Are you struggling to make money in Affiliate Marketing? Are you in search of that secret recipe to bring you to success? Unfortunately, that secret recipe does not really exist. Actually it just takes some good marketing practices, as well as a little hard work and dedication.

There are many marketing tactics that have proved successful year after year. They continue to bring money to guru affiliate marketers over and over again. Here are the top three tactics to help you make money and succeed at Affiliate Marketing:

1. Unique Websites It is common in affiliate marketing to promote many different products at the same time. This is great and should be done to diversify your income. It is not wise, however, to promote them all on the same website. It gets very confusing and you will lose your reader's attention quickly.

You should create a different website for each product. The website should have an address as close to the product or niche as possible and contain a lot of useful and relevant information. Include a review of the product as well as any testimonials that you may have.

2. Newsletter It is very important to try to keep your visitors to your website coming back. You should have an opt-in box at the top of each of your websites. Have a strong call to action and offer a free report to get them to sign up. The free report should be about your affiliate products topic with links to the product.

You now have their attention not once but as many times as you send out an e-mail. This can be done with a series of auto responder messages offering more useful and relevant information with a link to your product. Studies have shown that it takes about 7 times of seeing something before someone will buy.

Once you build their trust and loyalty, they will buy your product and possibly other related ones down the road.

3. Targeted Traffic You need to focus your marketing efforts on getting traffic that is interested in your product. You can have 100,000 visitors, but if none of them are interested in what you have to say, you will not get a sale or an opt-in.

One way to do this is to write articles on your subject and submit them to e-zines and directories. Make sure that where you submit it is relevant and that you choose the correct category. If the reader is interested in your article then they will click on your link and will be a highly targeted visitor.

You should try to write at least 2 or 3 articles every week of about 500 words. If you continue at this pace you will start seeing daily, targeted visitors of 100 or more. Statistics show that out of 100 visitors you should have at least one sale. Build it up to 1000 and have 10 sales. See the potential?

As you can see these tactics are not very difficult. They just take a little time and some consistency. The outcome is definitely worth it.

Try using these tips in several affiliate marketing programs and you can build a nice stream of income. Be sure to monitor each website to see which are producing and which aren't. You can then focus your attention on the money makers.