Affiliates, 3 Things You Should Own Though You Don`t Own A Product.

Affiliates, 3 Things You Should Own Though You Don`t Own A
Product.
By Radhika Venkata

1. Your Own web site:

Most affiliates put a redirect link directly to their affiliate
product. It is not such a good practice. Register a domain
that closely resembles your affiliate product website. For
example, if you are an affiliate for affiliateproduct.com web
site, try to register affiliate-product.com or
affiliateproduct.net. Follow the lay-out of your affiliate
product web site. Put content on your web site (minimum of 10
pages). Like articles and reviews related to your affiliate
product. No need to say to put up links leading the visitor to
your affiliate web site. If you have a multiple different
affiliate products, don`t mix them up and put all of those
links on same web site. Choose a multidomain host and host
your different affiliate web sites for cheap.

2. Your Own opt-in list:

You need your own opt-in list **no matter** what you sell and
your own or your affiliate product.

Start giving free ecourse or an ezine related to your affiliate
product and collect email addresses.

You need a follow up autoresponder or a maling list manager to
manage this process of collecting emails, follow up, sending
promotional emails etc. etc.

Here are two scripts that you can use them as BOTH follow up
autoresponders and mailing list managers:

http://www.autoresponseplus.com/ (http://www.autoresponseplus.
com/)

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml (http://
www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml)

3. Your Own Ezine articles:

Yep! You have to spread the word about your affiliate product.
Don`t You? Write articles related to your affiliae product and
publish them on your web site, send them to publishers, submit
them to content sites.

Do a search on Google or Altavista like `submit+article`, you
will get a big list of sites. Keep your favorites on your
Favorites folder and submit to them on regular basis.

Few tips in writing ezine articles in the affiliates
perspective: Don`t expose your affiliate link directly in your
resourcebox. Usually affiliate links comes as long URLs. These
tend to breakup. So use some kind of redirection. Only promote
one product in one article.