Make Money Without
a Website
There are ways of making money online from affiliate marketing without actually having to create a website.
This doesn’t mean there won’t be any work but it does mean the people out there who are more interested in writing can make money without having to do any kind of web design.
Use Your Links in Articles
Writing articles about a specific niche is a good way to make money affiliate marketing. Just by putting your affiliate link in the resource box at the bottom of your article, you are able to drive traffic to a product page for a commission.
Say you write 10 articles, all with affiliate links, and they each have 100 people read them in a month. Your affiliate links lead to products that average about $30…. You could easily earn over $500 in a month for just a few days hard work. But the great thing is, these articles and their links will keep earning you money!!
Not all article directories allow affiliate links.
This is true, but there is a way around it called domain forwarding.
If you visit www.dreamhost.com you can setup an account, choose a domain name and follow their sign up process step by step.
Once you’ve purchased a domain name, you can login to you’re account and click on the Manage Domains tab on the left hand menu bar. Your domain name should appear on the main screen, with a small Edit tab next to it. If you click on that you get taken to another page.
If you scroll down to the bottom of that page you will find the Domain Forwarding section. All you need to do is enter your affiliate link in the field, so that when someone clicks on your domain name, they are forwarded to your affiliate.
So, you can hide your affiliate link in your domain name at the bottom of each article.
Google Adsense
This is a pretty cool idea that actually takes a very little amount of work. I’ve never actually tried it for myself but I understand the ins and outs.
The whole idea is that you advertise your website on google adsense (they’re those little ads you see almost everywhere that say “ads by google” underneath). But your domain is actually forwarding these people to an affiliate link (like we did in the previous section.
So it’s just like the article writing idea, except you aren’t writing any articles and you’re paying for advertising. For example, you pay $15 for adsense, which gets you about 100 clicks to a $30 affiliate link. Three people end up buying the product, and you make $90 from your $15 advertisement.
Like I said I’ve never actually tried it but I get the whole idea. There will obviously be better performing markets and higher earning products but I’ve done no real research into it. However there is a guy (Chris Carpenter) that gives you step by step guidance through the whole system. He’s got a program he runs which might be worth looking at.
Take a look at it here.
Affiliate Marketing / Section 1 / Becoming an Affiliate
Affiliate Marketing / Section 2 / Make Money Without a Website