What do affiliates need? Affiliates need to make sales. What we call network marketing is the generic name for business online. That includes affiliates. The goal of your online business is to drive sales through your website or your blog. No sales- no affiliate business.
In my affiliate experience I have found that the best way to drive sales is to have a good blog going. Once blogs are set up all right and have reach a reasonable size they take on a life of their own. The trick is to set up your blog in such a way, that this will happen even without your intervention.
Wordpress Goldmine does just that. It is the key tutorial to help you to set up a blog and promote it in such a way that you will be able to drive visitors and sales through you blog or blogs.
Affiliates need 3 things in order to drive visitors to their site and of course make sales.
#1: Understanding the importance of keywords
Many new affiliates are still very confused about what keywords really are or what keywords really mean for them.
#2: Understanding the importance of links
Links on your blog or to your blog can have a tremendous impact on your blog ranking and popularity. Therefore, understanding the importance of links is a must as an affiliate trying to drive visitors to your blog. A link can be a direct link such as http://…. Or an anchor link (words or phrase that you spell out within a paragraph which link in blue to another site).
#3: Understanding the importance of fresh content
The main reason why fresh content is so important is that Google and other search engines want to provide web searchers with the most up to date and relevant content they can identify. For this very reason there technology is constantly gathering information about new web sites and updates to existing sites.
The more your site is updated with fresh content, the more often the search engines will visit to index your pages. This will improve your chances to get your blog climb in higher ranking. As you probably already know, higher ranking means that your site will get more exposure and therefore more visitors. In the end more targeted visitors mean more sales.
