How to earn money as an affiliate

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Hello everyone,

Here is a site that has the information you need to earn money with your website as an affiliate (If you dont have a website you can get one free from Bravehost).

Affiliate marketing allows you the opportunity to match your existing content with links to other websites, and get paid for it.
Companies like - eBay, Ecampus.com, Call Wave, Club Mom, PeoplePC, Netzero, Netscape, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, DVD Planet, Ancestry.com and many more. Even Walmart and Target have affiliate programs!

This doesnt cost you a dime. No credit card is needed.


Click here to learn more and to sign up


David
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Just an update. I know that this works because I have earned over $200 in commissions just in the past 14 days. I know thats nothing to yell and jump about (yet) but if it keeps up??

Its simple. You build a web site about whatever interests you. That way it is fun and enjoyable so you dont mind working on it as much. While youre doing that you sign up with Linkshare and shareasale and some other affiliates. Study all the merchants available and select those that would be of interest to your visitors and then start mixing your ads in your pages.

Next you are ready to submit your site to the search engines and think about other ways to promote it. Hopefully you optimized your meta tags and key words and all that.

You can find out about how to get your own web site (a free one is available), which affiliate representatives and direct affiliates to join, how to optimize your web site for search engines, plus lots of informative articles on how all this works.

You can spend a little money on things like pay per clicks or other advertising or your own domain name but you can do all this without having to pay out anything if thats how you want to go.

David


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Looking good so far. You pretty much nailed it on the head. You can build a website about anything that interests you, then find some advertising outlets (there's plenty of them out there) and run ads that are appropriate for your site.

Looks like you're ready for Seach Engine Optimization. Quite an interesting step. Looks like Yahoo's got you index already, so that's good, just getting the rankings the hard part. Let me know if you need any advice, be glad to help, it's nice to have another webmaster to talk to.

Also, just a suggestion, I couldn't find a link back to your homepage from some of your subordinate pages. It's a good idea to provide an easy to find link back to your home page, especially once you start getting some rankings in the search engines. For example, in a perfect world, your home page would rank well for the keywords that you have for your homepage, but you would also want your survey page to rank well for your survey keywords. Let's say I found your survey page and liked what you had to offer, if there were an easy to find link to your homepage, I very well might be inclined to visit it and see what else you had to say.

Anyways, keep at it. Looks good.
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Thanks Chris for taking the time to look through my site. I appreciate the response and advice as well. I think I have those "home" links fixed now. Except there are a couple of pages that I may not have links to from all other pages. Such as the PTR page. I dont want to remove it but I dont really want it along with my main site either.

Hmm well, I have tried to organize my keywords and descrip tags on most of the pages. I am still new at that sort of thing. But at least on the home page, webmasters, affiliates, and surveys page I have a set of keywords that are included in the body text.

One VERY important factor, from what I have been reading, is "link popularity". Basically, inbound links to your site = popluarity. It is easier to manipulate the search engine spider with meta tags so these crawlers are looking more heavily at inbound links to determine rankings.

Naturally, the value of any one inbound link is based upon what type of site has placed the link. A link on cnn.com would be worth much more than one at auntsueswidgets.com. (Most free link exchanges and "free" websites arent counted)

OK so that is a good question for you Chris.

What would be your recommendations on getting inbound links?
(General question for all not just me specifically)

David
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As far as links, I try to keep mine related to my website. It is true that a link from another site has a certain value depending on the site. I would download the Google toobar. It will tell you the PR (page rank) for a particular page, the higher the better. Now, you have to worry about more than just a page's PR. For example, I could exchange links with say, McDonalds (would never happen, but lets say I do). Ok, now McDonalds is going to have a huge PR for terms such as, McDonalds, fast food etc...but will have pretty much no relevance what so ever for paid surveys. So, the link would help slightly, but not as much as having a good solid link from lets say "survey savvy". You also need to be concerned when exchanging links that you're not filling your site with links to other pages that have no relevance to your topic. Spiders look at who you are linking to as well as who links to you.

The best kind of links are one way links (they link to you but you don't link to them). This basically is saying that your site is soo good that people just link to you, no exchange necessary. An ok way to do this is through related forums, if they let you post your link.

You also don't want to make your site a link farm. You go to some sites that have thousands of links to a bunch of, well, crap. They've just exchanged link with whomever will. Therefor they have pages upon pages of links that are of no interest at all to thir visitors. Unfortunately this stategy will work for a while, but search engine spiders get smarter and smarter and will probably penalize for this sort of thing. Better to build good quality links now, that way you have a good quality site. Spiders will keep evolving, so if you are using tricks now, they'll eventually catch up with you and your page will plummet. By building quality, it might take you a bit longer to reach the top, but you'll have nothing to fear down the road. Remember that search engines are trying to make their user search as relevant as possible to their users.

To get links, start using the search engines. Find sites that are related to yours, but not direct competitors (you can actually use direct competitors as well, but you run the risk of your visitors liking their site better). Then send them an email to see if they want to exchange links. Also look at their links, there's a good chance that if the people who link to them are willing to link to a similar site, that they'll link to you as well.

You can look at organized link exchanges as well, just be a bit picky who you trade with. You can also do a link exchange type software to manage your links, that's just personal preference. I do mine by hand, but I don't have a whole lot either. I just try to get a few here and there in between everything else.
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Chris would you mind if I published your post as an article on my site? It was very well written and provided good answers.

http://www.honestinformation.com/articles

I would put your name and link to your site at the top, also there is an "about author area"

Let me know what you think

David
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Definately, feel free to post it.
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