Have you ever wondered why some affiliates are very successful bringing in big commissions, while other affiliates just can't seem to make any decent money online? What is it that really separates the top affiliates who're raking the money in, while losers struggle to make ends meet?

You're going to be presented with 6 important tips that you, the affiliate, can put to use to start earning bigger affiliate commissions.

1. Build a niche specific mini-site so that you can market similar affiliate products in your chosen niche. Centering your website/blog around a specific niche you can control the content and offer your prospects other products that are niche related. This selection of affiliate products gives your visitors a wide product range to choose from, thus increasing sales and therefore, bigger commission payouts to you.

2. Spend time building a huge email list, which is your businesses foundation. Get a regular newsletter out to subscribers giving them quality content and build a relationship with them. The bigger the list you build, the more people you will be able to promote to, thus, once again, increasing your commissions.

3. Determine a budget for your marketing and get the tools you'll need in place to advertise any affiliate product your marketing. Test your promotions and keep testing perfecting your ad campaign until you discover the most effective ads to use. Also track all promotional material to find what works best for you.

4. Create and give away free stuff with your affiliate link embedded within the content. You can create these freebies yourself, outsource its creation or possibly the affiliate program has some give away material you can put to use. Encourage your prospects to also pass these freebies along to friends or their own subscribers. It could possibly go viral, if its quality in demand content.

5. Write product reviews and/or product comparisons. Just give a good honest review of what you think are the good/bad points of the affiliate product. This gives potential customers good information on the product and will help attract traffic as people are always searching online for product reviews. You can devote a specific section of your website/blog just for product reviews. The more affiliate products you can review will just add more content to your website visitor.

6. Start your own personal directory. This can be for anything you wish, such as, affiliate programs, e-courses, articles, e-books etc. Your affiliate link will be in all the content within the directory, so every time someone clicks and buys through your link, you earn bigger commissions.

If you're looking to increase your affiliate commissions, these few steps should definitely provide you with some value to help boost your affiliate revenue.

Now to really boost your commission and get into the ranks of being a top affiliate, you should give some serious consideration to joining an affiliate marketing course. Top affiliates are at the top of the game because they've invest in training to increase their marketing knowledge and to building an sustainable affiliate home business.

It just makes so much sense getting the training you need to succeed and help you get bigger affiliate commissions. Its time and money well invested...do you agree?