When You Get Distracted with Affiliate Marketing

Have you ever gotten totally distracted from what you really should be doing with your affiliate marketing endeavors?  Anyone who has been in affiliate and internet marketing for any length of time knows how easy it is to get distracted.

There are always new affiliate networks coming out, new social media marketing tactics, and new “tricks” that someone has uncovered that can easily distract you from your bread and butter.  And what is your bread and butter?  It’s doing what you KNOW makes money.  What has been proven for you.

If you are always chasing that next new project, then your current projects will NEVER reach their full potential.  Staying focused on what business you have already built can make the difference in making huge amounts of wealth with the internet.

So what do you do when you are starting to loose your focus and get distracted?

Here are the two things I concentrate on the most when this happens to me:

1.  Content

2.  Backlinks

You should know by now that this is the lifeblood of your business.  Stop doing one or the other and your traffic can slowly dry up.  By chasing too many “new secrets” your backlinks and content efforts will suffer.

Add new content to your sites no matter how tedious it may seem.  Yes, it’s hard to write and write about the same old topic all the time (that’s why it is important to write about the things you love).  But you don’t have to do all the writing yourself.  I am seeing the awesome power of outsourcing first hand.  More and more I am hiring other people to do that tedious work for me so I can focus on the business as a whole.  When you own over 40 websites it can be a little overwhelming, but by hiring good writers on elance.com or any other site you are able to focus on keyword research and finding this sub niche markets in your niche.

And don’t forget about those backlinks.  Don’t just run out there and get as many spammy backlinks as you can.  Just build great content that people will want to link to  Make is natural for someone to want to remember the information that you provide.  This is why the lifeblood of your backlinks is really your content.  Providing high quality videos, podcasts, and blog posts will help make your site sticky.  But there are SOME backlinking strategies you can do on your own, like writing articles for other websites, writing for articles directories, web 2.0 sites, and more.

When backlinking and content building are a habit, your business cannot help but thrive.  No matter how many distractions are around you, never forget those two things.  Trust me, someday you will find yourself lost in a sea of distraction with your affiliate marketing progress, and you will remember those 2 basic building blocks for the success of your business, and you will be glad you read this.