Affiliate Marketing Programs: Separating Good from Bad
People who are the least bit informed about online marketing know there are plenty of scams. Unfortunately, Internet marketers with no scruples take advantage of the multitudes of inexperienced people who are looking for financial freedom. It’s sad, because millions of people probably spend money and lose a lot of time, only to pursue schemes that never yield anything. Thankfully, methods abound for making money on the Web with no up-front investment. This should be good news to those who have had run-ins with online scheme run by scam artists!
But sometimes one person’s scam is another person’s good opportunity. A good example of this is the recent controversy over an web business-in-a-box, called site Build It. Some believe that one or more people have written a Site Build It affiliate review that wasn’t entirely accurate. The owner stepped forward to defend himself and he could be totally right. But it would be up to any potential buyer to do his or her own research.
One of the most successful ways I’ve found to make money online is above-board and also fairly simple to implement. I write for money. HubPages — a community blogging site — makes it so easy to generate content-based ad revenue. How many content “hubs” (pages) you create is up to you. Each hub has the potential to make up to five forms of revenue: eBay and Amazon products and services, Google AdSense and Kontera ads, and your own affiliate link(s). You get the revenue from 60% of the page views that generate revenue and the people who own HubPages get 40 percent. The exception to that would be if you implemented an affiliate program; One hundred percent of income generated by clicks from an affiliate link on a hub would belong to you. It takes a while to get good at creating solid hubs but in my opinion, the revenue you can earn over time makes it worth the effort.
One of the affiliate programs I like to use on my hubs is RevResponse, because it provides great free information for people. When people click on links to any of the RevResponse magazines or white papers and qualify, you make money. That’s all there is to it. The qualifying part is the catch though, so you have to understand that aspect. To learn more, you might want to read this RevResponse review. The information in the review will help you know whether the RevResponse program is right for your site or blog.