The above info-graph shows how to earn from Amazon.com. Let's imagine you own a blog about rice cookers. You write articles about various brands of rice cookers. In your articles you provide links to the amazon.com.
Visit so and so link to see the price on amazon. These links are called as affiliate links. You can have these links by signing up on Amazon affiliate program.
If someone clicks an affiliate link and visit amazon.com, the amazon in the other hand knows the visitor is from your site. You directed the visitor to the amazon.com. When these visitors end up buying something you earn a commission for your effort.
What you need to understand is that you can't earn only from Blogger.
Think about it this way,
We see advertisements everyday on television, don't we?
Does those advertisement make money? No, what an advertisement does is it drives traffic (people, consumers) to the product. When people end up buying those products the advertiser earns money.
So to earn money online, what you need is to drive traffic from one place to another place. Simple as that. You earn money by driving people from one place to another place.
The amazing fact about the internet is, that we don't need to have our own product to earn from internet. We can promote someone else product and have a commission for our effort. This is just a one way you could earn from internet. There are thousand ways to earn from internet. For an example take a look at Google AdSense program.
Another interesting article we found on Wealthy Affiliate.
6 Ways to Make Money with Your Blog
The most important fact is when it comes to earn money online is traffic. Without traffic it'll be hard to earn money from our blogs.
Now Where Is This Traffic?
Google have traffic, doesn't people visit Google everyday to search the web?
Facebook have traffic, doesn't people log into there Facebook account everyday?
Online forums have traffic. doesn't people visit Popular forums daily?
So these are the traffic sources you must focus on. You can drive traffic from search engines, social media sites and forums to your site or blog. Then direct them to another place to have your commission.
One way of getting people to your blog is by helping people. Help them to have valuable information. Helping them to show the best product out there. If you are good at helping people money part will be always a side effect of what you do. Always remember the good karma will always follow you as a never ending shadow.
Ok back to the story, Let's see how you can help people.
People ask questions everyday on Facebook, forums and Q&A (Question and Answer) sites. You could help them by answering these questions on forums or in Facebook. How can it be? Can you answer questions and earn money for it? Of course you can. Let's have a closer look at the process.
For example, someone ask "does anyone know so and so product is safe to use?" Imagine you have a solid knowledge about the product. You reach to the person and give him some valuable info about the product. In the end of your answer you put a link of you website and ask him/her to visit your site to have more info.
Ok now you'll think that's so lousy. I reach one person and waste my valuable time to give him some good info, still he didn't buy what I recommended for him. What a waste of time :(
Wait we haven't finished our story yet.
Have you seen Q&A (Question and Answer) sites rank on top of the search result?
Have you ever seen pages from yahoo answer ranks first on the search result?
What I'm trying to tell you is that even though the person you helped didn't buy from you doesn't mean your effort is a waste of time.
Think about the answer you submitted ranks on the first page of Google results. Thousands of thousand people will see your answer. They will value your answer, because you've mentioned solid stuff. These people will visit your website. If your website is filled with killer content. People will buy what you recommend for them. When people buy you earn commission.
This is just a one way you could drive traffic to your blog.
Start from here,
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