Wednesday, January 28, 2009

How to Choose Your Affiliate Marketing Partner?

By Asem Eltaher

One of the most significant factors, which can decide if you will succeed in online business or not, is how you chose your affiliate marketing partner. Well known and respected associate partners can offer you a step-by-step guide and take you under their wings until you succeed.

On the other side, following non qualified partners is nothing but time and money waste. You would be probably be scammed and they later leave you alone with no help or support. So, are you ready to put an end to this? Learn 4 tips how to choose your affiliate marketing partner.

1. Never forget to verify if they have high conversion rate.

The first aspect to be able to seek the best affiliate programs is to have a look at their corresponding affiliate network where you can see their accomplished conversion rate. It indicates how many visitors of their sales letters home page are turned into customers. A nice conversion rate lies between 3-5%.

2. Check their website and Ask Yourself:

Does the website look professional?

Does the website have a user-friendly and easy to browse interface?

Are they an established company?

If you were customer, would you purchase a product form them?

Would you be happy with the paying procedure or is it too complicated?

3. Never ignore to see how wild the competition is.

Another significant check to do before you join an affiliate program is to see how wild or easy the competition is. To this goal, simply type your target keyword in a huge search engine like Google or Yahoo and see how many websites are competing for the same keyword exactly. Add to this; make sure via word tracking programs that your keywords receive decent amount of searches per month.

4. A narrow niche should be your target.

On your way to choose your affiliate marketing partner, choose a moderate field in which there are no millions of web sites that promote similar affiliate products but at the same time receives reasonable amount of interest from the people surfing the internet looking for online shopping. The best affiliate program to join is a niche that you found few thousands of corresponding websites; yet your target keyword enjoys around 1000 or more searches per month. - 16089

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