Affiliate marketing is one of the many ways I make money with on the Internet. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, because I think that’s important that people are aware and comfortable about whose trying to sell them products on the Internet. Read more

Masking affiliate links is very important, and in this lesson, I’m going to show you how to do it with ease. A lot of affiliates do not mask their affiliate links and they’re loosing money because of lost traffic because of it. Here are a few reasons why they need to be hidden:

  • Google can recognize an affiliate link when they see one. It’s a simple algorithm really, if Google crawls a hyper link that forwards to another hyper link, it can easily assume that the link is an affiliate link and it will either lower your Quality Score (if promoting through Google AdWords) or lower your PageRank (if promoting through SEO).
  • People are getting smarter and they notice when they see *.*.clickbank.net…or if they see a hyper link with a number next to it, they’re getting sent to a website that is trying to sell them something.
  • If you’re promoting your website through e-mail marketing, SPAM filters are getting smarter every day and if one affiliate screws up, it ruins it for everyone trying to use similar hyper links from the same domain.

Here are a few methods to solve this problem: Read more

Promoting an existing product is one of the easiest ways to make money on the internet. In fact, most of the “get-rich-schemes” that involve online marketing are affiliate based. The concept is simple, you sign up for an affiliate program for a specific product, you receive a special URL with a unique ID tied to your name, and when you promote that special link, you get credit for the sale. Read more

You can make money with your website in several different ways. The most popular way of monetizing your website is through relevant advertising on your web pages. This is as simple as signing up for advertising through one of the world’s most popular venues, like Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher. The amount of money you make, to be honest, is very low unless you have a lot of traffic on your website. If you’re just starting out, I recommend that you avoid plastering advertising on your web pages until you’re popular enough to secure lots of relevant traffic to your website. Regardless, advertising is what fuels the Internet and keeps everybody’s website’s up and running and free. Read more