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How to Become a Super Affiliate

Strategies and Techniques for Becoming an Expert Affiliate

© David R. Wetzel

Jul 1, 2008
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Super affiliates maximize the use of website strategies and techniques to increase their income and their advertiser's return on investment by using SEO and SEM.

Super affiliates maximize their income and their advertiser’s income over a given period of time. The super affiliate attracts lots of traffic to their affiliate website, exceeding their competitor’s traffic rate. They have mastered all the search engine features of the Internet to direct maximum traffic to their affiliate website. Higher traffic maximizes click through rate (CTR), which leads to higher than average conversions.

Super Affiliate Website Strategies

Super affiliates are highly sought after and recruited by top tier advertisers, who want to develop a greater return on investment (ROI) in their marketing campaigns. Super affiliates have several specific attributes and characteristics other affiliates should emulate if they want to become a super affiliate themselves. These important attributes and characteristics include:

  • E-Marketing – they have taken the time to study and incorporate every strong feature in search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) to enhance their affiliate efforts
  • Website – they have developed website(s) which are professional looking and have the ability to naturally engage visitors to get them to click on banners or text links taking them to merchants
  • Keyword – they optimize keyword searches and keyword software tools for determining optimum keyword use for attracting traffic to their affiliate website
  • Digital Marketing – they use all forms of advertisement and do not rely strictly on the Internet
  • Content – the phrase “content is king” is a natural attribute of their affiliate website(s), because their websites are loaded with factual and interesting related content

Affiliate Advertising Tools

In addition, they use some of the following affiliate marketing tools to maximize their affiliate websites.

  • Affiliate Data Cleaner – this tool cleans data feeds from merchants of unnecessary and unwanted HTML and other formatting when placing ads and information on their affiliate website
  • Text Link Ads – they use this tool to automatically insert HTML links to increase traffic on their affiliate website
  • Accurate Monitor – this tool allows them to find the ranking of their website and which SEO keywords will raises their website’s ranking on search engines
  • Trellian Search Term – they use this excellent tool for finding keyword phrases to increase traffic to their affiliate website
  • Arelis Link Exchange – they use this powerful tool for managing link submissions and link exchanges
  • Internet Business Promoter – this tool maximizes their SEO for website improved rankings in search engine
  • WordTracker – they use this powerful keyword tracking and search program
  • Submit Wolf – they use this powerful tool for submitting their websites to all search engines.
  • Google URL Submission – allows them to submit their affiliate website for spiders to find and display information about the website quicker than waiting for it to be found by the search engine spiders
  • MSN URL Submission – works the same way as Google URL Submission for saving time waiting to be discovered
  • W3C Certification – they use this tool to ensure their affiliate website is HTML compliant, so they will not be blocked by software designed to restrict access to possible fraudulent websites

Super affiliates work hard at their craft and are Internet savvy. This allows them to take advantage of all aspects of SEO, SEM, and digital marketing. Advertisers prefer to work with super affiliates to maximize ROI, because of these affiliates' high CTR increasing conversions.


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