Earn Money at Home through Affiliate Marketing

If you have a website that people visit, you can relatively easily make some money. How? Through Affiliate Marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer that comes to them from the affiliate.

Organisations set up affiliate schemes. You become an affiliate and set up a link or advert for that organisation on your website. When someone clicks on that link and goes through to the affiliate site, you potentially get commission. Some affiliates pay per click. Some pay per actual sale.

Sounds complicated? In most cases it's not, as most of the work is done for you.

For example, Google is an affiliate network. It acts as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and (merchant) affiliate programs. It allows publishers to find affiliate programs, which are suitable for their website and it helps websites offering affiliate programs reach their target audience.

As you can see, I have Google ads on my website. I have registered with Google, and downloaded their code to include in my website. It is smart enough to analyse the content of the web page and include relevant ads. For every click on one of these ads, I get a few cents - 20 to 60c, roughly, depending on how much the advertiser is paying Google.

Can this make lots of money? It depends entirely on the traffic to your website and the relevance of the information.

Other affiliates:

There are plenty of Affiliate networks out there, to which organisations can subscribe. e.g. clixgalore.com, commissionmonster.com.au

There are also individual organisations managing their own affiliate scheme. e.g. Amazon.com.

What you need, is a link that is relevant to the content of your web site. For example, in my website, I have a section on the Child Care Debate which refers to Steve Bidulph's book, 'Raising Babies'. Below my article, I have links to amazon advertising the same book. If you are interested in what I have to say, you might decide to buy the book and will click on my link to Amazon. Once there, you may buy other books aswell. I get commission for each of these.

Another example is the one below. The Rich Pom sells you information on how to make money through the web, largely using affiliate marketing. I bought his guide to how to earn money on the internet and I genuinely believe his formula works. Why? Because it is logical, it makes sense; because my other half has already been using this approach to earn money from his websites and made $1500 in December. Ok, so we're not rich yet, but there's the potential!

Check out the other half's websites (Top 100 Things to do in Sydney, and Word of Web) to see affiliate links to Google and Clixgalore.