If you are like me, you do not just want to have an affiliate marketing online business, but you want to be known as a Super Affiliate, someone that makes over $100,000 per year. Have you gotten an email from an individual advising you that you cannot run your business without this super product and if you act right away, they will also give you several bonus items? They also might provide proof of how many of this super product have sold and show you that they are in the top 5 for sales. Have you noticed that the same marketing guru names are the ones selling all the products?

So it makes you wonder how these folks can be the top sellers for every product out there. Affiliate programs are the quickest way to get started in online marketing. Just about all affiliate marketing programs are free to join and you just have to sign up to sell the product, no stocking of product or shipping to deal with. Just think, no upset customers wanting to return products and money coming in on a daily basis. I know you are thinking that this all sounds too simple.

You are right, there is work involved to becoming successful with affiliate marketing. The first thing you need to start with is your own website. As you join each program you will see that all the affiliate programs will give you a website with your own affiliate link attached to it. The good part about these websites is that they look fantastic and have all the bells and whistles you need to make a sale. However, this website looks exactly like all the other affiliate websites and you cannot change or add anything to the website

If you design your own website, you can put whatever you want on the pages. As potential customers come to your website, they can read all kinds of information and even if they decide not to buy anything, it is possible they find something else on your website to purchase. As you can see there are many benefits to having your own website , especially where you can capture their email info through an opt in box. So having your own website is preferably and you can use the affiliate link to get customers to your website where you can upsell or sell other products

Of course, you do have to provide some “extras” so people will buy from you. You know you are not the only person selling this product, there are literally hundreds selling the same product. Your offers are going to have to be good enough to compete with the marketing guru’s out there on the net. I am sure you have spent thousands of dollars on products you have purchased over the years, you can think about giving away those to people who buy from you. If you don’t have any products to give away, how about a newsletter. Another idea that many super affiliates use is to offer a special “members” area of your website, with special content. The more free stuff you can offer, the better off you will be.

Let’s switch gears now and talk about links and how you need to utilize them to increase your rankings. Linking requires you to have a beau coup amount of links back to your site. Page rankings mean what page your website will appear on, and I have actually gotten mine to page 3 with very little effort. I wouldn’t use the link exchanges that you will find all over the net, they usually bury your link somewhere. Google is looking for sites that are similar to yours and that your link is very prominent on the site. For instance, if you website is about cat grooming linking to another cat website would be great. I would suggest you actually skip the links and spend more time writing articles.

Lastly, one thing that every top marketing guru has is a list of potential customers. Remember it is all about the numbers, so the more emails they can send out the better the chance of sales. Do not just go out and buy a list of email addresses. A list is only good if the people on it are looking for the item you are selling, otherwise it is worthless.

To start on your journey to Super Affiliate, remember the facts that I mentioned here. Even though super affiliates are making a lot of money, the product owner is the one making even more money. That is your real goal, to develop a program that you can sell and have other people be your affiliates.