My Affiliate Marketing Philosophies

1. Trust and Traffic Are Everything

• The guiding principles behind all of my affiliate marketing strategies

2. Promote Products You Can Recommend or Have Used

• Promoting good products builds trust and establishes your authority

3. Earn the Reader’s Trust With a Good First Impression

• Design and speed matter
• Have a point of view
• Transparency about your links build trust
• Refer out to quality, trustworthy sites
• Grammar counts

4. Don’t Use Tricks for Clicks

• Don’t throw in a bunch of links
• Don’t hide that it’s an affiliate link

5. Qualified Traffic = Affiliate Sales

• Keywords need traffic potential and to be extremely relevant

6. Content Should Be Long Enough to Cover the Topic

• Write it because people are searching for it
• Why I treat my website like a textbook
• Affiliate links will naturally follow

7. What Gets Measured Gets Managed

• Tracking lets you know what’s working
• Free Google tools can help you figure out what’s underperforming

8. Follow the Rules

• Builds trust with the reader
• Reduces risk of getting your account revoked

9. Diversify – And Have a Backup Affiliate Plan

• Programs can get shut down or change commission rates
• Create your own product for a new income stream

10. Keep Going and Be Patient

• This takes a long time. It’s an investment.
• Every article you publish is a stock in your own company. It compounds.