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Affiliate marketer guides is a review website to find the best of the affiliate marketing guides that are out there. Affiliate marketing is currently one of the most profitable ways to make money online today but it is not in any way a "get rich quick scheme". Many people fail at affiliate marketing for this very reason, they raise their expectations far too high for their skill sets and then are surprised when they fail. The first thing you need to realize before starting your first campaign is that those of us that have succeeded in affiliate marketing have not had it handed to us. Affiliate marketers learn how to work in a crowded field and push through it to drive sales. For those fortunate enough to succeed, it is well worth the work as it can provide a constant stream of residual income. Affiliate marketers can easily earn seven figure salaries simply by setting up PPC campaigns, creating websites, writing articles, etc. It just takes time, effort, and especially knowledge to make it into a profitable enterprise.

The question I get asked the most often by family, friends, and acquaintances is: "What exactly is affiliate marketing and how do you make so much money off of it?", which is usually paired with "Why is your new site called affiliate marketer guides?". The second question is self explanatory, we help people choose affiliate marketer guides that will help them turn a profit. The answer to the first is pretty simple yet often causes some confusion. As an "affiliate" or "associate" companies will typically pay a commission based on any sales generated by an affiliate. Affiliates are typically considered any online third party that is selling a product. For instance when I convince people to buy a certain product I may earn a 20% commission on the sale price of the product. This is typically tracked through a system of "cookies" which are pieces of data stored locally on computers that can be accessed by servers to give information (for instance passwords are saved as cookies). Tracking cookies are used by companies such as Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon.com, as well as smaller companies that use affiliate software such as iDev tracking software. Standard commission from online commissions is around 20%, almost all of the programs Affiliate Marketer Guides is involved with have 20% commissions that are CPS.

There are 3 basic actions that affiliate marketers get paid for CPS (Cost-Per-Sale) which is the most common, CPA (Cost-Per-Action) which is the next most common where you get paid for a certain action, such as signing up for a survey company, and then the least common is CPL (Cost-Per-Lead) which is basically sending targeted traffic to the affiliate web site. I prefer cost per sale affiliate marketing because it typically has higher payouts and typically the chance of somebody performing some action is less than them buying a given product if it is marketed correctly.

There are three main ways that affiliate marketers sell products, these are PPC (Pay Per Click advertising), Article Marketing (writing articles then submitting them to submission websites such as EzineArticles.com), and through organic traffic (traffic that isn't paid for, typically through search engines such as Google).

PPC marketing is probably the easiest to start out with, it simply involves using programs such as Google AdWords to bid on keywords. I have many different keywords that I bid between $.05 and $.8 per click for that lead to landing pages. From these pages hopefully people buy products, typically to be profitable about 3% of the people that go to these landing pages need to buy something, for my products a 5% conversion rate is optimal. PPC requires the least work but if you become skilled in choosing the correct keywords it can be quite profitable. After trying Yahoo, MSN, and Google I can say that Google AdWords is by far the easiest and most profitable to use. For every dollar spent on advertising I typically see returns in the $1.50 to $2 range which is quite nice. Check out the PPC marketing guides section here at affiliate marketer guides to find out how to make some money off of it yourself.

Article marketing is currently the middle road for affiliate marketing, it is not the most profitable nor is it the hardest method to make money as an affiliate marketer. In order to be successful you will need to write quality articles that entice your readers to seek more information, and that is where you draw them to your landing pages so that you can sell various products. The equation for this style is pretty simple though, write quality articles and submit them to a handful of good directories such as Ezine and Buzzle then watch the traffic come in. I'd suggest mixing in some social bookmarking with the articles in order to increase traffic to the articles themselves, I go into more detail on this point in the article marketing section of affiliate marketer guides.

Organic traffic is the most profitable but also the most labor intensive way to earn money, this is my favorite option which is typically mixed with article marketing. Organic traffic is any traffic that doesn't need to be paid for, such as social bookmarking or search engine traffic. By building a web of backlinks your site will increase in visibility in search engines as well as brand recognition if the web is large enough. Organic traffic is the most common form of affiliate sales as it produces the largest amount of possible traffic, as a result you will need a larger knowledge base in order to get any traffic from search engines for your affiliate products. The "affiliate marketing guides" portion of affiliate marketer guides is made mostly for guides focusing in this type of sales.

Why do I need Affiliate Marketer Guides?

Well, it is possible that you don't need any affiliate marketer guides but that is unlikely if you plan to go into this business to any real extent. Affiliate marketing makes up the majority of my income despite spending 20 hours a week or so maximum on it. The reason affiliate marketing is so profitable is simple, knowledge is highly valued. As an engineer, I remember my computer science 210 textbook that said "There once was a power plant that was shut down for a day due to a generator problem, the engineers on site didn't know what was wrong. They hired a contractor that handed them an itemized $1000 bill for 45 seconds of work. He charged them $1 for turning 3 screws approximately 20 times counter-clockwise and $999 for knowing which screws and which way to turn them". From that point I realized that in order to make money, you need to be scholarly no matter what industry it is. If you wish to actually make money from affiliate marking then you need knowledge and in order to acquire knowledge you must learn from those that have been successful. The best source I've found for this so far is affiliate marketer guides short of one on one consulting which I would charge approximately $200 an hour for. Every new affiliate marketer guide I read I learn something from and I have been doing this for a while, everyone has their own techniques and some work better than others. I prefer to be the one making $999 by knowing what I should do rather than a guy that is paid $1 for doing things for other people. I created this website to give back, because the most common mistake that an affiliate will make is selling rather helping their customers. I will tell you that you will not get rich quick from affiliate marketing, but I did pay for my car and all of my vacations with a couple hours a week this year. Either way good luck in your endeavors and enjoy the rest of the site.

Best Affiliate Marketer Guides

My top three favorite affiliate marketing guides are: Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate, the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner, and Secret Income Streams by Sam Sterling. All of these are quality guides that I would highly recommend, they also all come with an 8 week money back guarantee since they are sold via Clickbank, some of their websites are full of pictures of cars and rich people which requires more than buying a guide to achieve, but the information itself is golden.

My personal favorite affiliate marketer guide is the Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate without a doubt in my mind. It is truly the best guide I have read out of hundreds while being relatively concise. Honestly the sales pitch on his site alone is better than most ebooks I have read, it is honestly valuable information which is free to the public. His book is relatively cheap around $30 yet his techniques can easily pay off the cost of the book in a day (I actually tested this using Clickbank as my affiliate company for a week and made $170). What I like most personally is that his sales letter is no bs, it just gets straight to the facts and allows the consumer to make an informed decision. If you'd like to check it out even if just to read his tips mid way through his sales page check it out here: Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate.