Affiliate Marketing With Search It!'s Help

Affiliate Marketing

Your visitors may not respond to your primary "Most Wanted Response," but they may be attracted to one of your secondary offerings if you diversify.

The key is to never be dependent on any one income source -- "all your eggs in one basket" is a high-risk strategy. By diversifying, you increase your revenue, stabilize your business, and take charge of your own business destiny.

With monetizing in mind, let's look first at the affiliate marketing model, assuming that this will be your primary model...

Grow a list of good merchants with affiliate programs that have product lines that fit your business niche. Then choose the best ones and group them according to high-profitability keywords.

First, we'll brainstorm a list of keywords (search terms) and then chose the best. Of course, Search It! will be our super-efficient assistant to find possible partners...

Search It!

Solid research sets a solid foundation. That's why the strategies below try to cover almost every angle for choosing possible partners. However, being this thorough can be overwhelming, especially if you are already time-crunched. So pick and choose the strategies that you know you can realistically execute.

We highly recommend that you do at least four types of searches if at all possible. You want to increase your chances of finding quality affiliate programs that fit best with your business blueprint. But more importantly, you want to be confident about the merchants that you represent.

1) A good place to start your search for merchants would be at the Search Engines! Do a search for one of your keywords, plus the word "affiliate." Let's use this example...

+fashion design +affiliate

(The "+" sign means that both words must appear on the Web page returned by the search.)

Now open SBI!'s  Search It! and do this search...

Straight up Search (STEP 1) > Google, no quotes (STEP 2) > +fashion design +affiliate (STEP 3)

If you have time, try a second search for the same term and compare...

Straight up Search (STEP 1) > Yahoo!, no quotes (STEP 2) > +fashion design +affiliate (STEP 3)

2) Directories are also a good place to research potential partners. An interesting place to start is...

Straight Up > Yahoo! Directory, no quotes (STEP 2) > fashion (STEP 3) > fashion design (STEP 4)

Since this is a large directory and there is a substantial annual fee, it has only serious merchants. Many of the sites listed here will have affiliate programs so this search is like hitting pay dirt in a gold mine. Simply enter your Site Concept word and hit Search It!.

By using Search It! to find affiliate partners, you'll develop a serious list of merchants that will help you diversify your offerings and boost your Conversion Rate!

The affiliate marketing model is a strong income-generator. SBI! can put this model on overdrive. For more, click here for our Affiliate Marketing page.