06.01.07
Making Money with Affiliate Marketing
A while ago we touched on “What is Affiliate marketing”. We talked about it from the point of view of a website trying to get traffic by recruiting affiliates. But of course the more important aspect if you’re trying to make money working from home - is of course - becoming an creating an affiliate website to drive traffic to the merchant site and create money for YOURSELF.
There are two ways you can do this. Ideally you’d have a strong interest and create a fabulous website, which is information rich and has strong traffic. You might then decide to show adverts on your website via a scheme like Google Adsense. Each time people click on your adverts, you get a little bit of money. There are of course other schemes you could try. Yahoo has Yahoo! Publishers network - though the last time I checked, this wasn’t available in the UK. You could display adverts for Amazon books - or you could do a search in Google to look for other viable affiliate schemes - last time I checked I found a company that sold packing boxes offering an affiliate sceme.
The more devious and potentially lucrative way of doing it, would be to research the profitable Adsense keywords. Remember that for keywords to be profitable - they might not necessarily be the highest Cost Per Click - they also have to have high traffic. For example I just read that:
The most expensive keyword:
Selling Structured Settlements at $64.81 per click.
The most profitable:
insurance - CPC $17.41 and over $868,645 spent per day.
So theoretically you’d be rolling it in if you create a successful site about insurance and then display ads.
The problem comes, of course, in creating the decent website. The web is saturated with appalling “scraper” sites that pull their content from other sites, and are created solely for the purpose of displaying adverts. If you’re seriously thinking about doing this as a source of revenue - then give the website some serious consideration and create something that fulfills a gap in the market and provides valuable, unique content.