Do you know that affiliate sales can earn you 60% more than google adsense earnings, it is a general survey that top webmasters and bloggers earn money from affiliate product sales far more than adsense earnings.
So here are top 5 Affiliate marketing tips so you can actually boost your earnings
Socialize as much as you can:
Get socially connected follow people related to your niche and follow their friends, use facebook fan page and to get maximum customers from facebook,
While you are adding more and more people related to your niche, entertain them with regular niche related content to quench their thirst, ask people and listen them, look out in twitter search what people are searching about your niche also look out in google trends.
Professional look out:
Yes this is more important then your content, according to general survey 90% people spend first 15 seconds deciding whether to remain on your website or move away.
So in first 15 seconds what a user inspects in your website
content >>>> no
keywords >>>> no
videos >>>> no
Layout >>> yes
Images >>> yes
In first 15 seconds user inspects the layout and graphics used in them, first thing he will see whether it is related to your niche or not, then he will see if the layout seems spammy or genuine.
Your layout and design should be professional and appealing and in no way should feel spammy, do not use low standard advertisements, do not use big bold letters "how to earn online"
This is spam, people won't give a shit to it because internet is already filled with it, they want some unique and genuine stuff, If you do not use or change your current layout and presentation then by each day that draws out from calender you loose potential sales and income,
Each time a user bounces back from your site assuming it non related and spam, you loose!
Offering email and regular contact service:
Make sure you provide your potential leads with contact and emails and regular support
Finding your leads across the plane:
Use list of forums and guest posting techniques to derive customers related to your niche, article marketing is seldom useless so don't waste your time there.