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AFFILITATE
PROGRAMS
As a
web site owner, if you join affiliate
programs, you are paid a commission if
the visitor goes to a Merchant's site through your link
and buys somethingor if he clicks on the
merchant's ad on your site. Through
Affiliate
Programs you can make big money
online.
Merchantsusually supply affiliates with promotional tools
such as banners, text links, e-mails, articles, free reports
and free gifts, to use on their own websites or campaigns,
to help theiraffiliatesto sell
products.
Commissions paid may differ from one
affiliate program to another. It can be 10% upwards and
in some cases, up to 50%. You will be surprised that some
affiliate programs are offering commission payouts of up
to 75% per sale.
As there
are hundreds of websites offering many things, you will have
to choose your affiliate programs very carefully.
a)Pay
per sale-
affiliate gets commission on
each sale being produced from affiliate links or
ads.
This
will be the most profitable. Reputed merchants you
can join initially are Amazon, ClickBank, PayDotCom, etc.
You can open affiliate accounts by going to the following
websites.
b)Pay
per click-
affiliate
gets a commission for each click produced from affiliate
links or ads.
An
extremely good program is
Google's adsense, if you
will follow
their guidelines and policies.
There
are companies paying Google to advertise their products and
Google will pay you a part of this amount when visitors
click on those ads placed on your
website.
You can earn a lot of money
from this program provided you generate a lot of
traffic to your websites.
Simple Process
It's
quite simple to join. Of course, you must have a
website. You can log on to their website below and
apply online. They will then send you an email to verify
your email address and you should follow the instructions
given in it. They will next evaluate your application and
you will get an email within a few
days.
Once
your account is approved, they will send you details on how
to access your account. You will get to see the different
kinds of ads that are avilailable, in different sizes
and shapes.
You
can then decide which ad to put where, on your website. The
ads will be available as blocks of HTML which you can copy
and paste on your website. Soon, you will see ads relevent
to the topic of your website, appearing on the pages. You
will be able to log into your account to monitor the visitor
activity in respect of these ads.
Their
website is information rich in all aspects of their program
and so ensure that you familiarize yourself with all the
guidelines given.
c)
After you have gained some
experience with the above two methods, you can move to a
third method of earning money and that is by selling digital
infomation products. That is, information on lots of popular
subjects like weight loss, dog care, gardening and many
more.
Write or
Buy ?
If you
are an expert on any subject, you can yourself produce
articles and ebooks and sell them or you can buy articles
and do the same. If you are not very good at writing, not to
worry as you can buy any number of articles, on various
subjects, again from the net, with Private Label Rights
(PLR) at very cheap prices and resell them. You only have to
ensure the quality of such articles before putting them up
for sale.
Big
Business
Saleof
information products is big business on the Internet
nowadays. You will learn about Resell Rights (RR), Master
Resell Rights (MRR) and Private Label Rights (PLR)
later on in the Articles page of this
website.
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