Getting into the Affiliate Marketing Game
Over the past year, I built a fair amount of websites to generate some income, most of it via Adsense. Lately, I realized that this was not a real business, especially long term. Adsense is notorious for banning honest publishers without an explanation and with the recent multi-click fraud attempts on one of my websites, I decided that it’s time that I move on and pursue a different field in the internet marketing game.
After careful consideration, I decided to jump into pay per sale affiliate marketing programs. Pay per sale affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web merchandise in which an affiliate is rewarded with every sale (usually a percentage or revenue share). The real difference between affiliates and adsense publishers is that affiliates follow a business model that is not nearly as volatile. The Adsense market changes as fast as the SEO market, which often times leads into a very unpredictable environment.
The biggest challenge in affiliate marketing is probably getting the right traffic that leads to great conversions. The next biggest challenge is finding the right (and profitable) niche to promote. Since this is my first “plunge” into affiliate marketing, I don’t expect this to be an easy ride.
Wish me luck =)
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