Affiliate Marketing is Harder than You Think

When you first start out working on the Internet the first thing you seem to come into contact with is affiliate marketing. It seems that everyone who has ever created a product has an affiliate pro gramme to go with it. There's obviously a very good reason for this and that is because from the owner/producer of the of the products perspective, they need affiliates to increase their sales. And it is a good system because it does work. It works for the owner/producer of the product and it works for a handful of affiliates. From the newcomer's perspective they need to get themselves into that handful of affiliates for whom affiliate marketing works. This is a lot harder to do than you think

Once an affiliate marketer reaches the handful of what has become known as 'super affiliate' status, then they do start to really make the money. To get to this point though it takes a lot of mistakes, a lot of learning new programme's and skills and a determination that is uncommon. The question every new affiliate person needs to ask themselves before outlaying time or money is "do I have the ability to do this?" Ability in this instance means the determination to stay the distance to get the job done and the ability to learn all the new skills required.

One of the skills required is the ability to make your own websites. Many affiliate programme's tell you that you don't need these skills because they provide the website for you. And they do but it is what I have learnt to call a 'generic site' where all that products affiliates have the same website because they can't personalise it or make it individual so in the end Google looks at it and they see they have 9000 of the same websites in their index so they start to de-index sites. So if you fall under this category you have virtually been wiped out of the game.

That is only one of the most basic problems facing a 'newbie' affiliate marketer so if you want to learn some of the mistakes so that you don't make the same ones then you need to hear the other side to all the hype that is on the Internet today.