A couple of techniques that can be used to increase your affiliate marketing efforts and sales that are growing in popularity are the use of reviews and rating systems in your promotions. Both techniques are fairly easy to learn and simple to put into practice. And both can help bring in more traffic and close sales 24 / 7. Here is a little more about each.

Reviews with Affiliate Marketing

Shoppers like to read product and service reviews before buying. They want to trust their online purchases in this scary age of identity theft. And they want to make sure their purchases are up to par with good customer support and follow up as needed.

So offer your own reviews. Forget hype, and cut to the chase. Share the good, the bad and the ugly of products you are selling.

And sine people also like interaction online, invite their feedback and reviews as well. Use a forum or blog or some type of interface that allows for interaction and posting.

Tell people to bookmark the site and come back before shopping. They’ll save time, money and headaches, plus you’ll earn income when they buy through your links and ad spots sprinkled throughout the site.

Invite guests to sign up for email notification, too, so that they’ll know the latest review info as it becomes available. And insert ads in your announcements plus feedback and review comment highlights from your subscribers and your ratings area that you’ll set up below, for cross promotions.

Ratings with Affiliate marketing

Some shoppers like to pick and choose and consider all competitors on one page. They like sites like MySimon.com where you can go, enter a product like “Weight Watchers” and see the top Weight Watchers products all turn up in a second or so along with links to the right of each that say, “Compare Prices.”

So set up a web page where you compare and contrast comparable products in the same niche. You may want to use CSS on your web page. Or you may want to go with a simple form page create in Frontpage or other similar website creating software.

Then similar to above, invite website guests to sign up for email notification, too, so that they’ll know the latest ratings info as it becomes available. And insert ads in your announcements plus feedback and review comment highlights from your subscribers, inviting them to review areas, too for cross promotions.