In the first part of this article, I gave you the first thing you need to do and that is to have your own website. In this second part of the article, we explore additional things that you need to do to help you succeed in your affiliate marketing business.

2. Provide Incentives to Your Website Visitors

One other major key to affiliate marketing success is your website's ability to have visitors click on links for the affiliate products and services you are marketing. This would require that you build a solid base of people who follow your website and not just incidental visitors who found the information they wanted on your website and never came back.

Some of the strategies that you may use to build your base of loyal followers are an opt-in mailing list, a newsletter, or a blog subscription. It is important that you build a substantial number of these followers because they are your potential clients and customers who will buy the affiliate products and services you are promoting that will then give you your commissions.

To encourage your website visitors to subscribe to your offerings you may need to provide them with incentives like free eBooks, free reports, free software, etc. If you happen to have your own products and services aside from the affiliate products you are marketing, you may also give away periodic discounts to your own products and services.

3. Work on You Website's Link Popularity

As in any sales and marketing endeavor, affiliate marketing is a numbers game. And the numbers that we speak here is in the form of traffic that comes to your website.

Traffic that comes to your website generally comes in two categories. Those that you bring to your website yourself through an active marketing effort, and those that comes to your site passively through organic search engine rankings. How well you rank in the search engines basically determines the volume of traffic that your website draws but another thing that contributes to it is link popularity.

You can increase your website's link popularity by submitting it to other websites, getting other Internet locations to carry links that point back to your site, and other similar strategies aimed at having getting links in various Internet places that lead people back to your website. The more such links, the better chances that your website becomes a popular destination, and the more chances that your affiliate marketing efforts pay off.

Affiliate marketing is not really that difficult a business opportunity to try and get into. Once you start doing it and consistently work on driving more and more traffic to your website, succeeding in it as a business is also not as difficult to do. Study the top three things discussed in this article, enhance them some more with your own learnings as you gain more knowledge about affiliate marketing, and success will not be too far off in the horizon.