subject: Why affiliate marketing remains my most trusted method to make money online [print this page] Why affiliate marketing remains my most trusted method to make money online
When it comes to making money on the internet, the first business that comes to most peoples mind is affiliate marketing, indeed this business is very lucrative, and this is explained by the daily rush of newbie's into the business, it has so many advantages. For a newbie who do not have enough resources and experience to market or create a produce, this is the best option, also ninety nine percent of information marketers are affiliate marketers, this is so because you can never be an expert in every thing, so you can promote other peoples product for money. With a free blog, internet connection and a computer you can start affiliate marketing and still make enough money to make you quit your day job. All you need do is look for a profitable niche that you can write about and then do a research on it. Look for a good affiliate program to join and then pick a product to promote. After picking a product, then write quality and informative articles on what you are promoting and then add your affiliate links as text or banners, you can use both. You can also make a free blog look very professional, by first choosing a very good template or theme to use, if you are using wordpress for your blog design, you can do a search online for themes and you will find better themes, just use them in designing your blog. Never use the default them provided by wordpress. Instead of building a website that will cost you time and money, you can use so readily free services, like creating blogs and using RSS auto responder forms. Head on to blogging services like blogger, wordpress and many others, just do a search on free blogging services and you will find many of them, then create some free pages, then add your contents with your affiliate links to it and start to promote it, the above auto responder service is free and can be used to notify your subscribers of updates. If you are not new to online business then you will agree with me that an auto responder is very necessary for your business. Also there are some cheap auto responders online, you can use them and also add a tell a friend button to your website, this is very necessary as this can boost your traffic over night because when visitors read a very informative content on your blog they will likely send it to their friends. After every thing, the next step is to drive massive traffic to your page, there are so many ways you can do this, first you can write articles and submit them to the 10 top article directories, this is free and very effective as you can get up to 1,000 views on your page from a good and informative article. Also you can post comments in forums that are related to your topic with your link. Also you can use bookmaking sites to get more visitors and also submit your URL to search engines. All these traffic generation software has been simplified as you can now get them online to speed up all your submission processes.