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Affiliate Marketing can be a great way to build wealth and capitalize on the traffic you are pushing to your site from PPC and SEO efforts. Basically you are letting Google put ads on your site via AdSense, and every time someone clicks on one of those ads, you get a commission. It isnt much, can be pennies at a time, or sometimes dollars at a time (depending on the cost of click youre sending to Google). But bottom line - as long as it costs you less to acquire those clicks than the commission youre receiving, it will make you money.
by AnthonyM.Flores


Affiliate Marketing can be a great way to build wealth and capitalize on the traffic you are pushing to your site from PPC and SEO efforts. Basically you are letting Google put ads on your site via AdSense, and every time someone clicks on one of those ads, you get a commission. It isnt much, can be pennies at a time, or sometimes dollars at a time (depending on the cost of click youre sending to Google). But bottom line - as long as it costs you less to acquire those clicks than the commission youre receiving, it will make you money.

When it comes to promoting things with Google AdSense, you simply need to pay less than the cost of the delivered clicks. You can find various ways to get a low cost-per-click price, to direct traffic towards your website, and to discover long-tail terms that are searched for. For instance, you want to promote a high-dollar 'click' at your website, such as 'DUI Attorney'. What that ad is clicked on through Google AdSense, you can earn up to, and over, $30 for every click. This is significantly higher than other $3 per click search terms.

Now let's suppose that you manage to find something like 'DUI Attorney Pasadena, CA' as a long-tail keyword search that is inexpensive. You are going to bid for a low position on this, say maybe .30 a click, and hope to get these low-cost clicks and more traffic to your website.

You also need to make sure that your site offers things relating to this click, like articles on DUI or traffic laws in Pasadena or anything of this nature, which will not only make people come to your site but be willing to click on the Adsense ad you are running, from which you are making $1 per click. You have to agree that this doesn't sound like that bad of a deal; however, if nobody is clicking on your ads, then you are going to be losing the money you have invested -- this really is a risky business. Not everyone has what it takes to make money through buying low cost clicks and then running them on their own websites. You are going to have to be willing to invest not only money, but the time and effort necessary to figure out exactly what is going to work the best to make a profit.

If you can't afford the money or time that this process requires, you can concentrate your efforts on long-tail keywords. By optimizing your website correctly, you can generate an organic boost by going after keywords that are less sought after. With this method, your CTR is irrelevant, and you won't spent lots of money trying to find the right formula. Time is all that you need to invest to make this work. And once you've invested your time, it definitely won't cost you cash, whether it fails of ultimately succeeds.

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