People make money online in several ways. To name a few, Google Adsense, affiliate marketing, blogging, selling eBooks and selling physical products. While this variation might be a good opportunity for experienced, it could leas to disaster for beginners.
Therefore, for start it would be best that you try a simple model like affiliate marketing. You can skip technical stuff about product creation, payment processing and download page. Plus, you knowledge and experience as an affiliate will be useful in most fields on the internet, including product creation and selling physical products.
There are lots of ways to send traffic and make money as an affiliate. However, the fundamental step is still the same. You can start cashing in with these steps.
1. Research for industry with high in demand and low competition. This process is common regardless you want to sell something online or offline. Understand what the market wants and sell what’s already selling. You can’t just pick one product to promote just because you think it will convert well. You need a solid data that proves it will be selling like hot cakes. Utilize keyword tools like Google Keyword Tool or Micro Niche Finder to generate tonnes of profitable keywords.
2. Select for quality product. There are many affiliate networks for various industry. If you are selling information products, start with Clickbank. Clickbank already display the gravity score for every product in the marketplace. Gravity represents how many affiliates are making sale promoting the products in the past eight weeks. Therefore it is a good indicator of quality product. While for Amazon products, check the number of reviews and rating given by customers. The higher rating, the less negative reviews given, the better one product would be.
3. You need a real website. Forget free domain names and hosting. When registering for domains, remember to include the keywords inside the domain. If you include the keywords, Google will consider your website as relevant to one keyword. Then, setup a website or blog. The best would be using Wordpress since it is search engine friendly. There are tonnes of plugins you can install for search engine optimization.
4. Get free traffic with web 2.0 sites. Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages or Blogspot are loved by Google and will be ranked almost instantly. Once you post articles to Squidoo or Hubpages, the lens or page will be ranked in days. Which means quick traffic for you. The same goes for videos from Youtube.
5. Build reciprocal links and improve your website ranking for long term success. Remember that you can use these web 2.0 sites for link building as well. Web 2.0 sites have high page rank and good reputation in Google’s eye. Links that come from these sites will radically improve your site’s ranking in Google. Getting good ranking and quality links will be useful for long term success.