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In affiliate marketing, there are a few basic techniques that can be used so that all of your affiliate commissions are pure profit.  One of these basic techniques is obviously telling your lists of a number of new different products that have become available across the web.  Most of the internet gurus will use their massive lists in order to earn more and more affiliate commissions.  If you don’t own a list, then there are other basic strategies.  Mainly, these strategies involve the use of article and blog marketing so that you can write reviews of products and then hopefully get people to purchase products through your affiliate links. 

Today I want to actually mention a few advanced techniques that will give your affiliate marketing profits, without spending money on advertising.  As simple as these techniques may sound, you’ll be surprised that very few people are using them.  Therefore, I consider these techniques to be advanced or not as well known.  The first of these techniques that I would like to share is video marketing.  I believe that people get the wrong idea about video marketing and therefore don’t incorporate it with their affiliate marketing.  You see, in video marketing, you can actually get your videos easily ranked above many articles and blog posts on the web.  A simple search can prove it to you.  Yesterday I searched:  Ford Explorer 2009.  I was expecting the number one search result to be a review of the new model.  The #1 spot on Google was actually a YouTube video talking about Ford Explorers.  The listing that ranked second was a blog post about the vehicle. 

Here is the cool thing about using video for your affiliate marketing:  Generally, it is o.k. to have an affiliate link for the product in review in the description for your video.  In other words, if you get the number one spot for a review, most video sharing sites aren’t going to care that your affiliate link is right there in the description.  This is the complete opposite from article marketing.  If you write a great review for a product and then add your affiliate link to the article, then your article has really great chances of being rejected by the article directory sites. 

O.K., here is one more advanced technique for your affiliate marketing, and yes, this technique also allows you to create affiliate commissions without spending money on advertising.  This technique is taking the time to create a great viral eBook.  A great viral eBook can potential reach out to millions of readers across the web.  And many great viral eBooks have the following:

·         First of all, really exceptional content

·         Second, it normal contains links pointing back to your own websites

·         Third, it normally will contain at least a few affiliate links that teach people more on the same topic.

So, if you can create an eBook with these features, not only will you drive free traffic back to your websites, but you will create additional affiliate commissions for yourself.  Just make sure you don’t overdo it with the affiliate links.  If it is obvious that you created an entire book around affiliate links, then your “viral” eBook won’t become a very viral.  But if you limit yourself to a few great affiliate links while providing spectacular information, then that one book that is given away for free may just make you the more affiliate commissions than all of your other combined affiliate efforts. 

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