How Affiliate Programs can help you make money

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

If haven't got your own website yet, you can get in touch with a web designer who has experience with affiliate marketing.

An affiliate means you make money by advertising products or services from other merchants by placing advertising banners and text links on your site., Someone who visits your site may click 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 make a fortune simply by putting a banner on your site, that is of course unless you get thousands of visitors a day.

But if you implement a couple of simple techniques then a small website could bring in a respectable income.

A first priority would be to link yourself to a merchant whose goods would be bought by the type of visitors you get to your site 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 won't cost you a penny and nor will it if you link up with one of listed merchants.

The whole process is very straightforward and simple, you won't need any programming expertise to get going.

Advertising on your site for someone else's goods is a good way of earning an income, all you have to do is point someone in the right direction and then your responsibility ends.