Festive season shopping is on and there are huge discounts on offer by all the eCommerce majors in their respective sales including Amazon Great Indian Festival, Flipkart Big Billion Days, Snapdeal Unbox Diwali sale etc

Today, all of these top Indian e-commerce store has an affiliate program. In India affiliate marketing is popular in the last 2-3 years, when advertisers started testing this channel and discovered that affiliates marketing provide twice the returns in comparison to other digital marketing campaigns.

If Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon can pull off successful festive season sales, they could be setting the stage for an e-commerce market to grow to nearly three times its size next year.
As an affiliate marketer, we have to think how can pull off some festive season sales and earn more affiliate revenue.

Here are some tips to help you increase your takings from your advertisements.

BE AN INFLUENCER TO RECOMMEND PRODUCTS YOU LOVE.

Your recommendation is important for your friends and website visitors to take a decision to purchase an item online. Keep this in mind that keep your recommendations authentic. Really focus on the products you use and love, your readers are more likely to hear your recommendations that way.

Add A AFFILIATE PRODUCT LINK FOR READERS TO GET MORE INFORMATION

When you write about a product or a related products, instead of linking to the website of the company, try linking to the affiliate website product page (i.e Amazon) with an affiliate link. The reader will still get more information about the product (and maybe even more than what would be provided on the company website), plus, if they end up purchasing anything from Amazon, you’ll get the affiliate income.

USE AFFILIATE LINKS ORGANICALLY IN YOUR WEBSITE CONTENT

Many of your website readers are doing a web search find out more information about wellness, lifestyle etc. Save them a step, and make yourself some possible income by linking up your affiliate product mentions. If every sentence you write has three or four affiliate links, people are going to get annoyed, but if you use them sparingly, your readers will appreciate the opportunity to get more information.

THINK OUTSIDE THE TEXT LINK

Text links within content are the bread and butter of affiliate strategy, but it’s important to think outside of just linking up products in your text, too. Add in a sidebar widget that links to products you are loving. Make a page or two that shows of your favorite products.Text links are just one way to populate your blog with affiliate links.

CONSIDER CREATING AFFILIATE-FOCUSED CONTENT

If you’re really serious about generating income from affiliate program, you might consider generating affiliate-focused content. Write posts that provide a service to your reader (like, in the gift guide example, giving your reader gift ideas), but the main purpose of the post is to get affiliate click-throughs.

LINK UP ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS.

Don’t be afraid to link up products that people don’t typically buy online—remember, your affiliate income isn’t only about people buying the specific products you link to. But if they click the link, and then see another product that interests them—you still get the affiliate income

THINK OF AFFILIATE LINKS AS A COLLECTIVE STRATEGY

Each affiliate link you post on your blog will be lucky if it generates you a few cents of income. Some won’t generate you anything. If you just have one or two links, you’re probably thinking this affiliate marketing thing is a total sham. The goal is that no matter what page a reader enters on, they are given an opportunity to click an affiliate link (either in the post or in the side bar). Instead of looking at how each individual link is performing, think of all of your affiliate links as a collective whole

GO BACK AND LINK UP POPULAR POSTs

Let say one of your post you wrote two years ago has suddenly taken off on Pinterest and you have 10,000 views on it. Go into that post and add affiliate links! even if you linked affiliate links before , use this as an opportunity to clean up the post, and add new and fresh affiliate links front and center.

LISTEN TO YOUR READERS.

Listen to your readers. Listen to what products they are asking about. Listen to what products they are using. Those are the types of products they are more likely to click on and purchase.

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