Strategic Planning For Your Affiliate Marketing Business

When someone is interested in starting a affiliate marketing business, they generally go to the Internet to get more information about starting their own affiliate business. Once there, they find all kinds of affiliate programs they can join and read all about people that has become an overnight success and made thousands in short order.

The new prospect begins to believe all they have to do is join up and they too can become an overnight success. Unaware to the new prospect, they don't realize that online affiliate businesses only have a 3% chance of making it a success, that means, there is a 97% chance of failure.

Out of the 3% that have a chance of making their business a success, just how many overnight success stories do you think will come out of that? I would venture to say probably less than five percent has an overnight success story they can tell.

There are some that have made a great deal of money in a very short order of time, but that's not the norm. Success in affiliate marketing will take time, dedication, strategic planning and a lots of hard work, but it will be worth every effort you invest.


In your strategic planning stage, you must consider having your own website or blog for your affiliate marketing business. Blogs have become very popular now a days with the search engines ,because of the content being posted at regular intervals. Blogs and websites are a dime a dozen, you will need to set your site apart from the rest. Professional looking website or blog will be more appealing to your visitors when they come to your site.

Next in your strategic planning stage, you have to decide if you want to build your own website or blog. Building your own blog has become easier since the Wordpress has evolved. With a little hard work and patience you can have yourself blog with very little expense. Remember, if you are going to build your own blog you must do the tweaking to make your blog search engine friendly and utilize all the plug-ins as well.

If you choose to build your own blog or website, then there are options you might want to entertain. If you don't have the ability to do everything from the start and build website to its completion, then consider using a template that are available on the Internet, this can be a real time saver. There are plenty of sources on the net you can consult with.

If all this sounds a little daunting to you, then you can make the decision to have all this professionally done for you by a SEO (search engine optimization) company that specializes in building blogs or websites. But, before you get your website you must choose your niche market for products or service you want to supply, this way, you can build your blog around your niche.

Having completed your choice for your niche, you want to consider your domain name . Choosing the right domain name is crucial to your success, you want keep with the theme of your site and keep everything relevant. Always when choosing a domain extension, you want to use the dot com (.com) extension, this is the most popular. Your next move will consist of getting a web hosting company. It is important to consider just how the secure the servers are and if they are down more than their up.

Learning marketing strategies and search engine optimization is of vital importance to having a successful business. If you have a blog you can learn to post fresh article content laced with relevant keywords and keyword phrases. Visitors will find you on the Internet through your keywords that you use.

It's imperative you learn about the keywords and keyword phrases, some are very competitive and it will take a lot of work to get decent ranking for them, so choose your words carefully.

Having chosen your words carefully, it's time to use this acquired knowledge in your article marketing content you post on your site. Posting fresh informative content on your blog will get the attention of the search engines and in turn, if you have done everything up to par, they will be sending you targeted traffic to your site.

Next, don't forget to submit your article to the article directories, this will help you build backlinks, which are crucial to your ranking in the ratings game with the search engines. The more relevant links you have to your site the more the search engines will show you love. Always put your URL at the bottom of all your articles.

Applying strategic marketing techniques on a consistent bases, will no doubt bring you much success in your quest for a successful affiliate marketing business.