@Renee 167200 wrote:
– to a new affiliate? (never been an affiliate for any industry)
– to an affiliate new to only our industry? (ie, has worked in other industries)
first, get a proper job! seriously, do not rely on receiving any income from your affiliate sites for the first year or so…otherwise you will be greatly disappointed. affiliate marketing should be your hobby that borderlines obsessive behaviour.
second, initially you will be working for free just because there will not be any financial returns in the close future. so prepare to only be rewarded with aesthetic satisfaction and/or pleasure from completing something.
i disagree about reading about SEO and all that particularly if you are new to affiliate marketing. you should first build your site! no matter if you do well or not, it will give you something to work with. if instead you first choose to read in depth about different topics, particularly about SEO, you might just get “information overload” and not even get off to building a site. you should channel your energy into your new site first (zeeennnnnn :3eyes:), everything else comes second! try to work in the ethic of “one miracle at a time” and slowly grow from there. seriously, this SEO stuff took such a long time to sink in for me, that i’m very glad i initially ignored it.
as for new affiliates in this industry, the first step is to go gamble online! and then gamble some more! repeat this until you understand the ins and outs of gambling online. this will not only give you a perspective on what you would like to concentrate your site on, it will also help you select a topic that is of interest to you…