TheAnand

Today you are going to read about one of my top secret tools – The Google Insights and how I use it to find new niches to dominate. Google being one of the biggest search players, it is important to follow up and use every Google Keyword tool to research your niche. I have been using Google Insights for about 6-12 months now and it is definitely a great way to micro-target keywords and their trends. Also, recently I started using them to get ideas for new niches to target as I am getting out of niches to dominate!

Accountability is key in affiliate marketing. If you have started off and not done it yet, you are being stupid.

In Affiliate Marketing, it is easy to get excited to see conversions going up and money coming into your affiliate marketing account. But once you get serious about affiliate marketing, it can get pretty deceptive on your actual profits.

I used go insanely happy whenever I saw a conversion of $0.90 on email submits on my account, not any more. There is so much more involved to a successful affiliate marketer than conversions and money made. Money spent is a important factor too.

For the last few weeks, I had put a stop to my “1 site a week” stretegy and had been concentrating on my network and trying to increase the worth of it than work with numbers. I noticed this site in the network which gets pathetic traffic.

And guess how much this single site been earning?

Since my last post on my recent earnings from affiliate marketing, a few of my close friends asked me about affiliate marketing and how to make money from affiliate programs.

Making money with Affiliate Programs is easy and returns are way better than adsense. Adsense pays you per click where as affiliate marketing is all about CPA (Cost Per Action), which means you get paid when a visit clicks to the advertiser page and completes an action. The action be buying something, filling up a form or signing up to a service.

I had been talking about getting into affiliate marketing for sometime now and one of the main hurdles I faced about 6 months back was that TheAnand was my biggest site and the blog brought in bulk of the traffic. I tried applying for a few affiliate programs and most of them rejected me since the site was in a sub-domain. Here is a tip, next time you plan to build a big long term site, do it on the main domain, not on a sub-domain!! I learnt this the hard way.