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October 28, 2008 
Making money with affiliate products is the quickest way to start your internet business. There are many ways that you can get it up and running however, there are just as many ways if not more, to screw it up and make it a very difficult business to keep afloat. So, let’s look at 5 ways you can make money using affiliate programs and no website.
You will eventually need your own website to promote your affiliate products and build your internet marketing business. You can however, earn commissions of up to 75% of the sale price of affiliate products without a website. As an Affiliate you can earn a good living just by directing traffic to the Merchants Websites where they handle everything when that visitor purchases their products.
If you’re thinking about starting out on the Internet, the quickest way to start making money is with affiliate marketing. You don’t need to have your own products or services, once you get the traffic to the product owners website you’ve met your part of the contract. You don’t handle payment processing, product delivery, product support or refunds. Signing up to promote other peoples products is easy and you can choose from thousands of products and services available through many third party sites as well as Merchants who have their own affiliate marketing sites.
So let’s look at 5 ways you can use to promote your chosen products without a website of your own.
1. Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising can drive targetted traffic to the merchants website using your affiliate link, you will earn your commission when people you send to the merchants site buys that product.
2. Use Forums and Social Networking sites, register and post your views on forums, use a relevant e-signature that has your affiliate link on it so that people will have some where to click on if they find you post interesting. Your posts should have a call to action and that action is for them to visit the merchants website through your affiliate link in your e-signature, always sign off with your e-signature.
3. Use articles to promote your affiliate products, articles can be a powerful source of traffic generation. Create a good resource box that will have your affiliate link in it. Articles can be submitted to many article sites and blogs, if they are original and of high quality they can act as a traffic magnet. This whole process is can be done without it costing you a penny so I highly recommend you get to learning this very effective marketing technique. You can buy articles written or your products or get free ones that will require editing or re-writing so that you can say they are original because you rewritten then in your own words. Do not submit articles that you buy or get for free without editing them, you could destroy the reputation you are building with your articles.
4. Post reviews of your products in other peoples Blogs and in free classified ad sites. You will find web masters in the forums who may allow you to post your reviews on their websites, it must be of good quality if it adds value to their sites and should that site be ranking well in the search engines your traffic volume could skyrocket with little or no effort. Always ensure your affiliate links is are in your reviews to send traffic the merchants sites.
5. Start a free blog using blogger or wordpress. Publish two articles a day on all of your affiliate products and ask people in your forums to visit it and critique it for you, ask for advise on how you can turn it into a traffic magnet. Request links one way and reciprocal ones. Use useful plug ins, ones that will help increase your blog visitors every post you publish should have a link to the appropriate product sites.
There you have it, five ways to make money with affiliate products without your own website. Now it will not be easy and you can make money using the above tips to start your internet business. A word of warning about articles and ezinearticles.com, this is perhaps the best article site to use for your articles so when submitting to ezinearticles abide by their terms and conditions and submit original articles so that you can be classified as an expert or something similar. Being able to publish as many articles you can here, can really skyrocket your affiliate commissions, you can read about and follow a step by step method a Newbie used to quickly make some money when he started, see below.
Good luck with your internet business.
So, as you can see, you can still make money online with affiliate programs even if you do not have your own website. In fact, you can start to promote your affiliate products as recommended above without a website, and once you start making some money, then you can build a website.
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