3 Ways to Make Money with Affiliate Programs - Kathy Burns-Millyard

Whether you're new to affiliate marketing or you've been trying to earn money with it for awhile, you may have come to a point of discouragement. Maybe you've even wondered if there's any truth to all the claims people state, about how much money they make with affiliate programs too.

As hard as it might seem to beginners, there really are some excellent ways to make decent money with affiliate marketing. And how much you make really only depends upon how much time and effort you put into your affiliate marketing strategies.

With that said though, most of us need a place to start. We need ideas, tips, and hints. If possible, we'd really like to know what types of things other affiliates have done to successfully earn money day in and day out, right? Well, here's three of the best things you can do to start making money with your affiliate programs.

1. Write Articles - This is my personal favorite way to make money with affiliate programs. And it's ideal for beginners because all it takes is time. You invest your time in writing quality articles for other websites. Then you distribute those articles through article directories online, and other website publishers will find and publish them. The more your article is published on other websites, the more you can benefit, because your article is distributed with a link to your website. And in order for other sites to legally use it, they must publish your website link with the article.

So the more sites that do this, the more links you get pointed to your site. And the more your article will be seen by targeted buyers. If, for example, 100 websites have published your article, that's 100 links to your site. And if each of those sites generates 100 readers to your article on their site, that's 10,000 potential visitors to your site. With that many visitors, you're bound to make an affiliate sale or two!

2. Create a blog... but not just any ol' blog - Another excellent low cost way to generate traffic to your chosen affiliate program also involves writing. In this case though, you'll be writing for your own blog instead of sending the articles out to other webmasters and sites. One of the most powerful ways to make this work though, is to create a blog that is filled with affiliate product reviews, or is a step-by-step walk through of your own personal experience with the affiliate product you're promoting.

3. Start an AdWords campaign - Last but not least, you can quickly generate affiliate traffic and sales by simply advertising. Set up a Google AdWords account, create an ad or two, then let them run. You'll need to test various ads, and adjust them based on how well or poorly they may be performing, but in general this is a very low cost, low time-intensive method of generating affiliate traffic and sales.

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