Affiliate Marketing, Is It Necessary To Have A Website?

By Author: Kelly Roy
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Someone might have told you that to earn money onlinethat 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 online without a Website of your own. As you should know by now, Affiliate marketing is you, connecting customers with vendors. The sellers have their own squeeze page or sales page. Your job as an Affiliate Marketer is to direct Buyers to their page, not to sell. Once the buyers reach the vendors Website it's out of your hands. 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 the first purchase through your Affiliate link that they might have seen in some article that they happened to be reading at the time and you would make a commission if a sale was made. Now if that customer decided to go back to ...
... make a second purchase they would go directly to the vendors Website, which means you don't make 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 is 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 seller can recognise who earned the commission on that sale and makes payment accordingly.

There are many ways to connect customers with vendors in Affiliate Marketing and I'll just touch on a three of them.

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. Simular to what you are reading now. To do this you will need 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 when someone reads your article and may require more information, they click on the link and are sent to the vendor squeeze page and hopefully makes a purchase. This would earn you a commission.

Forum Marketing: Online Forums are good places where you could promote your Affiliate Link. Forums are usually specialized. What I mean by that is, that forums are usually divided by specific categories. An example of this is, if you had an Affiliate Link to a pet shop you would go to forums for pets, dogs lovers, or animal lovers where you know that the people who would read your post in that forum already be interested in your vendors products. Each 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 a lot of 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 exact thing that you are promoting. It is like posting in a high traffic classified ad. The cost will be different depending on the location of the ad. You can place your eZine ads in specific categories' depending on your vendors products, services or memberships.

There are tons more ways to spread you Affiliate link around and generate 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 earnings? Yes.
Kelly Roy is part of 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.