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Why start affiliate marketing? Learn how affiliate marketing works and how you can make money affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

In order to start affiliate marketing, it's good to have an understanding of the definition of affliate marketing.

affiliate To put it simply, affiliate marketing drives traffic to one site through the promotion of that site on one or a number of other sites. Why is this a good thing? The more traffic you have coming to your site, the more opportunites you have to produce revenue from those visits.

Say you are selling a product through one of the affiliate marketplaces such as clickbank. You offer people who promote your product site an incentive or commission for promoting your product and your website. Because of the incentive to earn money, people promote your product and send traffic to your site that may have never found your site through a search engine. As traffic increases, so do the number of sales and so does the money made by your affiliates. Happy with the money they make, they continue to recommend your website.

You can see that if you start affiliate marketing, it can be a useful tool to your website or your product. If you do not have a product to sell, getting on board with an affiliate marketing product can help earn extra revenue on your site. Some products offer 50% commission on sales.

A great book to read on this subject is Rosaline Gardner's Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich. The name says it all, but Rosaline approaches the subject in much the way I do on this site. That's what I like about this book. She tells you that you have to put the footwork in, but also tells you that you can earn a good income from affiliate marketing and then lets you know how to do it.

Everything I have mentioned so far sounds easy but many people do not know how to truly start affiliate marketing on their websites (why we recommend Rosaline's book) to make it beneficial and there are many affiliate marketing scams out there. The next series of articles will help you with learning about:

The best affiliate marketing programs

How to make money affiliate marketing

Avoding affiliate marketing scams

Writing affiliate marketing reviews

Niche targeting your affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing statistics

The fact remains: Affiliate marketing is a high reward/low risk way to get started building an online business. If you do not want to be a marketer, you can become an affiliate and market other people's products.

You will not need to deal with:

Development of excellent products.

Manufacturing, storing and shipping products.

Processing credit cards.

Providing follow-up customer support.

Handling refunds.

Your business can be started part-time.

It costs you nothing other than a little time.

The key to making good money online is building a website that works, then selecting the best niche specfic affiliate programs and combining it with Adsense and other monetization models.

Get started learning more about affiliate marketing with the articles below.

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