Entering the online affiliate market can be hard these days.  There are lots of people attempting to make it part or full-time online as affiliate marketers, and those numbers definitely play against you when it comes to PPC and organic search engine optimization.  It can be costly to begin building traffic, and in some cases you still won’t get the kind of traffic you want. Let’s look at a few things you can do to shift the odds in your favor.

Firstly, learn to write articles.  Article marketing is free and will bring you quality, targeted traffic for months.  It takes time to learn to use PPC and profit, so allow yourself to dabble in PPC while focusing in article marketing for the time being.  You will find plenty of prospective buyers without spending a penny in (PPC) advertising.

So let’s get to the real topic of this article – finding alternatives to Clickbank.  Why?  Because Clickbank (CB) is saturated with affiliates and want-to-be-affiliates, so your competition is very steep.  The most popular Clickbank products, the ones that really sell, will cost you a fortune in PPC campaigns.  It is surprising that so many new affiliates do not realize how unnecessary Clickbank is.  The real benefit to Clickbank (CB) is convenience, in that you can search products all in one place, you get paid from one source, and you only need one account to do so.  The benefits of using other sources, in my experience, far outnumber those CB conveniences.  Let’s look at other options.

Be aware that most sites offer their own affiliate programs.  Do a quick search for a topic that you want to find products for.  Find several of the top organic search results pages that offer a product for sale.  Now scroll to the bottom of those pages (in most cases).  On a lot of these sites, you will find a link for “Affiliates”, “Join Affiliate Program”, “Partners” or “Become a Partner”.  While there may be other variations, but its clear that you are seeing an affiliate program.  Click there and sign up with the sites that you want to promote with.  Many direct affiliate programs offer more options and better commissions than Clickbank (CB) programs, and you have the added benefit of competing against much smaller numbers.  Also try to select programs that don’t also have a CB program to avoid the same competitive position as before.

Go straight to the product vendors and become affiliated with them, that way you put yourself in the select position of being one of the very small share of online affiliates who are working with individual companies, which gives you a great competitive edge.  It’s amazing to see a campaign that costs almost nothing yield great results, after having been used to expensive campaigns drain your money.  Taking yourself away from the masses of Clickbank affiliates is a great strategy.  Let the professionals dominate it and let the want-to-be’s throw their money away.  This way, neither of those will stop you from getting your share, nor cause you to pay more than you need for PPC ads.

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