There are many ways to make money on the Internet and one of them is by promoting affiliate offers.
When you promote an affiliate offer you are basically acting as a sales rep for the product you are promoting. You are now their marketing department.
So let’s say you own a fancy little digital camera that you love. You decide that you want to create a post about it on your site. A basic review would be wonderful but why not try to make money off of it.
Here is how you would do that.
First you would go to a site like Amazon and sign up as an affiliate. Once you are signed up you can begin putting links to Amazon pages and products on your site. However, these aren’t just any links. These are special links. These links have some sort of identification in them which lets Amazon know exactly how the traffic got to their site. So if someone clicks on your link and heads over to the Amazon site, Amazon knows that you sent them. If that person were to purchase the camera from Amazon you would get a small percentage of the sale.
When putting affiliate links on your own site it is a good idea to cloak them. By cloaking them you are hiding that identifying code so that others can’t see it and possibly steal your affiliate commissions by changing it.
There are many ways to cloak links on your site, but I have found a very simple site, created by Justin Brooke that walks you through the process and best of all is free.
He also created a great little video that I have embedded below which shows you exactly how to cloak your link.
As always if you have any questions, please leave a comment or shoot me an email.
