Originally I was going to leave this one out of the report simply because it’s obvious. However, the report would be incomplete without it, because one valid way to increase your affiliate commissions is to increase your traffic.

Let me be blunt: Affiliate marketing is a numbers game.

If you want to make more money, you’re going to have to massage one of the numbers. We’ve talked about a number of tips to increase your numbers, such as by massaging the conversion rate (by building a list and relationships first), and boosting your commission rate.

Now here’s another number that’s easy to manipulate: Namely, by –

Increasing the number of targeted visitors who see your offer.

Makes sense, right?

If you’re making $100 for every 100 visitors, then an easy way to make more money is to get your links in front of more people.

If 500 see your link this month, you make $500. If 5000 see it, you make $5000.

And so on.

There are dozens of ways to drum up more traffic, including (but not limited to):

  • Using content marketing such as article marketing, blogging, etc.

  • Working with joint venture partners.

  • Taking advantage of media marketing, including social networking, social bookmarking, and submitting your content to sites like Squidoo.com and YouTube.com.

  • Creating and distributing free reports, free videos and other viral pieces.

  • Getting traffic from the PPC search engines as well as the organic search engines.

  • Distributing press releases.

  • Building your mailing list.

  • Blogging.

And so on.

More traffic = more commissions. End of story.