Affiliate marketing is a lucrative field with fast earnings and unreal cases. However, before entering it, you should study common mistakes and ways of solving problems to avoid possible financial losses. After all, even experienced webmasters can make them, let alone beginners....
You can read about the mistakes that webmasters make when searching for an offer in AffCommunitys blog article.
Choosing the wrong channels of attraction
Beginners often choose the wrong channels to attract traffic. In particular, they stop at popular, but not quite suitable tools, including advertising in social networks FB, VK and do not take into account the features of the target audience and product.
Recommendations for solving the problem:
1- Always analyze the offer and establish the target audience that will be interested in a particular offer.
2- Test different traffic sources and only then invest in them.
3 -Take into account all the features of the target audience: age, habits, OS.
Excessive advertising spending
Many newcomers to affiliate marketing mistakenly believe that increased advertising spending will lead to increased income. However, lack of a clear plan or lack of experience in managing an advertising budget can lead to a significant loss of money. Any expenditure should be approached wisely - especially when forming advertising campaigns.
Recommendations for solving the problem:
1- Set strict limits for advertising budgets and adhere to them strictly
2- Use small budgets in the work to test different strategies.
3- Increase spending only when successful tactics are found.
Not understanding how affiliate networks work
Affiliate networks play by their own rules - and every beginner has to learn them. Otherwise, he will face refusals in payments or account blocking. This, by the way, is a common mistake of young webmasters - to ignore the requirements of the system, and then be surprised by the freezing of money on the account.
Recommendations for solving the problem:
1- Study the requirements of the affiliate network.
2- Regularly interact with managers of affiliate programs.
3- Look for training materials of affiliate networks on working with offers.
