Affiliate Programs: How they help to make you money

To help you make money from a website that you may already have, there is the choice of joining an affiliate program.

If you don't have your own website yet, you may consider getting in contact with a web designer who has affiliate marketing experience.

An affiliate means that via your website you'll be earning from advertising other sellers' products, by the placing of banners or text links on your site.

If someone who is visiting your site clicks on one of the banners, which takes them to the merchant's website and if they make a purchase you will make a commission on the sale.

But you won't be making much by simply putting a banner on your site, unless you're one of the lucky ones who receive thousands of visitors on a daily basis.

But with a few simple techniques you could make even a small site earn you a useful income.

Firstly, you should affiliate yourself with a merchant who sells goods that a visitor to your site would buy, there isn't much sense in having a banner for a cat food merchant when your website is solely concerned with PC maintenance.

One of the best affiliate network directories is the 'Commission Junction' it costs nothing to join and you won't even be charged if you link up with a merchant that's listed there.

From that point it's very straightforward, you don't need to be a programming expert to get going.

Promoting anothers' goods on your site is a great way of earning an income, all you have to do is point someone in the right direction and then your responsibility ends.

Money-making surveys

Firstly find out which company you want to work for, there's more than one way to find the company that suits you.

Most survey companies allow current members to invite friends therefore if you do get an invitation from a person you trust then you can go for it.

You could try the old standard of a Google search making money doing surveys, but as is well known, Google searching usually leads to more confusion searching for "Online Surveys" will leave you with a mind-boggling amount of hits.

An easier way to start would be with www.surveypolice.com it lists all of the major and more legitimate survey companies along with comments and ratings for each survey company.

The following is a couple of the better online survey companies:

Inbox Dollars (www.inboxdollars.com) They pay $1 a survey for the one survey a day you're allowed you also receive paid emails which although it may not be much you're still going to read your emails aren't you?

My Survey - www.mysurvey.com seem to be one of the best with points being awarded for each survey

It's $10 for every 1000 points and they also award bonus points all the time, so it doesn't take as long as you think.

Finally you must remember you will not get rich doing online surveys and there are a whole lot of online companies who are more than happy to take your money off you.