Affiliate Marketing, Is A Website Necessary?

By Author: Kelly Roy
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You might have heard that to earn an income by webthat you need to create Website. Is a website necessary to be successful in Affiliate marketing? YES AND NO. Let's talk about the NO! You can generate an income by web without a Website of your own. As you might know by now, Affiliate marketing is you, connecting customers with vendors. The sellers have their own pitch page or sales page. Your part as an Affiliate Marketer is to direct Buyers to that page, not to sell. Once the buyers reach the sellers Website it's out of your control. All you can do is hope that the vendor has done their part and they are able to make the sale. Now lets talk about the YES. Having your own Website would give you an advantage in the amount of sales and possibly resales that you could generate. I explain this below.

If you were to make a sale without a Website what would happen?

The Buyer would make their first purchase through your Affiliate link that they might have seen in some article that they happened to have read at the time and you would make a commission if a sale was complteted. Now if that customer were to go back ...
... to make a second purchase they would go directly to the vendors Website, which means you you loose out on any commission on that second sale because they didn't use your affiliate link. It's easier for the customer to locate and remember a Website than a random link that they clicked on on somewhere. This is where a Website could be necessary if you're looking to get additional sales to that customer. For those of you who might be wondering what an Affiliate link is I'll explain. It is a link that has a special code imbedded in it so that the vendor can knows who earned the commission on that sale and makes payment accordingly.

There are many ways to connect buyer with sellers in Affiliate Marketing and I'll just touch on a few.

Article Marketing: This is where you write a short article about the product, service or membership that your Affiliate link will send the Buyer to. Something like what you are reading now. To do this you will have to do your own research on these products, services or memberships so you can tell others about them. Somewhere either in the body of the article or in the provided space at the bottom of the article you can place you Affiliate Link. So as someone was to read your article and may require more information, they click on the link and are zipped to the vendor squeeze page and hopefully makes a purchase. This would earn you a commission.

Forum Marketing: Online Forums are great places where you could promote your Affiliate Link. Forums are normally specialized. What I mean by that is, that forums are usually divided by specific topics. An example of this is, if you had an Affiliate Link to a camera shop you would go to forums for cameras and photography where you know that the people who would read your post in that forum already be interested in your vendors products. Every time you post on a form you're putting your Affiliate Link out there. You will have to read the rules on using links in each specific Forum or ask the users of the Forum if they know?

eZine Advertising: This will probably cost you some cash, because many eZines charge you for this servicefeature. In Affiliate Marketing this is a good way to expose your Affiliate Link to groups of potential customers who are looking for that one thing that you are promoting. It is like posting in a high traffic classified ad. The cost will vary depending on the positioning of the ad. You can place your eZine ads in specific categories' pertaining to your vendors products, services or memberships.

There are many more ways to spread you Affiliate link around and earn an income by web. So again in affiliate marketing, is a Website necessary? No, not at all. But would a Website boost more traffic and commissions? Yes.
Kelly Roy is involved with a Membership Affiliate Program which has shown to be very successful for the thousands of people who have already given it a try. Check out his website at Incomebyweb.com and see for yourself.