subject: Making Money With Article Marketing And Affiliate Products [print this page] Did you know that you can make money online without even having your own website? If you love to write great articles then you already have all of the tools you need to make money with affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
There are many companies selling products online in many different niches. In order to promote their products to the widest audience possible they offer an affiliate programme. This allows you to sign up as an affiliate and earn a commission for promoting other people's products.
Here are just some of the benefits of being an affiliate marketer:
You don't need to create a product of your own
You don't have to worry about customer service
You don't have to spend time optimising sales pages
You don't need to build a website
You just promote the product and then collect your commission payments
You should be able to find an affiliate product to promote in pretty much any niche. Amazon is a good place to start your search if you'd like to promote tangible products; if you'd prefer to promote digital products then head over to Clickbank.
What have articles got to do with affiliate marketing?
I know what you're thinking, how can you promote a product without a website. The answer is so simple you'll be surprised; you just have to direct people from your article resource boxes straight to the product owner's sales page.
You don't have to worry about hosting fees, or building a website you just do what you do best, write good quality, well-researched articles and submit them to article directories. It's just instead of the bio box link pointing to your own site it points to someone else's.
Now here is a tip for you. You are going to spend a lot of time and effort writing articles and building links to the other person's website so you need to be sure that the product is going to convert well and be available for a long time. And the problem is that you cannot guarantee that. It's easy to overcome though.
Go to a domain seller like GoDaddy or NameCheap and buy a domain that suits your niche. You don't need to spend a lot as you can sometimes pick up a .info domain for just 99 cents. Now you just need to log into your domain manager and forward the domain to your affiliate link. If you're unsure how to do this look for a help option as each provider's set up will be different.
You now have a neat link that you can include in your resource boxes and the added benefit that if the product you are promoting closes down or just doesn't convert well you can just point that link at another affiliate sales page!
