imply put, Affiliate first getting started, and they
Marketing is the Internet struck me as clever people with a
version of commission great idea. BeFree, another early
sales. You make a deal with a ad network that is now part of
company where they agree to pay Commission Junction, was another
you some amount of money to company that got in early.
display some type of ad to
visitors at your site to get them Unfortunately the dot com bust
to go to the company's site and also caused a bust for affiliate
do something. marketers. Google's Adsense,
combined with a growing economy
That something may be as simple and Internet ubiquity, brought
as clicking on the ad itself (Pay the business and ecommerce in
Per Click), identifying general back to robust growth.
themselves to the advertiser for
further action (Pay Per Lead), or Can you get rich from affiliate
getting the visitor to buy programs? More generally: Can you
something, either on the spot or get rich from Internet Marketing?
within an agreed upon timeframe
(Pay Per Sale). Sure. This is America. Just don't
expect to get rich overnight.
There is tremendous debate about There's no such thing as getting
who started the first affiliate rich quick. It takes time,
program, but Amazon's is probably energy, and a lot of hard work.
the most successful (it was The poster boy for getting rich
started in 1996). Around that off the Internet has to be Darren
time Linkshare, arguably the Rouse of problogger.net. Darren
first affiliate network, was admits to making several hundred
launched. I met with the thousand dollars a year with his
Linkshare folks when they were blog, which shows other people
how to make money on the reading about Affiliate
Internet. Programs...you should be reading
about programs for getting good
My first observation in getting traffic to your site, which I
back into the online world after plan to cover at a later time.
six years offline is that the
people who seem to be making the Here are some examples of sites
most money are the people who that make money, and how much
have products and services that they make (they are from sites
they sell to people who want to for sale listings around the
make money on the Internet. I Internet):
think that's pretty funny, but
it's not going to last forever. A myspace.com support website has
60,000 unique visitors a day and
What's the formula? It's all makes about $1.8M per year.
about numbers. Get people to A free tattoo website has 1,500
visit your site, engage them with visitors a day and makes about
your content and your ideas, and $6000 a year.
get them to do something that A weight loss blog has 1,600
will make you money. The more visitors a day and makes $36,000
people you can get to the site, a year.
the more chances you have to get A dictionary, encyclopedia and
people to take the action that reference site has 1,800 visitors
enriches you. a day and makes $2,400 a year.
Since you're reading this article How much will you make? It all
I am assuming that you think you depends on the nature of your
have a program for getting people site, how good the content of
to your site that is working your site is, how well the ads
well. If not, you shouldn't be are integrated into the site, and
if you have chosen the right
offers for your audience.
About the Author:
Matt DeAngelis runs AffiliateBlog. Matt is the former CTO of Modem Media, a pioneer in the Internet ad space. As a foot soldier in the Net revolution, Matt devised the technology behind ad campaigns and online presence for most of the Fortune 100.
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