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One of the most crucial steps in any affiliate marketing business is finding and promoting the best affiliate marketing programs and products.

In an affiliate marketing program, a publisher receives a commission for generating a transaction, such as a lead or sale, for an advertiser that the publisher is promoting. The advertiser provides its ads to publishers and assigns a commission for each action it wants to accomplish.

Publishers place the tracking code for these ads on their Web sites, in their email campaigns, or in search listings. Whenever a visitor uses these links to generate an action on the advertiser site, that transaction is tracked online. If a product or service is purchased, the customer pays the advertiser directly, and the publisher is paid a commission for that transaction.

Provide the affiliate program site as follows:

1. Clickbank

Clickbank is our first choice simply because of its great marketplace with thousands of attractive information products and commissions up to 75%. It has great tracking, commissions are paid every 2 weeks and you can easily see which products sell the most.

2. MarketHealth

MarketHealth, established in 1998,  is now the world's largest integrated online marketing company in the health and beauty industry. It has been our experience that most of MarketHealth's products are in very high demand and we are continually earning great commissions with them. MarketHealth.Com has all the great feature an affiliate program of its size should have and they have thousands of happy affiliates to prove it.

3. SellHealth

Right next to MarketHealth, SellHealth.Com has amazing offers and products that convert extremely well. Their commissions are very generous and there are even contests and bonus cash for high achievers. We recommend them to anyone looking to promote products related to health, weight loss and beauty.

4. Commission Junction

According to Wikipedia, Commission Junction is the largest affiliate network in North America, powering 53% of the top 500 web retailers affiliate marketing programs and operates worldwide. We have had good experiences with CJ and we recommend it, but we suggest new marketers to stick with ClickBank or PayDotCom

5. PayDotCom

PayDotCom has a great marketplace with a lot of quality products to promote and is heavily integrated with PayPal. Commission go as high up as 80%.

We will be updating this list with more programs, but for now we would like to recommend only these 5 programs as they have been tested and proven to convert and earn commissions.

Using Website Earn Money

1. PPC Advertising Networks :
   

   Google Ad Sense is the most popular option under this category, but there are also others. Basically you need to sign up with the network and paste some code snippets on your website. The network will then serve contextual ads (either text or images) relevant to your website, and you will earn a certain amount of money for every click.
   

   List of popular CPC advertising networks:
   

• Google Adsense
  
• Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)
  
• BidVertiser
  
• Chitika
  
• Clicksor
  

1. CPM Advertising Networks
   

   CPM advertising networks behave pretty much as PPC networks, except that you get paid according to the number of impressions (i.e., page views) that the ads displayed on your site will generate. CPM stands for Cost per Mille, and it refers to the cost for 1,000 impressions.
   

List of popular CPM advertising networks:

• Casale Media
  
• Burst Media
  
• Value Click
  
• Advertising.com
  
• Tribal Fusion
  
• Right Media
  

3. Direct Banner Advertising

Related links:

• How to Find Advertisers for Your Website
  
• Finding Advertisers for Your Blog
  
• Direct Advertising Sales for Beginners
  
• Openads Ad Server
  
• OIO Publisher Ad Platform
  

4. Text Link Ads

Text link marketplaces and networks:

• DigitalPoint Link Sales Forum
  
• Text-Link-Ads
  
• Text-Link-Brokers
  
• TNX
  
• LinkWorth
  

5. Affiliate Marketing

List of popular affiliate marketplaces and networks:

• Commission Junction
  
• ClickBank
  
• Azoogle Ads
  
• Link Share
  

6. Monetization Widgets

List of companies that provide monetization widgets:

• WidgetBucks
  
• ScratchBack
  
• SmartLinks
  

7. Sponsored Reviews

List of sponsored reviews and paid blogging networks:

• PayPerPost
  
• Sponsored Reviews
  
• ReviewMe
  
• BlogVertise
  
• Smorty
  

8. RSS Feed Ads

Related links:

• Feedburner
  
• BidVertiser
  
• Pheedo
  

9. Sponsors for Single Columns or Events

Mashable

Problogger

10.Premium Content

Some websites and blogs give away part of their content for free, and charge for access to the premium content and exclusive tools.

SEOMoz is a good example. They have a very popular blog that gives advice and information on wide range of SEO related topics. On top of that visitors can decide to become premium members. It costs $48 monthly and it grants them access to guides, tools and other exclusive material.

11. Private Forums

SEO Blackhat

Performancing

List of popular forum software:

• vBulletin
  
• Simple Machines Forum
  
• phpBB
  
• Vanilla
  

12. Job Boards

All the popular blogs are trying to leverage job boards to make some extra income. Guy Kawasaki, ReadWriteWeb, Problogger… you name it.

Needless to say that in order to create an active and profitable job board you need first to have a blog focused on a specific niche, and a decent amount traffic.

The advantage of this method is that it is passive. Once you have the structure in place, the job listings will come naturally, and you can charge anywhere from $10 up to $100 for each.

List of popular job board software:

• JobThread
  
• Web Scribe Job Board
  
• SimplyHired Job-o-matic
  
• Jobbex
  

13. Marketplaces

Sitepoint is the online marketplace by excellence. Some websites and blogs, however, are trying to replicate that model on a smaller scale.

Depending on your niche, a market place that allows your visitors to buy, sell and trade products could work well. Over the time you could start charging a small fee for new product listings.

The problem with this method is that there are no standard software on the web, so you would need to hire a coder to get a marketplace integrated into your website.

You can see an example of a marketplaces being used on EasyWordpress and on Mashable.

14. Paid Surveys and Polls

There are services that will pay you money to run a small survey or poll on your website. The most popular one is called Vizu Answers.

Basically you need to sign up with them, and select the kind of polls that you want to run your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.

15. Selling or Renting Internal Pages

Million Dollar Wiki made this concept popular, but it was being used on the web for a long time around (check Pagerank10.co.uk for instance).

These websites sell for a single fee or rent for a recurring fee internal pages on their domain. Usually they have either high Pagerak or high traffic, so that people purchasing a page will be able to benefit in some way.

Implementing this method on a small blog would be difficult, but the concept is interesting and could be explored further.

16. Highlighted Posts from Sponsors

Techmeme probably pioneered this idea, but somehow it has not spread to other websites. The tech news aggregator displays editorial posts on the left column, and on the sidebar they have a section titled "Techmeme Sponsor Posts."

On that section posts from the blog of the advertisers get highlighted, sending qualified traffic their way. Considering that the monthly cost for one spot is $5000 and that they have around 6 sponsors at any given time, it must be working well.

17. Donations

Placing a "Donate" link or button on a website can be an efficient way to earn money, especially if your blog is on a niche where readers learn and gain value from your content.

Personal development and productivity blogs, for instance, tend to perform well with donation based systems (one good example being Steve Pavlina).

A small variation of this method appeared sometime ago with the Buy Me a Beer plugin. This WordPress plugin enables you to insert a customized message at the bottom of each article, asking the readers to chip in for a beer or coffee.

18. In-text Adverting

In-text adverting networks like Kontera and Vibrant Media will place sponsored links inside your text. These links come with a double underline to differentiate them from normal links, and once the user rolls the mouse over the link the advertising will pop. Should the user click on it the site owner will make some money.

Some people make good money with this method, but others refrain from using it due to its intrusiveness. It is also interesting to note that very few mainstream websites have experimented with in-text advertising.

19. Pop-ups and Pop-unders

Pop-ups are a common yet annoying form of advertising on the Internet. If you are just trying to make a much money as possible from your website, you could experiment with them.

If you are trying to grow the traffic and generate loyal visitors, however, you probably should stay away from them. Just consider the hundreds of pop-up blockers out there: there is a reason why they are so popular.

Ad networks that use pop-ups:

• Tribal Fusion
  
• PayPopup
  
• PopupAd
  
• Adversal
  

20. Audio Ads

Also called PPP (Pay Per Play), this advertising method was introduce by Net Audio Ads. the concept is pretty simple: play a small audio advertising (usually 5 seconds) every time a visitor enters into your website. The user should not be able to stop it, creating a 100% conversion rate based on unique visitors.

The company is still rolling tests, but some users are reporting to get from a $4 to a $6 CPM. Regardless of the pay rate, though, this is a very intrusive form of advertising, so think twice before using it.

21. Selling the Website

Selling your website could be your last resource, but it has the potential to generate a big sum of money in a short period of time.

Market places on online forums like DigitalPoint and Sitepoint are always active with website buyers and sellers. Keep in mind that they most used parameter to determine the value of a website is the monthly revenue that it generates, multiplied by a certain number (the multiplier can be anything from 5 to 30, depending on the expectations of the seller, on the quality of the site, on the niche and other factors).

Some people also make money trading and flipping websites. They either create them from scratch or buy existing ones, and after some revamping they sell them for a profit.

Related links:

• How To Buy A Website And Flip It For Profit
  
• How To Sell A Website – How Much Is Your Website Worth?
  
• Where to sell a website? How to go about selling it?
  

Indirect Methods

22. Selling an Ebook

Perhaps one of the oldest money making strategies on the web, using a website to promote a related ebook is a very efficient way to generate revenue.

You could either structure the website around the book itself, like SEOBook.com, or launch the ebook based on the success of the website, like FreelanceSwitch did we the book How to be a Rockstar Freelancer.

Related links:

• Writing an ebook for your blog
  
• How to sell ebooks
  
• Processing payments for your ebook
  
• How to sell digital products online
  
• List of ebook selling software
  

23. Selling a Hardcover Book

Many authors and journalists leverage their blogs or websites to sell copies of hardcover books. Examples include Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell.

While most of these people were already renowned authors before they created their website, one could also follow the other way around. Lorelle VanFossen did exactly that with her Blogging Tips book. First she built her authority on the subject via her blog, and afterwards she published the book.

List of self publishing and publishing services:

• Lulu
  
• Self Publishing
  
• iUniverse
  
• WordClay
  

24. Selling Templates or WordPress Themes

As more and more people decide to get an online presence, website templates and WordPress themes become hotter and hotter.

On this segment you have mainstream websites like TemplateMonster, as well as individual designers who decide to promote and sell their work independently.

Brian Gardner and Unique Blog Designs are two examples of websites that make money with the sales of premium and custom WordPress themes.

25. Offering Consulting and Related Services

Depending on your niche, you could make money by offering consulting and related services. If you are also the author of your blog, the articles and information that you will share will build your profile and possibly certify your expertise on that niche, making it easier to gain customers.

Chris Garrett used a similar strategy. First he created a highly influential blog on the blogging and new media niche, and afterwards he started offering consulting services to clients with related problems and needs.

26. Creating an Email List or Newsletter

Email lists and newsletters represent one of the most powerful marketing and money making tools on the Internet. They offer incredible conversion rates, and the possibility to call people to action in a very efficient way.

Creating a big list is a difficult task though, so if you have a popular website you could leverage it to increase the number of subscribers on your list.

Yaro Starak is a famous Internet marketer, and if you visit his blog you will notice that right on top he has a section encouraging visitors to subscribe to his email newsletter. Yaro generates five figures in revenues each month from his email newsletters, proving that this method works.

List of software to manage email newsletters:

• AWeber
  
• SendStudio NX
  
• PHP Autoresponder
  
• Constant Contact
  

27. Mentoring programs

People are willing to pay for someone or something that will teach them and give them knowledge (as opposed to mere information). Education is one of the biggest industries in the world, and the online landscape behaves in a similar way.

Creating a mentoring program related to the niche of your website could be very profitable if you manage to structure and promote it adequately. There is a wide range of media and tools that you can use to deliver the information, from text articles to audio and video lessons.

Brian Clark leveraged the success of Copyblogger to launch a mentoring program teaching people how to build membership and how to sell content online. The program is titled Teaching Sells, and it costs $97 monthly. Sounds expensive, but they have over 1,000 members.

28. Creating a conference around the website

If your website takes off and becomes an authority on its niche, you could create a conference around it. Depending on the size of your audience, the event could attract thousands of people, and you could make money directly from conference passes and sponsors.

Search Engine Land, for instance, created a series of conferences that visit several cities on the United States and on other countries as well. The conferences are called Search Marketing Expo, and the tickets and passes cost thousands of dollars

Design Concepts of SEO

Rule One: Design It for Humans

Search engines are engineered to find information that humans want. This means the best way to make your website accessible is to design it for humans. Your mission as a web designer is not to make fancy or animated designs, but rather to find a solution to a problem. Your job is to provide users with a site that is easy to navigate and is chock full of information that they are looking for. If you can accomplish this, then the search engines will inevitably find you.

Rule Two: The Importance of Good Title Tags

Every page in your website should include a title with a description of what that page is about. A total of 60 characters work best. The title tag should contain some of your keywords. It is important to remember this tells the search engines what your site is about, and it is also used as the link that shows up in the search results on Google, so use a compelling title that gives users a clear reason to click on it.

Rule Three: Alt Text on Images Make a Difference

All images on your website should have alt tags or alternative text. Alt tags are used to describe the image when the server can not find the image for which it is looking. Text will display, thus giving you a description of the image.  Also, Google will look to see that you have added the alt tags in your images so that blind visitors will still have access to your content. Google will rank your site higher for keeping it accessible to people with disabilities. Another side benefit is that alt tags can increase your keyword density.

Rule Four: Ignore Most Meta Tags

Back in the old days, meta tags were the key to SEO. All one had to do was put in a bunch of meta keywords and you would rank for the chosen keywords in no time. Nowadays Google does not give any relevance to meta keywords, however some smaller search engines do. The meta description is used to provide the text under the title link in search results by many search engines so you want to write a good meta description that accurately describes your site and uses some keywords. Make sure if you do decide to use meta keywords that you only use words that are actually represented on that page. If you do decide to use meta keywords that are not on the page; this could be viewed as spamming by the search engines!

Rule Five: Have a Site Map

You will want to have 2 different types of sites maps. One is an html page listing all the pages on your website. This serves as a type of "table of contents" for the user. This becomes increasingly important as your website becomes more elaborate. The second type of site map is an xml site map. The xml sitemap is an coded site map that makes it easier for the search engine spiders to index all the pages of your website. Go to Google Webmaster Tools to register your XML sitemap.

Rule Six: Use Relevant Keywords

Use a few different keywords and phrases that describe what your website is about. Use these and other related keywords, but only when it is natural to do so. Be careful not to over-do your keyword density or this could be viewed as spamming by Google. A good rule of thumb is to write the content like you are writing for human beings and not for search engines. For best optimization results use them in headlines, links and the general copy of the website.

Rule Seven: Focus on Content

Users searching the web aren't searching for design and graphics. They search for content and they are hungry for it.  If your site does not have the content for which users are searching, then no one will look at it. Or if they do, they won't stay very long.  Each page should begin with a relevant h1 tag as well as contain one of your keywords in the heading. The first paragraph should be a summary of the rest of the page and the first few sentences should also contain some of your keywords.

Rule Eight: Keep your Code Clean

It's best to code your sites in a text editor such as notepad and learn proper html or xhtml. Websites created by WSYWIG HTML programs (What you see is what you get) , produce an enormous amount of code, bloat and deprecated code. What this implies is that search engines may avoid these sites created by the WSYWIG HTML programs, depending on the amount of errors. It's best to use xhtml and CSS to determine the look and feel of the site. Use UL for untitled lists, p for paragraphs, h tags for heads and subhead, strong for bolded text and don't overuse div tags.

Rule Nine:  Your Home Page is the Most Important Page

This is the most important page of your website and the key to your site being found in the search engines. Your home pages should easily summarize the rest of your website and be easy to understand. Studies have shown that you have about 10 seconds to grab the users attention and keep then on your site. Your home page should have keywords in the title, heading, first few sentences of the first paragraph if possible, and alt tags in images on the home pages. You should also continue to use keywords in the rest of the content on the home page whenever it is natural to do so.

Rule Ten: Relevant Links Have Meaning

Search engines pay much attention to the links on your site and the words that you use in them. You should not use words such as "click here" or "for more information".  Instead, the link text should describe where the link will take the visitor. For example, if your site is about SEO in Houston you would use something like "Houston SEO" or "Houton search engine marketing".  The more relevant the links on your page, the more findable your website will become in the search results. If your website is about CSS website design, a link explaining the concept of (Cascading Style Sheets), for example, will boost your search engine rankings, whereas a link to a picture of your dog will not.

Improving Your PageRank

• Include useful high-quality information on your site.
  

• Submit your site to various web directories and reference sites.
  

• Publicize your site to everyone with whom you communicate.
  

• Write a newsletter and send it out.
  

• Provide a Rich Site Summary (RSS).
  

• Ask other high-quality websites to link to your website.
  

• Provide motivation for highly ranked websites to link to yours.
  

• Check out a site before you link back.
  

• Tell the press about your site.
  

• Keep your website up.
  

• Give away content.
  

• Translate your website into foreign languages.
  

• Search Google for your website.
  

• Avoid devious tactics to improve your ranking.
  

• And finally…
  

  In addition to considering the number of links to your page and the ranking of the linking page, to compute a page's Page Rank, Google considers hundreds of factors including
  

• how fast a site is gaining links
  
• how long the links persist
  
• when your site acquired the links
  
• the click through rate (CTR) of Google's search results, cached pages, favorites on the Google Toolbar
  
• the stickiness of your site (i.e., the effectiveness of your site in retaining individual users)
  

Some Google Ranking Factors - SEO Checklist

1. Positive ON-Page SEO Factors.
   
   1. Keyword in URL.
      
   2. Keyword in Domain name.
      
   3. Keyword in Title Tag.
      
   4. Keyword in H1, H2 and H3.
      

      
       

2. Negative ON-Page SEO Factors.
   
   1. Text presented in graphics form only
      No ACTUAL body text on the page
      

      
       

   2. Affiliate site: The Florida update went after affiliates with a vengeance - flower and travel affiliates were hit hard - cookie-cutter sites with massive inter-linking, but little unique content. Subsequent updates have also targeted affiliates.
      

   
    

   
    

   1. Over optimization penalty (OOP): Penalty for over-compliance with well-established, accepted web optimization practices. Too high keyword repetition (keyword stuffing) may get you the OOP. Overuse of H1 tags has been mentioned. Meta-tag stuffing.
      

   
    

   1. Poison words: The word "Links" in a title tag has been suggested to be a bad idea. Here is my list of Poison Words for Adsense. This penalty has been loosened - many of these words now appear in normal context, with no problems. But watch your step.
      

   
    

   1. Excessive cross-linking: within the same C block (IP=xxx.xxx.CCC.xxx)
      If you have many sites (>10, author's guess) with the same web host, prolific cross-linking can indicate more of a single entity, and less of democratic web voting. Easy to spot, easy to penalize.
      "This does not apply to a small number of sites".. (this author guesses the number 10, JAWG) . . . "Hosted on a local server". . Matt Cutts July 2006.
      

   
    

   1. Keyword stuffing threshold: In body, meta tags, alt text, etc. = demotion
      

1. Positive OFF-Page SEO Factors.
   

   
    

   1. Page Rank: Based on the Number and Quality of links to you. Google link reporting continues to display just a SMALL fraction of your actual back links, and they are NOT just greater than PR4 - they are mixed.
      
   2. Anchor text of inbound link to you.
      
   3. Link from "Expert" site. Google patent - Big time boost (Hilltop Algorithm).Recently reported to give a big boost!
      
   4. Site listed in Yahoo Directory: Big boost - You can get in by paying $299 each year. Many swear it is worth it - many swear it isn't.
      
   5. Site Age - Old shows stability.
      

1. Negative OFF-Page SEO Factors.
   
   1. Zero links to you: You MUST have at least 1 (one) incoming link (back link) from some website somewhere, that Google is aware of, to REMAIN in the index.
      
   2. Link-buying. (Very good IF you don't get caught, but don't do it -when caught, the penalty isn't worth it.)
      
   3. Cloaking: Google promises to Ban! (Presenting one webpage to the search engine spider, and another webpage to everybody else.)
      
   4. Penalties - resulting from. Domain hijacking (work with Google to fix).
      

      
       

   
    

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