How To Start Making Money With Affiliate Programs

An Affiliate directs potential buyers or targeted visitors to his/her merchant's website and earn commission when a visitor makes a purchase on the merchant's website. Here's how you can start you affiliate business:



Step 1

Open a free Paypal a/c. You need a PayPal a/c to receive affiliate commission.



Step2

Join an affiliate program. You can find an affiliate program to join from the below websites:



ClixGalore.com

An affiliate program network consists more than 3,000 merchants. Products you can

promote including retails goods, travel, software and much more.



Clickbank.com

The largest ebook store. There are about 10,000 affiliate programs for you to select in Clickbank.



Internet Marketing Center

If you are looking for high quality money making course for reselling to earn commission, IMC's affiliate program is your solution.



You'll get your affiliate links after joing one or more affiliate programs.



Step 3

3) Start an ad compaign to promote your affiliate programs. Advertising on Google is one of the top choices in promoting affiliate programs. To advertise on Google, you need to open a Google AdWords a/c at https://adwords.google.com/select/ to promote your affiliate program. Google will charge $5 to your credit card to activate your a/c. You can begin to create an ad campaign once your a/c activated. To advertise you'll need to write a text ad and bid on related keywords for top-ranking positions on Google search result page. Here's an example on how the bidding process works. Let say you are promoting weight loss products. You may bid on keywords like weight loss, reduce weight and many more. When someone enter the term 'weight loss' your ad will appear on the top right corner of Google search result page and you will charge on the amount you bid when the visitor click your ad. The higher you set your bid the higher your ad position on Google. If your bid is too low you ad may not appear on the first page of Google (may be not in second page too). And don't forget to set a daily limit or budget for the ad campaign.



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