by Wayne Rasku

Many experts believe that one of the easiest and fastest way to make money online is through affiliate marketing. This is a bit ironic, but you don't even need to know how to sell to start your new career in affiliate marketing. Set aside a little of your valuable time, pair that with a desire and a small bit of creativity and you have the formula for success in the affiliate marketing field.

It really is not difficult to do affiliate marketing. How much time does it take to become an affiliate marketer? Not as much as it takes to watch a rerun of "House" or an episode of American Idol. Just find a product you wish to promote as an affiliate. You can do that by signing up at any one of the free affiliate sites and choosing a product. There are no limitations as to the number of products you can promote as an affiliate. Feel free to snatch as many as you want.

You will need to set up a campaign in order to sell you prodcuts. Basically, a campaign is an action plan for all that you will do to push your affiliate product.

Many affiliate marketers use a type of program callled pay-per-click, which is a paid advertising campaign. You, the promoter, bid for a spot on a site and you pay each time your ad is clicked.

Even though pay-per-click can be very lucrative, beginners should be hesitant about getting into that market without some quality training because an ad campaign can be quite expensive to maintain.

Those new to affiliate marketing will benefit more from the free methods of increasing traffic to a site. Blogging is quite popular among affiliate marketing folks, and it can be done without cost to the promoter. If you don't have a blog yet then you should know that it is very easy to start one making use of services similar to Blogger or Wordpress. Prior to signing up for the blog service, make sure you have selected the product you will be promoting from one of the affilaite marketing sites. Next you would start bloggin about concepts and ideas related to the product or service you have chosen. Then get started blogging by adding a post every day or so that has good information for the readers about your chosen subject. Also write articles about your subject that you will submit to free article directories, making sure you include a link in your articles to your blog.

Even though this description may seem basic and simple, it is an reliable technique to get started with. If you are truly interested and inspired to learn more about affiliate marketing, there is no limit to the knowledge and training available to you. Simple is better as you choose the training resource for your new affiliate marketing career. Many affiliate marketing resources from so-called "gurus" are simply fluff-filled materials that will make you more confused about affiliate marketing.

The best affiliate marketing resources around are the ones that supply real, down-to-earth information about how to make money online.

by Gabriel Johnson


If you have done online marketing for any amount of time then you already know that becoming an affilliate marketer does not happen overnight. I have read reports that only 2% of the people that try to earn online actually succeed. I myself kept searching the internet and trying all kinds of different programs including the use of this blog.

I also found that the world wide web can be an information overload if one is not careful. I guess I was not careful and the next thing I knew I was involved with way to many opportunities and programs and could not promote them all. It is always best to start small and focus on one thing at a time when first becoming an affiliate with any company.

Becoming an Affiliate takes dedication! I truly believe that most people get frustrated and confused which causes them to quit. I have been at this for some time and it was very hard to control all the data I recieved daily. By setting goals I was able to have a direction becoming an affiliate marketer. I learned all this after spending loads of money on hosting and advertising with no results. I was getting more and more frustrated and was about to give up when I came across Free Site Signup.

From this moment on Becoming an Affiliate was becoming more of a good idea than I had originally thought.

This site was offering me a way to learn affiliate marketing with no budget at all. They gave me the direction I needed and not a moment to soon! Needless to say I was simply amazed to see a company offering to help me accomplish my dreams of working for myself.

Becoming an Affiliate is alot easier with the right info! Freesitesignup.com gave me the opportunity i had been searching for and needless to say I was all over it when I realized they were providing training , and I would get 35 money pulling websites and also show me techniques to get free traffic to my pages. No matter what niche you are in they can get you going in the right direction. You get a checklist that you check off as you go so if you lose your place(like I do) you can go back and pick up where you left off.

Becoming an Affiliate requires Organization

I have never been a very organized person and online marketing is no different. I soon ended up forgetting programs and links to some of my affiliate pages. I could use having a 2nd job as an excuse but that would not be entirely true. My impatience, and need to create more income was overwhelming and I dove straight in not knowing what I was doing.

by Carl Nell

If you are looking for an easy way to start an internet business, I would like to share with you the 7 easy steps I follow on a daily basis. Obviously you need to have a specific plan of action like any other business. This is where most newbies get it wrong. You hear a lot about people making it big in internet marketing and it all sounds so nice and easy, but infect it does take time and dedication. The good news is, that it's relatively easy to start an internet business with little or no money at all.

The 7 easy steps I follow every day, I have found very effective and are making me sales every day. Just follow these steps and you will be amazed by the results. These methods are all free methods and are quite easy to follow if you are willing to try it out.

Here are my 7 steps to start an Internet Business

Step One

Register at clickbank.com as an affiliate to start promoting thousands of products of your choice. Clickbank will be a good starting point for new affiliates. They pay every 14 days and are highly recommended by most super affiliates.

Step Two

Get your affiliate link for that clickbank product or if you don't like the long affiliate link you can register your own domain name for the product at GoDaddy.com which will cost you $10 a year.

Step Three

Choose 5 to 10 long tail keywords with a monthly search volume of less than 10 000 searches. These keywords will be the ones you will use to build your squidoo lenses to promote the product to people that search under those keywords for your product. For this you can use the Google Keyword Tool or you can use SEO Book to do your keyword research. These tools are all free and work very well.

Step Four

Build a squidoo lens at Squidoo.com around those lontail keywords. For every keyword phrase build a squioo lens. This will tell the reader about the product with your affiliate links in. When readers click on the links it will take them to the sales page of the product. This is all you want them to do. From there the sales page should do the rest if it is a good sales page and a good product.

Step Five

Make sure if your squidoo lens gets ranked by google for those keywords you have chosen. Also make sure that you get ranked on the first page, otherwise nobody will click on it and no one will read your squidoo lens.

Step Six

When you get ranked by google on the first page, write an article for each squidoo lens and submit it to Ezine Articles. Remember to use the same keyword phrase in your article heading and in the beginning of your article. (The long tail keywords you chose at the beginning when you did your keyword research)

Step Seven

Monitor how many visits your squidoo lenses and articles are getting. If you have got visitors to your lenses and readers are clicking your Url links in your articles you can expect sales. Go to your clickbank account and see if you have made any sales.

Unfortunately I cannot explain every step in detail here, because then this article will have to be 50 pages long. If you are looking for more details of how this works step-by-step, you can download the first 18 pages for free.

by Michael Laleye

If you own a website and interested in getting involved in affiliate marketing, you will have several options from which to choose. The best affiliate marketing program may not be the one that provides a very commission on sales, but may be the one that provides the best opportunity to make more sales. For instance, some of a very popular and highest commission sites tend to be those that offer gambling and adult entertainment. These sites may not fit into the focus of your sites or your visitors.

The best affiliate marketing program will be the one that fits into your site and offers a regular opportunity to turn your visitors into sales for the company and improved profits for you. You can develop affiliate options based on the main focus of your site and that appeal to your site's visitors. If your site promoted sports, affiliating with sport related companies, may be your best affiliate programs.

Where to Look

Affiliate networks are the middle man between affiliates and web sites with affiliate programs. Look for affiliate networks that provide all the tools needed to set up and maintain an affiliate program. AssociatePrograms.com is a popular directory with information about merchants that pay you to sell their wares.

Commission Junction is a free network that offers access to thousands of the best affiliate programs. Commission Junction combines all your affiliate earnings (product sales, on-line ads, links) into one monthly check.

What to Look for

The best affiliate programs will be those that target your customer base. An on-line florist would certainly get little traffic from a pet supply website. You want an affiliate whose business is similar or comparable to your product. Avoid affiliates with low quality products. Ask to speak to existing affiliates to find out if a company is reputable.

Referral traffic may link to the merchant site and not buy initially but return to make a purchase weeks later. Look for affiliate programs that remember your site was the reason for that customer. The best affiliate programs remember you for 60 days by using cookies to tag the customer's computer when he visits the merchant site.

The best affiliate programs offer reliable support such as ads, logos, and sales advice. Good programs also provide timely updates on click through sales and earnings, and, respond to questions or problems within 24 hours.

Also, a profitable home business needs time to grow. You should never think that you are going to take off within a couple days of opening up shop. It is going to take you a bit of time to get your bearings and take off. For this reason, patience is important to the success of your home business. With patience you'll be able to wait out the rough times that are bound to show up time and time again. No home business starts making big time money in the first day. But if you take your time you will get to where you want to be.