Search Engines: Free traffic was the norm in earlier days of the internet, but now, that's mostly over.
Creative and new web pages that score high on the search engines work well, but they can be difficult and costly, with no guarantee of success.
You can pay a fee for a click from Google or Overture, and be within the top three search engine positions, which is important.
It is a curious thing that to generate lots of traffic from Yahoo, just be near the top of Google.
Direct emails: Create your own email mailing list and send enticing and provocative emails directly to potential clients.
Instead of redirecting traffic, you are creating traffic, which generates ongoing income and commissions.
And you now have an email list that you can use to send different offers for different products.
Create your own affiliate marketing network: If your agreement with your primary merchant pays you a set amount per click, would you be willing to share half of that for someone else to generate that click? You can become the head of a network of affiliates that generate clicks for you.
Having others generate clicks is one of the most underused strategies in building an affiliate marketing business.
Advertise: You pay for traffic and resell it for a higher amount.
That's what makes this business go, invest wisely and shrewdly in advertising and people.
An old quote says "Early to bed and early to rise.
Work like hell and advertise.
" This philosophy works to growing your affiliate marketing business.