If you are internet savvy, you most likely belong to a networking site like Facebook or Myspace. You may even keep your own blog. If you do these things, why not make money from your time spent on these sites? It’s not as hard as you think. You can advertise and promote an affiliate marketing page to create a flow of cash from the time you spend on the internet.
It is a lot easier to promote new products and services to friends and family members. These people trust you and know that if you recommend something, chances are it will end up being a great product. And since you are in touch with friends and family through these networking sites, why not take it one step further and tell them about your affiliate site through Myspace? This way, your friends and family will get the information you are sending them, but it will also be visible to their friends and family, letting thousands of people know about your affiliate marketing page.
Another internet tool that comes in handy is a personal blog. You can easily promote affiliate marketing pages through a blog, and it can be read by more than just your friends. If you have interesting, search-worthy content on your blog, you can get a serious amount of hits each day. What you need to remember is to produce the content that people will want to read, and make sure that the information is clear, concise, and accurate. It only take a few minutes a day to update a blog, and it can be one of the most important tools in getting traffic to your affiliate marketing page.
Tags: affiliate marketing, facebook, myspace
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June 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am
I was doing this for awhile but my account suddenly gets banned from the forum. The thing about affiliate marketing on Myspace is that you have to be sure that it won’t get your account banned by doing so. It is not as easy as everyone say’s it is.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
@Postman: Aye, a lot of places are really fickle about it. You’d think that they’d make it so that they got a small % of what you earned for having it on their site.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:19 am
While myspace and facebook are good places to get more exposure to the affiliate pages, it’s worth remembering that the affiliate products don’t directly compete with any product that the site itself is promoting to it’s members. Showing the RSS feeds of your blog on the pages to get more eyeballs for your blog and then directing them to an uncluttered landing page with the affiliate product seems a good idea to me.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Dartz,
I know what you are saying. This has something to do on their advertisement area wherein you will have to pay for something to get it in front of millions of people. But the thing is that you need to have a huge sum of money just to get your site out there. This is the reason why I resort to such a thing.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I personally have a blog. But i do not do affiliate marketing. So i could not understand the problem that people will get banned if they hold their account and use it in facebook. I will try to have a hands on experience if somebody could help me in doing that
June 12th, 2008 at 4:36 am
I’ve tried affiliate marketing before but it really doesn’t make that much extra cash for me. Most of the advertisers usually require that people you direct to their site from yours actually buy something before you get a commission(which makes sense)but a lot of the time the commission you get won’t be really worth your time. Except if you have a site that has a high volume of traffic, you might not be gaining much from affiliate marketing
June 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
It’s usually not a good idea to try to advertise directly on Facebook or Myspace. It’s far better to have your own blog hosted on your own website. You can post your affiliate products on the blog and then link to that from your social networking pages. This way you won’t risk losing your accounts.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Whilst this can be an effective way of making money, I think it can damage your reputation amongst friends. They don’t want you peddling products to them and will most likely end up deleting you and/or just ignoring what you have to say. Plus, it’s not always adherent to the Terms of Service on these sites.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I never thought about the idea of creating an affiliate marketing page. I agree with kanada, it can damage our reputation among our friends and families. People read our blog to have fun, they don’t wanna see annoying ads, banner, affiliate link or whatsoever. I would never create an affiliate page in my site because of this reason.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Affiliate marketing is my biggest income earner. Another thing to add is that one must have an understanding that affiliate marketing is about presell. It’s about giving them the best possible option for a transaction an not really thinking about them as your money maker.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Not only do you have to watch the site you also have to watch what the affiliate terms say. I know the majority of my affiliates specifically say posting to forums, myspace, facebook etc is STRICTLY PROHIBITED and immediate grounds for removal. I also heard that MySpace is cracking down on this.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
It’s a great idea, but since it’s gained popularity so many people are doing it and that’s the reason so many social networking sites are cracking down on it.
If you do find a networking site to do this on though, keep that site separated from your social blogging site. This way there’s no conflict of interest, and your friends and family who read your blog for fun don’t get turned off by it.