Affiliate marketing can be highly profitable if done correctly. But if you’ve been doing it awhile but still not making any money, you might be making one of these big mistakes:

1. Insufficient knowledge about the affiliate program before you start promoting it - Do not promote irrelevant affiliate programs but only those that are relevant to overall theme of your site. This will help you convince visitors to buy the products better and help you in earn a steady income.

2. Wrong use of signature files - The signature files must attract attention but should be kept under five lines with an attention grabbing or intriguing first line. Too many affiliate links to a bunch of different products can be easily identified as spamming.

3. Not writing your own ad copy - Spend some time editing your ads to conform to your target audience. It’s not that nice to see exact same advertisement all over the internet or in email messages from ten different marketers.

4. Not paying for your own domain name and hosting account - Since you will be creating a genuine site to which you will ultimately drive targeted traffic in, you’ll want to have your own domain. Also it will be much better if you use your own domain name because it will be looked more professional. as

5. Sending your prospect directly to the affiliate website without capturing your leads - There is always a possibility that a visitor will not like the product and close the website without even buying a single one. But if you setup an opt-in form on every page of your website that could grab the visitor’s name and email address, you can offer and convince him again and again to actually buy your product. Another way is to offer some kind of a freebie product that’s related to your offer to bribe the visitor to opt-in.

Affiliate marketing gives you the opportunity to make money online automatically, once you have setup your website successfully. Fix these simple things and you’ll start making a lot more money!