Affiliate Marketing Tips - Do's & Please Don'ts

I'm going to keep this short, and Yes I know Dont's is not a word...

First The Dont's...

Please Don't:

1. As Public Enemy has said - "Don't believe the hype"
2. Write articles linking directly to an affiliate products sales page.
3. Make any moves without thoroughly researching.
4. Spam anyone under any circumstances.
5. Promote a product or service just because the gravity is high at clickbank.
6. Use black hat marketing strategies, they never result in residual income.
7. Go crazy posting links all over the web without some kind of tracking method.
8. Go straight to adwords or buying traffic without any knowledge of whether or not the offer is converting.

Literally I can go on all day, but I want to keep this post short and to the point. Believe it or not, while most of these "dont's" seem obvious, they are some of the most common mistakes made by new affiliate marketers.

The do's will either rebuttal the don'ts, or explain why their don'ts in the same numerical format.

The Do's...

1. Getting sucked into the hype of affiliate marketing being easy, is the biggest reason for affiliate marketers failing before they ever get started.
2. Sure, linking directly to sales pages can work, but it will never work consistently.
3. Research is king, keywords, competition, conversion rates, click through rates. (ect.) without research your trying to get somewhere on a treadmill. 
4. You will eventually be caught using SPAM as a method of promotion, unsolicited emails only make people sick.
5. Clickbanks gravity stat is NOT a research tool, a product can have a gravity of 500, but it could have been 5000 last week. (ie. its not selling or being promoted anymore)
6. Black hat marketing strategies, when effective, never stay effective long enough for it to be worth it.
7. Without tracking your efforts your chasing your own tail, track, test, and optimize should be a creed you live and die by.
8. Put the hard work in early, find out what works and what sells before you start investing money into it. Just because it's working for the Guru on the video course your watching doesn't mean it's going to work for you. In most of those video courses you have no idea whats going on behind the curtain.

For me to say stick to these do and don'ts and you'll be successful would be a bold face lie, they're just guide lines that can greatly improve your chance of being successful.

Good luck to you,

Joe D
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