I don’t recommend PPC ads (like AdWords) because that method of getting traffic can flatten you wallet fast if you’re not experienced.
Starting out I would recommend setting up free blogs at Squidoo (Squidoo calls its "blog" lenses), Blogger, and WordPress. All three of these platforms allow you to put affiliate links in your blog. Now, just create a pre-sell page using your account at these platforms. Give the blog the exact title of the product you will be promoting as an affiliate.
Then create a 500 or so word post and review the product. It’s best to buy the product you are promoting so you can give good info about it, but many people just take info off of the sales page. I suggest you keep your keword density at about 2.8-3.3%.
What this means is the name of the product should appear about 3% of the time in the text you post. More than this and Google could think you have a spam site and are keyword stuffing. Let than that and Google won’t rank you high for your keyword phrase (the name of the product).
Squidoo probably won’t let your lens go live unless you have 3 or so posts (text modules) included. Once you publish your blog, click on the orange RSS feed button and copy the RSS in your browser window and "ping" your blog at http://www.pingoat.com, or http://www.ping-o-matic.com–someplace like that. That gets the word out that you have posted something. It will help the search engines find you too.
Read up about Latent Semantic Indexing. You can find stuff about it online. Incorporate LSI words (words related to your keywords) in your post as well. Some people claim it isn’t important; They are wrong!
Then, and this is the big thing, you need to get as many back-links to your blog as possible. Try to get them from high PageRank sites. The more back-links you get, the more Google will like your site.
You can get good back-links by writing articles and submitting them to directories such as eZineArticles. Your articles should be about 400 words. Make sure you put a link in your author resource box to your blog where you promote the product.
You should also set up accounts at social bookmarking sites and bookmark your blog. This will give you great back-links as well.
Visit competing sites for the name of the product you find on the front page of Google. Enter the URL of each of these sites into YaHoo Site Explorer and you can find where they are getting back-links from. Go there and get back-links from those sites as well.
Everything I have mentioned costs you nothing to implement. When you get some cash, go to aWeber and set up an account for $20 a month. You can use this service to set up an auto-responder account and then you can create opt-in forms to get people to sign up for your list when they visit your blog. Then send emails to your list a couple times a week to promote affiliate products. Give them some good content in your emails so they keep opening them. There is a lot of money in this when you get your list built up.
You can also try to do some cost-per-cation marketing through a CPA network. If you can drive traffic to the vendors page you can make some very good money.
I don’t spend too much — I rely on free traffic methods, like article marketing, SEO, social bookmarking, and the like.
I also work on building a list so I can sell to them — that’s really what anyone who wants to make money online should be doing. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but if you’re not capturing contact information of your prospects, you’re just building someone else’s business. You should be building your own business, if you want to make money long-term.
I don’t recommend PPC ads (like AdWords) because that method of getting traffic can flatten you wallet fast if you’re not experienced.
Starting out I would recommend setting up free blogs at Squidoo (Squidoo calls its "blog" lenses), Blogger, and WordPress. All three of these platforms allow you to put affiliate links in your blog. Now, just create a pre-sell page using your account at these platforms. Give the blog the exact title of the product you will be promoting as an affiliate.
Then create a 500 or so word post and review the product. It’s best to buy the product you are promoting so you can give good info about it, but many people just take info off of the sales page. I suggest you keep your keword density at about 2.8-3.3%.
What this means is the name of the product should appear about 3% of the time in the text you post. More than this and Google could think you have a spam site and are keyword stuffing. Let than that and Google won’t rank you high for your keyword phrase (the name of the product).
Squidoo probably won’t let your lens go live unless you have 3 or so posts (text modules) included. Once you publish your blog, click on the orange RSS feed button and copy the RSS in your browser window and "ping" your blog at http://www.pingoat.com, or http://www.ping-o-matic.com–someplace like that. That gets the word out that you have posted something. It will help the search engines find you too.
Read up about Latent Semantic Indexing. You can find stuff about it online. Incorporate LSI words (words related to your keywords) in your post as well. Some people claim it isn’t important; They are wrong!
Then, and this is the big thing, you need to get as many back-links to your blog as possible. Try to get them from high PageRank sites. The more back-links you get, the more Google will like your site.
You can get good back-links by writing articles and submitting them to directories such as eZineArticles. Your articles should be about 400 words. Make sure you put a link in your author resource box to your blog where you promote the product.
You should also set up accounts at social bookmarking sites and bookmark your blog. This will give you great back-links as well.
Visit competing sites for the name of the product you find on the front page of Google. Enter the URL of each of these sites into YaHoo Site Explorer and you can find where they are getting back-links from. Go there and get back-links from those sites as well.
Everything I have mentioned costs you nothing to implement. When you get some cash, go to aWeber and set up an account for $20 a month. You can use this service to set up an auto-responder account and then you can create opt-in forms to get people to sign up for your list when they visit your blog. Then send emails to your list a couple times a week to promote affiliate products. Give them some good content in your emails so they keep opening them. There is a lot of money in this when you get your list built up.
You can also try to do some cost-per-cation marketing through a CPA network. If you can drive traffic to the vendors page you can make some very good money.
I don’t spend too much — I rely on free traffic methods, like article marketing, SEO, social bookmarking, and the like.
I also work on building a list so I can sell to them — that’s really what anyone who wants to make money online should be doing. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but if you’re not capturing contact information of your prospects, you’re just building someone else’s business. You should be building your own business, if you want to make money long-term.