Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Make Money Online using Affiliate Programs

Make Money Online using Affiliate ProgramsMake Money from affiliate programs Affiliate or Referral advertisements allow you to earn money or commission if website or blog visitors click the affiliate link and make a purchase, or join a newsletter, or perform any other action as prescribed by the advertiser. If properly used, and also depending on the type of your blog, affiliate programs can one of your best source of online income from your blog. Let me give you a concrete example of how money is made using affiliate links.
Example
: The following link is an affiliate link or referral ad for them.
Quality Web hosting - Unlimited Bandwidth & Storage - Only $4.95.
If you click on the above affiliate link and make a purchase, then I make money in the form of commission. If you click but do not make a purchase, then I do not make money at all.

Affiliate programs allow bloggers to make income on basis of Cost Per Action (CPA), which means you get a specified amount of money if your blog visitor performs a specified action which can be anything like purchase, signing up a newsletter, etc.

A good affiliate income is a sign of a healthy blog. Although in the initial stages of your make money online project, it maybe a bit difficult to earn from affiliate links on your blog, you must keep it as your medium term goal to achieve success with earning money from Affiliate programs.

How to start earning income from your blog using affiliate programs?
There are two ways to enroll in affiliate programs and start . Either you directly search for suitable affiliates one by one or you join a affiliate marketing network or referral programs network like Commission Junction where you can find hundreds of affiliate programs to enroll at one place. The following are some popular affiliate marketing networks (there are several others)
  1. Commission Junction
  2. Market Leverage
  3. DGMPro (affiliate programs for those in U.K., Australia, India and Asia Pacific)
My personal experience is that for small blogs (like this one) it is a bit difficult to make money online from affiliate programs. For example, although I have displayed and tried several affiliate ads on my blog, my income from them is practically zero. If your blog or website traffic is less than 100 visitors per day, it is unlikely you will make a lot of revenue with affiliate programs. In that case I would first recommend you to focus on traffic building and earning money online with Google Adsense in the meantime. After you take your blog traffic to the next level, say 1000 per day, it would be a good time to take the idea of making money with affiliate programs or referral advertisements seriously. If you are a new blogger, just bookmark this section and visit later after you work on your blog traffic.

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