Why it is easy to earn money as an Amazon Affiliate ?

Trust me, I have been a blogger since 2005 and I have been an affiliate marketer associating myself with several affiliate programs. I have earned substantial sum as an affiliate marketer and still continuing.  In my 10 years of experience, I would rate Amazon.com as the best source to earn money by blogging through affiliate marketing.

As far as I have read in various blogging related forums, newbie bloggers are in dire need of help in monetizing their blogs with Amazon.

I would say it is very easy to become an Amazon Associate that offers unlimited resources and help to get you started. They made it easy to generate affiliate links and colorful banners for any product that you wish to promote.

In addition, you can easily place widgets and deals of products on your blog’s sidebar and increase the number of clicks thereby dramatically increasing your income earning potential.

When you join Amazon Associates, an important bonus is that you can use your main account to put links to affiliate products not only on your blog, but on other sites that include Facebook.

When you decide to put affiliate links and banners to products on many different sites, Amazon allows you to create unique tracking ID's so that you can accurately keep tabs on the clicks  each site is generating so that you know what is working and what isn't.

When you happen to publish a blog post about a particular famous person, you can increase your chance of making more money by placing an affiliate link to a biographical book about that person.

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Best online money earning source in India.

Ever since I started earning money online, I never stopped exploring new sources. Please note that I do not touch sources that fetch in cents that include GPT programs.  My attractions are paid to blog opportunities and affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing in India is now blooming which was not so 10 years before. With so many online shopping portals, there is really no dearth of online money for Indians.

I have joined in as many as 8 shopping portals as a promoting partner and out of them, my favorite is Flipkart.com. The range of products in flipkart matches Amazon India though the customer reviews are more in the latter. Flipkart should put in efforts to encourage their buyers to leave their feedback. Alternatively, they can ask the sellers to reward their buyers for opinion.

However, there is one thing that is distinctly lacking in the affiliate marketing field in India. Generating affiliate links is really a cumbersome task for promoters like me and we usually end up with ugly looking affiliate URLs that run into three lines!

There are so may startups getting launched in India and I foresee someone smart would seize this blooming period to launch an affiliate aggregator online.

The basic questions asked by aspiring affiliate marketers. programs?

 Yes, 100% of the aspiring affiliate marketers’ first question would be, “How to choose the highest paying affiliate program from so many affiliate offers out there?”

The next question is:

Will it cost me anything to join?

No. All the affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. In fact, it is you who should receive payment.

When do they issue the commission checks?

Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. I choose instant commission affiliate programs. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.  I don’t like such offers.

What is the hit per sale ratio?

This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system?

You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

What are the kinds of affiliate stats available?

Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links.

Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales?

It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

Who is the online retailer?

Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

What is meant by one tier or two tier program?

A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.

Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid?

It varies from as low as 2.5% to 70%. Digital info products pay you as high as 70% of the sale value. Clickbank is the place to look for such high commission affiliate offers.

8 practical tips for an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate Marketer.

The most dependable online income opportunity is 'affiliate marketing' and it also fetches the highest money. I have picked quite a bit of experience in affiliate marketing since 2006. There is no dearth of affiliate networks online but it is prudent to explore them to evaluate before monetizing your blog with the chosen products.

Here are some tips that I like to share with you.

1. Never promote a product, be it digital information or a physical one that does not match your blog's main subject. For example, do not promote a video guide to earn money from Amazon if your blog's theme is about acne remedies.

2. Do not join a series of affiliate networks just because they offer the products that match your blog's theme. Find out only trusted affiliate networks. My best choice is JV Zoo.

3. Choose products that are priced less than $100 especially if you have just started your blog. It is difficult to convince people to buy higher priced products when you are a stranger.

4. Look for products that offer at least 20% commission

5. Don't join any affiliate network that insists on a minimum payout condition. You should get paid your commission into your PayPal account as soon as the refund period expires even if the amount due to you is $1

6. Choose a vendor that offers plenty of promotional tools. If you are a newbie, you won't be comfortable writing your promotional emails, tweets and signatures. Get hold of some readymade tweets that are composed creatively.

7.  Periodically promote the same product but change the title and content to make it unique.

8. Join one or two highly participated forums where other members are willing to answer your questions. DP Forum is the best in the lot. I would not advise Warrior Forum. 

Do you know that there are no risks involved for an affiliate marketer? You pay nothing to join an affiliate network. Using your free blog as a platform, you can start your Internet Entrepreneurship. 

7 Tips To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions.

Yeah , sure, you and so do millions of bloggers can join an affiliate programs in less than a minute. After logging in to the affiliate dashboard, it is time for:

·       *  Look out for the products that fit the blog’s theme to promote

·        * Get the required affiliate links

·         *Compose a blog post smoothly weaving it with the product relevant keywords and publish

So, what’s next? 24 hours after the blog is published, we start looking for that email from Paypal that announced we received a commission. However, that email is never seen.

What went wrong?

Was the product chosen to promote is not relevant to our blog’s topic?

Was the product not in demand anymore?

Was it not a valuable product that was sold hundreds of times?

There may be more reasons for not generating a singly affiliate commission. Here are few tips that I share with you to increase your affiliate sales.

1. Rewrite the advertisements that were given to you when you opted to promote the product as the old ads were probably seen thousands of times. Have this advantage over all the other affiliates.

2. Participate in chat rooms related to the product you're reselling. Start a conversation without trying to sell. Only later, mention the product you're reselling while chatting.

3. Consider creating an ebook and offer it free with the advertisement and link of your affiliate web site. The subject of the free ebook should draw your target audience to down-load it. Also submit it to some ebook directories.

4. Advertise your affiliate product through email and forum signatures.

5. Join a web ring. It should attract the same type of people that would be interested in buying the product you're reselling. You could also trade links on your own with other related web sites.

6. Join and genuine contribute to niche specific web discussion boards. Post your comments, answer other people's questions, and ask your own questions. Include your signature link under each of your post.

7. Start a blog if not already done so. Write a blog post about the product you promote. Repeat this once in 15 days with unique composition.

The most profitable blog monetization.

The most profitable blog monetization.

There may be differences of opinion but I would like to emphasize that affiliate marketing is the most profitable blog monetization strategy. This is applicable for those who don't have their own digital information products which is of course anytime more profitable than promoting others' products.

My next argument is, I don't prefer to put my efforts in promoting clickbank products because the reward is not instant when you make a sale. I have about $50 in my clickbank account for two sales I made 7 months back. Clickbank has its own rules to release payments.

So, what I prefer?

Instant PayPal Commissions:
I have joined several affiliate program network that pay the commission instantly into my PayPal account as soon as the sale is generated. In fact, the commissions are mostly 100%.

High Paying affiliate programs:
If I come to know of any hot selling product, I check to see whether it is in the database of high paying affiliate programs. If it satisfies my metrics, then, I think of ways to promote it.

Less profitable ways of making money by blogging.
Selling ad space in your blog is the easiest method to earn good money by blogging.
PPC advertising is the least profitable way to monetize your blogs.

Can affiliate marketing be taught personally?

A young person tentatively approached me and inquired if affiliate marketing can be taught personally. I thought for a while. Who taught me affiliate marketing?

None that I remember. As ever, I learnt it online on my own. I read affiliate marketing forums, subscribed to several blogs' newsletter, poured over Squidoo lenses to grasp the basics of affiliate marketing.

I told the youth it is possible but he needs to put in an honest effort first to learn the basics of online income earning ways through promoting products developed by others.

I showed him an extraordinary video tutorial on affiliate marketing which would teach him the fundamentals of ClickBank, keyword analysis, article writing and Internet marketing through web 2.0 properties.

I also gave him a list of forums that discussed affiliate marketing, asked him to search for Google groups on the topic and subscribe to them.

After going through all these and equipping himself with some fundamental stuff on affiliate marketing, he can ask for a two hour consultancy.

Free e-course on affiliate marketing.
As a measure to induce him him into affiliate marketing, I led him to a site free he can grab a free e-course on affiliate marketing.


By the look on his face, I thought he would not dare to open his computer again.

Shoe Money's latest offer.

I just bought the much talked about Shoe Money System. It is all about earning big online through affiliate marketing.

Jeremy's sales letter sounded genuine and sincere as ever. There was a lot of promise about training. There was also a mention of no further expenses after paying for his product which worked out to approximately $100.

However, as soon as I paid up, there were more sales pitches to buy more for his e-books, guides, domain and hosting. I skipped all the advances and finally landed in my member area.

Shockingly, there was nothing except a few video clips that contained nothing new to me. There were no other training material in his so called Wealth Center.

New method to monetize your blog content.

This looks an easy way to monetize the content of your blog.

Have you heard of VigLink? This is actually an affiliate network. Viglink has partnered with 12,500 affiliate network! That is a huge network really-eh?

How it works?

Simply said, whenever you write about a product or service on your blog, you include a link to that normally-right? What if that link is turned into an affiliate link without any work from you?

VigLink will convert the normal links for that product or service into an affiliate link automatically. This is a big time saver because it takes a lot of time to search for products that pays you if your link generates a sale.

Just insert a Java script provided by VigLink in your blog's HTML page and you are done! If any of your blog readers is enticed to click on that affiliate link and makes a purchase, you earn a commission.

Viglink is compatible with most of the blogging platforms that include Blogger, WordPress and TypePad. You get paid through Paypal if your earnings reach a minimum of $25.

Remember, Viglink takes 25% of your earnings as service fee.

Is affiliate marketing profitable?

A few of my friends who are experienced article writers have started diversifying into affiliate marketing. Still they use their article writing experience to earn money by selling digital products.

Their success is a revelation for me. Thus far, I have been focusing on blogging only. Since last 5 years, I have become more passionate about blogging. Blogging comes easily to me due to experience of writing more than 6000 blog posts in the last 5 years.

I feel I should also explore the affiliate marketing avenues if I am serious about earning more. I am knowledgeable in affiliate marketing and I have earned some money in the past. Even two days before my blog post generated a sale but it is all small money.

I am going to learn the hidden nuances of affiliate marketing from today. I am good at finding profitable niches.

Unreasonable claims of Clickbank sales.

Do you believe those atrocious claims of people who say they made a million dollar in one month through Clickbank sales? It is a big, flat, green lie I think.

These claimants never reveal how many sales were returned and opted the money back guarantee. They will show screenshots of Clickbank sales that are cleverly cooked up.

And they sell their secrets to their big success for $17 or $27! Why should they sell for such a low price when they have made millions? Either they can charge a big sum that justifies the projected income or they can just give it away free of cost.

Never fall a prey to big and unreasonable claims of Clickbank sales. None can make a million dollar a month through Clickbank sales.

Income by providing your honest opinion

Who wouldn't like to generate income by just providing their honest opinion?

Don't think it is a scam; it is possible in affiliate marketing.

I will share with you what works. First, please take time to click on the link below.

Rapid Action

Affiliate marketing is known to all but not all are successful. I too tried like many and was not successful in the beginning because I didn't know how to do it.

Affiliate marketing is a not a difficult business. You can monetize the natural desire of people to voice their opinion on anything and everything!

Do you know about Review Blogs. They provide an incredible flexibility as a part of the Social Media revolution. In fact they help you merge the two and earn from it, assuming you have all the right pieces in place! And that is exactly what Review Blog System provides – all the right tools to help you earn:

Here is step-by-step action plan for you:

1. Purchase the Review Blog System (or just the Review blog theme if you are familiar with WordPress installation, configuration, etc.) It comes with a guide to help you install and configure it.

2. Do your keywords research to locate a profitable niche that has products in it.

3. Register a domain name within that niche and install new Review Blog using the 3 Click install process.

4. Begin writing reviews of the products you have located within that niche. Do a research if you didn't purchase the product but don't write hype or lie. Your job is to share your opinion based on your knowledge of the product, or on the research you conducted.

5. Concentrate on providing answers to future customers: be honest,share your opinion and open the floor to other people. Allow them to add a Review using a built in option!

5. After each published post, do some promotion via social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook.

6. Go to the forums in your niche and post or reply there with helpful advice to get people to click on your signature link.

7. Actively comment on blogs that are "Do Follow".

9. Participate in blog carnivals.

10. Do article marketing that can get you backlinks to your blog post.

These steps can help just about any blogger.

Automatic web site building software.

You know that earning through informational sites is the order of the day. Why people long on to the Internet? To search for information of course. And if you give what they are looking for through your websites, why should they look elsewhere.

Once info seekers know that you give exact information that they search for, naturally, they will bookmark your website and come back to you-right? In fact, that is how you and I also work in the web.

But, website making is definitely not for all. It requires technical knowledge. And you have to depend on a web designer always even to make a slight modification. You are not alone man, I am with you all the way.

Now, here is a stunnging software that builds website automatically in minutes. Also, you can feed in your AdSense, Amazon and Clickbank ids and the site built by it the automatic site builder easily and automatically inserts your affiliate IDs in appropriate places and sets the built up website on a platter to you.

You only have to upload the complete site in your server.

Here is a sample site built by the automatic site builder.
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Do you like it?

Here is some very good news for you. Even the content for the site is given to you free of charge which means, you need not write a single word.

But if I were you, I will definitely re-write the free content before pubslihing. I like my touch and I will also avoid duplicate content.

Now, before rejecting the whole idea, why don't you just take peep in at this automatic web site building software?

You can even watch a short video on how this software builds the site.

Make money from your wordpress blogs.

This is a new earning opportunity using your wordpress based blogs though the actual method is our dear old affiliate marketing.

In this opportunity of making money from blogs, the affiliate merchant is the mighty Amazon. There is a new plugin for wordpress. It is an Amazon products plugin which when installed in your wordpress blog, automatically displays products that are related to the topic of your blog post.

Sounds like contextual advertising-right? But this is not a PPC advertising but PPA advertsing. If someone buys a product from Amazon after clicking on the advertisment alonside your blog post, you earn a commission.

The products are selected automatically by Amazon based on the tags you sue for your blog post. You are allowed to do a little bit of customization too with this plugin.

I am thankful to James who wrote about this in his blog.

Tips to choose profitable affiliate programs.

A new blogger who is sincerely trying to monetize his blog will easily get carried away by signing up to each and every affiliate program that he comes across by reading money making blogs.

I don't blame you if you are one, as I too was like that several years ago. Here are some useful tips to choose the right affiliate program.

1. Don't fall for big players alone assuming that they are the best. It is not always true. For example, I am sure you are aware of the stalwart CJ (Commission Junction). They only encourage U.S. marketers. Most of the their merchants will reject your application if you are elsewhere. It is true some of their merchants will auto approve your application but such merchants' products or services are not in big demand. It is my experience. (I am in India)

2. Choose and apply for products/services that will be most useful to you. This is a smart way to think on the lines of others' needs. I would definitely recommend the following two popular affiliate directories. Both have excellent products that even I am able to sell.

Pepperjam Network

My Help Hub

3. Will you buy a product purely based on popularity than need? No, you won't. At least I won't. I will remember this principle while promoting products.

4. Look for products that offer a minimum of 20% commission on sale price.

5. If an affiliate directory pays only when you reach $200, don't join even if they offer high commission rate. It is quite probable that their products are not in demand.

6. Don't accept check payments if you are outside U.S. Accept only through Paypal.

7. Be prepared to get payments only after 45 days of making a sale because of refund policy.

Pepperjam moves in top gear and pays bloggers.

If you don't know about Pepperjam Network and the potentiality it offers to earn from it, then consider yourself lagging behind from what is happening in the blogosphere.

Pepperjam Network is sweeping the Internet business community by storm. It is a huge affiliate marketing company and they have just been placed in the top 100 fastest growing company in the U.S.

Well, if you don't take my word for it, please read the official list released by INC 500, a daily resource for entrepreneurs.

Their marketing effort is commendable and they have already impressed hundreds of advertisers that have approached Pepperjam network to improve their product sales.

They must have been highly satisfied with affiliates of Pepperjam Network and that's why Pepperjam Network is on a affiliates recruiting spree.

Throughout August, they are paying $10 as a sign up bonus for everyone that joins as an affiliate of Pepperjam Network.

The most impressive and innovative way of approaching the affiliates is just fantastic. I have applied for a few companies as affiliates and pepperjam sends me an email whenever an advertiser has approved my application. In that email, itself, I am given a facility to generate text and banner links.

I have never seen this thoughtful facility in other players in the same field and they are supposed to be stalwarts in the affiliate marketing industry.

Another interesting opportunity they now offer for bloggers is to allow bloggers to write about Pepperjam Network's tool or Pepperjam Network itself. For their effort, bloggers are paid $10 per post to a maximum of 5 posts per month.

I have so earned $1.50 to generate a lead through one of the affiliate program links.

Pepperjam Network is a perfect platform to set up your own genuine Internet business.
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Lifetime commissions.

LifetimeCommissions.com is a directory of affiliate programs that pay lifetime commissions or residual commissions for life.

In the last week or so, I suddenly started seeing some money in my clickbank account. Naturally, my interest in affiliate marketing is revived and I started looking for new avenues.

This program differs from an usual affiliate program. With most affiliate programs, the affiliate earns a commission on only ONE purchase – the FIRST purchase by the customer. In a lifetime affiliate program, when the customer returns to the merchant's site and makes a second or third purchase, the affiliate earns a commission on ALL those purchases.


LifetimeCommissions.com also lists programs which pay residual commissions, for example where the customer pays a monthly fee, and the affiliate earns a percentage of each monthly fee.
In this directory you'll find these lucrative programs, the tools, and resources to make the most of them.

Courtesy: Lifetimecommissions.com