Simon Rickett started, grew and then sold a hugely successful marketing company. Rickett explains here all about the affiliate marketing and the key factors beginners should consider

1. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• Simon Rickett explains how to select an
affiliate product. Rickett believes that too
many focus on trying to find a niche where
there is no-one else. Simon Rickett agrees that
although this would mean no competition,
you have no guarantees that the product will
sell. If you are new to affiliate marketing
Rickett believes you will be better finding a
product that is already selling.

2. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• Simon Rickett also states that it is better to
target buyers who are in the cycle of buying
NOT browsing. Searches related to Product
Name and Model Number are in most
examples an indication the searcher is ready
to buy. Rickett also identifies that carrying out
vast research on Google Shopping, Amazon
Best Selling, Ezine Articles will allow you to
identify products that are selling

3. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• Once you have identified your product the
next thing you need to do is set up your
website states Simon Rickett. To do this you
can Wordpress for FREE. Rickett states it is
important you carry out the time to find
software that allows you to feed affiliate
products into your blog. For example Woo
Commerce or Shopperpress

4. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• To ensure your blog with affiliate feeds is
going to rank highly make sure you set up the
structure of the site correctly says Simon
Rickett. Rickett advises that site structure is
often a common downfall of many websites,
as they fail to set up the hierarchy structure
correct. Setting up the structure of your
website is called a SILO and this is probably
the most important (but often forgotten)
approach to affiliate marketing

5. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• Simon Rickett advises that once the site is set
up it is important you then find links to your
website from websites that relate to the
product you are promoting. Rickett explains
that if you are promoting fishing tackle it is
very important that the links you generate are
related to fishing tackle. Simon also says other
links are not to be ignored but the more
relevant the link to your website the better it
will do in the long run

6. Simon Rickett – Affiliate Marketing For
Beginners
• Simon Rickett believes adding content to your
affiliate website is vital for ensuring it is found
in the long run. Don’t just wait for the search
engines to find your affiliate site and hope it
will rank higher than the others. Simon Rickett
explains that the more content you add with
the relevant keywords for your specific niche
the better you will do in the longrun