Earn online money

Affiliate program is the most popular source of earning online money today. A person alone with his computer can earn lots of online money by joining a successful affiliate program. The idea behind affiliate program is that you send customers to the vendor's sell page; whenever a purchase is made you earn commission for it. So your success as an affiliate entirely depends upon the number of targeted visitors you can send everyday to the vendor's website. More visitors you send there will be greater chance of purchase and hence you can earn more online money. Now we have to solve three basic questions.

1. What is your investment?
2. Who are the targeted visitors?
3. How you can send them to the vendor's sell page?

Your investment
In most cases you have no investment in joining an affiliate program as an affiliate. The only thing you require is a website of your own. Although it is not absolutely necessary to have a website in promoting products but if you really want to earn online money then you must have a website of your own. Moreover there are many venders; they even do not allow you to join their affiliate program without having a website.

Targeted visitor
A targeted visitor is one who is surfing internet for a particular type product or service. If you are searching Google for a good web host then you are the targeted visitor of a hosting company. And in spite of you being a music lover not a targeted visitor of a music company.

Reaching targeted visitors
There are many ways you can reach to the targeted visitors and send them to the vendor's sell page. The most popular methods are,

• Pay per click advertising;
• Placing quality ad inside your website content.

You can get lots of targeted visitors by pay per click advertising; but this method is costly and I never recommend to a new comer. But the second method, i.e. placing ad inside your website content, will cost you nothing. So at the beginning you should try this method. Here I discus about few factors which greatly influence the success of an affiliate program.

Selection of affiliate product
The type of product you are going to promote must be relevant, and popular among the visitors of your website. If you have a weight loss topic site and you are promoting an SEO service product then it will return nothing to you; while promoting quick weight loss pills or weight loss recipe book may return lots of money. There are also other factors associated with this selection. They are,

• Popularity of a particular brand of product.
• Affiliate density: Lower the number of affiliate involved in promoting that product better for you.
• Earn per sell.

There are some products like computer antivirus, beauty products; movie, music etc., are popular all around the visitors of any site. So you can consider them to promote along with your main stream product.

Method of advertising
The method of advertising is also play very important role in convincing your visitors to purchase. Do not always relay on the banner ad supplied by your vendor. Always put few lines of promotional text stating clearly the type of product and convincing them to purchase. You can also place images but they must be meaningful and encouraging for your visitors.

Website popularity
Popularity of a website takes the major role in earning online money. More visitors will come and visit your website more click will occur on your affiliate ad and hence more earning of money.