Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs

This lays out the ins and outs of getting started with affiliate programs and how to make them profitable for you. Take the time to do these steps and after a few days you will see profits.

Affiliates make money by referring customers to their merchants. There are many companies and webmasters offer affiliate programs to promote their online sales. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you will be given an affiliate link with an unique affiliate ID which will be used to market the product. When someone makes a purchase through your affiliate link, you make money (earn affiliate commission). Below are the steps to starting an affiliate marketing business:.....


Step 1 - Join an Affiliate Program

Before you join any affiliate programs, do a little research. All of the sites I have listed in previous entries has an affiliate program which you can easily join after signing up for the site. I will also be listing a few other sites soon after I filter through them. Also don’t forget no matter what Google AdSense is a key to any web site or blog.


Step 2 – Promote an affiliate program through a website or blog

You need to have a blog or website to promote your affiliate programs. Creating a blog is simple with a site like Blogger.com. A website is even a better way to promote since it has multiple pages and more options.You can use an easy website builder to create a website with little or no technical knowledge.

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Step 3 – Drive Targeted traffic/visitors to Your Website

To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days). Here’s how……


Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. So how PPC advertising program works? PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base on your bid amount. I’ll write a more extensive article about this soon.


Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from an affiliate marketer.

1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as many forums as you can.

2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option.

3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.


Article Marketing
Writing an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckload of free traffic to your website.

Remember to look under my survery section for the links I talked about. I've also made it simple to join AdSense by just clicking on any of the links for it on my page.

Best Wishes and contact me for more information!