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from:It’s easy to learn the basics of affiliate marketing just by researching the Internet but there are some important points that seasoned affiliate marketers have learned through experience. Consider the following:
Market to People, NOT to Search Engines
If you’ve been interested in Internet marketing or affiliate marketing for very long then chances are you’re familiar with Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short. Countless articles, blogs, and books have been written about SEO, which if used properly, is supposed to help rank your websites at the top of the search engine results. The problem is that all too often, affiliate marketers try so hard to market to the search engines that they completely forget about marketing to their customers. In the end, if customers don’t find your site compelling, it won’t matter how high in the search results your site is ranked; customers may click on it and enter it but if they don’t find what they’re looking for, they’ll quickly leave.
If Customers Like Your Website, so will the Search Engines
If, instead of concentrating on search engine marketing, you concentrate on offering a useful website to customers, you’ll discover that the search engines will follow suit. The truth is, search engines usually like what the customer likes. Now, this doesn’t mean that things like keywords and meta tags aren’t important, it just means that customers are more important. Customers are looking for fresh, relevant content that will help them solve their problems, whatever they are. Maybe they are just looking for information, maybe they are looking to buy something; either way, solve their problems and they won’t just click on your site, they’ll hang around awhile and maybe even buy something. It’s important to learn early in your affiliate marketing career how important customers are.
So Many Choices
No matter which niche you choose to market in or which products you choose, you are likely not the only one promoting those products, or at least similar ones. Competition is keen and savvy affiliate marketers go the extra mile to make their websites user friendly, attractive, and full of useful information. Anyone can slap up a website filled with links to a gazillion products but customers want more than that, much more.
Think about some of the sites you visit and why you visit them. Also, think about the websites you may visit but quickly leave. Your potential customers will leave for the same reasons you do. You may have to experiment with a few different variations before you hit the right combination but you won’t go wrong if you keep customers and not the search engines in mind when you are planning, designing, and updating your websites.
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