How To Make Money Online Without A Website
by: Melanie
Mendelson
You don't need to have a website to make money on
the
Internet. Here is a proven strategy to make money online without a
website:
Step 1: Find Affiliate Product
Find a product to promote where you make good
commission
on each sale. Generally, you will get the biggest commissions on
digital products. Digital products are defined as something that is
downloaded directly to a customer's computer after purchasing, like
electronic books or software.
Since there is no extra cost per unit, no
inventory and
no shipping, the commissions are much greater than on regular
"physical" goods. The most common commission on digital products is
50%. The best place to find such products is Clickbank.com.
Sign up as a reseller (also called affiliate) for
a
product that looks the most appealing to you. After you sign up, you
will get a unique affiliate link where you need to send people to
purchase the product.
Your affiliate link will have a special code that
will
tell the product owner that it's you who referred the customer. The
affiliate link code will allow your commissions to be tracked correctly
and assigned to you.
Step 2: Get Domain Name
Get a domain name to redirect to your affiliate
link. A
domain name is a .COM name (like
yourproduct.com). You can get it for under $9 at GoDaddy.com.
GoDaddy.com
will allow you to redirect your domain name to your affiliate link at
no extra cost.
So when someone types in your .COM domain in their
browser, it will go to your affiliate link. The visitor will see the
website with the product you promote, and the commissions will be
tracked correctly.
The reason why you need a domain name is that it's
memorable and it makes you look more trustworthy. Affiliate links tend
to be too long and arouse suspicion. For example, most people would
rather click on the link bestwidgets.com as opposed to
abcwidgets.com?reseller=john
A domain name will make your affiliate link look
like
it's your own website. So basically, you will have a product to promote
and a website to send people to and get commissions - without really
having your own website.
Step 3: Drive Traffic
In order to make sales, you need to get visitors
to your
domain name (which will forward them to the website of the product that
you resell). You can pay for advertising and hope that your profit will
be greater than advertising cost, or you can use free ways to generate
traffic.
The most effective way to get free targeted
visitors to
your domain name is by writing and submitting articles. You can write
short articles on the topic related to the product that you promote. At
the end of the article, you include your author bio and your domain
name link.
You will then submit your articles to various
websites,
and allow them to publish your articles as long as your link is
included. Your articles will get published in many places on the
Internet, and will be advertising your affiliate link at no cost to you
whatsoever. People will read your articles, like what you have to say
and click on your domain name link ready to buy.
Once you start getting regular sales from your
articles,
you can go back to step 1 and find another product to promote using
this strategy. After a while, you will build up a nice source of
Internet income - without even having a website.
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