Affiliate marketing can be very lucrative providing that you have a good niche market and you understand how to market online to target your market. The problem with affiliate marketing is that although the products you can promote are limitless, if you don't know how to get the work out about what you are offering then it can be difficult to be found online and if customers can't find you then they cant buy from you.

Millions of people have tried various ways to make money online and have failed miserably due to the fact that they did not know how to use the internet properly to drive traffic to their affiliate offer.

Many so called guru's in todays Affiliate Marketing arena tech marketing techniques such as pay per click. If you know anything at all about pay per click you know that there is a lot more then meets the eye to this kind of marketing and if you don't understand what you are doing you can lose money very quickly.

The key to affiliate marketing online is to find someone who is already doing it successful and follow after what they are doing. Although this is easier said then done, there are specific strategies and techniques that will allow you to capitalize on any niche market without breaking the bank to market it.

Here are a few tips for using affiliate marketing successfully online

1. Article Marketing: Article marketing is free and its not hard to begin writing and posting articles about your content to start getting web traffic quickly. Using Articles to get the word out about your Affiliate Market is a great way to get started for free.

2. Blog Marketing: Blog marketing which is similar to article marketing is also free and will allow you to spread the word about your product or service very quickly and effectively to capture your targeted audience

3. Bookmarking: Book marking is another great too that most are not using but works very well to market your affiliate products online.

In any case, its definitely a good idea to do your research, find someone else perhaps that is having success and follow their strategies for making it work. Whatever you decide to do, get started.