Since I’ve been going in a bit of a different directly lately working on my own products - and having a bit more success with that than I have with affiliate marketing.  I’ve not given up on affiliate marketing - but I’m wondering if maybe I need to try things a bit differently.

Landing Pages

Yes, the almighty landing page.  I’ve actually not delved into landing pages - and I’m wondering if this might be partly the reason why I’ve not done so well with the affiliate marketing.  I know that there are lots of landing page experts out there and maybe I totally missed the boat.  My guess is that yes, I did miss the boat.  But that doesn’t mean that I can’t float a boat or two out onto the Internet and see if I can catch a sale or two.

I know that it’s going to take more than a $25 gift voucher to some PPC site to see if I can really make a go of it.  I’d been reading that one should have about $1000 saved up to use towards marketing.  Always be on top of your keywords - shuffling out those that don’t convert.  Then if needed use an A/B landing pages to see which converts best.

I swear this is turning into an Olympic event!

A/B Split Testing

I think really you do need to have a bit of money set aside if you’re going to make a go of this aspect of affiliate marketing.  If you’re hungry for the $$ you have to be willing to take some of your hard-earned savings and risk it.  Because it is a total risk - you don’t know if you’re going to make your money back and honestly if you’re new at this - I would think you would lose it the first time around.  It’s a risky biz. but it looks like there are plenty of people out there making good money from it.  So why not give it a whirl if you have the money to spare.

So the A/B Testing - from what I understand is that you don’t go tweaking the hell out of your landing pages.  If something isn’t working and your not converting there might be a very small reason why - like having a bit of red text on your page to showcase a tip or a title.  It could be too many images or not enough.  Is there enough “flare” on your page (you know those little button images you see - like “seen on oprah”, “seen on tv”, etc).  You need to instill confidence in the visitor to click - you can’t have too many distractions or choices for your visitors on a landing page - this is your way of funneling your visitors to the product for them to buy and for you to get a commission.

Seems simple enough right?

… hahaha… wait a minute

Well - I’ve yet to try the landing pages.  I have yet to come up with a $1000 to start a good campaign.  For the most part I’ve been a totally cheap bastard.   I’ve been relying heavily on keywords and organic searching.  Which I’m sorry to say takes forever in a day to accomplish anything.  PPC gets more visitors to your landing pages faster.  That’s my take on that - not to say ignore the organic search - but that would be for the long haul - for better results later on… keywords/organic search.  For the here and now I’d roll with PPC if you have the courage/money to give it a try.  And I would say research first - take those offers and know what you’re getting into.

I’m thinking of giving it a whirl… see if I can sort out good landing pages from bad.  See where it takes me - it would be the first time I’ve attempted to do it.

I’m curious what you think, so let me know what you think about landing page marketing for affiliate marketing - has it worked, am I off my rocker?  Let me know!

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