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Author: Lee Asher
One way to get a good income stream without doing anything that looks very much like advertising is to add affiliate links to your content. They're just links, they don't annoy anyone, and you can choose where you do and don't want to put them. Sounds ideal, doesn't it? Sometimes affiliate programs
How Does Affiliate Linking Work?
Step by step, it works like this:
1. You become an affiliate. This works by you going to various online stores, looking at their product range and what benefits they offer to affiliates, and then signing up as an affiliate with the store that makes the most sense.
2. You write about products the affiliate carries. This might take the form of a review, or just a casual mention in a related article.
3. You link to the product at the store, using your affiliate code in the link. This affiliate code lets the store track that the customer came from your link.
4. For each customer you send their way who actually goes through with it and buys the product, they pay you a percentage of the product's price.
You can see the power that this model could have for a lot of sites - if you have a hundred thousand visitors, it doesn't take a very large percentage of your visitors to buy that product before it starts to add up to quite a lot of money for you.
Amazon: the Web's Biggest Affiliate Store.
The most popular affiliate store at the moment is Amazon.com, without a doubt. Why? Because it has such a huge range of products, from books to DVDs to truly obscure things. In terms of books especially, ( Next Page )
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