Make Money Easy as an Affiliate

Copyright (c) 2008 Charles Boustany

Perhaps you don't even know what affiliate marketing is! This is a brief refresher course just in case you are not up to date on what's going on with affiliate marketing today.

In the next few paragraphs were going to talk about what affiliate marketing is and easiest way to make money as an affiliate.

As an affiliate you will act as a middleman between a prospective customer and your affiliate merchant. In the off-line business world you would be known as a retail outlet or a retail store.

The simplicity of affiliate marketing is that you get paid to sell somebody else's product. There are many different affiliate marketing programs that you can join for free.

Getting paid to sell advertising on your website is the easiest way to make money as an affiliate marketer. The most popular way to do this is to join the Google Adsense affiliate program.

Google is the largest search engine in the world and they have a wonderful affiliate program that will pay you for promoting their advertisers websites. They even make it very easy to do this by just placing a small snippet of code on every page that you want ads to show.

Google does the rest of it for you because they are able to match the theme of your website with the advertisers and instantly display those advertisers on your page.

What makes this an easy way for you to make money is every time somebody clicks on one of those ads you earn a small commission. Sometimes it's a few pennies per click or it could be several dollars per click.

The reason we say this is the easiest way to make money is because you do not have to do anything once you place the ads on your website except get traffic to the page. As you will not be selling your visitor anything and not asking them to part with their hard earned cash to purchase from you.

Generally the less you ask a customer to do the easier it is for them. The higher the volume of traffic the more you will be making in commission especially that you will be making little money for each click.

There are people who make thousands of dollars every month as a Google affiliate, because they have thousands of pages with Google ads on them. Regardless of whether you want to make just a few dollars or make a lot of money, the easiest way to do it as an affiliate is with the Google Adsense affiliate program.