Friday, July 31, 2009

Affiliate Marketing for Extra Income

By Ana Kennedy-Smith

Affiliate marketing online is a excellent method to make money. Retirees, homemakers, and teenagers have learned the answer to making more money without ever having to have a product, see to customer service, or accept credit cards. Rather, you promote other people's products or services and earn a commission when someone you send from your website makes a purchase. Here's how it works.

Sign up to a few of the affiliate networks, which is where you will obtain your 'affiliate links'. They all have several vendors from which to choose, so you ought to be able to discover some that match your interests.

Subsequently, consider about what niche you would like to promote. What are your interests? Are you a car buff? You might make your own website about cars, car repairs, etc. And add affiliate links to companies selling automotive parts. Perhaps you are interested in perfumes or luxury handbags. There are lots of companies seeking for websites to promote their products.

After you determine your niche, and you see that there are advertisers that match your theme, it's time to create a website. You can create your own website at Weblolo.Com and save both time and money. With affiliate marketing, it is imperative that you are able to add content and modify your website repeatedly, so you don't want to be at the mercy of a web designer who may keep you waiting for changes and will probably charge too much money for it to be worth it for you.

Your website must be content rich. You need to have lots of unique content regarding your area of interest, which is why we advise that you decide on a niche that you know a lot about and have an interest in. If you don't consider yourself a capable writer, there are ways to get completely unique content for your site. You can locate freelance writers who will write content for a minimum charge at websites such as iFreeLance.Com, Guru.Com, and others that you can find with a easy Google search.

As soon as you have some content on your site, you can sign up to the advertisers on the affiliate networks, and obtain the affiliate links. You can add colorful advertising banners to your website, and also affiliate text links in your content (this is what appears to work best).

Once you have your website on the Internet, you will be astounded at the revenue you can receive with affiliate marketing. There are many persons who give up their day jobs to pursue affiliate marketing because they are able to do it well and make exceptional incomes. Although not everybody does that well, it's positively worth a try.

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