Making money online is challenging because the first thing people encounter when they begin is a sea of unscrupulous marketers trying to sell them their system or secret for “how to make money online”. Often these people never made money online aside from selling packages on “how to make money online” to beginners. Many of these newbies in turn start selling the same system to newer newbies. In the end this is really just a like pyramid scheme.
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Internet marketing posts and articles for beginners or newbies.
With all this talk about making money online you are probably wondering, “How is it done?”
There are dozens of ways to make money online but the way most people, like you, make money online is via a blog.
a) What is a blog?
A blog is a website on which you can post articles about a given topic. Most blogs use a free software called WordPress. If applicable you can also offer a forum, a Facebook page or more if you think user participation would be beneficial.
Affiliate Links Explained
Why do we have affiliate links?
An ‘affiliate link’ is a special URL that contains your unique affiliate ID (or Network Affiliate ID when working with a network). You use them when driving traffic to a particular place. Vendors use affiliate links to track who sent traffic to their websites. This is how they know to whom to credit a sale. As an affiliate, you will use these links as part of your advertising efforts be they through social networking sites, pay per click ads, your own website, etc.
Getting started in Affiliate Marketing
I hope that by sharing one of my first profitable affiliate experiences with you, you will find inspiration in your own quest to become a successful affiliate. A positive outcome for you would be to get inspired and invent your own first experiences, which in turn, will improve your comprehension and skills in the field of Internet Marketing.
Before getting into the details of my first money making online experience, I would like to share 3 tips.
When I first started in this field, I spent weeks reading everything I could find about affiliate marketing trying to piece together the rare nuggets of information I found here and there.
Affiliate Marketing Tools
Every super affiliate uses software tools to help automate or increase the productivity of certain tasks. Additionally, in many cases super affiliates develop their own tools. My advise to newbies is to always be a “cheap bastard” until you understand why you are spending your money. Most likely you will need every penny in your bank account to become a super affiliate. Here is the main reason:
This article will cover the why, what and how of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
What exactly is SEO?
Each search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc) ranks web sites and lists them in their engines according to that ranking. The engines decide which criteria to use when ranking sites. Some factors are well known. Others are more obscure and mysterious.
As an Affiliate Marketer, you may wish to develop relationships with vendors (e.g. find, analyze and join vendor Affiliate programs). You may do this directly, or through an affiliate network.
What is an Affiliate Network?
An affiliate network is a third-party organization that introduces affiliates to merchants and vice versa.
Affiliate Marketing, Where it’s Going and What it Means to You.
Affiliate Marketing (also called Performance or Performance-Based Marketing) is a term loosely used to describe the process of selling goods or services by pushing traffic to a site belonging to a vendor with whom the Affiliate Marketer is "affiliated".
In this article I will give a brief overview of WordPress to help you get started. Remember, there are many good, free educational videos on WordPress out there. You can find many of them through your favorite search engine or YouTube. Please feel free to ask me a question by posting a comment on my website.
In the last article/video (Internet Marketing Website in 1 Minute) we saw how you can install WordPress in 30 seconds with cPanel. In this article I will go over the menu items on the left sidebar.
A lot of people feel they can’t get into internet marketing or affiliate marketing because they do not have much technical knowledge. This is not the case; in fact I would argue that having too much technical knowledge can be dangerous. Many with "too much" technical knowledge risk spending days, weeks or even months on technical issues of little relevance to making money online. The most important thing about your affiliate site
There are three main ways to make money online:
1. Sell your own goods or services.
In this method to make money online, you simply create a web site then sell products or services on it. If you have nothing to sell, do not be discouraged! There are ways around that. Examples of things you might sell are:
- Products you make from scratch (e.g. pottery, jewelry, food items, crafts, handcrafted furniture or clothes, etc.)