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First of all for some of you guys that don’t know what affiliate marketing is..
Affiliate Marketing is advertising a specific product or service in a banner or text link and when a person clicks that link they go through to product or service ‘landing page’ if that person then buys the product or signs up for a service you can get commission. The commission varies depending on what program you are on. You can promote affiliate links on your website or blog or even by using a PPC system. (WARNING: some affiliate programs do not allow PPC on certain keywords). The following are affiliate networks that I use:
Each affiliate network is different and each have different advantages and disadvantages.
Once signed up to a network you need to pick a program you want to promote. Now this depends on several things such as are you going to promote on your website or use PPC? If you are using your website to promote a program it would be a good idea to promote something relavant to your site. If using PPC then you want to look at programs that are performing well and perhaps others are making money with, it is easy to see this with Commission Junction.
I personally like the idea of using websites with affiliate marketing because I prefer to use SEO to get traffic rather than PPC. However you need to be patient when doing this as it often takes a long time to rank well for specific keywords in google or any other search engine.
But if you want to make money quickly then PPC is the way to go as you can often see results fast this way. The only downside to this is that it obviously costs money! My advice would be that if you are looking start a PPC campaign is to not jump straight into it do lots of research on the topic and keyword research, try and plan it the best you can.
To put it simple affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online.
Build a site -> Get traffic -> Make money!
For further reading on affiliate marketing you could look at tradedoublers new eBook here
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