You have your website, you have found the product you want to earn commissions for and sometimes you might want to promote a specific product located on an inner landing page. To create your own unique link with your affiliate id already embedded in the link, watch the video..
Video 1 – Create affiliate links to landing pages of your choice..
There has never been a better time to start your own business as an affiliate marketer. You can easily try new ideas online for as little as 50 dollars and those small ideas can grow into fully fledged businesses.
Online affiliate marketers are involved in the majority of sales that are placed online today and if you think affiliate marketing is dead, then you are wrong. Even the Goliath Google actively encourages affiliates to promote their own services. Google know that affiliates are a huge asset to their marketing and lead generation efforts.
If you are looking for affiliate offers to promote, the online health and beauty market is a multi-billion dollar industry and ripe for the picking. Most health and beauty products are consumable products that are used up by the consumer and therefore the customer retention rate is very high. As a health and beauty product affiliate, If you can provide the end consumer with exactly what they are looking for and provide quality products, the chances are they will be back to buy from you again and again.
Chose to promote a health affiliate program that will arm you with ultra targeted offers and unique products to capitalize on your customer retention rate. You should also receive repeat commissions on all recurring sales that are placed by customers who come back to buy time and time again.
When you promote these kinds of health and beauty products either as an affiliate or as a wholesale buyer, you are guaranteed repeat customers. These repeat sales allow your business to grow without you having to replace customers that have already purchased once since a high percentage of customers will buy the same health & beauty products again.
Affiliates are here and are here to stay and the affiliate evolution is in process. Are you promoting the right kinds of products as an affiliate that award you with recurring payments for repeat sales?
Imagine taking off in a small plane over a large city. The plane reaches 1000 feet then 5000 feet and remains at that height. It’s night time so it’s dark all except for the house lights. Now imagine those house lights glowing red all except for the houses with whom the occupants have a health problem they would want to solve with natural products.
These houses all have bright green lights. Hundreds of thousands of houses would have bright green lights on. A large percentage of those occupants wouldn’t want to part with any money in order to solve their health related problem with natural products. So you can count out about 90% of those green lights. That would leave maybe tens of thousands of green lights with whom the occupants would be willing to spend money to buy natural health products and solve their problem.
That’s why a recession doesn’t apply. Whilst there are people who would pay for their health problem to be resolved with natural health products, there is always going to be a market and a potential for you to make money re-selling health products that are highly targeted to niche markets.
The news and media use negative marketing to take over your mind and destroy your imagination. It’s your decision to allow them to keep kicking you down or to free yourself from negative media.
Whilst those green lights on those houses remain bright, you have the potential to supply those products to those occupants and earn great commissions. Simply sign up to the SG health affiliate program and start reaching those green lights with your health affiliate program offers.
The opportunity is there, all you need to do, is to take action!
The problem with health affiliate programs is that most target the same niches with similar products. There is no uniqueness to the products being offered. There is no USP or unique selling point. It’s OK to send your email list an offer for a similar product however is it the same product as the last one you promoted but in different packaging?
If this is the case, the offers are too similar to have an effect and encourage a would be buyer to get their wallets out and actually buy something from you. When you are looking for a health affiliate program to promote health and beauty products as an affiliate, it’s valuable to spend a little time checking the uniqueness of a product.
How many other similar products are available online? Is shipping Free for the buyer? Is the offer a bundle offer? Does the offer include 1-click up sells and email up sells. Does the product being offered have a sub-niche appeal to an already established niche? These are all some of the things to look for when looking for a health affiliate program.
Every offer you promote should have it’s own unique selling point. If it doesn’t, then your audience has probably seen similar products before and has no reason to buy the products you promote over other products.
In addition, every niche market can be divided into several micro-niche markets. Products and offers that are so specific are reasonable candidates to promote since the message being portrayed is focusing on the ‘bulls-eye’ buyers in those micro-niches. These are buyers who have not yet found what they are really looking for in an existing niche. Hence ‘micro-niche offers’. Micro-niche products convert highly since the offer is micro-targeted to a micro niche within an existing niche.
If you have ever promoted anything as an affiliate you will know that all affiliate programs are not the same. Some affiliate programs promise you the world and give you nothing in return. Whilst others make claim to only the actual real life potential you can achieve by promoting the affiliate program.
I firmly believe in the golden rule “do unto other as you would have done to you”. I try to apply this in all aspects of life and creating affiliate offers is no different.
Besides, who would want to promote an affiliate program that doesn’t convert – No One. So why then do most affiliate programs just throw together any old offer and ask affiliates to promote an untested offer. Any affiliate program that does this is abusing it’s affiliates since they are asking their affiliates to waste time testing the offer for them. This can also damage the affiliates reputation if the affiliate sends offers or advertises ‘dud offers’ that don’t connect with the buyer and could even discourage a buyer from trusting you as a trustee in the future.
The only way to avoid this is to only promote offers that have been ‘tested’ by the developer. When the developer or affiliate program owner spends his or her own money from his own pocket testing new offers before recruiting affiliates, you know the offer has been tweaked and tested and carefully fine tuned to perform.
I am also an affiliate and when it boils down to choosing the best affiliate offer to promote, it’s a minefield out there. The affiliate commission has to be good however in my experience the highest percentage payout does not necessarily mean the offer will convert well, if at all. So how do you choose the right health affiliate program to promote? I wish I had found an affiliate program where all the offers had been tested, prior to me promoting them and feeling like some kind of guinea pig.
If you are looking to make money from a health and beauty affiliate program as an affiliate marketer, all the offers you find in the SG Health Affiliate Program have been tested and finely tuned to convert. They will work for you; not as a guinea pig, but as a real business partner.
Seize the day!
I can remember when I was a young school boy, my parents travelled a lot and I went to many different schools. I was the ‘new kid’ in the class many times and at the time it wasn’t much fun being the new kid all the time.
However looking back it gave me experience many kids didn’t have. It gave me an open mind to many different schools and cultures in different countries. I’m pleased I had the opportunity to make new friends in so many places and gain more experience from exposure to many schools.
It kind of reminds me of when I first started affiliate marketing. When I first started I didn’t even know what affiliate marketing meant, I just started reading and doing. Actually putting into practise what I read and learned from products I invested in. As it turns out most of the products I purchased didn’t make me any money. But I did learn a lot and gain a lot of experience actually implementing the information.
You don’t have to struggle as a ‘newbie’ affiliate marketer for long. Because I am going to explain exactly what to do in the next few posts on this blog.
What you must do is target a narrow market. Make your website focussed on a niche carefully selected market. Don’t throw up a website and show lots of banners and and products that are not related.
You must select your keywords carefully by doing keyword research. I will talk more about keyword research in another post but for now, lets just concentrate on the basic structure of a your affiliate campaign.
You should choose 1-4 main keywords. These keywords will be closely related and you may maybe 10-15 more sub keywords that also relate to the first main keywords.
You will use your keywords to plan your website to allow the search engines to know exactly what your website is about.
For example if you are looking at targeting the weight loss market, you will have so many competitors and probably work hard for 6 months only to fail. This maybe because you need to dig further into the weight loss market and find keywords that relate to a sub market within the main weight loss market.
Here’s an example..
Top level market: Weight Loss
Sub level market: Weight Loss > Weight loss for women
Niche level market: Diuretics Supplements for weight loss in women
You have a much better chance of winning the game and owning your market when you carefully target a sub niche. In the example above the sub niche would be diuretics for women.
You would then conduct your keyword research using Google adwords keyword tool.
Once you have several small groups of keywords to work with you can then plan your website pages and articles.
In my next post I will talk about keyword research and how to apply those keywords to your website.
Resources for this post:
Setup a free website/blog: WordPress
Free keyword research tool: Google Keyword Tool
Make sure your chosen niche is trending upwards or stable here: Google trends
What have blogs, pay per click, banners, search engine optimization, link building, article posting, social media and autoresponders
got in common?
They are all forms of online marketing and ways to make money as an affiliate promoting health affiliate programs.
Here’s a quick overview..
Blogs are so easy to setup now with the advances of wordpress and other blogging platforms. You don’t even need to buy your own domain to run a blog but it would help to show your authority on your chosen niche or subject if you owned the domain.
Post 5-6 articles on your blog to get it started and add a few backlinks from other high ranking sites to get your blog indexed by the search engines. You can then build your blog traffic by obtaining more backlinks and posting more content every so often. I’ve found that posting at least one good article each month is a minimum if you want to keep climbing up the ranks of the natural search engine results.
You could write a few reviews of the health or beauty product you are promoting from the health affiliate program directory. Then add a few banners and and your affiliate links from your blog to the health affiliate offers.
If you are going to be buying clicks from a Pay per click advertising program like Adwords or Bing/Yahoo posting content on your blog with get you a higher quality score.
It’s also a good idea to build your own email list and write about 5-10 autoresponders to send out once each week to your email list.
You could add a popup on your blog or simply ad an optin form on your blog and ask for the name and email in exchange for a small gift. Your gift could be more information, a video, anything that your visitor might want in exchange for their email address. Once you collect the email address in a program such as Aweber and with permission, you have many more chances of promoting your health affiliate program offers by email over a period of time, rather than the one time the visitor was reading your blog.
Re-writing your articles and posting them to article directories is a great way of building external content and links back to your blog. You can even post to video sites like Youtube and add links back to your blog site. This will create a link-wheel which can give your blog more authority in the SERP’s.
More importantly your articles on your blog should be compelling and be written in a way that pushes the emotional buying buttons. This is a way to prime your reader into buying the health product you are promoting.
Set up your blogs and get your links and banner here…
It’s sounds easy to most internet marketers however I do know that some new affiliates need a little extra help to promote their health affiliate program offers. Here are 2 short videos revealing exactly how to add affiliate links to a WordPress post or to your web page using Dreamweaver.
Video 1 – How to add your health affiliate program links to a WordPress post.
Video 2 – How to add your health affiliate program links to your web page using Dreamweaver.
Health Products Affiliate Programs: Tips For Affiliates
When you begin affiliate marketing and promoting health products affiliate programs, unless you already have an established website with traffic you are going to need to spend time getting your website ready. The worst thing to do as a health product affiliate is to make an untargeted website. You will see better results if you chose just one or two products that relate to one another to start promoting from a health affiliate program directory
Your niche website should be all about one subject. The worst thing you could do is to advertise non-related products
on a website with content that is not related to the product you are trying to sell.
If it is a weight loss product from a diet affiliate program your website needs to be all about weight loss.
If you chose an anti ageing skin care niche, your website should be all about anti ageing skin care with lots of articles about the subject. If you are starting a new website about 8-12 articles of 500 words each is the minimum recommended amount of content. You need this amount of content to start with so Google and the other search engines see your website as substantial and relevant to a subject.
You can use the Google wonder wheel tool to obtain keywords that Google relates to other keywords and you can write about these subjects and include those keywords shown in the wonder wheel tool to get brownie points in Google’s search engine and advertising programs.
So keep your website nice and targeted with a clear heading to your website. For example if you were targeting products like whey protein from a nutrition affiliate program, your website might include articles relating to body building and fitness. Although you might also include a couple of articles specifically about the benefits of the product.
If your products are from a natural health affiliate program, you might have assorted herbal products that relate to a specific health ailment.
The point is to keep your website targeted and related to the products you are promoting. It then takes time to bring visitors to your site by posting articles on articles directories, posting on related blogs and in related forums.
Keep it targeted and don’t stop marketing your health affiliate site and you will see the results of your labour in due course.
How Some Affiliate Programs Take Advantage Of You
It often amazes me how some health affiliate programs get away with giving their affiliates so little to work with and then expect the world back.
I don’t mean to rant on about it, but imagine this:
You have your email list of trusty subscribers who read your email list as soon as it hits their inbox. What you say to your subscribers is valuable content and good‘Old honest information. – Then, you look for a suitable affiliate offer to show to your subscribers.
The problem is, if you only have a 1 page or 2 page offer to send your newsletter subscribers to, your going to have to work harder to research and create new content. That is, if you want to send the offer out several times to the same list.
This is what most health affiliate programs offer you. A simple link to a product page with little information describing the product.
Hmmm…
Don’t get me wrong, any good affiliate knows that to provide additional unique content backing up the offer, creates a more value.
So wouldn’t it be even better, if the affiliate program provided at least 10-20 pages of unique content on the products website as well as lengthy email auto-responders enticing your subscribers to buy!
Would’nt you agree?
Doing it this way, instantly makes the affiliates life a whole lot easier. The affiliate is then able to write a short review or summary of the article or content on the product website and point potential buyers to different pages of the website over a period of time.
With more pages of unique content to chose from, you have a lot more control over how you promote to your subscribers AND to make your affiliate business unique.
Here’s an example of what I mean..
Day 1 – You send an email to your list outlining the offer to aggravate the itch the subscriber might have
Day 2 – You send an email to your list to page X on the product website that scratches the itch
Day 3 – You send an email to your list to page Y on the offer website that scratches the itch
Day 4 – Send an email to your list to the sales page on the offer website (That’s right, page Z)
Day 5 – Send an email to your list to the sales page again to irritate the itch again
In the case that a subscriber doesn’t buy on day 5 you continue to..
Day 6 – Send an email to your list to page A on the offer website aggravating the itch again
Day 7 – You send an email to your list to page B on the offer website that scratches the itch
Day 8 – You send an email to your list to the sales page on the offer website
If the sale isn’t made, the process repeats.
If you only had an offer to promote with a skinny 1 page website to send your list to, you would run out of content pretty soon. And anyone else promoting that product would have an identical offer to yours.
On the other hand, if you chose to promote an offer that has a website with lots of pages and lots of content to send your list to, allowing you to chose which pages of content would be more suitable to show you list, it makes your job as an affiliate a hell of a lot easier to make sales.
And we ALL like more sales!
The next time you chose to promote an offer from a health affiliate program, make sure you chose one that doesn’t take advantage of your list by only supplying you with a 1 or 2 page offers with hardly any content.
Chose the right health affiliate program that will actually listen to what the affiliate wants to make your life easier and to make more money as a partnership for both the health affiliate program and the affiliate.