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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Affiliate marketing: Easy Money, No Trouble!

Working from home. What an amazing concept. Your own hours, your own schedule, and you can even work at your own speed. Does this sound like the kind of work YOU would be looking for..?

Some people believe that the idea of setting up your own 'web-based business' can be a massive pain. Creating a website, finding a product that you have to sell and ship as well as handling customers can prove to be a lot of trouble. However the easiest most effective way to work from home AND run a successful web-based business is called 'affiliate marketing.

Setting up a site that works as an affiliate marketing site isn’t really that hard. There are many different web-page building programs out there that walk you through every step of the process. Once you have a functional web site, you need to come up with a list of companies that will pay you to link to them. Many major websites like Amazon have an affiliate program that you can join and then get paid for simply linking to their website.

But if you really want to cash in, you don’t want a webpage with just a list of links on it. This may earn you a buck or two, but when most web surfers stumble upon these kinds of pages after a Google search, they tend to get frustrated and leave. The best route for you to go is to provide interesting web content that relates to the company you’re linking to.

If you can’t write interesting web content yourself, there are many companies that will do it for you for a very reasonable price. Once you’ve got your content, you can weave your links throughout it. People will find your web page on search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com and when they see the well-written content, they will hang around and read what’s on your site. They will, in most cases, click on the links provided and you’ll be counting the cash in no time flat.

Although there is no guarantee that affiliate marketing will be a massive profit making machine, with enough hard work, the odds are definitely in your favour. Once you have created an attractive website design with good quality content, along with a variety of interesting links, you are bound to get a large number of 'hits' that will transform into $$$dollars$$$ for you! Have a go! You might be very surprised at how well it actually DOES work!

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