Making money online without a website
Affiliate marketing has become in recent times the only known way to make money online without a website.
Who is an affiliate? An affiliate is somebody who sells or promotes other peoples products and is paid a commission for doing so.
How does affiliate marketing work? And how can somebody become one? First and foremost to become somebody that sells other peoples products you need to understand your target market, their needs and also you need to you need to know if the products you intend to offer to your potential customers is currently in demand. This means that you need to define your niche.
By a niche we mean that tiny area of interest that identifies a people with a need, want, problems that needs solution and also it means a market within a market.
Knowing your niche is important is because a niche will help you in to narrow down your product search to products that will fill a need in that niche.
How to identify a profitable niche
Some of the ways to identify a profitable niche are:
· They are a people that are seeking for a solution to a particular problem or need.
· Willing to spend money to solve their problems
· Can easily identified online through keyword research
Having identified some of the ways to identify a niche or area of specialization, the next step is to know how to choose a product that offers the solution to the problems identified in your niche research.
The first step is go online do what is known as keyword research.
Keyword research is looking for and identifying those phrases that your potential customers will type into the search engines so as to get the information that solves their problems.
The best place on can find the best keywords on the internet is the Goggle keyword research tool.
This keyword tool will help a potential affiliate find those keywords and phrases that are searched for by his potential customers in his niche or area of interest.
Those keywords will help identify a niche if they meet the following criteria.
· They are searched for a lot of people
· They have little competition; this means that it is an underserved market.
· It is guaranteed to solve a problem
Having found the keywords that identifies your potential customers the next step is to go to http://clickbank.com/marketplace type those keywords that you found in your keyword research in the site search box and get the products that tally with the keywords.
The next step is to get an affiliate link of the product(s) that you have identified in your keyword research.
The final step is go to http://ezinearticles.com write an article of 200-300 words make sure you use those keywords that you discovered in your keyword search in the title, body and at the end of the article. The subject of the article will be some of the things you discovered in your keyword research about how to solve some of the problems you identified.
Finally submit your article to this article directory and at the author resource box make sure you put the affiliate link so that when somebody clicks on the link he will be e-directed to he site that y are promoting their products and when he buys the product you are paid a commission.
But remember that clickbank do not accept affiliate links in this case what you will do is to go to http://godaddy.com and register .info domain name for 75 cents use this domain name to re-direct to the affiliate link.
