Do's and Don'ts of successful affiliates

• I decided toshare with you some tips on the Do's n Donts in the affilialte Business.
  
  Do's
  
  
  Build a useful website. Visitors must gain some benefit by visiting your site.
  
  Retain visitors through personalizations. Provide something personal so that visitors can come again.
  
  Sign up with a known and established affiliate program. They have their tracking systems updated and so you can be rest assured that you will get your payments.
  
  Market your affiliate program so that you can increase the number of visitors who see your affiliate offering.
  
  Optimize your website so that you get a high ranking in natural search engines.
  
  Know your competition. You have to provide something better than them.
  
  Choose the advertisement model that is in line with your overall business model.
  
  Launch your site for some time, before joining any program. Good affiliate programs may like to see your site and study the traffic before enrolling you.
  
  Look for outside help. You may employ skilled people.
  
  Use blogs and RSS feeds for promotion.
  
  Remain active in your industry. You must know the latest trends and needs of visitors.
  
  Don'ts
  
  
  Join just any affiliate program. Many affiliate programs are outright frauds.
  
  Ignore your competition. They are the best evaluators of your products/services.
  
  Get obsolete. Update your content regularly.
  
  Rely only on banner ads. Experiment with all types of advertisements.
  
  Waste time. Be the first to capture any new opportunity.
  
  Encourage spamming. You will get blacklisted.
  
  With successful identification of customer needs, providing a way to fulfill those needs, and collaborating with established affiliate programs, it is possible to create your own affiliate success story. You just need to manifest a methodical, patient approach and perform lots of hard work. But raising an affiliate program cash cow is certainly worth the effort!