How to Start a Blog

1- People think that building a website which is light on content and then throwing in a bunch of banners and pop-up windows will get them cash flowing right away. Wrong! It takes time, hard work and a lot of experimentation in order to achieve good results.

2- When people build a website and decide to implement some affiliate links, they tend to choose the products with the highest payouts, which is not a bad thing but you got to consider first if the product has a high click-through and conversion rate. Also you need to check whether or not the ad’s target audience is the same as that of your site.

3- Integrate ads in your website in such way that if it looks like the ads are part of your website (colors, text, and space available).

4- “More banners, more clicks” – Wrong! Just place one or two banners or text ads in each page. This will bring better click-through rates and affiliate sales.

5- Don’t Spam (send unsolicited emails). Doing this could result in your account being closed. Also you could get in a lot of trouble with any company.

So How you Make Money with affiliate links? It’s pretty simple, just find a website where you can see other people’s products for sale (i.e. HHUUwww.Clickbank.comUUHH or HHUUwww.Paydotcom.comUUHH) or you can even sign up to be an affiliate of HHUUwww.amazon.comUUHH , where you can promote virtually any existing product on the planet. First you need to register, go to HHUUClickbank UUHH and create an affiliate id with them and once you are registered, you will receive a special id, or number (in most cases you can type your own name or nickname) This “unique id or name” will be the key to money-making. It identifies you as an affiliate for a specific product in order to make a referred sale and get the commission.

- Let’s start with a very simple example: HHUUwww.Clickbank.comUUHH When you browse through Clickbank’s Marketplace, you will see a list of categories, click on any and you will see a diverse list of products you can promote.

- Each product offers a commission for each sale you refer to them; it usually ranges from 10% and up to 75%!!!

- In the marketplace, you can click on a link (usually the “create hoplink” link) to promote a specific product and a page will open asking you for your “affiliate id”, after you type it, you will get your referral url (internet address, something like http:// with your affiliate id included) So that address is the url you will have to promote so get people visit it and get the commissions if someone buys anything. You need to create a Free account before this.

• Of course you will be at first attracted to the products offering 75% commission, but you need to double check. Some people offer 75% commission and the product itself sells for $10. Heck, that’s $7.50 for each sale you refer, and in order for you to make any decent money you need to sell many of those a week, which is a difficult task if you are starting in the online marketing business. So my advice is to first check the product’s price and commission offered before promoting any product; and also check if the product’s sale page is good-looking and goes straight to the point (that’s yours to choose). You can also check (in Clickbank.com) a tiny text right under each product that reads “gravity”, this number will tell you an approximate number of people who got a commission by promoting the product. In other words, the more gravity a product has, the more people are promoting it and making referred sales. This is a little bit of a problem, because the bad thing is that the more people are promoting it, the more competition you will have when promoting it on your own using a popular PPC system like (Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing “Overture”) and for you it could result in paying more for each click in order to get a higher position in the ads, Or it might be a good thing because you are making sure the product is selling and converting pretty well; therefore it’s worth promoting it. I suggest you browse through all the products in your selected category and make a wise decision when selecting a product to promote; it doesn’t necessarily need to be among the first pages to be a good product that sells and converts good (converts visitors into buyers). The reason it could be among the last pages is that it is a new product and not everyone knows about it. So you never know, it could convert like crazy. Remember, choose your products carefully according to your website’s topic. Setup an adwords account, write an ad, set a daily budget to spend on clicks, add your keywords and use the referral links on the landing url (so your sales get tracked and you earn your referral commissions).

After you join any affiliate program, You need to start promoting your links. The fastest way to generate traffic to a website (not free) is to create a HHUUgoogle adwords accountUUHH and create an ad to promote your website.