Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Affiliate Marketing - Monetizing Your Website

By Anson Hall

Do you have a website yourself? It is very true that a lot of people will run a website for various reasons. And these websites are usually free sites. However, the fact here is that you will still need to spend some money in order to run your own websites.

Although it is not a large amount of money, you will need to pay for the domain and also hosting services. It is very true that they may only cost you $50 dollars a year. However, it will still be a good idea to use your site to make some money.

Of course you may not really plan to make a lot of money with you site. Yet, you may still want to cover the $50 to $70 you spend every year on the website. As per the different methods and tactics to make money online, you may visit some webmaster forums and you will certainly get a lot of insight.

You may have already heard of Google Adsense. You can be making money with this network. Of course you will need to get a publisher account from Google first. You will then get the advertisement code from Adsense. You can make money by putting the code on your site.

Yet, Google Adsense will not suit webmasters who would like to make some more money. A lot of webmasters will agree that you will not be able to make a lot of money by joining this network. Instead these webmasters will work in the field of affiliate marketing.

There is no doubt that it is possible for an affiliate marketer to make a lot of money online. For some super affiliates, they can even make a six figure income each month. Of course not all affiliate marketers can do so. However, it is generally true that a lot of serious marketers can make quite decent amounts of money.

You may want to know the how affiliate marketing works at this point. The idea is that there is usually a merchant or sponsor. When you join the affiliate program, you will get an affiliate link from the merchant. When someone follows the link and purchases, you can earn some commissions from the merchant.

There are a lot of different ways to make money with your free website. However, affiliate marketing is certainly one of the best ways to do so. So, do not wait and start making money with it!

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