People who are new to Affiliate Marketing make many mistakes when first starting out and even more continue to make these mistakes as they continue on through out their careers as affiliate marketers. As easy as most people make affiliate marketing out to be, very few will highlight the following DONT'S When marketing your affiliate products:

Here is a list of the 5 Most Common Mistakes Of Affiliate Marketing that will cost you your sales!

1.) Directing Your Lead Straight To The Affiliates Sales Page: (Big No No!)

Why? Simple....Just imagine this...you decide to promote someone elses product, you work your butt off trying to get people to click on your affiliate link, you even pay to advertise your affiliate link, then comes along your potential customer who clicks your link then five seconds later leaves that page for whatever reason. What now? You have basically lost that customer for good and this is not what you want to happen! You have worked hard to get your affiliate link in front of a potential customer interested in the product you are promoting and they left. Now for some reason that potential customer later decides they want to take another look at that website, what do you think they would do? They are probably going to remember the name of the product, either search for it on Google and go directly to the site or type the name of the browser and go to the website. Do you think this potential customer is going to type your affiliate ID or even remember it to start with?

Which brings me to the next mistake which goes hand in hand with this mistake.

) Doing Affiliate Marketing Without The Basic Necessities (Website, domain name and autoresponder)

I realize most affiliate websites say you can start making money online without your own product, without your own website, without anything at all! Truth is you CAN make money this way but you will be losing more than you make! Do not be scared of having a website! You do not need to create a huge complex site, all you need is a simple 1-5 page website to collect "leads" to build your mailing list. By doing this you can first collect a "lead" (someone who is interested in the niche you are advertising for) and after they are subscribed to your list, you have not lost the possibility of getting this "lead" to buy your affiliate product even if they initially left your page as you can always contact them again with your affiliate link. you can even promote various other products in that niche to them over and over again in the future!

Anyone who isn't serious enough to buy web hosting, a domain (.com name) and a membership to an auto responder service isn't likely to make it very far as an affiliate marketer period!

Trust me, you will make back that small investment in no time.

3.) Insufficient knowledge about the product you are offering

There are so many people out there who want to give affiliate marketing a try so they just go out and search for the product with the highest payout and Wham! they hope to get Big sales! Firstly, they have absolutely NO idea what they are promoting because they obviously haven't bought the product themselves or they have not done any research on the product itself! The people on your mailing list will think you are a joke not to mention if you recommend products that are garbage you are going to lose your credibility and their trust! If you are going to go ahead and recommend a product that you haven't yourself tried first, then at least do the smart thing and do some research on the product. Read other reviews on that product and see what people on forums are saying about the product, then write your own review on the product before you get it out in front of your leads.

4.) Signing up for too many affiliate programs

If its a bad idea promoting 1 product you know nothing about, then what does it say about you if you are promoting 20 products you know absolutely nothing about? This is just the simple fact! Even if You don't do your research, people Buying ALWAYS do some sort of research and imagine if just 1 of the 20 products you are promoting happens to be pure garbage? What would that say about the other 19 products you are promoting?

Take part 3 seriously and buy the products you are promoting or at very least read the sales page a few times to learn what this product is going to do for your subscribers.

5.) Not using a proper link cloak to cloak your affiliate link

Please go to this link http://tinyurl.com/234sup5

If you asked me to click on the link above, I wouldn't! I just would not and I'm sure most people wouldn't either!

That's why you need your own domain followed so that you can create a great looking link that everyone will click -well that's the idea right? :

www.yourdomain.com/ProductName

Firstly, its a great deal more professional and its also easier for people to remember. Also most people tend to dislike affiliate links for some reason. Maybe they think if they went straight to the site, they may get the product for cheaper! So what do they do, they remove the affiliate id from the link and go straight to the product page.

Well there you have it. However, if you really want to know every detail about actually getting affiliate marketing right then you have to get it straight from the Masters themselves. When you talk about affiliate marketing, only 1 name stands out and that is Ewen Chia - The World's Number 1 Affiliate Marketer.

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About the Author

Click here to Get started with your online marketing journey Sharon has been an affiliate marketer since 2002.She also owns and runs an established Beauty business for the past 10 years.