There are many methods to earn money online, and they can be quite confusing. One of the best ways to make money online is through affiliate marketing. However, with so many great affiliate marketing programs on the net, picking the right one can be hard.
You don’t need special skills to do affiliate marketing. You don’t need to be a tech geek or an expert on the web to do so. Some HTML codes and a little interest in marketing can already take you further than many people. Now let’s take a look at some affiliate marketing websites and what they offer.
Discover The Best Online Affiliate Program And More?
www.clickbank.com
Clickbank is among the most popular and excellent affiliate marketing sites. It allows as high as 75% commission for some sales done. But Clickbank.com doesn’t just offer any kinds of products, though. This site focuses on digital products.
Making money through Clickbank.com is simple. First, you need to create a Clickbank.com account, which is free. You then choose the products that are relevant to your website. After choosing the products, you can now start advertising those products on your website. Each time a person purchases a product from the promotion on your site, you get a commission.
So all you really need is good sales pitch. If your advertisement methods are good, you continue to make more money. Some people has even made this as their full time job. The important thing to take note is that ClickBank only have digital products.
www.cj.com
CJ.Com or Commission Junction is among one of the best affiliate programs around. This affiliate program website focuses more on professional services as well as physical products. Creating an account at CJ.com is also free, but the website is a lot stricter when it comes to promotions. The merchant or the client will have to give his or her approval before you get to promote any service from him or her. Since products are expensive and high end, most merchants will want to look at your website first. They will want to make sure your web sites are professional and relevant.
If you’re a newbie, starting at Clickbank.com would be a better idea. As you gain more mileage in terms of experience, expertise sales and website development, that’s the time you start with CJ.com. Just keep note that their products are usually physical products as well as services.
LinkShare.com
Linkshare is another huge affiliate marketing website, it has millions of partners including a couple of Fortune 500 companies. Merchants from these sites can get to choose to process their own payments and commissions directly to affiliates. Thus, as an affiliate, this means that you get paid directly by the merchant for any commission you make.
This can be quite risky, therefore you have to select the right affiliates by doing some research on their background and credentials, especially payment history. Linkshare is the best program to choose if you don’t want to go through the ”middle-man” affiliate network and get bigger share of the commission directly from merchants.
ClickBank, CJ and LinkShare are great affiliate programs, but they are different in their own ways. So which one of them is the best? The answer simply relies on you and what your wants and needs. They each have their different strengths that suit different affiliates’ need.
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Filed under Affiliate Marketing Tips & Tricks by on Aug 19th, 2009. Comment. 
So…. 12 clicks and 1 sale later I am delighted!
The cost of the domain was 9.99 at Namecheap and the sale will get me some recurring income as well as the commission on the purchase..
It’s really late here so I’ll come back tomorrow and fill in some more detail including my plans for the domain from here…
‘Get Into It’
Andy
(p.s. See what can happen when you take action!)
Filed under Affiliate Marketing Tips & Tricks by on Jun 18th, 2009. Comment.
With the launch of yet another make money online product tomorrow let me share with you a little trick I’ve seen done before but never tried, ’till now:
So tomorrow sees the launch of C B Affiliate Blueprints, with their official website at CBAffiliateBlueprints.com. Now as with most IM launches these days there has been, and will continue to be a tonne of hype and promotion among affiliates and JV partners…
Inspired by an audio interview with the most excellent Jonny Andrews and James Jones of ‘Micro Niche Finder‘ I have registered a domain name as close to the original as possible:
can you spot the difference??!!
The idea being with all the buzz around the launch and the huge traffic spike tomorrow and for the next few days, there will be miss types of the domain name which I will be waiting to catch.
I mustn’t be the only one doing this either as I tried a few other miss-spellings before registering the one above, they were already taken…
The clever part is that the domain name I have registered is forwarded at my registrar to my affiliate link for the product. This is easy to do after you have purchased the domain name.
So fingers crossed eh! Lets see if I get some opportune sales tomorrow. I will certainly post again and let you know.
Cheers
Andy
p.s. I recommend doing this for the higher priced items and recurring income ones too…
Filed under Affiliate Marketing Tips & Tricks by on Jun 10th, 2009. 1 Comment.
Keeping with the theme lately of handy free stuff 
I would like to make you aware of a very handy piece of software that just landed in my inbox:
Click Bank Affiliate Spider
You can download it here, absolutely no strings attached, not even an email required!
http://ebkezine.com/cbaspider/
ClickBank Affiliate Spider
So why would you want this? Well if you’re into affiliate marketing, or you have a product of your own that you’re thinking of promoting, this handy piece of software will get you lots of useful info about who, what, why, where and how (perhaps not all of those but you get the idea) any Click Bank product is being promoted..
It’s free so why not download it and take it for a spin..
‘Get Into It’
Andy
Filed under Affiliate Marketing Tips & Tricks, Free - And Useful! by on Mar 30th, 2009. Comment.
RSS
If you would like to know the hottest new technique for fast search engine domination and affiliate profits… and who wouldn’t 
then I’m going to say yet again RSS !
Here’s the exact method I’ve been following for the past few days (if you’ve been visiting this blog you’ll know my affair with RSS actually began weeks ago):
- Sign up for a free account at: http://www.easydigitalsales.com
- Do some keyword research using your favorite tool
- Take your best keywords and do a quick search in ClickBank.com to make sure there’s some results/products
- Input the keywords in your EasyDigitalSales.com account and create the RSS feeds
- Get accounts at Feedage.com, FeedAgg.com and RSS2.com and submit your RSS feeds
Now if you’ve done the keyword research part correctly you should get some 1st page google results for your rss feeds within as little as 15-20 minutes (believe me I’ve seen this happen!).. Traffic should start rolling thru your links and hopefully buying the resulting ClickBank products very quickly…
Just to clarify the sorts of keywords that I have found work well are any long tail phrases (3 or more words in the phrase tho some 2 word phrases are excellent too) that have lets say 10 or more searches per day and preferably 10,000 or less competing sites in google when you check that phrase in “Quotes”. I have found also that you get better results with the feeds’ content (pulled from the Clickbank product database) if you have a ‘product’ or ‘market’ type word somewhere in the keyword phrase, i.e. ‘online dating precautions’ – or ‘dog training crate technique’
I hope this gets you going and gives some food for thought! I have included all free resources but to be honest I am using a paid tool to submit my rss feeds as it is so much faster, allows submission of bulk feeds at once and submits them to multiple RSS directories at the same time! If you want to learn more about this very cool software (it is a monthly fee but at only $27 well worth it I reckon) then pay a visit to: http://www.badassrss.com
Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions or make comments below!
Cheers
‘Get Into It’
Andy
Filed under Affiliate Marketing Tips & Tricks, Big Traffic Generation by on Sep 29th, 2008. 2 Comments.
A few months back if you had asked me what is the quickest, easiest and most effective ‘Free’ method for making some fast cash online… phew lets take a breath, I would have said:
- Get an account at ClickBank.com
- Browse thru some interesting categories (avoid the business and IM stuff to start with, too competitive)
- Pick 2 or 3 products with Gravity of 5 or more but less than say 60 (again probably too competitive)
- Find 5 good long-tail keywords (i.e 3 or more words in the keyword phrase) with 10 or more searches per day (Use the free Wordtracker search tool or Google’s keyword tool and just type in the main topic of the product) for each product.
- Write an article on each keyword phrase, roughly 350 words long (If your stuck for ideas just type your keyword phrase into EzineArticles.com and use the results for inspiration!)
- Include your affiliate link for the product from Clickbank in your Author/Bio box with an interesting statement like: If you want to know how to lose 10 pounds in a week then visit -YOURAFFILIATELINK- (Cloaking your link using a service like TinyUrl.com)
- Submit your articles to GoArticles.com, they allow affiliate links in the bio box unlike EzineArticles.com who require you to link to your own site first.. An easy workaround for that if you want to take advantage of EzineArticles’ clout on Google is to setup a free Blogger Blog and link to that from EzineArticles, put your affiliate link in your Blogger Blog…
Do that and in a short space of time (once you have built up lets say 10 products and 10 articles for each product, which should only take a month or so even if you just spend a few hours in the evening) you will find a nice steady flow of traffic running through your affiliate links making you a decent bit of extra cash.
So that’s great I hear you say! Well yes it is but lately I’ve been using a technique that can potentially get you sales within hours of finding your product to promote, is more likely to get your keywords listed in the top 10 results on Google and doesn’t require writing a heap of articles…
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