1.) Sending the potential customer directly to your Affiliate sales pageThis might seem strange to most new affiliate marketers.  Youmay be thinking "why would I want to send my potential customerdirectly to the merchants sales page I am promoting?"There are a few very good reasons for this.  That person couldclick through your affiliate link then five seconds later they mayleave that page forwhatever reason.  This is not what you want tohappen!  You have worked hard to get your affiliatelink in front of a potential customer interested in theproduct you are promoting and they left.  The worst part isthat they couldreturn later by typing in the URL they saw on top of thepage leaving thepart that makes it your affiliate link out.This bring me to the next mistake which goes hand in hand with thismistake.  

2.) Not having the proper tools (web hosting, domain name andautoresponder)My guess is 80% of the people who just read "web hosting and domainname" are now surfing YouTube.  Do not be scared of having awebsite!  You do not need to create your very own 100, 000page content site all you need is a simple 1-5 page website to collect"leads" to build your mailing list.  By doing thisyou can first collect a "lead" (someone who is interested in the nicheyou are advertising for) and after they are subscribed to your list youcan promote various products in that niche to them over and over again.Anyone who isn’t serious enough to buy web hosting, a domain(.com name) and a membership to an autoresponder serviceisn’t likely to make it very far asan affiliate marketer anyways.Trust me, you will make back that small investment in no time.

3.) Not knowing enough about the product you are promotingAfter you get your web hosting, domain and auto responder make sure youstudy up on the product you are promoting. I see way to many peoplepromotingproducts that they have no idea what they are talking about! The people on your mailing list will think you are a joke not tomention if you recommend products that are garbage you are going tolose their trust.  That is the last thing you are going towant to do for your affiliate marketing business.

4.) Signing up for too many affiliate programsNumber 4 is a no-brainer if it’s a bad idea promoting one badproduct that you know nothing about it not a good idea to promote 15bad products that youknow nothing about.  Take number three seriously and buy theproducts you are promoting or at very least read the sales page a fewtimes to learn what this product is going to do you’re yourmailing list subscribers.

5.) Not using link cloaking/link redirectionPlease go to this link http://tinyurl.com/2k4bub No one wants to click that link.  I mean no one.  Noteven me.Spend less than ten dollars and get the scripts that allow you to useyour new beautiful domain and hosting to create a great looking linkthat everyonewill click (well that’s the idea) that looks something likethis: www.yourdomain.com/Recommends/ProductNameOr : www.yourdomain.com/ProductNameIt seems a lot more professional and is easier for people toremember.  You can get the Affiliate Sales Booster from my website.

There you have it.  Hopefully now you can go out and increaseyour affiliate commissions and put a boost your affiliate checks. 

Good Luck!