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Make Money With Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs are (usually free) opportunities to make money from your
web site.
The way that they work, is you join the program, you add specially
coded links to your site, and then you are paid based on your results.
Results can be measured several ways, including:
- Per Click: You are paid for each person who clicks on the affiliate advert.
- Per Lead: You are paid for each person who signs-up for a (usually free) offer from the affiliate program provider.
- Per Sale: You are paid based on the number and/or value of sales
that you generate. Most commonly, such payments are based on a percentage of
your sales.
Elsewhere on this web site, we have put together a number of resources to
help you get started and succeed with affiliate programs:
While, I'm certainly not going to try and repeat all the information that
you might find in guides such as
Super Affiliate Secrets Exposed!
(reviewed here), but I can tell you how
I would suggest you get started...
There are basically two ways that you can get involved with affiliate programs:
- You can create your web site first, then try to find suitable affiliate programs.
- You can find suitable affiliate programs, and then try to create a web site around them.
In my opinion, both approaches can work, but the best way to do it is to
combine a bit from both schools of thought:
- Before you start building your web site, at least have a general idea
of what sort of topic you want to deal with (web sites about single
specific topics ("niches") usually do better than web sites
than are about everything and anything (for example, most online malls
don't do well).
I recommend that you try to choose a topic for which you both,
already have some knowledge about (so you won't spend forever researching
it), and also which you have a real passion in (so you won't get quickly
bored).
- Next, again before even starting to create your site, research what kinds of
affiliate programs are available which tie-in with your theme. This
is important because affiliate links related to your web site content
will almost certainly generate more revenue than affiliate links which
are unrelated.
I think probably the best place to start looking for suitable affiliate programs is Commission Junction (reviewed here), and chances are you will find some matches, at least for most topics.
If you can't find any suitable affiliate programs (in Commission Junction or elsewhere), you then have these
options:
- You could just use
Google AdSense
(reviewed here),
forget about other affiliate links, and instead concentrate on
building your content and traffic.
- You could give-up on the idea of making money from affiliate programs,
and instead build your content into a for-sale
eBook
see
Paid Membership Site.
- You could give-up on this topic, and try to find another topic for
which you can find suitable affiliate programs.
- Finally, only after you have a good idea of both the general content
of your site, and the affiliate programs that you plan to use, are you
ready to start
creating your web site.
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