MAKING MONEY WITH AFFILIATE MARKETING

When people talk about making money with affiliate marketing, they think about
signing up as a publisher and trying to get people to pay them for advertising on
their sites. That's definitely one way to make money with affiliate marketing, but
it's not the only way! You can make money with affiliate marketing as a publisher,
an advertiser, or as an owner of an affiliate marketing network. You don't even
have to limit the paths you take. You can try all three!
MAKING MONEY AS A PUBLISHER
This path is the most downtrodden, but very few people explore all the potential to
make money, even here. That's because most people are creatures of habit. They
find one way to do something, and they never venture from that path, even when
they find that the income isn't what they had hoped it would be. The fact is that if
you limit yourself to just one advertiser, like Google, you won't be able to really
explore the potential for affiliate marketing models that might work better with your
niche audience.
So, while we are going to tell you that you can make money using Google Adsense,
it's not the only advertising network out there. You can spend a lot of time trying to
publish content that gets search engines to serve up high-prized ads on your site,
and researching keywords to make campaigns that target high-paying ones. Or you
can explore a few other places like Adbrite.com or independent affiliates at different
affiliate banks who might give you a bigger return on your investment of time.
The key is not to join the biggest network out there, it's to understand your niche
and your audience. To make money as a publisher of other people's affiliate
offerings, your job is to match up your audiences wants and needs to the offerings
that best meet them. So, you don't necessarily have to know a thing about
keywords to get started being a publisher of affiliate offerings, but you do have to
know what your audience will buy.
So, let's assume you have a website about winter sports. You can sign up for
different affiliate programs that offer everything from winter sports equipment to
exciting vacations at mountain resorts. All you have to do is locate those offers and
publish them on your site and collect a commission. For that, you'll have to