Affiliate Mistakes you dont want to make (part 1)

August 13, 2008 | Category: JohnnyB

I’ve decided to start a new series of posts about affiliate marketing mistakes I have made. This series will be a good long series and hopefully will help you learn from my mistakes.

There is a saying that you’re wise when you learn from your mistakes but you have smart wisdom when you learn from others mistakes. (I know I probably butchered that but whatever ;))

So for the first part of this series, I want to talk about a simple mistake that can really cost you money in the long run.

When I first started affiliate marketing I used to register domains not really caring about them since all my traffic was Pay per click marketing.

I’m not going to be talking about getting .info domains or anything like that, though I do strongly recommend you don’t get those, I’m talking about when I register the domains.

See, when I would register domains, I wouldn’t think much of it… it was almost a rush through the process and would never get the private registration. Little did I know just how important it is to get the private registration.

As an affiliate anytime you’re successful in an area, people inevitably try to research your pages as much as possible. Sadly, if you’re not using private registered domains there are ways for people to look up every single affiliate landing page / domain you own.

As you know with affiliate marketing, a lot of your success can depend on your ability to tap areas that others may not have seen before.

Generally when I get a domain, I register it through GoDaddy and use their private services. It cost’s an additional $8 or $9 bucks to add private registration on and let me tell you, it’s well worth it. :)

There will be more common affiliate marketing mistakes that you don’t want to make coming shortly.

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