You know it’s a whole lot easier to make money with affiliate marketing than many believe but it does take the right action for the best results. Even the little work from home marketer can do this and make money.
I utilize article marketing along with affiliate marketing to make money online. How much you make will depend on how much effort you’re willing to put into affiliate marketing and the goals you have set.
Clickbank Marketplace Is The Place To Learn More
When I am learning something new I head over to Clickbank so that I can look through the Clickbank Marketplace to find the exact ebook I need to learn how to do something. Don’t worry about purchasing an ebook that’s poor quality because you can request, and receive a refund and then get another ebook.
Most people today, whether a big player or not, use banner advertising to make extra income. For me personally, I love using affiliate banners as well as affiliate text links on my sites and in blog posts. I also include a few affiliate niche related advertising banners and links on the side bars of my blogs for my readers to see while they are reading.
Where To Start With Affiliate Marketing
For those of you who are only just now learning about online marketing it’s going to be important to find affiliate programs with products available for your niche. For most niches you’ll find plenty affiliate programs and networks to choose from.
When I am searching out new affiliate networks and programs I use a Google search to help me locate them. Here is the way I construct my search criteria.
Using quotes I put in my niche, like: “puppy house training”, next I put a space, then a plus sign. Immediately after the plus sign I again use quotes to add the phrase affiliate program, or affiliate network. So the resulting search text would look like the following:
“puppy house training” +”affiliate program”
I would do the same thing for my fishing related niche.
“bass fishing” +”affiliate program”
For me blogging to make money is just article marketing which includes affiliate product links and is a pretty cool way to make a living, if you’re dedicated. It’s a business you can start in your spare time and could grow into a full time business like it has for me.
Where To Start With Online Marketing?
Internet marketing has become a global phenomenon today. It has a very strong appeal in a world of collapsing economies. It’s an opportunity to make a living in places there are just no jobs. All one needs is a computer to access the Internet and you have the potential to earn a living online as an affiliate marketer, like myself.
As for myself I’ve found it’s best to stick with what I know, although since starting my online business I have learned many things that have allowed me to earn more money from my work at home business.
Let’s start by creating a list of things you know that could potential help you earn money. So, what’s your talent or skill? What do you love to do that you could make money with?
STOP!! Don’t POO POO On Your Ideas
It’s important that you do not start knocking things off the list because you don’t feel you can make money. Most people will think they don’t know anything that will help them make money online. Well they were wrong and you will likely be wrong as well. So just make a list of your talents and skill.
Carry a pen and paper around with you so you can jot things down as they come to mind. I found that I took about 2 weeks and I was still coming up with things I enjoy. Just couldn’t think of them all at one sitting.
As you build your list of potential money making ideas you can start looking online for ways to make money with those ideas.
What?? You’re Not An Expert, That’s Cool
I have to make a confession. I am not an expert in any niche I market to. However I do make money with affiliate marketing. After saying that I do know stuff about the niches I promote to.
Affiliate marketing doesn’t mean you have to be an expert in your niche but it helps to know your niche because there are so many in each niche that do know their niche.
Share Experiences Makes Money
I love fishing, gardening, my dog, cooking, traveling and so many other things. I also found that people love to hear stories. The thing is they love to hear stories about things that interest them. That’s where niche marketing comes in. You only look for traffic from those who are interested in what you are saying and offering.
Example: Yes I really do love going fishing. I don’t own a lot of fancy fishing equipment. I have never been in a fishing tournament, heck I don’t even own a boat or a canoe. I do own a float tube that I love fishing from.
The thing is, even without top of the line gear I usually win the day because I pay attention to everything around me. Even my fishing buddies lamb jokes.
How do I make money in the sport fishing niche? I share stories along with pictures and of course I include affiliate links to the things I am talking about in my blog posts. Always remember a picture is worth a thousand words so use images that compliment your article.
So if I went fishing on a cloudy rainy day while the water temp was 54 degrees and caught fish using a Red Devil my readers want to know, everything, so they can duplicate my success. This quite often means they follow my affiliate to purchase products I used fishing that day and I make money.
Making money through affiliate marketing is actually quite simple, until you try to complicate it.
Personally I share stories about my fishing adventures or whatever my niche is about. Even though I am not a very talented writer I like to share my days of fishing as stories and that works for me. I just share truthful information about my niche that can help my readers do better and they click and follow my affiliate links.
Write, Link And Publish Niche Articles
So you start an affiliate related site and create quality and focused articles with affiliate product links now what?
At this point it’s important to get links pointing back to your pages. So start writing quality articles that match the content on your pages and link those articles to your important pages.
Now you could do what I did for the first few years I was affiliate marketing and that is to write and then rewrite your articles so they remain unique and then publish those unique articles to the top article directories.
Also start guest blogging, always use unique articles.
Article Spinning To Gain Backlinks
I just said that I used to write all my articles by hand but today I have more niches than I could keep up with if I continued writing and rewriting articles manually. What I do now is use The Best Spinner to rewrite my articles.
I also use many articles written by others through a variety of free sites. The thing is I reject more than 90% of the articles because they are crap. The resulting crap articles are a direct result of using article spinners, the wrong way.
I can not stress enough just how important proof-reading and spell checking your articles is if your goal is successfully earning money online. Personally I read every article I publish and if it doesn’t read like I wrote it I’m going to reject it.
Not every one has a product to sell online. I am one of those work from home online marketers who has no products of their own but I don’t mind at all because it doesn’t mean I don’t have products to promote and sell.
I really doesn’t matter what you niche is there will be an affiliate program you could make money with, unless you pick a niche that is so out there that there is little to choose from but for the normal things there are often multiple programs to choose from.
