10 VIP Steps to a 5 Figure Affiliate Income!!

“The Internet has made thousands of people rich since the start. Ever since new online concepts, search engines, online products or services entered the market. Let’s not forget fully geared online commerce, offline businesses increasing sales via the net and the guys promoting other peoples products… also known as Affiliate Marketers.”

Now although a lot of people are getting seriously rich online, there are also a lot who try, fail and eventually crash and burn. This article is aimed at you guys, the aspiring online survivors and future millionaires. We’ve all tried something, whether it’s a game, sport or a math’s question that seemed ultra difficult. So what happens you try something and you don’t get it right the first time, well some of us will immediately give up while others will try again and again. Some eventually get it right by keeping at it and some lucky ones get shown how to do it or what not to do. After being shown how to do it, it suddenly becomes clear and wham you got it. Now the same goes for making money online – with the correct guidance and motivation it all becomes clear and easier.

Later on in this article you’ll start to see what a piece of gold this read really is, and you might end up asking yourself hell why is this guy giving valuable info like this away for free. Well that’s a valid point, but I’m sick and tired of people emailing me cause they bought this e-book or this thousand dollar product and it’s all just a bunch of bull. These so called Guru’s of Affiliate and Internet Marketing use their names to promote anything. Now don’t get me wrong some do actually offer good quality. But than you get the guys selling on hype and with nothing to back it up now that annoys me. Also you’ll find this big boy marketer selling his product for $2000 or something ridiculous like that. If that product is aimed at the newcomer how in the hell is he suppose to be in the position to buy it?? So this article is a bit of Affiliate Marketing power to the People.

I’ll be covering some of the basics, followed by the essentials needed to boost your online status and earnings to 5 figures. It’s important that you have a vision combined with goals and a set path when it comes to building a successful online business. This will keep you on track and steer you away from distractions and what not to do’s.

Now first off I want to ask you if you know exactly how power Affiliate Marketing can be? If not I would like you to close your eyes, lean back in your chair… Take a few deep breaths and imagine your on a beach, chilling under an umbrella and sipping on a ice cold Mojito… Yes, that is what will be happening when you start making 5 figures a month. I’ve come across quite a lot of people that have done this in little over a year’s time. Impressive right? Not really, it could be done even quicker if you just follow the following steps and put some elbow grease into it.

10 Five Figure Affiliate Marketing Steps to Die by…

1. Market Selection Combined with Profitability testing.

2. Competition Analyses and Market Research.

3. Purchasing a Domain Name and creating a Online Brand.

4. Setting up a quality and Relevancy optimized LSI structured Site.

5. Adding HRC (Honest Relevant Content)

6. Increase website visibility…drastically

7. Making your site Media Friendly.

8. Blog CCO (Create, Customize and Optimize)

9. Drive Traffic with or without Cash.

10. Grabbing your visitor by the throat.

Market Selection Combined with Profitability testing.

It’s been said that the key to choosing the correct market is to go for something you enjoy doing. Well not anymore folks, it’s all about the money and profitability factor nowadays. Like Tom Cruise said in Jerry McGuire “Show Me The Money”, well if you’re making money with a market that you personally love then you can consider yourself lucky, really lucky. Before jumping in and starting to promote something you obviously have to choose a topic or niche and do a bit of research regarding that topic.

You’re going to want to find out if there are related products online and if they are selling… also you will need to find out whether or not there are affiliate programs available in that certain niche. You don’t want to skip this step believe me, there is nothing as worse as doing stack of hard work for the laugh of it.

Competition Analyses and Market Research.

Competition Analysis is key to starting a successful online venture. You don’t want to stick out your head and find yourself in a space that way to crowded and demanding. The way any business starts is by seeking out the gaps in the market and then lunging toward it. So this is what you want to focus on, whether your market is newcomer friendly or not. Rather start small and work your way up then the other way around.

Competition and Market Research is easily done in Google where you will see exactly who the top dogs are and what they are targeting and promoting. Use Google to its full to see if a gap is still available.

Purchasing a Domain Name and creating a Online Brand.

Domain Names provides your site with a name tag, introducing it to the online community. It’s also something that will provide relevancy and guide people to what your site is actually about.

Domain names also play a vital role in the search listings according to Google, Yahoo and MSN. They see it as a relevancy guider and this comes in handy when your targeted keyword is in your domain. So try to have your main keyword situated in your name and if you are going to be using hyphens stick to one or two. Also when it comes to the dotcom, dotorg or which ever extensions stick with dotcom in the beginning.

Another aspect of domain names is creating and branding your website. Use a word that will stick, something associated with a certain loge, certain shape or color etc. This will provide good comeback visitors and spread the word online.

Setting up a quality and Relevancy optimized LSI structured Site.

Latent Semantic Indexing is all about keeping you’re site sorted and relevant for gaining extra authority from Search Engines. After doing your keyword research it’s important that you place all your keyword gathered in relevant groups. Each of those groups will be placed under your main topic or targeted keyword. So you will have your main targeted keyword and then you’ll have group headings under that which are called silo’s, underneath those silo’s are the relevant keywords to that group. By doing this your site will be super relevant and believe it or not Google will notice it.

Adding HRC (Honest Relevant Content)

If sex is King online than content is certainly Queen. The importance of fresh content is mistaken by thousands of online marketers… providing a visitor with what they want to know is what it’s all about. By providing honest relevant content you will not only be loved by visitors for solving their problems, but you will also be rewarded by Google. So make sure your content is good and fresh, cause after all it’s content that makes the web go round…

Increase website visibility…drastically

The most widely used method to increase a website’s visibility is undoubtedly using the search engines. This involves search engine optimization. Let’s quickly discuss the bare minimums for ranking well in Google.

On-Page: On page is exactly what it says and holds bar to what you do on your website, are you targeting your specific and related keywords, is the text bolded etc.

Off-Page: Off page optimization at the other hand is what you do outside your site, like getting people to link to you with your targeted keywords etc.

Making your site Media Friendly.

Websites are becoming more and more media friendly and some only focus on media, meaning video and audio. Just look at sites like YouTube and MetaCafe which main focuses are video. So get with the tech era and add video logs of yourself or market on those sites as well as on your site to improve your media stance. As well as video you can also add audio to your site to improve visitor experiences and to give it a more personal touch.

Blog CCO (Create, Customize and Optimize)

I get loads of people asking me whether or not they should add a blog to their site or not. Well yes go for it… get that blog up there and hosted as soon as possible so you can start posting to add more depth to your site as well as bring in more relevant traffic. Try keeping you’re blog design close to your site design, meaning colors, logo etc. One of the most vital things when it comes to blogging is yet again the content you add and how regular you add it. By updating your blog on a regular basis you will soon see and extra traffic surge coming your sites way.

Drive Traffic with or without Cash.

Make use of free services to drive traffic. Especially in the beginning where you don’t want to spend to much cash on PPC or Advertising. The following services and methods can be used for free traffic:

- Article Marketing: By writing a descent article once a day and submitting it to multiple directories will not only gain you more traffic, but also provide you with a quality backlink. Simply write your article covering your niche, then head over to Google search “Submit Article” and Submit.

- Blogging, HubPages or Squidoo: Make use of free blogging platforms, hubpages or the all powerful squidoo to gain extra traffic. It’s free, quick and really easy to setup so get cracking. Simply sign up, add good content and off you go.

- Video Submission: Use YouTube, Daily Motion and sites like MetaCafe to add your videos… Gain exposure and ultimately get traffic from it. Some of the niche related videos on youtube get more than a 100 000 views. So just imagine if you submit a good quality video to multiple sites, c’mon you can’t miss out on that.

- Leaving Comments: Especially if you have a blog it’s VIP to be active in commenting on other niche/market related blogs. Some even offer backlinks and you are guaranteed to gain extra traffic. Use BackLinkSpot.com to see who’s using do-follow tags.

- Forums: Forums are really helpful to test a market and to drive traffic to your site. Make sure you add quality and valid posts also make sure you link to your site from your signature if it’s allowed with quality and enticing text. A hot thread with a lot of views can offer quite a few clicks depending on your post, reply or signature.

Grabbing your visitor by the throat.

1. Start off by getting a auto responder (like getresponse or Aweber)

2. Create a opt in page geared towards your specified market or niche.

3. Drive traffic to your opt in page.

4. Provide content through your auto responder.

5. Up sell your subscribers with affiliate offers listed on your site.

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All the best

Jean Matthee