There are various ways of earning an income through affiliate selling a product. Here are some ways of doing these, merely to get you started!
Running A Coupon Code Site
If you want to promote a wide range of merchants and are happy to spend a little time each day dropping by onto money saving forums to promote your site, then running your own voucher code website is a possibility.
They are straightforward to set up, have a wide range of uses and can be very enjoyable once they are receiving visitors. The traffic is not found through paid or SEO schemes and the tricks are suitable for anyone.
Pay Per Click
You can use Pay Per Click either by directly sending visitors to the merchant’s website or by sending visitors to your own site first, which gives other advertising prospective.
For this, you just go through your favourite search engines and buy Pay Per Click adverts on suitable keyword terms. Go for the longer keyword terms at first - those that whilst they do have less visitors are harder to think up and are cheaper to buy.
The advantage of this method is that it is quick and straightforward to set up. But the problem is the investment that you need to make in time to research keywords and cash to buy the adverts. But, once it is running you are merely keeping your eye on the adverts to make certain they are in profit. So long term, there is little to do.
Blogging
You can use blogging to promote an affiliate product. Quite straightforwardly start blogging round a range of products or items and add in affiliate links as and when appropriate. You may, let's say, run a football weblog that talks about the latest soccer news and on occasion drops in a suitable affiliate opportunity.
This is near enough free to set up, but takes plenty of time and effort to run. It works through getting your website noticed by regular readers and then occasionally hitting them with a sales opportunity.
Search Engine Optimisation
Similar to blogging, you create a web site, or a weblog, about a theme and then start heavily optimising the website so that people interested in buying the products you are promoting find your web site before making their purchase.
The site works best if it adds several sort of value to the sale. Maybe a review web site or price comparison site.
Article Writing
You can write articles relating to the products that you want to promote and submit them to high visitors article directories. The links could either go to the affiliate site, or better still to your own page that then allows the visitor to click a link.
This is easy to set up, it only requires loads of writing and if your writing skills are not up to much then people may not be interested in your writing and may not follow the links you are leaving in your articles.