Making Money With Affiliate Programs
The quickest way to start making money from a content based website is to place Affiliate Links to products that pay you a commission for every sales lead generated.
An affiliate (or associate) is someone who promotes someone else’s products and receives a commission for each paying customer they send to the site. When your paying customer arrives at their site they pay your commission into your PayPal or bank account or send you a cheque.
They will either provide you with banners or text links to place at your site that have your unique id so they know where it’s from. While banners are quick and easy to organise, endorsements work a whole lot better as it is usually obvious that you believe what you are saying.
I ONLY promote products I know, trust and believe in. Not just because I couldn’t live with myself if I promoted rubbish for a quick buck, but if you have a natural enthusiasm for a product you really don’t have to do any sales at all. All you will need to do is simply tell all about how you feel about the product through reviews, articles or your own content based website.
For more information about Affiliate Marketing you can visit my Internet Marketing Adventures Blog.
Making money with Google
Google run the AdSense programme which is the ‘ads by gooooogle’ that you see on websites.
These boxes are customisable so that they are almost invisible on your pages. Then googlebots (you learn about these under web promotion), will crawl your site looking for keywords and target ads at your users, Google will then pay you for clicks received from your site.
You are also able to add search boxes that google pay you for searches made from your site. These are are a great way to have a search engine that people are able to search your content based website as long as it has been indexed by googlebots, but more about them later.
To promote your website when it is up, another important program run by Google is AdWords, these keywords connect you with new customers at the precise moment when they’re looking for your products or services.
You bid for keywords, then you write your ad, and if your bid is high enough when your keyword is requested, your listing will come up in the top of the sponsored links that you find on the right hand side of a google search. The less you bid, the lower down the search your listing will be.
The AdWords system is a little hard to grasp but it is essential if your are going to succeed in your internet venture.
Spending Money to Make Money
You will soon learn that if you have succeeded in making extra cash in any way imaginable, the easiest way to make money from the internet is by selling that information.
You may or may not know this is true through experience, I absolutely know it’s true because I am well aware that you do have to spend a certain amount of money in order to make money online, and I have.
Don’t let that fool you though, it takes a great deal of coaxing to get me to part with my money, as much as 6 years on a mailing list for one product.
Make it your golden rule to never ever spend money on any information without first researching the product as completely as you can (what do I get for my money, will this work in NZ etc) and find out exactly what it is you are purchasing. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, if they don
Never buy anything that simply claims you will make outrageous cash. If they don’t tell you what it is you are buying they are not going to see your money on promises alone.