How To Be An Affiliate Marketer?

Affiliate Marketing is becoming the most profitable and fastest growing ways to make money online. Do you ever wonder what are all the ads that I see online? Well, they are affiliate marketers making a great living.

You may be asking yourself "how does affiliate marketing work?"… the simplest way to explain it is you find a product to promote, someone buys it, you get paid for that sale! How slick is that. Now I should tell you, I did oversimplify it a tiny bit. It's a simple idea, but it does take some knowledge and time on your part. The key to affiliate marketing is being able to pick the right products and promote them the right way.

First thing first, sign up for an affiliate network, such as Linkshare. Now login and browse the hundreds of affiliate products that you can promote for some cash. You will need to make sure the product you pick to promote is compatible with your website. Make sure you pick something that will be compatible with your website. For example, if you have a website that is dedicated to Smerf's, find a product smerf related. Make Sense?

The next step will be to take either the Text link or the Banner style link and place it on your website/blog. Make sure its in a position easily accessible to your vistors.Play around with this and see what spot works best for you.

Now for the fun part, getting traffic to your website so you can make some money! This can be one of the toughest steps to affiliate marketing if you don't know how to get the traffic. Here is a few examples to get you moving in the right direction. You can promote your website via emails, forum marketing (related to your smerf page), you can also use PPC (pay per click).

However, with any business there is an element of risk involved. Try different methods, see what works eliminate those that don't work. A number of people will tell you working online doesn't work, but perseverance always pays off. Starting out is always hard, but as you learn from your mistakes you improve. .