There is a fool proof method to earn a living online, and it dosen't take any money to get started other than an Internet connection and some time each day. The power of the system is the compounding factor of it. After a few months, you will build up so much steam, that even if you want to stop making money, you can't. (really) The system is really simple- 1. Find an affiliate product to promote in a broad niche (online gaming, online dating etc) 2. Write 2 articles each day promoting that product 3. Submit them to article directories all over the web, and include your affiliate link in your resource box (the resource box is the box at the end of the article) Let's go through each step in detail. 1. Find an affiliate product to promote in a broad niche (online gaming, online dating etc) You can find an affiliate product to promote from sites like cj.com and linkshare.com. Simply choose a popular product and move on. We don't have time to be too anal about it here. 2. Write 2 articles each day promoting that product. This is the hard part where most people fail. But it's really quite easy. Simply look for articles on the web relating to your niche, and rewrite them in your own words. Just take some time to read the articles, and get the idea, then write it in your own words. All your time writing in English class finally came useful after all! 3. Submit them to article directories all over the web, and include your affiliate link in your resource box (the resource box is the box at the end of the article) Each day you will submit two articles to popular article directories like ezinearticles.com. Find five directories to submit to each day. After 6 months, if you are follow this plan, you will have about 1500 articles floating around the web with your affiliate link. In fact, expect more than that, because owners of ezines will grab your article from these article directories and post it on their ezines, further increasing the circulation rate. This system is quite unstoppable and it's hard to fail if you follow it! Fabian
You have to make each article unique or people will not link to them. I am sure some people do make money doing this everyday. Some affiliate programs are hard to make a sale some are easy. you can try this with a couple programns and promote the one that gets more sales.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this method will earn you money, but is not the best approach when it comes to putting the affiliate programs urls into the article or your resource box. That is probably the last thing you want to do, believe me. Think of it this way. You have spent a month writting 2 articles a day. You have included an affiliate url into the authors resource box. Your articles has been disributed on 1000 other sites per article. That means the affiliate link is on 60,000 pages of different websites. I could be 60,000 different sites or some sites may have a few of your articles. Now that is great, you start making a few sales and it starts to pay of. But then a few days later you receive an email from the affiliate program saying that they are discontinuing their affiliate program with CJ and going with Linkshare instead so you have to change your links, or they may stop their program all together. If you see what I'm getting at, you will notice that you will not be able to change the links on every article on the web so all that would have been a waste of your time. So in other words, it may be best to put links into the articles that links to your website and then does a redirect to the proper affiliate site or something. Atleast if the program stops or you need to change the tracking code then you only have to do it with your webpage redirect, script redirect, or landing page, etc. and it will change on all the articles.
John is right, Why not spend a few hours creating a landing page for your product to which you link through your articles
And I agree with what you're saying. What you may not realize is that you can change your links in the articles. It only takes a few hours for the editor to see the changes and re-publish it. And most article directories don't allow raw affiliate links. You have to have your own domain (it can be even be a.tk domain, doesn't cost a cent). It's not difficult to change your redirect for the domain. Only takes a few seconds. If you're not interested in building a website or are dead broke, this is one of the only ways to make an income online without spending a dime. What I can safely is, it's one of the only ways to make money without any money. (you don't have to set up a domain, a hosting account or an autoresponder. Make SOME money online first before investing in that)
I didn't say that you can't make money with submitting articles. I mean't that its not a good idea to directly put affiliate urls into the articles theirselves. Anyway, even if it takes a few hours for the editors to change them. If they are free reprint articles then hundreds of sites would have picked up your articles and would have the old affiliate id's. You can't go to and find every site that has your article and ask them to change your links. It would take weeks.
They won't have the old affiliate ID, because the redirect that is changed goes along with all the articles. It's as simple as logging to your free domain account, and changing the link so it goes to another affiliate product.
Ummm........guys. Why not just do a redirect? .htaccess maybe? cPanel, much? Wouldn't this be kind of obvious? Come on guys, just buy a "throw away" .info, drop your affiliate link into the .htaccess or create a redirect within your cPanel. If your program switches networks, just drop your new affiliate link in the .htaccess or change the cPanel redirect.
From what you said there, it sounded like you was saying to use your raw affiliate urls in the actual article resource box. I then said that you shouldn't do this and explained why and then pointed out that you should either use a landing page or a redirect. Redirect's can be done in many different ways. So why are you telling me that I don't understand as I can use a redirect. I'm the one who told you that you should use a redirect. I know what redirects are and I use them myself. I have been using them for over 6 years. Thought that I would clear things up. lol Good luck and your right, articles does work, but using a redirect or landing page will make them much more profitable.
This is indeed a pretty foolproof way to make money online, although I personally hate writing articles with a passion. For greater success you should promote recurring commission affiliate products, rather than those that pay on a one-off basis, as this way you're also building yourself a stable long-term income stream.