3 Most Important Tools an Affiliate Marketer Must Have by Ray Gollis How does an Affiliate Marketer become successful? What are the factors involved in an affiliate marketers success? Are there any shortcuts to achieving the Affiliate Marketers success? There are of a lot of questions on the minds of affiliate marketers who want to become successful. Affiliate marketing sounds easy but if you ask anyone that has tried to make money online before, it is not as easy as it sounds. The wise affiliate marketer is careful in every step he takes. He should also make the best use of his abilities to earn money online by choosing the correct tools necessary for an Affiliate Marketing to succeed. We have contacted some of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business and below are the top three necessary tools for a successful affiliate marketing business. Important Tool #1: Every Affiliate Marketer must have his own website The most important tool in an Affiliate Marketer’s arsenal iscreating your own website. The first step in becoming a successful affiliate marketer business is creating a great, believable and professional looking website. The website should be the first thing on an affiliate marketers mind when creating their marketing plans. Create a user-friendly website, which will appeal to customers and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase. Therefore, you must first focus your hard work in creating a website that will accommodate to what your prospects need. The most important thing you should consider is that almost all web users go online to look for information, not necessarily to go and buy something. Above all else, make your website full of original, relevant and useful content. People will love articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in the internet, content is still king and good quality content will not only build your credibility, it can also help you achieve a higher search engine ranking. By posting relevant and useful articles, you establish yourself as a credible expert in the field, making you a more trustworthy endorser of the product or service you promote. Establishing a good character is a good step in building up a loyal consumer base. Important Tool #2: Bonuses Rivalry is extremely intense in the internet world. You must always be one-step ahead of your competition to make sure that you capture a sizeable share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every possible means to persuade prospects not only to visit your website but also to click and proceed to the websites of the products and services you are promoting. Building an opt-in email list is one of the most effective ways to gather names and email address for future sales. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free softwares, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects. Important Tool #3: Link Popularity The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. The all-important web traffic is at the top of the list of the most important entities in the internet world. Attracting people to your site should be the first step you should carry out. Do everything to achieve a high search engine ranking. Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to determine search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive reciprocal link campaign. Google uses Page Rank. What is Page Rank.? The more links and the more popular your website is the higher the rank is. Take the example of a high school. There are your most popular kids, your not so popular kids and your principals, teachers, administrators. If the not so popular kids or the trouble makers raised their hand, the importance is not there. But if you received a popular vote from all the popular kids, teacher, principals and administration that means you would get the popular vote. Same way with Google, if you are a popular website and your website is linked to other websites similar to yours, Google will give you that popular vote or Google Page Rank The Ranking if from 0-9 so the higher the score like 6,7,8,9 the better. One of the best ways to do this – at no cost at all – is by submitting articles, with your website's link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it. Another way you can do it is submitting to Forums and leaving comments in other people’s post. Also Blogs are popular, Create a blog with blogger.com or WordPress.org these are the most popular blogs on the internet. I have covered the basics of creating a strong foundation in affiliate marketer success. To maximize the affiliate earning also is Pay Per Click Advertising which will drive traffic to website almost instantly. There are many more strategies but that will have to wait for another article. I hope I have enlightened the readers on what tools you need to become successful. Another way you can create content. Is through the public domain. I am giving a way a FREE Ebook on the public domain called "Public Domain Report". Did you know that you can take the information that is on the Public Domain. This is Information that is dated before1923. Create Your Own Content From That. 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