Are you one of those affiliate members who have signed up for a free website? If you are you need to know a few truths. Your website could be a copy of the original internet marketer and as such there could be tens of thousands of identical sites out there.These other sites are all your competitors. One site I started off with contained the affiliate number 154762.Does this mean there are over 150000 copies out there online?

When you first start out looking for work from home ideas and money making ways online it is very tempting to signup as an affiliate member with a free website as well.I also did the same ,ending up with 10 websites,all selling other peoples products.All that I had to learn was how to send traffic to the sites and presto,I get commissions.We all fall for the sales copy and pictures of flash cars,houses and the obligatory clickbank results.At the start you know no better.It takes months to learn what you need to know ,sometimes buying ebooks to show you how to get traffic or learn the secrets and loopholes of the successful marketers.Google Adwords is a trial in itself as you need to test and measure your ads and this can take time.

My solution is to have your own website which is unique to any other.Most affiliate websites cant be optimized for keywords or content.They are mainly an opt-in page,a sales page,a payment page and a thank you page.The affiliate has no power to change anything.The opt-in page that is used is mainly to add to the internet marketers email list, not the affiliate members.The email list you build is the asset of your business, why let someone else get this asset when your the one sending traffic and spending money on advertising! I am very skeptical of some marketers claims about the money you can earn at the beginning.If your a newbie theres no way you can earn thousands in the first few weeks of an advertising campaign.You have to learn marketing and this takes time.Sure you could bid $10-$20 for keywords on Google but I would bet on you going broke first.You need to test and measure your Google Adwords campaign and start with a small monthly budget,maybe $100-200 per month and try different phrases and keywords until you see results you are happy with.

At the start you need a mix of products in different niches and if you are only able to generate $300 per month per site that is fine.The main thing is to learn how to market and drive traffic. Concentrate on one website and when your results are acceptable roll out the same strategy to your other sites. Once you know what works with internet marketing you can just keep adding products to your arsenal.People who know how to market and drive targeted traffic to their sites know that they could signup to many different products and make money.

So in conclusion, get an affiliate site, learn how to drive traffic and market. Once you get your desired results, duplicate. If you can learn how to make a few hundred dollars each month,do it again with another site.This one strategy could earn you a comfortable living.

You might like the idea of one site selling multiple products.All that you need to do then is concentrate on getting the right amount of targeted traffic to one website. Your own site ,where you have total control, where you can optimize keywords and create unique content is the goal,I believe.The search engines can then rate your site,only having affiliate sites means you have duplicate content.