Affiliate Marketing

Posted under Internet on September 29

Since the google adsense ban I have been looking into other forms of making money online other than PPC. Affiliate sales seems like a big earner for a lot of people on the internet. I have therefore decided to diversify into affiliate websites selling other people’s products.

Affiliate marketing is basically having a website which has ads or products offered on the website. If someone therefore buys the products or signs up via your website you get a percentage commission. My favourite affiliate supplier is Commission Junction.

Overall affiliate sales have more potential to make a lot of money. Each unique visitor if targeted to your niche can make you some good money. I have been meaning to set up a website called sporting iq for a while now. I have decided to make it into a sporting goods store and resource.

I have a simple design which I will hopefully get live soon. My plans are to develop my own system so I can update and add products via CJ automatically. Once it is live I will be experimenting with some different types of advertising. This may be things such as adwords and yahoo aswers.

After reading a lot about affiliate marketing I have come to the following conclusion. You should have a target niche. Preferably something with little competition. Its also not about how many visitors your website gets but about the quality of visitors. Your traffic needs to be targeted to your niche.

You can see the design so far for Sporting IQ. Wish me good luck. I have already encountered some problems with the CSS/XHTML of the design let alone the possible PHP I was looking to do.

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8 Responses

  2. I agree that some people make a lot of money out of affiliate schemes - but the majority don’t. Are you sure it’s worth all the effort?

  3. oh man the ban just sucks. such horror

    how about paid postings. get paid to blog

    i earn quite alot from it

    good luck :)

  4. Useful post for not so experienced webmasters :)

  5. If he were to pay to blog his blogs quality might go waayyy down.

  6. I never really got much sales from CJ. Good luck with it.

  7. The design looks great, modern and professional.

  8. i personally hate adsense i prefer affiliates more

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