I'm really frustrated. I've been trying to make affiliate sales but it seems nothing work at all. I wonder how to generate relevant traffic...I'm ready to learn from courses but what's the best site to learn about this?

There are a lot of sites to learn. Don't go to forums.digitalpoint.com, it's so rubbish.

Instead, learn from http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/, it provides good articles for newbies
Learn from http://www.membershipacademy.com as well if you want to start a membership site not just for affiliates.
this one is extremely useful as well, http://www.internetmoneyflow.com. It's a new site, I found it from Sitepoint. Just joined their semi-annually plan and they teach various stuffs, from affiliates to black hat.

This post has been edited by Flippinaround: Aug 19 2009, 04:16 AM

My advice is to avoid websites that ask money to help you learn marketing and how to generate targeted traffic. Since you are probably new to all this, I guess your budget is not so high. If you start buying all possible e-books, e-courses, etc. you will soon bankrupt and it is not very likely that you will make any money.

Most of the information is available for free and money making forums are a very good places where you can learn a lot.

The most effective traffic comes from search engines so the best course of action is to focus on SEO and/or PPC marketing like Google Adwords.

Also very effective traffic can be generated through social networking websites, just be careful not to spam.

Avoid traffic and/or banner exchanges, incentive traffic such as GPTRE etc. It is a complete waste of time and the results you can expect to gain are insignificantly low. I wasted almost 3 years trying to make them work and I didn't earn more than $50 for all that time...

A few affiliate programs I found really useful when I first started were http://www.moreniche.com and http://www.highprofits.com

They are both free to join and give you free resources to start you off with affiliate marketing such as web templates, seo content for your site, proven conversion CTA's and high quality banners as well as general affiliate tutorials.

Well worth a visit even if they are not in your niche for research and advice on how to create a well converting affiliate site.

I heard the 30 day challange is quite good to start at, haven't tried myself, but its totaly free and i know that at least the person in the video on the landing page knows his stuff, so it can't be bad

Its at thirtydaychallenge.com

If you have a chance, check out http://www.GoogleSniperExposed.com

All the best,

there are some great blogs listed above. check those out.

On my site in the "Affiliate Marketing" tab, you can download a free copy of "The Affiliate Masters Course" -by Ken Evoy

Hi
You can read an article at: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Generate-...&id=2002862

Good luck

Warrior Forum is the webs best forum for internet marketing, you will pick up some great advice in there.

I agree with the above, you can find out a lot of what you need to do for free, but that will take time and you will have to sift through what is good content and rubbish and then find out if it works or not.

Keep going though, it is worht it in the end!!

I think you are already on the right path in trying to learn about affiliate marketing and the process of selling. Affiliate marketing can be great, but what's important is to learn about selling and how to get targeted traffic. The warrior forum is a great place to learn and before buying any internet marketing product always go to the warrior forum first as they provide great and honest reviews of products out there regarding affiliate marketing.

Don't get frustrated man it really takes a lot of time and effort to make it in this business. Once you do make it, it's well worth it as you can become your own boss and your income possibilities are unlimited.

My recommendation would be to start with very small targeted niches to get yourself started. Start with something you know at least a little about and dig deep for a niche. A good idea of a small targeted niche that people are passionate about is something like "lose weight before my wedding day". That's a very nice long term keyword that you can do extremely well with. People in that niche want IMO on how o lose weight for their wedding and they want it NOW.

Start with niches like tht and work your way up buddy, stick in there and you WILL eventually succeed.

Thanks for sharing. I'll try it. I've joined the affiliate marketing for 1 year. But there are no sales at all. Hope this help.

Wow!

Thanks for sharing the leads and keep more coming.

Am still a newbie at this and its been a rather frustrating journey trying to monetize my website. A lot of effort and no payout so far.

Hope this helps.

Laters.

I am working full time in affiliate and internet marketing.

My advice is to get the basics right first - so many people fail to do this.

Get your self a good online course from a REPUTABLE source and follow it through!

There are many ways to generate traffic to your online business BUT it is essential to take the time to get the basics in place.

My Very Best Regards

Les Blythe