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Affiliate internet marketing can be a very lucrative way to make money online. There is an endless abundance of products you can promote on and offline in every industry you can imagine. The problem is that most do not have a clue where or how to start. In this article you will not only learn where to start but how to turn a profit as well.

Affiliate internet marketing is the business of promoting other people and businesses products and services and receiving a commission in return for your efforts. The problem is that most people do not know where or how to start. This can be easily resolved and here's how.

Many sites on the internet cater to affiliate internet marketing and offer a place where you can find something you want to promote. Two examples would be Click Bank located at clickbank.com and Commission Junction located at cj.com. There are many others but these are two of the best out there.

You can go to both of these sites and sign up for an account for free. Once a member you can view thier market place and find something you are interested in, for instance video games. You will find many products you can promote on this or any subject you choose. It is important when starting out that you choose something you are interested in. I'll explain why in a moment.

When you become a member at one of these sites you can choose or are given a special "nickname" or unique numeric identifier which you can use in an affiliate url or link given by each individual product. This is explained in detail on both sites and is very easy to do. Now, all you have to do is promote this affiliate link with your unique "code" in it. Simple enough right? Ah, but where and how to you promote this link?

Promoting your chosen product or service is not at all hard in the affiliate internet marketing arena. This can be many ways and I'll show you one that is absolutely free here. One way to promote your chosen product is by way of a blog. Here's how.

To set up your own blog for free all you have to do is go to blogger.com. This site is owned by Google and is what many people use when first starting out. All you have to do is set up an account and choose the name of your blog and your in business.

Once you have your product you want to promote and your blog set up it's time to write some articles. Yes, you are going to have to do some writing but it's worth it. This is why I said earlier to choose something you are interested in or have a passion for.

Now, you don't just want to write any old article, you want to be smart about it. Here's what I mean. You want to write an article and subsequent ones with the prospective buyer in mind. How do you do this? You do a little research.

You want to find out what and how someone is searching for the product you have chosen online. You can do this easily. Go to inventory.overture.com and type in the name of the product you are wanting to promote. This tool will give you a list of all the related search terms that people have actually searched for.

Here's an example. I just did a search on "God of War" which came back with over 24,000 searches. This is a little broad and a very competitive keyword phrase. You don't want to have such a competitive phrase because you'll never get high rankings in the search engines for this term without a lot of effort. We are looking for what's called a long tailed keyword phrase.

Why? It's easier to get our article visible in the search engines for free with a less searched and/or competitive phrase. Here's another phrase I found from the list, "god of war the ps2 game". This has 130 searches and will do for our article.

When writing your article you want the title of your article to be the exact search phrase from above, God of War The ps2 Game. You also want to use this exact phrase a few times in the article itself. In the article itself you want to break up your paragraphs once or twice and insert your "affiliate link/url" for the product you have chosen to promote.

Your affiliate link should be on a line by itself with a space above and below it to make it stick out. You also want to write something to the effect of "For more information on The God of War simply follow the link below". You will want to put this call to action at the end of the paragraph above where you have inserted your affiliate link.

Once you have your article written then all you have to do is post it to your blog with the title being "God of War The ps2 Game". After you have posted your article you will want to go to a pinging service and submit your blog. A blog pinging service basically let's the search engines know that you one, have a blog and two you have made a new post.

The two best pinging services you can use are Pingoat located at pingoat.com and Pingomatic located at pingomatic.com. Simply go to these two sites and submit your blog and they will send out a message to many other sites letting them know about your blog and it's new post.

It can take a little time for the search engines to come by your new blog and put it in it's listings. In the mean time you need to write more articles doing what I outlined above. The more articles you have posted on your blog the better chance you have of gaining traffic and thus sales from your efforts.

Here's a side note. You can also published your article to article directories. You will have to remove your affiliate link from the article in most cases but you can have a resource box. In this box you can simply say thank you for reading my article. If you would like more information then please visit my site here (insert your blog's website address). Pretty easy right?

There is so much money to be made in affiliate internet marketing that I believe there will never be a shortage. With a little effort and work anyone can succeed in making money online. I hope you enjoyed this article and good luck.

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