Affiliate tricks and tips for newbies

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Like in Link popularity forum I've decided to open thread for newbies. I hope, you'll give away your useful trick and tips.

Some general tips:

1. Professional design and quality content
Your visitors have to trust you, if you want to sell them something. Professional design is good start. Than you'll need something useful for visitors, something what will attract them(quality articles, videos, pics, other free staff).

P.s.: Don't forget on SEO. Try to make(or download) table free(CSS) design.

2. Traffic

If you want to sell something, you'll need visitors. Unique visitor/selles ratio is depended on niche and quality of traffic and site.

Donts:
- do not run traffic from autosurf programs
- do not run traffic from unrelated sites
- do not spam!!!
It will just take you BW and it is not good for your trustrang.

Do:
- try to get targeted traffic from SE
- advertise your site with PPC program, like adwords

- do your homework and research each affiliate program you join. Avoid the ones who have a high pay-out number. You might have to wait a long time and make lots of sales if your program pays you only after you accumulate a large sum.

- try and contact their supposrt and see how quickly they will get back to you. Make sure they are accessible at any time. You don't want to spend your money advertising for someone you won't be able to reach if you have a problem or question.