2. There are many online billing and marketing services that
have been created for the development of affiliate
programmes. They provide tracking services to enable
merchants to pay a designated amount of money to the
person who referred the business to the merchant, which
serves as a commission payment. They know who the
affiliate is because the affiliate uses a special link provided
by the affiliate network that uniquely identifies them, and
then they track the visitor's progress through the
merchant's site to the sale of the product.
3. Google AdWords is one of many pay-per-click services
with which you can place advertising at low rates. You
write an advertisement for Google AdWords that will
appear on the "sponsored links" section of their search
results, and you tell Google that you would like your ad
shown when somebody searches for specific keywords.
You get charged a small fee each time somebody clicks on
your advertisement, and thereby visits your designated
website.
4. Link the two together, and what have you got? An easy
way of making money quickly! Well, it would be easy if
nobody else knew about the technique. The trouble is that
hundreds of thousands of people are well aware of this
technique to make money, and as a result, lots of ads exist
for most worthwhile keywords. If an advertisement is
already listed for the keyword that you want to list for,
then you must be prepared to pay more per click than that
advertiser to get your advertisement listed, and then the
costs of advertising ramp up.
5. If you can get in first with an advertisement campaign, you
have an advantage. Google AdWords rewards advertisers
who write copy that attracts clicks by lowering the cost
per click that these advertisers have to pay to get their ads
listed near the top of the list. This way, ads can build up
history. One way of getting into this market is by striking
while the iron is hot. If you can find a vendor that has just
started an affiliate programme, you may be able to get in
with a good ad before anyone else does.
6. ClickBank is a famous payment processor and affiliate
network tracker that have over 10,000 downloadable
goods available. There are plenty of products available
through ClickBank that can be marketed in this way, and
new vendors are coming along all the time. Commission
Junction are another famous network that provide a
similar tracking and commission-payment service with
new products quickly coming in, and there are plenty of
others. Some organisations like Amazon operate their own
affiliate tracking network; indeed, Amazon made the
model popular. Those affiliate marketers who are
successful sometimes achieve that success by finding
these new products, and marketing them before anybody
else does. In this way, they maximise their chances of
generating autopilot income.