How to Make Money Online – Affiliate Marketing

There are a dozen and one ways of making money online, but most you will find only give you a little at a time, in dribs and drabs, and this means that you have to spend a great deal of time filing in surveys and review different services or goods.

One of the more lucrative and appealing ways to make cash online is affiliate marketing, and below we are going to look at what they are giving examples of how they work.

Firstly, what is affiliate marketing? The simplest way of explaining an affiliate program (or sometimes called an associate program) is that it is a relationship where a merchant of goods or services pays you (who is the affiliate) for links from your site to his.

This means you have to have a website or blog with traffic set up in order for this to work. Usually you are only paid when an actual sale of goods or services is made by the merchant as a result of your link.

For instance, if you ran an online casino affiliate site you would be paid in Cost Per Acquisition or the CPA. This is when a betting/gambling company pays you an agreed sum for each new client you refer to them. You can refer anyone and if they sign-up and play any of the casino games on offer like roulette online, slots or Blackjack then you will qualify for a commission payment.

There is also something called the revenue share, and this is where you get an actual percentage of the losses of each of the clients you have introduced to the gambling site. This percentage can be in the region of 25%/30%, although it can be a lot higher if you are making the company large amounts of money. Another plus point with revenue shares is that you get the commission for the lifetime of the client’s activity with that particular company.

You will find that some affiliate programs carry forward any negatives at the end of the month, this negative is where the client has won, and the site has had to pay him his winnings, but generally any negatives are wiped at the end of the month so you will begin to earn in the next one.

You, as an affiliate will never be asked to pay any negative, so you will never owe the betting company any money, thus affiliate marketing is risk free, and the rewards can be high.

As you can see choosing your niche before becoming an affiliate is vital, and you do need to do your research. Once you have decided which sector you are most interested in promoting you need to build your site and fill it with high-end content which can take time.

Once you have built your audience you can then promote your affiliate offers and wait for the money to come.

Finally, have patience, remember Rome was not built in a day!