Looking for the affiliate loophole secrets to make your life as an affiliate marketer easier? So was I. For years I jumped from course to course, looking for the affiliate marketing “secrets” which were going to make me rich! But the harder I tried, the more success eluded me.
Each course I bought, told me it was going to be easier than the last time! So I bailed on courses which were underway. Why wouldn’t I? Each one said it was easier than the last! Why spend months or years blogging when there’s an “easier way”?!
The trouble was, none of them “worked”! I blogged, I created videos, I ran advertising campaigns, but I couldn’t find the “affiliate loophole” which was going to make my life easier!
Affiliate Loophole Secrets
The affiliate loophole secrets I’m going to share in this article, are not so much “loopholes” but a better understanding of how to make affiliate marketing work for you.
In my early days as an affiliate, I thought that hard work and perseverance were enough to have success with affiliate marketing. But it’s more than that. The real affiliate loophole is understanding. Understanding how to connect the right customer with the right product, and letting go of preconceived ideas about what affiliate marketing is.
I had many preconceived ideas about how easy it was going to be. This is fatal to your building a successful affiliate marketing business. If you’re looking for a “loophole” perhaps you think the same. It can be easy, yes. But it gets easier the more you understand it. Rarely does the newbie affiliate marketer make a huge business success overnight. It’s usually after months or years of work when they get their “overnight success”. The hyped up claims on those sales pages are simply that – hyped claims with the goal of making the sale!
You can make a great living from affiliate marketing. But you need to go about it in the right way.
Affiliate Loophole Secrets- “Affiliate Marketer Makes a Million”!
You’ve probably seen the headlines which read “Single Mom makes a million and quits her job”, or some such claim. The problem with these articles is they don’t share the years of work that person put in previously! Or they are completely made up!
This kind of news headline is misleading and makes newbie affiliates believe they can make huge amounts overnight – which they can’t. If they only invested in such and such product, then they’d make it too!
>>>Click link here to buy<<< is usually what’s at the end of these kinds of articles!
The truth is rather less sensational, although there are affiliate marketing loopholes which can help you build an online business much faster. Just be aware though that affiliate marketing is a real business. As with any real business, it takes time to built it.
Affiliate Loophole #1 – Traffic
The first affiliate loophole I’m going to share is about traffic. One of the major problems with affiliate marketing is attracting traffic to your affiliate offers. Most affiliates struggle getting enough people to their products. When they can’t do it, they quit. Newbie mistake number 1.
Traffic can be bought or it can be earned. Paid traffic is expensive and so you’ll need a strategy to recoup advertising spend if you choose this path. Paid traffic is far more scalable than organic traffic too.
So, if you want to build an online business fast, you’ll need to use paid traffic. If you don’t want to, or can’t use paid traffic, you’ll need to come up with another strategy – such as content marketing, or some other social media strategy. See get traffic to your website free.
Paid Traffic Loophole
To use paid traffic is difficult for many aspiring affiliates. You simply cannot use paid marketing with certain products and still make a profit. Amazon, for example only pays affiliates 3-11% commissions on sales they make from the site. This kind of markup doesn’t allow for a paid marketing strategy. So you’ll need to come up with another one if you’re using this kind of program. Organic traffic is a much longer slower route and most wannabe affiliates don’t have the patience for it.
To use paid traffic you need to find products which offer high value products and large payouts. This way you can offset advertising costs in the commissions you make:
- Use high ticket digital products – high ticket means they are priced at over $1000 and digital products typically pay 40% commissions and above.
- Recurring commissions programs pay you ongoing commissions for the lifetime of the customer. Even with small regular ongoing commissions, this soon adds up and gives you a solid income which can be reinvested into paid marketing to gain traction.
- Two Tier affiliate programs pay you for sales made by your referrals.
- Use a product range not just a single product – a product range means you can earn ongoing commissions from later purchases made by your existing customers.
Ideally choose an affiliate program which offers at least one of these benefits if you want to use paid marketing strategies. It will help heaps! See SFM Digital business System for a product range which offers all these benefits.
Affiliate Loophole # 2- Organic Traffic Loophole
Of course a strategy like the one described above can work well with organic traffic too. You just need the patience, and a good strategy, to make organic traffic work for you.
If you’ve tried blogging or organic video marketing already, you’ll know it’s a difficult journey getting any traction in your website traffic. Here’s an article about getting traffic to your website free using some standard practices. But it’s tough with all the competition, especially if you’re in a competitive niche.
This article, and many others are specifically chosen for the low competition for the keywords in the titles. Find the keywords through using Google’s keyword planner and targeting only the low competition keywords which you have a chance of ranking for.
Organic Traffic Using PDF’s
Organic traffic is hard to come by in almost any niche these days. Google is constantly changing their algorithms and unless you’ve been at it for a while, chances are your content won’t rank very well. Google uses many signals to determine whether or not to rank an article. Main obvious ones are:
- Content quality
- Time people spend on your content
- Back link profile
- Where these links come from
- Length of your content
But you can get round spending months or years on content by aiming for the long hanging fruit. Use long tail keywords which don’t have much competition or create pdf documents which are being searched for in your niche.
Pdf’s often have very much less competition than other keywords within most niches. To find the ones being searched for already, type in your main keyword into the planner and add a pdf keyword. Here’s a few I created on this site:
A practical guide to affiliate marketing pdf., Affiliate Marketing Books PDF , Amazon Affiliate Marketing PDF, Affiliate marketing for dummies, Affiliate marketing 101 pdf, Affiliate marketing pdf, Clickbank Secrets pdf, affiliate marketing secrets pdf, learn affiliate marketing step by step pdf, affiliate marketing blueprint pdf.
Organic Traffic – Niche Websites & Keyword Domain Names
Another “affiliate loophole” you can use to get organic traffic is keyword domain names. A keyword domain name contains the keyword you’re targeting within the domain name you use to build your niche website around. See also how to build a niche website and get free traffic.
15-20 years ago keyword domain names were the big fad. You could purchase a keyword domain name, build a 3 page website on it and rank at the top of Google for your main keyword with it. Nowadays things are a little different and the keyword domain name doesn’t carry so much weight as it used to.
You’ll still need to build some quality content on your site for it to rank on Google. But it still can make an impact on your ranking, even though it’s less than it was before Google updated its algorithms with updates such as Penguin and Panda.
Ideally, find a keyword which offers low competition. That’s where a keyword domain name can have the largest impact. I’ve used keyword domain names successfully too for local businesses to beat the competition. Here’s a few websites I built which used domain name keywords and where it helped with a ranking:
harrogate-photography.co.uk – This one smashed to other local photographers off the top spot for years, much to their displeasure!
affiliatemarketingmentorsonline.com – the domain name keyword has had an effect on ranking
bradfordwingchun.co.uk – This strategy works best for local businesses with little competition. Here’s my kung fu school based in Bradford.
Affiliate Loophole Secrets- Summary & Takeaways
So there’s a few of my affiliate loophole secrets which I’ve used to generate traffic and make more sales. I didn’t even mention the power of email marketing either! Email marketing deserves a mention in affiliate marketing loopholes. Although it’s technically not a loophole, but a genuine marketing strategy, it’s worth doing if you’re going to take affiliate marketing seriously.
Here’s my top loopholes to add to your business strategy:
- Build an email list – affiliates should build a list because it’s the best way to grow traffic you own
- Use long tail keywords and target them for blog posts (and videos on YouTube)
- Choose products which offer larger commissions and recurring income. See high ticket affiliate programs and recurring affiliate commissions.
- To use paid marketing, which is faster and more scalable, use the SFM Digital Business System.
To get started with training and a product range you can access, start here by accessing the SFM Mentors All In program.
