Not capturing the email addresses of visitors to their blogs or websites. Without a list New Affiliates are actually limiting their marketing campaign. REMEMBER a lot of visitors wont buy right away and they might visit a few times before they actually decide to buy anything. It is very impotant that affiliates build relationships so that they can market or sell to these visitors over and over again.
Not having a blog or website. Some affiliates join affiliate marketing programs with the intent of earning commissions right away without even having a proper website or a blog with valuable information.
Underestimatimating the power of Blogging and hence failing to benefit from such an effective marketing tool.
Foccusing too much of their efforts on selling instead of sharing, helping and educating. When you give you will receive more. When you share, help and educated you build a relationship and persons prefer to buy from someone they have a relationship with.
Having no passion, interest or knowledge in the products or services they are promoting or selling. Having no passion can result in a lack of focus and dedication that is necessary for online success.
Not properly optimizing their websites. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often underrated by many new affiliates and they fail to pay attention to things such as Keywords, Title and Meta Tags, Links, Content etc.
Failing to stay focussed on a particular niche but instead jumping from one idea to another or from one product to another. Be patient, Find a few products and focus your time and effort in doing the best job of promoting them. The more focussed you are the higher your chances of success.
Promoting products or services that are irrelevant to the content on their sites.
Trying to sell too many products on their websites. It can be very confusing and a huge turnoff to visitors if your website is filled with too many affiliate links promoting different affiliate programs.
Not updating the content on their sites. New fresh content will attract new visitors and keep your other visitors coming back for more. Also Search Engines love fresh new content.
Focussing on only one marketing method. New Affiiates should try to use a wide range of marketing methods to stay diversified and reach as wide a target audience as possible.