5 Ways to Make Money from Affiliate Programs without Your Own Website

For those of you who have chosen to work with online affiliate marketing; yet do not wish to have the added time, energy, and expense restraints of running their own website, it is still possible to have a rewarding career. As affiliates who work without your own website, you will be working hard to drive potential buyers to a merchant’s website, working on a commission basis from every sale that is generated by you.

Affiliate marketing has been the means of earning quick money on-line for many years. As an affiliate working directly for a merchant, you will not have the added worries of developing your own product, keeping track of orders, sales, or money transfers and accounting. Once you sign up with a merchant, and get accepted, all you have to do is choose which product you think shows the most promise of selling, start your marketing campaign, and you will be on your way to earning money.

If you have chosen this type of affiliate marketing, here are 5 ways to ensure your success, without owning your own product, or website:

1. You start earning commissions by using a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising campaign. With this advertising method, you will be using the affiliate link to drive potential buyers to the merchants’ website. Once they visit the site and make a purchase, your link is registered, and you receive a commission.

2. Using your link to the merchant's site as your signature, you go on to community forums, such as LinkedIn, answer a few questions which your chosen product or service can be associated with; someone reads the response, likes what they see, and follows’ your linked signature back to the merchant's site, they choose one of the affiliate programs product or service, you earn a commission. This can work on any of the community forums you have contact with.

3. For those who have a knack for writing, as an author of relevant articles, your signature embedded in the article or review of an affiliate programs product or service will also link back to the merchant’s site and your commissions can be earned with little effort. Your script should be professional, honest, and accurate in the descriptions of your affiliate programs products, and people will begin to recognize your writing voice as a reliable source of information, and driving traffic to the affiliates programs will become easier, and faster.

4. Form a coalition with other websites. Once you have formed a partnership with other website owners, you can write reviews of affiliate programs and post them on their sites as advertising, and using your link at the bottom of a product or service review, drive potential buyers back to the merchant you work with. You should be sure the websites you post a review on, have a similar niche and are accepting of this type of review method.

5. If you can communicate effectively for a review of a product, then you can probably write a professional blog. With the availability of free blogging sites such as blogger.com, it will not cost you any money, and you can write blogs about your affiliate programs and drive traffic to the merchant’s site, using your signature link in the blog posting. Using this method of advertising can promote your affiliate programs successfully, and you can be blogging on several sites at once and with each blog carrying the needed information to link back to your affiliate programs, this is an effective way of earning commissions.

For those who want to make money on-line using affiliate marketing, without the issues of owning your own website, these tips can help you succeed. Who knows, you might become so successful at it, that you earn enough money from your affiliate marketing programs that you will elect one day to create your own website and have others driving traffic to your site and promoting your own affiliate marketing strategy for success.

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