Affiliate Marketing Guide

When I first got involved with affiliate marketing I had no idea where to start. Every blog and forum I was reading were all talking about making mad cash promoting ring tones via PPC (Pay Per Click). Not knowing any better I started pushing ring tones. My landing page looked like a 7 year old made it, my keywords costs a ton, and my ad copy was terrible. But some how I expected to make all this cash I kept hearing about.

Of course I ended up losing money and getting discouraged but what could of realistically happened? I entered a battle armed with a sling shot and was fighting against nukes and jet fighters. After that wonderful experience I realized what I was up against. A lot of the players making bank off ring tones; poured thousands of dollars into tests campaigns, had professional landing pages, proper ad copy, understood quality score, and had custom tracking scripts to see which keywords were converting.

There was no way I should of expected to compete; especially just starting out. My point is you can save yourself some time and hassle by going after less competitive niches. Of course you won’t find the volume of searches for a smaller niche but at least you will have a chance to compete in it. For most big affiliates it just isn’t worth their time to start messing around in a small niche. Use this to your advantage and set out to dominate those little niches yourself!