hi all till now I was only using adsense and thought of starting affiliate marketing to make some extra money (using something like cj or azoogle). 1. After I find a product that I want to market, is it necessary to have a website in that niche? or I can use adwords and use redirect script on one of my landing pages and direct people to the affiliate? Is that ok with google? 2. when I login into cj on many affiliates I find "you MAY NOT bid on our branded keywords". What does this mean? 3. I would appreciate any more tips and warnings before I start marketing ( planning to primarly use adwords). Thanks so much in advance, prasad..
I am pretty new too, but for question 2 that means you may not bid in the search engines such as adwords, msn adcenter to promote their product.
does that mean we shouldnt bid in search engines, OR we shouldnt use their brand name in bidding keywords but still use other keywords and direct users to them!
If you just redirect to the affiliate page or product page that is not going to help with any rankings in the SE's. The best thing to do is build a review site promoting that product and work on getting good rankings in search engines. Take a look at the two programs in my sig. Both provide free website design to help you get started promoting their products plus tons of other free help that I haven't seen with other programs