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HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINEChapter 1: Make Cash NOW with No Start-Up Money

The best way to make money online without spending a dime is through the promotion of affiliate programs. What is an affiliate program? An affiliate program is an arrangement between a company and a website owner or individual who would like to promote that company's products. The person promoting the products is the affiliate and the company with the products is the merchant. The merchant (company) pays a percentage of any sales resulting from any click through (via banner or text link) to their website from an affiliate partner’s promotion. The majority of the affiliate programs out there charge nothing for you to join their affiliate programs. Although, some merchants require that you purchase the product before promoting it as an affiliate. Most of the merchant’s do not require that, although it’s a good idea to know the product before actually promoting it to others!
Click Here for a List of Affiliate Programs to Signup With
There are dozens of ways to profit from being an affiliate without even having a website. As an affiliate you can also profit and drive website traffic to the merchant's website through posting in online forums. A forum is an online discussion group, where participants with common interests can exchange open messages. You can do this by including a signature block at the end of each of your posts containing a link to the affiliate program of your choice. Some forums do not allow direct affiliate links in their posts but there are plenty that do. The same applies for when you are writing articles online and would like to contain your affiliate links within the text. I know Ezine Articles does NOT allow direct affiliate links but there is an easy solution to this. You need to purchase a domain name. The price per year for a domain name can average from $9 dollars to $20 dollars. It's a small investment, which can provide you with huge rewards. For each affiliate program you plan to promote choose a different domain name. If I wanted to promote an affiliate program called "Teach Your Baby to Sign" then I could buy a domain name such as: www.BabySignLanguage101.com. This is just an example and you will need to check the availability of any domain you may wish to purchase. Once you purchase that domain name you will need to go to the home page of the company that you bought it from and login to your account. I buy mine from www.WebsitesForLife.com.

After purchasing the domain name and logging in to your account you will need to go into Account Settings. From here, select Manage Domains and then Domain Forwarding. Select the domain which you just purchased for your affiliate program. A box will then be provided for you to insert the URL or website address which you would like to the domain name to be forwarded to. Be sure to have your affiliate program link with you as this is what you will need to type in the box. Your affiliate program link for "Teach Your Baby to Sign" might look something like this: http://www.teachyourbaby.com=aff01234 Once you have completed the above process you will need to save the settings to finalize it. It may take up to 48 hours to process the results but from then on whenever someone types
www.BabySignLanguage101.com (or whatever domain name you purchased) the site will immediately be redirected to the affiliate website which you signed up with. You can then use that domain name or website address in your signature blocks in forum posts, on blogs and in articles and you will be driving traffic to your merchant website.
If you were to write an e-book about the benefits of teaching your baby sign language in relation to early childhood development you could then add a link at the bottom of your ebook, for example: "For the most recent, proven techniques and tips on how to teach your baby sign language, please go to: www.BabySignLanguage101.com"
You could sell (or giveaway) that e-book on eBay or several other venues online. If you don't have the time or energy to write an e-book you could do a little research, write a short article with your website link in it and submit it to the article sites listed below. I get quite a lot of targeted traffic from posting articles.

Utilizing the Power of Affiliate Products
This is another way you can make A LOT of money right away with low
advertising costs. AdBrite is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of website ad space.
Some websites will allow you to place your advertisement on their website for less than $1.00 per week. Browse the sites listed and write a catchy ad. Once you’ve done this, then link it directly to your affiliate program or the URL you purchased that goes directly to your affiliate program. If you have a few dollars to spare it is worth paying for an ad for a week. You can try it out and see how much you can make from it. If you played your cards right you could pull in A LOT of money by doing this. Go to Chapter 10 For more detailed information about AdBrite.

Where Can I Learn More About Affiliate Marketing?
Here are three websites which are really helpful for newcomers to affiliate marketing:
AffiliateManager.net - This website's goal is to assist those who are just getting started with affiliate programs as well as affiliate marketing gurus.
AffiliateTip.com - This website offers free resources to help affiliates with programs while providing "How-To"s on affiliate promotion and help with which affiliate programs to promote.
AffiliateBoards.com – This is a forum dedicated to affiliate marketing.
Top-Paying Affiliate Programs to Sign-Up With

There are so many different affiliate programs to choose from and it can be difficult to know which ones to sign up for. For a comprehensive list of the top-ranking and highest paying affiliate programs, in order of popularity, go to ClickBank
As an affiliate for a merchant, if you prefer to get paid affiliate commissions through Paypal rather than receiving a check every two weeks, then check out PayDotCom.com. It is a huge affiliate center with a marketplace of products you can promote. Personally, I sell my e-book on both Clickbank and PayDotCom.com. This way, my e-book is getting more exposure and sales through both venues. In order to be able to accept two payment processors, I created two websites with the same content but different URLs and different payment buttons. If you plan to do the same thing, just make sure you add a robots no follow text on one of your websites (the website which you do not want the search engines to index). If you have two websites with the same exact content and they both get submitted to the search engines, then you could be penalizedand lose website ranking. To prevent that, you should create a simple robots.txt file and insert that into the html of your website. If you would like to use a free robots.txt generator, please click here.
One feature PayDotCom.com has which Clickbank and the other affiliate centers I use do not have is the ability to communicate directly with Affiliates. With PayDotCom.com you can email affiliates personally or by broadcasting the entire group, as well as track their website statistics and number of clicks per number of sales. This information can help your marketing efforts.

When considering which affiliate programs are best for you, I recommend that you choose products or affiliate programs that are specifically related to your site’s content and target audience. You can also promote a variety of online digital products as an affiliate. What is nice about using ClickBank is that you can create a free account, after which you are given a unique affiliate ID. You can then choose from a huge array of products to promote and all of the commissions that you earn are paid to you together. In the past, before ClickBank and CJ (see below) were developed, you would be sent checks from each company you were an affiliate for and that was often a nuisance. The majority of the affiliate programs you will sign up with will not have a direct deposit or Paypal transfer option. They will only make payment by checks and these are sent out every 15 days. Commission Junction (CJ) is also one of the best all-in-one affiliate program websites to sign with. It is extremely popular and widely known for its variety of different affiliate programs. Personally, I mostly use ClickBank, PayDotCom and CJ but I suggest that you look around because most companies have affiliate programs now. Just scroll down to the bottom of whichever website you are viewing and look for a little affiliates link. Some business owners do not like to display the link on their homepage for everyone to see and so the affiliates link can sometimes be found in the "About Us" section of the website. You may well be surprised at the companies offering affiliate programs - even volunteer organizations have them now and offer high-paying commissions. There are several of them posted on the CJ website.

Lastly, Linkconnector.com is another affiliate management website which I use.
Linkconnector has a huge assortment of well-known companies that you can sign up and become an affiliate for.

ClickBank offers affiliate programs which sell digital products that can downloadable online. PayDotCom.com works with PayPal payments and detailed affiliate tracking to help you manage campaigns. CJ is known for having the best affiliate programs with companies that sell actual tangible items.
ShareASale has more than 1,000 merchants in their network. You can create a free account and then browse
the programs according to: Pay-Per-Click, Pay-Per-Lead or Pay-Per-Sale.
LinkShare runs the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet. Affiliatefuture offers a huge variety of merchants to choose from -with high quality HOT products.



My personal recommendations are:

ClickBank MarketPlace
Personally, ClickBank has been the most profitable affiliate resource center that I have been involved with. Checks are sent out like clockwork every two weeks. Adding affiliate programs to promote couldn't be easier - all you must do is type in the unique ClickBank ID you were given when you registered with them into the hyperlink and you're set. There is no need to sign up and then wait for approval to promote any of the websites or informational products offered there.

PayDotCom.com
PayDotCom has been highly profitable for me as well with my e-book sales. If you
are going to sell a digital product, I highly recommend that you create two websites and
sell that same product on both sites - one with PayDotCom.com and one with Clickbank.

Commission Junction
If you would like to sell physical goods rather than downloadable ones Commission Junction (CJ) would definitely be the best one to sign up with. This is a hugely knownsite with the best affiliate programs for companies that sell actual tangible items.

ShareASale
ShareASale is another great program with more than 1,000 merchants in their network. You can create a free account and then browse the programs according to Pay-Per-Click, Pay-Per-Lead or Pay-Per-Sale. You can also choose items to promote through the different categories; ranging from cosmetics, art, automotive, books/media, business, career, clothing, etc. and the list goes on and on.

Host Excellence
Some affiliate programs pay HIGH commissions for leads, referrals and sales. I can tell you from experience that, if you are promoting website hosting, Host Excellence pays out $100.00 dollar commissions for each referred potential customer.

Casino-On-Net
Casino and gambling affiliate programs are the HIGHEST paying. Casino-On-Net pays out over 1 million dollars per month in commissions to their affiliates. Their company pays either a
lat $200.00 commission per referral or the long-term option, which gives you a percentage forever. As you start profiting from the non-website related techniques I recommend in this e-book you can progress to having a website of your own. You can either do this by creating a free website and/or you can use some of the funds you earned to employ someone to create a website for you. If you truly want to expand on what you are doing in order to increase your profits then I would recommend that you have a website created. It’s not necessary to do this right away but it is something to consider, especially if you plan on doing this long-term.

Promoting Affiliate Programs in Forums
For those of who do not have start-up money and do NOT have money to purchase a website, here is an option. I have found it to be extremely profitable and easy. I recommend that you just look online in any search engine, type in “Forum + Stay At Home Moms”, or whatever your site or affiliate program is about. Then you will automatically be in touch with people who are specifically related to your site or affiliate program’s content. This is a technique I discovered to make money very QUICKLY without paying for ANYTHING and without really working at all. It’s the first money-making technique I ever implemented – and it made me $100 dollars within two hours of doing it. Back when I did that, forums weren’t overtaken by ads and it was much easier to do this. Now it is still possible, and easy – but you must be tactful and do not post spam-like messages. If you join a forum, then I recommend that you participate in it for a
few days before mentioning your affiliate programs on anyone. Internet Marketing related affiliate forums know all about internet marketing methods, so you might have a higher success rate if you participate in a non-internet marketing related forum.
Online FORUMS are hugely popular. I was a bit surprised at first to discover how many tens to hundreds of thousands of people are chatting away in these topic specific forums at all times of the day and night. There are forums for every topic imaginable.
If your website is related to being a “Stay-At-Home Mom” then you can go to W.A.H.M.
(Working at Home Moms) or one of dozens of other similar forum sites. With some forum sites you must register before posting messages or taking part in online discussions.

When I first started doing this, I became a member of about 5 different forums related to making money online. I will tell you what I did: At first I did not have a website for this specific affiliate I was promoting. I had just purchased a money-making e-book a month or so prior to this and I was pleased about how it helped me tweak one of my websites. I registered at a few online forums about making money online. The first time I went into the forums I wasn’t sure about the rules (make sure you read them before posting) and so two times my posts were removed. After that I read the rules in their entirety and it was fine. I posted my story and my experiences about how that e-book helped increase the revenue of one of my websites within one month. I became an affiliate with that e-book merchant and so I put a link on the forum page I submitted. The link was my affiliate link and when the person clicked on it and decided to also purchase his e-book that would be an automatic $47.00 in my account.

The first day within an hour there was a sale. Then I checked again two hours later and there was another sale. I was hooked! I didn’t post any more messages the next day but had one sale. Things have slowed down a bit but it doesn’t matter because my post will stay on there indefinitely. The search engines will also grab that content and when someone looks for information about that particular e-book, my post may appear and that may give me more leads/sales. When I started – I tried to make one or two posts per day. If I had time to make more then I’d make more money. Even if you are not constantly raving about your specific product you can just go in and chat. That is also VERY, VERY profitable because you can customize your SIGNATURE. Underneath your signature text, make sure you put a link to your main affiliate program(s). That way, every time you post others will see your text/link underneath your signature and if they are interested or the text ‘grabs’ their attention, then they may click on it and you may get more sales. This whole forum activity has been very profitable for me with several of my affiliate programs. It is important to use Web-Stats and this is why. You can see the screenshot below and almost ALL of my visitors for the month of September were from FORUMS. During this time period I had just posted the website and was waiting for the search engines to pick the site up and so I wanted to pull in some type of website traffic. (please note: the stats below are from 2005).

You can also start your own group or forum through Yahoo’s Groups or through Google Groups. Another way to create an online community is through LiveJournal. I created my own community there for the Honest Riches e-book buyers and myself to network, ask questions, share tips and help each other out. Please join my community and when you have any Internet Marketing confusion you can receive help from others who have had the same experiences. The link is: http://community.livejournal.com/honestriches/ and I try to participate in discussions daily. More information about Online Groups: Basically, these groups help people
communicate through using the internet. It is free to create your own group and within
minutes you can make announcement lists, mailing lists and public discussions. Having
your own group does not require you to have any knowledge in building a website
(although it is the same as having one) and it is a good way to make money. If you
choose a niche topic, for example, “Dealing with Crohn’s Disease” or something else
that is specific, you will most likely be the only one and people will go to it for
information. You can have Google AdSense ads running down one side of the site (some
groups allow this feature and some do not) providing more topic related information and
you can also become affiliates with medical suppliers or someone who is selling a related
book, etc.
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