Making Money On The Internet Through Affiliate Marketing
Well here I am finally making another post about making money on the internet, this time I want to go over what I think about affiliate marketing, and to give those that are clueless about affiliate marketing a better idea of what it is. For starters, my name is D.Wep and I am an affiliate marketer, I am not a blogger. Sure I have many blogs and I write posts on them, but they are all intended to do one thing in the end, and that is to make me some damn money.
So I do not blog just for the sake of blogging. Every blog that I have is very niche specific and targets a certain type of search engine traffic, and then once that blog is getting traffic I will use some sort of affiliate to make some money off of my work. Here at this blog Making Net Money I am currently using Chitika, which is similar to Adsense, it just doesn’t pay as well. That is the affiliate merchant I am using on this blog. People pay Chitika for them to publish their ads, when someone from the search engine searches for a keyword and happens to stumble upon this Making Money on the Internet Blog, keyword related ads will show up. If the searcher clicks then I get a percentage of what that advertiser had to get the ad up. I get money, the advertiser gets targeted traffic to their site and hopefully makes a sale.
If you are brand new to affiliate marketing you may have no clue to what it is that I just said, that is fine, if you are to be successful you will keep learning and eventually it will all fall into place. So if you are new to this, making money on the internet, where do you start? Well most will start using Adsense, complete newbs will use adsense, they will write 30 posts on a blog, targeting all sorts of keywords that they will never rank for, and put adsense on their blog from day 1. Then eventually they will start getting some traffic, maybe a tricke, 30-40 uniques a day, and they will be seeing nothing but 5 cent clicks, although the dollar click will come through every once in a while (I have been there).
They will put countless hours into this one adsense blog, and maybe after a couple of months go by, they will finally receive their first paycheck from adsense, because of the $100 payout minimum. If you are new to affiliate marketing, stay away from adsense until you understand it completely, and more than that understand how affiliate marketing works altogether through other programs first, such as the eBay Partner Network, CJ, Clickbank, Amazon along with many others. If you have your heart on using adsense from jumpstreet (which you shouldn’t), then I suggest you stop by some of Grizz’s Blogs and read everything he covers on adsense on all of them. Some will be successful by doing this but most will fail to be blunt with you.
Now if you are still reading this than I assume that you have a general knowledge of search engine optimization, and that content is not King as back links are everything when it comes to ranking in the search engines. So how do you find an affiliate to market? It all depends on what kind of niche it is that you are working. In my opinion, if you are not making at least $1,000 bucks a month, you should not be targeting any kind of “make money online” niche nor should you be targeting any affiliates as you should be targeting keywords and products that have less competition. This may be kind of tempting to do though as their are thousands and thousands of make money online products and affiliates that are out there, from what I have heard from Vic and Grizz is they convert horribly though. Also, if you can not make a measly $1,000 a month of affiliate marketing, you should be working other niches and building as many sites as you can until you find some winners. As long as you diversity and go through trials and errors with affiliates, you will find some winners.
Back to choosing affiliates to work with and stuff to promote so you can start making money on the internet. Depending on what it is this can be a bitch. I have a couple of blogs that are alcohol related and they have huge authority and get decent traffic, although I have not found a good affiliate to use to make money off of them. Sure there are a couple of beer making books from Click Bank, but many advertisers that use ads (adsense and chitika) do not support the promotion of alcohol, but they will pay you top dollar for dui lawyer content, not how to get drunk, pick a bar fight and wake up with a dime piece the next day, which is the kind of stuff I like to write about on those coupld of beer blogs that I got. Guess what, I barely go to them anymore unless I am completly drunk, or one day find a way to successfully monetize a beer and liquor blog.
The best affiliate for me, so far has been the EPN Network. The Ebay Partner Network accounts for 75% of my income, I use about 15 other affiliates other than them. That tells me one thing, that I need to diversity my sites more with what kind of affiliate I use. If someone at the eBay Partner Network decides to cancel my account for some reason, I am pretty much fucked, so I have started building sites like crazy using as many affiliates as possible. Same thing with adsense, if for some reason I lose one of my accounts, how am I going to compensate with that if I am depending on adsense income every month?
One last not, the best way to go about making money on the internet is to cut out the middle man, the middle man being the affiliate merchant. The cheapest way for you to do this is to get the 7 dollar script, and then get a bunch of private lable rights eBooks and make some minnie sites. Eventually I would like the oppurtunity to create my own product, or my own eBook and promote it while also selling the private lable rights and the master resale rights. This is my ultimate goal, and to reach that goal I will have to rely on affiliate marketing for making money on the internet until then.
