Sunday 30 November 2014

Module 6 activity: What is Affiliate Marketing?

 

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The keywords highlighted by my wordle tag cloud for the Module 6 reading, "What is Affiliate Marketing," Pro Blogger, by Darren Rouse, are:
  • Affiliate
  • Marketing
  • Products
  • Readers
  • Blogs
  • Promote
  • Publisher
I agree that the words "affiliate" and "marketing" should be the top two words highlighted by the tag cloud, as they do indeed reflect the main content of the article that investigates "What is Affiliate Marketing?" For me the differences between the tag cloud and how I interpreted the article, is that I would have thought that the word "money" would have appeared as a much larger word in the tag cloud, as money is a very important elements to successful affiliate marketing. As the author says "affiliate marketing is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site." The insights that I gained from the article and the tag cloud, is that using affiliate marketing on your blog is not a quick and easy way to make money, it takes a lot of hard work, time, research and building of trust with your readers. According to the article, to be a success at affiliate marketing and drive profit and conversions for a small business, you have to rely on fostering relationships, focusing on your niche, focusing on a few key affiliates, and creating a system that generates performance for both the advertiser and the affiliate.



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