Make Money Online With Affiliate Programs
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David
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September 8th, 2010
I was thinking about what I would write about next and I thought that a common question is how to make money online so my next few posts are going to be a few different ways to make money online. When you decide to make a website you'll want to have a clear idea of what your intentions are or you'll find that you keep having to go back and make changes to your website.
What Is An Affiliate Program?
Affiliate programs allow you to make money by referring your website visitors to a specific companies products or services. Most affiliate programs are free and can be setup in about 5 minutes.
After you have completed your registration you'll be given a unique id within a link to the website for example, www.VendorSite.com/affid=1234. When you make your own website you'll simply link to the vendors website using this unique URL.
When a visitor to your website clicks on that link a cookie is placed on their computer to ensure that you are given credit for the referral. If the visitor completes a purchase with the vendor you'll receive a pre-defined percentage of that sale.
Some companies pay you per lead such as mortgage companies. What happens here is if the visitor completes a form or some other lead generating method you are paid for that as well. As I mentioned, you'd run into this will mortgage companies in addition to insurance companies, credit card companies, etc.
Low Startup Cost
As I mentioned, setting up an account as an affiliate is generally free so it's a great way of making some additional money without having to come up with any sort of money up-front.
If you happen to have a particular subject that's related to your website you can search for companies that offer affiliate programs and link to them. This is your best option because if your website is related to cars it doesn't make much sense to have affiliate links to baby gifts.
Additional Information
I have created an 'how to' page on making money with affiliate programs if you're interested in reading information on affiliate marketing and easy ways to manage you're affiliate campaigns it's definitely worth reading.
Best regards,
David L.
www.WebsiteSpot.com