Affiliate Program Promotion Without Website Or Affiliate Opportunity Site Web Online?

If you’d navigated through this website, you will know that I don't recommend you plying the affiliate internet promotion business without a website. Not that you cannot make money without a website, but the advantage of owing your own website far outweigh any positives of not having one.

To be candid with you, people are making good amounts of money via affiliate marketing without owing websites. However, you should not bank on this route if you are really serious to make solid money in the long haul. Later in this article I will tell you the reason.

Now, let’s discuss some of the ways you can make money without a web site:

Article marketing online

Article marketing is almost as old as internet marketing industry itself. However, you can position article marketing to make healthy affiliate commissions without a web site. In recent times, some guys call this technique “bum marketing” because they claim it is simple to apply.

It basically involves writing keyword rich articles and publish them on popular article directories such as EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, SearchWarp.com and social bookmarking sites such as Squidoo.com

But 'bum marketing' is not as simple as they want people to believe. Assuming you want to promote WOMEN’S SHOE. Here is how you will go about it. You will start by searching for relevant keywords that has high search volumes but little competition.

These kinds of keywords are called “long tail keywords” because they are usually made of 3 or more words. Enter the niche title, "women’s shoes" into a reliable keyword tool such as Wordtracker, Keyword Country or Google search tool.

NOTE: The first two keyword tools, WordTracker and Keyword Country are paid tools but they also have trial versions. Google search tool is free.

Then, from the list of keywords generated, you select the “long tail keywords” that have good number of searches per day/month and little competition on Goolge.

For example, a “long tail keyword phrase” such as “women shoe from Japan” searched for 250 times a month, and only has 400 competitions is considered a good keyword you can write your article about.

The next stage is writing the article. For most people, what they do is search for similar articles that have been written by others on forums, directories, blogs etc. Then they simply re-write them to become ‘original’ and submit to article directories.

However, you must research and write at least 3 articles daily to make decent money from this method. You must add your affiliate ID at the signature file so that readers can click to go to the merchant site. If a sale is made you get paid.

Social bookmarking sites

There are many social bookmarking sites on the net these days that are enjoying thousands of daily human activities and high PR profile on Google. Some popular ones are Digg.com, StumpleUpon, Squidoo.com, Netscape.com, del.icio.us.com and others. But the most commonly use by those without website is Squidoo.com.

The reason is because Squidoo can be used like the same way as article directories. It allow you to publish articles and Squidoo has a higher advantage than directories because you can add as many affiliate ID links as you like.

Squidoo also enjoys higher PR than article directories therefore helping the article to get indexed and appear faster and higher on Google, Yahoo and MSN for the keywords than directories.

Forums

Not all forums accept the use of affiliate links. But some forums accept affiliate links either on the signature files or in the body of the posts. Either case, the only way you can hope to get clicks is to participate actively in the topics related to your niche market.

Learn to ask decent questions and provide educative answers to other’s questions. With time, people will know you as credible and click on your signature file or the links on the body of your post.

But I must warn you – do not go to forums with the sole aim to promote your affiliate links. You will get banned.

PPC – pay per click

There are also affiliate marketers using PPC – pay per click advertising to make money online without websites. However, PPC is not for the uninitiated. It is advisable that you learn the rope of PPC success in order to enjoy the fruit of your labor.

And unlike the other methods I listed above that are totally free, PPC is not free. It’s a paid advertising so you must be very careful not to waste your money. But like other methods, you use your affiliate ID, instead of your own site on the PPC ads.

Once web surfers see your ad and click on it, they will be taken straight to the merchant’s website. If a sale is made, then a commission will be credited to you.

If you are interested in using PPC this way or via website, I suggest you learn the tricks by using pay per click advertising promotion guide and software to help you make more money. The best one on the market today is called SpeedPPC.

Some disadvantages wihout website:

Now you may be wondering, what then could be the disadvantages if you can actually make money without a website? Friend, if you really want to get the best and absolute maximum profits from your online efforts, then you must have website(s).

Long term disadvantage. The first disadvantage of not having your own site is that you won’t be able to grow your business at all. An affiliate marketer without a website can be liken to a retailer hawking his wares from house to house, street to street instead of selling via a store he can actually develop into an empire like McDonalds.

If you have your own site, every article you posted on directories, social bookmarking sites and forums will give you double benefits: a) You will gain solid streams of visitors to your site, and b) You'll quality backlinks for your site that will eventually help it enjoy high PR on the major search engines.

Tedious. Another downsize is that the methods are very gruesome and risky. Take article marketing as example… you will need several hours a day to do quality research and write decent articles that will either get approved or rejected by directories.

On the other hands, can you imagine being able to upload the same of amount of articles to your own site every day? Can you imagine the authority nature that site will become in 6 months, 12 months time?

Can you imagine the number of free organic search engine traffic your site will attract and the easy money you will be making without hassles?

Building the merchants and others instead of you. Remember that for every article you write, forum posting, social bookmarking and PPC campaigns you embark upon, you must use the affiliate ID? Do you also remember that when someone click on the affiliate ID, it is the merchant’s site that open in the browser?

What this mean you are helping to GROW the merchant's site and business. For example, the traffic you send to the merchant’s website may join their newsletter and not yours.

Even when sale sales are made, you won’t have the advantage to building email list that you can promote to in the future – this great opportunity have gone to the merchant and not you!

In the same vein, you are only helping the forums and social bookmarking sites to grow. How? Every post on those sites aptly helps them acquire more online authority while you get nothing in return apart for hoping for sale that may not even come.

Where will you be in 3, 5, 7, 10 years from now?

You will not like this question if you don’t have long term plan. But it is vitally important that you ask yourself what’s your mission online? Where will you be in three, five, seven, 10 years from now?

You can only operate from one of these two angles of affiliate program opportunities:

1) In few years from now, you want to posses a great online affiliate marketing business generating tons of money, say 6-7 figures yearly, while doing less and less work. This will work for you if you're really looking to operate a solid affiliate opportunity web site online.

2) In few years from now, you still want to continue toiling so much for others to eat while making much less than you deserve!