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There are tons of companies and webmasters using affiliate programs to boost their online sales and most of these affiliate programs are free to join. When you sign up for an affiliate program, an affiliate link with a unique affiliate ID which will assign to you. The affiliate link is used for marketing the products of your merchant. When a visitor buys an item through your affiliate link, you earn affiliate commission. Here are the steps to starting an affiliate marketing business:

Steps:

1. Join an Affiliate Program. Clickbank.com is the largest e-book marketplace where you will find many of sellers recruiting affiliates to market and promote their e-books and information products. All the affiliate programs in Clickbank are free to join. Before you sign up for any affiliate programs, it is always best to do some research on the program. Find out which products are most popular, the product's conversion rate and visit the sellers websites to see whether their sales letters are convinced enough to generate sales. A conversion rate of 5% is reasonably good. This means that for every 100 people landed on your merchant’s website, 5 visitors will place order.
2. Promote an affiliate program through a website. You will have more options in sending potential buyers to your affiliate programs if you create a website to promote your affiliate programs. Building a website has been made easy by using a website builder. There a number of free website builders you can use to build a website and I suggest you try Bluevoda Website Builder. The site builder can be downloaded at http://www.bluevoda.com. It allows users to create website without HTML knowledge. Take some time to learn how to operate the site builder by watching their video tutorials and do some practices before you start creating your website. Also visiting other professional websites of your niche is a good way to get some ideas on how you want your website look like.
3. Decide the Content on Your Website. As you are promoting e-books, you can write a review on each e-book with an affiliate link to the sales website of each e-book. If you do not wish to write reviews, you can create a product recommendation list on your website (e.g., ‘Top 5 SEO e-books,’ ‘Top 3 MP3 music download,’ etc.).
4. Drive Targeted Traffic or Visitors to Your Website. To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days).
5. Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising. You can get a lot of targeted traffic from PPC advertising programs. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base on your bid amount. Besides that, PPC advertising programs will distribute your ads to websites of their content networks also. To learn more about PPC advertising, please visit http://www.google.com/adwords.
6. Article Marketing. Writing an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckloads of free traffic to your website.
7. Post Messages on Forums. Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. You can start forum marketing performing a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join several forums you have found. Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option. Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.