Blogging may not be the best choice for the affiliate marketer who wants to make BIG bucks FAST. Here are some other better alternatives.

Website & Content

The obvious choice would be to put that effort into your website
and content. You can achieve the same results by simply
refreshing the content of your website. You can add to its archives
and additional resources sections (without muddying the primary
pages we established before), and still give current information and
additional value to your customers and to the search engines.

Not only can you add additional content, but you can test and
tweak and change the content you have and test it against past
versions. As you'll learn, even very small, seemingly insignificant
changes can really make a big difference to traffic and conversions.
Spend the time you would spend posting on a blog to look for ways
that you can tweak or enhance your website.

And don't forget—you've got that master site to build. Instead of
devoting time to a minimal-return blog, why not get started on
your big catch-all so that you can dominate your niche traffic?


Articles, Articles and More Articles

All the articles you write, or hire out to a freelance writer to have
written, do not need to be posted on your website. In fact, they
shouldn't be. Use those primary articles and tutorials on your site,
add some new stuff now and again to keep everyone happy, and
then submit to article directories. Utilize profile and link capabilities
to link back to your website, the authority on Widgets. (You might
know this method by other popular names, like "Bum Marketing" or
"Article Marketing.")

Social Marketing

Social marketing is what is driving web 2. 0. Instead of spending
your time on a new blog people may or may not eventually find,
spend it on the blogs of others who've already captured your
audience. Become a contributing member of the community, make
some friends, and use your wit and wisdom to get people to click
on your name, link, or profile and visit your website. Do the same
by creating pages on social websites like Squidoo and MySpace;
frequent forums and other places where potential buyers may
gather.

By engaging in social marketing, you're bringing your products to
the masses, rather than waiting for them to find you. It's a much
more active approach, and one that can be tailored to offer that all-
important focus your affiliate plan needs. Not only that, but it's a
lot more fun than talking to yourself on your blog, too, and you
won't have to worry about maintaining it when you're off on
vacation enjoying all that Big Shot affiliate cash!


Now that we've addressed the question of blogging, let's move on
and talk about the one thing that dominates the internet—playing
the web game to pull in the traffic. In the next few chapters, we'll
talk about how to run with the Big Shots that run the whole show—
Google and its peers (if Google has a true peer….). Next, we'll get
into the issue of search engines and optimizing to make them your
friends. It's crucial to affiliate marketing, so don't miss these next
few episodes.

Subscriber Lists and Mailings

This is something you need to take some care with. Subscriber
lists are not recommended for all types of products; leastwise,
building your list through squeeze pages isn't recommended for
everyone. For many sites, the presence of a squeeze page
between the website and merchant offer will only turn the visitor
of, and send them packing to the next, less demanding provider.

Still, there are ways to make subscriber lists work. If your product
lends itself to this type of sales, then spend time crafting great
emails and marketing campaigns instead.

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