Choose affiliate programs that are consistent with the target audience of your site.
Senselessly advertise pets on dating site and vice versa.
Spend time for searching another way to monetize traffic instead irritate visitors.
Explore similar and relevant sites for exchange links.
This not increases traffic but increase visibility of your site by search engines.
When you write to site owner and suggest any offer convince that your letter not looks like spam.
Try creative approach to such letters.
If you want to send many letters – create templates where change for example address in heading of the letter and part of text in the body.
Your letter must looks like personal offer.
Say hello, tell that you want and why you write to him – minimum that you can do….
Research the production and services that you offer to surfers.
This allow to write content for your site and you get actual keywords.
If you not an SEO expert – don’t hunt on words that give a lot of traffic.
Instead of it pick up more less popular phrases.
You will be surprised how much more this can bring traffic for a young site in comparison with one-two complex expressions.
And in future this will help to receive traffic from more competitive keywords.
Calculate your budget for traffic purchase.
Buying clicks is a good way reception targeting traffic however don’t enter in bidding war, it can end with tears and empty pockets:)
Try to calculate how many cost one visitor and don’t start company with prices above than this.
If you will use google adwords try to find words with low advertiser competition and hight search volume this can bring cheap traffic.
Constantly create, do not rely on one site.
The set of various sites with various themes will be increase quantity of products and services which you can promote.
It will be your insurance for bad months and seasonal market tendencies.
Keep only fresh products for sell on your site.
It can bring more sales.
(your chose include many affiliate programs)
You may be surprised that some webmasters to miss great opportunities.
You can win a few weeks profits with new product earlier than the rest.
Keep track of affiliate programs.
On regular basis check statistics.
If you send significant volume of traffic without sales, reflect on work with this affiliate program.
I recommend visit all sites which offer affiliate programs, estimate design, usability, check quality of their goods, to consider them from the point of view of the buyer.
Wish you success in business!
