want to leverage my strengths as a developer to be a good sales affiliate. But I guess it’s like saying I want to leverage my cooking skills to be a good auto mechanic. Just looking to see if there’s an overlap I can find that would would help me make better earnings, and it would be nice to hear some experiences from programmers that also do a bit of sales themselves.
Making money over internet is never so easy! You need to make constant efforts to get the money in your bank. I would suggest that you first figure out your own niche in which you would like to deal. This will give you an edge over the market. Then do a little market research and see which affiliate program gives you the best deal for your niche. Select that program and earn your money.
Yep, affiliate marketing is really tons of hard work. You’re right, its pretty much trial and error and you have to do a whole lots of testing to make an offer work but in the end its usually so worth it. Especially when you get to be able to find the right keywords, the perfect traffic source and stuffs.
Im a programmer myself although kinda more just as a degree rather than being in the industry as I rarely do programming work. I can agree its hard but for me I just try to set myself in the right mood in going after the stats. I mean this is a big part of running CPA offers, there are so many metric that you can take away from your strategies just by watching the numbers. So my advice is not really try to think of it as much from the negative side of things but just try to give it your best focus.