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But I must also confess that it is possible to make money online promoting affiliate programmes. I have done that and from experience I can tell you that it is not that simple. There are some basics you need to know before you plunge into the murky business of affiliate marketing. Why I am saying this? The simple reason is that many out there have lost fortunes trying to find an opportunity to make money online. So what exactly is affiliate marketing? How can one make money online through affiliate marketing? I will try to be as straightforward as I possibly can in trying to answer these two questions.

The internet, a product of technological revolution has made life a whole lot simpler in terms of how we conduct business including buying and selling stuff. Almost everyone has heard of Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Paypal, Stormpay, Clickbank and the list goes on and on and on. It has now become possible to be living in one continent and yet conduct business in another continent, thanks to the internet, now the scope and scale of conducting business has grown to truly phenomenal levels.

What do all these companies have to do with affiliate marketing? The answer is simple, along the way if you intend to engage in affiliate marketing you will have to rub shoulders with Google, Yahoo, Amazon and the rest. For lack of an appropriate term I will call affiliate marketing an ‘art’ of selling other peoples’ goods and or services for a commission. An art because there are basic rules you need to learn before you become a successful affiliate marketer. The process of marketing involves finding a profitable affiliate programme to promote. Profitable because the more saleable the product or service, the easier it is for you to make a decent profit. After settling on a profitable affiliate programme, you will need to signup with them as an affiliate. This is where Clickbank and other companies come in. You will the get a unique link to a sales page (affiliate link). This is the page you will promote so that people can buy either the product or service you are promoting. Alternatively you can set up your own page to promote an affiliate product or service. This option can be complex unless you know and understand well the concept of web design.

The most important thing here is finding a way of directing traffic to the page promoting a particular product or service you are trying to sell. And there are two immediate options at your disposal. Getting organic traffic or buying traffic. But be informed that there are numerous other ways of getting traffic and I will deliberately focus on the two because of many constrains. Organic traffic is that sort of traffic generated by search engines. Your page has to rank highly for you to get decent organic traffic.I have explained how to do this on my website. The second option is to buy traffic and this is where Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines come in. With these companies, also called search engines you can buy traffic (through adwords). This costs money and if you don’t know the trick, this is where you will fail and end up losing all your money trying to buy traffic. Unknowingly, you can spend more and I mean much more that you are making so easily without realizing it. That is why only 1 out of 10 affiliate marketers ably make a decent income from affiliate marketing. You see I warned you earlier that affiliate marketing is not as simple as many masquerading affiliate marketers peddle it to be. If you wish to know more visit my site http://www.mwagitaa.com and register as a member and you will get free e-Books on how to be successful in the adwords and adsense business.


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You will agree with me that there are testimonies on the internet of individuals who have consistently managed over time to make money online using perfectly legal ways. They have adopted totally legal ways to make money online. What separates failures from successful individuals is the ability to ‘unlock’ the door that will lead you to an easy way to make money online. I must emphasize that the key to success is doing your
homework and I mean doing your homework well. The truth is that most of the information sold at a premium on the internet on ways to make money online can be obtained free with a little bit of effort.


You need to be smart because there are sharks out there waiting to pounce on vulnerable individuals browsing the internet looking for genuine opportunities to make money online. They will tell you that for a fee they will reveal to you secrets of how to make money online. All you end up getting is information that doesn’t help you at all. But that is not to say that you cannot buy great and helpful information. You can, but sometimes it takes luck and abit of research because you can not see the information they sell untill you have bought it. I spent thousands purchasing such e-books, but it was a combination of some bits here and some bits there and
extensive research that I came to discover the truth. I will reveal to you that truth today and unravel the mystery of how to make money online using a five pronged strategy which the following areas:

Adsense
Online Surveys
Drop Shipping
eBay™
Affiliate Marketing

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Remember that some of the surveys will be time sensitive and so are open for a given period of time only. The thrust of online surveys is the realization by companies that the internet is probably the easiest and fastest way they can obtain consumer opinions on their product brands. Long before the advent of online survey companies came into existence, companies used to hire research firms, who would in turn make phone calls or mail questionnaires to potential or random consumers. They would then obtain that data, interpret it and report the results to the companies.


Thanks to technology, life is now much easier. A company can hire a reasearch company, the research company will match its database members and send out send out email notifications to those most suitable to do the survey. Within a record time a company can obtain consumer opinion from almost anywhere in the world. This is where you come in because this truly offers you na opportunity to make money online simply by giving these
companies your opinion, period. These research companies will pay you money and/or prizes to participate in their survyeys. People are able to make money online and indeed a decent income online doing these surveys and so can you. The more companies you register with, the higher the chances that you will receive invitations almost on a daily basis. You simply choose what you want and ignore what you don't want. You can get free access to a database of the companies you can register with and make money online doing surveys.

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Some retailers may still keep "show" items on display in stores, so that customers can inspect an item similar to those that they can purchase. Other retailers may only provide a catalogue or Internet presence. Drop
shipping can occur when a retailer (who typically sells in small quantities to the general public) receives a single large order for a product. Rather than route the shipment through the retail store, the retailer will arrange for the goods to be shipped directly to the purchaser. The book selling industry provides an example.

Book retailers typically sell single copies of books to the general public. But a store may receive an order for, say, 50 copies of a book from a company that wishes to buy the books for their employees, clients, or
stockholders. The book retailer will arrange for the wholesaler to deliver the books directly to the company.


Many sellers on eBay also drop ship. Typically a seller will bid an item as new and ship the item directly from the wholesaler to the highest bidder. The seller profits from the difference between the winning bid and the
wholesale price, minus any selling fees from eBay.Yet another version of drop shipping is the practice of using private freight carriers to transport large volume items direct from the manufacturer to a postal facility close to the location of the end recipients (as opposed to dropping the items at a postal facility close to the manufacturer). This practice is employed for purposes of postal and time savings. An example is a magazine publisher trucking all magazines addressed to subscribers in Miami directly to the post office in Miami.

NOTE: Dropshipping companies do not always offer wholesale prices. In order to determine whether a dropshipper is a legitimate wholesale supplier, pay close attention to the following: 1)Are prices already displayed to the public? -- Genuine wholesale prices are never shown to the public. 2)Is a membership fee required? -- Most authentic wholesale dropshippers will never require membership fees; those that do offer a full refund after a certain number of inventory purchases are made."

Dangers of Dropshipping

Drop shipping can potentially ofeer you an opportunity to make money online."While it is true that the profits can be immense, the seller effectively has to rely on the goodwill and professionalism of the dropshipper (which is, more often than not, a company that the seller knows only through the Internet). Ultimately, one should always keep in mind that should the deal go raw (for instance, the dropshipper supplying a faulty
product or a downright incorrect one), it will be the seller's reputation that will take hit. The end buyer cares nothing for whether the seller used a dropshipper or not; all they truly care about is receiving the product that they paid for. For that reason, dealing with unverified dropshippers can be dangerous. Another complication involved in using dropshippers lies in the fact that reliable dropshippers already have many sellers working
with them. Therefore, someone just looking to get involved in selling dropshipped products is likely to discover that there are already thousands of people out there, selling the same product and seeking to capitalise on
below-retail prices offered by the dropshipper. What this means for everyone else involved is that the competition will drive the price of the product down, thus reducing the profit margins that one would hope to gain by using a dropshipper in the first place." So the most important point to note is that for you to pursue a viable drop shipping business which will enable you to make money online, you need to do your home work and properly for that matter before plunging into the competitive world of drop shipping and indeed any business that offers you an opportunity to make money online. Otherwise you will end up burning your fingers.

Nyasani Gitaa has authored many articles which have been widely published on many websites and article directories across the internet. Read more about this and other exciting and informative articles by visiting his
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As mentioned above, eBay™ is a large online auction forum where items of almost any definition can be bought or sold. Usually it is the highest bidder who ends up buying the item (but there are other buying options like the 'Buy Now Option'). For you to be able to conduct business with eBay™, you have to open an account (register) with them. So how can one make money online with eBay™? Making money online with eBay™ is fairly simple and straight foward. You will either have your own products and/or services to sell or alternatively you can sell other people's products and/or services.


So where do you get these products and/or services to sell if you don't have your own? You will have to find a reputable dropshipping company from whom you can obtain products to sell. Dropshipping companies sell their
products at wholesale prices to its customers. Those customers (normally those conducting busines on eBay™) will in turn sell the products to their customers at a retail price. Their profit is the difference between the

wholesale and the retail price. There is a real potential for any serious person to make money online with eBay. It is just like the way you would normally run any business. The only difference with dropshippers and

ordinary wholesale businesses is that the former will normally deliver the products to the retail customers directly without going through the retailer, hence their name dropshipping. Once you have registered with these dropshipping companies, they will give you a catalogue of their products. All you need to do is to use the images on the catalogue to promote the products.

Remember that dropshipping companies don't deal with retailers directly except when they deliver the products (usually using international couriers).

Nyasani Gitaa has authored many articles which have been widely published on many websites and article directories across the internet. Read more about this and other exciting and informative articles by visiting his
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They have a database of merchants offering a variety of products and services. All you need to do is to sign up with them and they will give you a special link that you will use to promote products or services of your choice. After signing up with different affiliate (profitable) programmes,you will be on your way to exploiting a rich niche which millions of people are using to make money online.


Key here is identifying a niche product that is in high demand. Simply get a link and promote that product. You will get a commission for every sale generated from your link. There are various ways that you can use to promote your link and one of then is setting up Pay Per Click (PPC) ad campaigns on various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Goclick the list goes on and on. You pay for every click your ad attracts. Your ad will
appear on the sponsored search listings on search engines. Google calls it Adword. Setting up PPC campaigns requires alot of skill and experience, otherwise you can easily blow up your budget or be very disappointed with the results. If well set, PPC campaigns can lead to huge sales and thus huge profits and this as I mentioned is one of the easiest ways for you to make money online especially for those who don't want to leave the comfort of their homes. It is a work from home business opportunity.


Of all the PPC providers, I find Google the most fair. Reason being that what your ad position is not based on the highest bidder like in yahoo and other search engines. For Google yourad position will be the product of
your bid price and Click Through Rate (CTR) . Meaning that you can pay a premium to rank high even if your ad is irrelevant in the search results, but you can also rank high if your ad is relevant and receives many clicks.

The benefit is that with a fine tuned ad, just about anyone can rank high without necessarily paying a premium. It is a fair go for all if you like it. Google punishes irrelevant ads while rewarding relevant ads. Some of the leading Affiliate programmes that you can make money online with are Clickbank, Commission Junction and Amazon.

Nyasani Gitaa has authored many articles which have been widely published on many websites and article directories across the internet. Read more about this and other exciting and informative articles by visiting his
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The second option is to work on building a search engine friendly website. This will cause your site to be indexed and ranked well by search engines. This is the most feasible way to drive traffic to your site. The whole idea here is clever search engine optimization (SEO). This has to do with developing a website that is both friendly to visitors and search engines. So the biggest question now in this, “Do adsense ready websites pass this test?” Search engines like Google value content. If you don’t believe me try to conduct a search on any topic using Google. Chances are that most of the sites CONSISTENTLY ranking high on any topic are those with real content. If you cloak your way up the search engine rankings, it will only be a matter of time before they catch up with you. Google explicitly warns, ‘Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."’

Now imagine you have bought an adsense ready website, I do the same and some one else does the same, can you see what happens here? Content duplication it is called. My advice is, stay away from this. Unless you know how to modify such websites so that they look unique, be very careful. Here is what Google says about content duplication, ‘Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.’ So it is up to you. Once again as I said, as and when you do buy an adsense ready website, don’t just upload it as it is because some one else has probably already uploaded the same site and it has been indexed. Your site will be caught in the duplicate content filter and it will never see the light of the day. Add some rss feeds if you can, just try to make it look different but relevant. Lastly, here is a priceless advice from me and it is that the only way to win friends with search engines is to develop a website that is unique and rich in content and one that follows laid down guidelines. It is always safe to play it clean.



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Almost certainly, running a successful and profitable adsense campaign is complex than it has been portrayed. It is not true that all you need to do is sign up for an adsense account, get some code, paste it on your pages and sit back and wait for the money to start rolling in. If that is what you thought, you are in for a long and frustrating wait. The truth is that you are not going to make any money with adsense.

To make the long story short, here are just a few of the most important things that constitute a successful adsense campaign.

• Keywords/key phrases
• Content
• Visitors (traffic)
• Site optimization.
• Links

Keywords/Key Phrases.

These are the terms that people use to search for information/products/services on the internet using search engines and directories. You need to use keywords or key phrases that will drive relevant traffic to your website. Search engines will use this plus your site’s content to determine what ads to serve on your site. This is can also play a role in the indexing and ranking of your site by some search engines. Once again use relevant keywords or key phrases.

Content.

Very important for any successful adsense campaign. When setting up any website, you want it to rank high and so attract traffic. Search engines have become smarter in their indexing and ranking of websites. They want relevant and quality search results for their users. So of necessity, for any website to rank high, it must have relevant and quality content. Some people can manipulate this but be assured such sites don’t rank highly for long. So you must have relevant and quality content. There are many sources for free and quality content on the internet.

Traffic.

For you to earn good money from adsense, you need traffic to your site. You can get this organically (from high ranking on search engines) or buy traffic. The former is the cheapest because it is free.

Site optimization.

This includes but not limited to proper use of titles, meta tags, keywords/key phrases, alt tags and relevant content. Avoid excessive the use of flash movies, java script, graphics and animations because search engines do not consider these. It can’t be any clearer than that. Follow that cue and you should be alright.

Links.

Some search engines put a great deal of weight on the number of relevant links pointing to your site, the more, the better. Notice I said relevant links. So do yourself one big favour and I know for new websites it is not easy, find sites to link to you. Search engines consider more relevant incoming links to mean that your site is full of relevant content and that is why sites want to link to yours, naturally this is true. Here is what Google™ says, “PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."



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This is where the much talked about top paying keywords come in. If the theme of your website is centred on a certain topic for example Holiday Tours, Google™ will serve ads on your site relating to holiday tours. So all you need to do is to find the top paying keywords for your niche and optimise them for your site. By optimising I mean using the keywords in your title, description and body (Note: Optimisation means more than this, it is fairly complex and I will save that discussion for another day).

But is that all? That all you need to do is to find top paying keywords, use them to optimise your site and you will be served with ads that will reward you a couple of dollars per click? Definitely not and I will tell you why. Let us use ‘Holiday Tours’ as our top paying keyword and let us assume that it pays $15 a click (bear in mind that there are keywords that cost up to $50 a click). Taking that keyword and using it to optimise your website does not necessarily mean that Google™ will serve you with ads that will earn you say $5 or $10 a click. Why?

Reason being that there are many advertisers who could be bidding for that keyword. Yes some could be paying $15, but again there are those who will pay as low as 5 cents for the same keyword. Now this is the trouble. Google™ could be serving you ads relevant to your theme, but those ads could be costing as low as 10 cents and hence low payouts. There are speculations as to what criteria Google™ uses to serve high paying keywords. Some say it is the age of you website, the older the better, some say the popularity, the higher the ranking the better. These once again are rumours and none of these guys work for Google™.

The lesson here is that do not think that all you need to do is to grab high paying keywords, use them to optimise your website and you will get high paying clicks. It takes more than that. And if that was the case, trust me, we could all be displaying high cost ads on our sites and earning thousands, but unfortunately it is not the case. So for those paying a premium for “high paying keywords”, you may want to think twice before you part with your hard earned dollar. In any case you can get high paying keywords for free, yes I mean without paying a cent.


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Google™ adds that, "It's also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages."

That is the most clear and straightforward definition of what Google Adsense™ is. You display ads on your content page using a code that Google™ will give you after you sign up for and adsense account. Once visitors click on any of the ads displayed on your site, Google™ will in turn pay you a certain percentage of what the advertiser pays them. Publishers act like sub-contractors. Google™ is paid to show ads by advertisers, Google™ pays publishers to show those ads on their sites, simple.

You do not need to worry about the ads that will be displayed on your site and whether they will match the content of your pages. Google™ will read the the theme of your pages and serve you with ads that match the contents of your page. The secret to earning good money is displaying high paying keywords on your site which will in return lead to high payouts per click on your site. Another important factor is knowing the size of ads to display and where to display them. Why? Because choosing the wrong ad sizes and placing them in the wrong places will lead to low earnings if no earnings at all. It is an open secret that people searching the internet will mostly click on links placed at certain points and displaying in certain formats. So what is the right size of ads to display? Exactly where should you place those ads?



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