subject: How to Really Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing [print this page] How to Really Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is easily one of the most common ways for you to make money from home. But what many people do not understand is that it can be tough. You can succeed very well but you need to know what you are doing and have a good work ethic.
So the whole process of affiliate marketing starts with you signing up to a good affiliate network. ClickBank.com is one of the best ones to start off in especially if you are a beginner. They cannot not make it any easier or faster.
So the best way to start promoting products that you would find in the marketplace of the affiliate network is by setting up your own site. You should start doing some research of what market you want to start in.
I suggest you start off in a small, more specific market so you will not have to face a lot of competition later on. For example you would not try to tackle the building muscle market but instead go for a smaller part of that. Something like how to build bigger arms would make sense and is a much easier market to dominate.
So once you have brainstormed a great topic that you think will be profitable it is time to start looking for an affiliate product or two that you can start promoting right away.
Also you will need to do keyword research. This is the process of finding keywords that you can rank your future affiliate site for in the search engines. Obviously you need plenty of interested visitors to come to your site. And there is no better way than through the top search engines like Google.
Use the free keyword tool at Google to find some profitable keywords. There are thousands of keywords to target. Just keep in mind that you should start off small so that you don't pay for it later.
Ok so once you have done your research you will then move on to registering your domain name and getting a hosting account because your affiliate site needs space.
It does not cost much. There are plenty of cheap hosts that only go for about $7 a month. Later on you can also register more domains to create more affiliate sites. But that is later down the road.
Once you set up your affiliate site you need to build a lot of quality content. Your content is what will determine the success of your affiliate business. It needs to overdeliver to the visitors of your site as well as have a bunch of related keywords so you get indexed in the search engines properly.
Do not worry about where you are going to put your affiliate links yet. That will come later on once you have a steady amount of visitors reading your pages.
The next step is building backlinks to your site. You needs high quality backlinks so your sites value goes up and therefore increases the rankings in the s
