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by Bilal Darr, Bil

To make money online you'll need the following 3 things:

1. A Domain name

2. A Web host

3. Website

Okay once you have a domain name and a web host then you can easily create a website. Without the latter you'll find it pretty hard to make any money at all, although there are alternative methods.

You'll want your website to stand out, to be attractive and to be original without these things it will be hard to find returning visitors.

So what's the best way to include these things into a website? You can build a website from scratch in HTML but that's not really a viable solution. I would recommend using WordPress on your website as the Content Management System. WordPress is unique, has a range of templates, you can get free plug ins to do things such as Search Engine Optimization and it has many more excellent features.

So there you have your own website setup, you just need to fill the site with excellent content as they say "Content is King". Once it is all setup, you want to monetize the website, so you can start making money. Below I will go through two of top ways you can monetize your websites traffic.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is just great, it allows you to place contextual adverts on your website. When someone clicks on these ads you get paid a small amount by Google. So if your website is getting thousands of visitors a week just by converting 5% of that to clicks you should be making a small fortune.

You can sign up for a free AdSense account from Google. They will checkout your site to see if it lives up to their standards, then they will either accept or decline your website. I haven't heard of anyone being declined so far. If they accept it they will give you a small piece of code which you can customise, add this to your website and then sit back watch the money come in.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other peoples products and you get paid commissions. These commissions can be from 20% to 75% of the products value.

A great place to find affiliate program networks is Clickbank. They have over 10,000 products to choose from and a range of categories to suite every type of website. Clickbank will pay you via Check or Paypal twice a month, they are trustworthy and an honest company you can rely on them to deliver.

Go to Clickbank.com to sign up for a free publisher account. Once you have signed up, you can choose a product from their marketplace. They will generate a link for the product you choose, every time someone uses your link and buys a product you'll get paid great commissions.

If you use the above methods which I explained you should be getting a two check by the end of the month, one from Google and one from Clickbank.

As I wrote in an earlier article (Make Cash Online - Affiliate Marketing With Commission Junction - Part 1), one of the easiest ways to make cash online is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is getting your traffic to buy a company's product. You get paid when someone from your website, blog, or email list buys someone else's product. In the first article I gave you a first-hand review of the advantages of one of the largest affiliate marketing companies today - Commission Junction. In this article, I will explain some of the disadvantages of Commission Junction.

Each Affiliate Must Approve You Individually

While you can find hundreds of affiliate programs through Commission Junction, each affiliate that you apply to must approve you individually. This can be time-consuming if you are applying to several different affiliates. For more details www.myspace-marketing-secret.com While many affiliates will respond to your application within a couple of days, there are others that take a week or more. Now, to be fair, I am not sure there is much Commission Junction can do about slow responses, but it is something that you need to be aware of.

Commission Pay Is Confusing and Slow

Commission Junction's method of tracking commissions can be confusing. They have different levels of pending commissions (commissions that are not payable yet). The levels of pending commissions are new, extended, and locked. After the commissions get though the locked status, then they are moved to your current balance. Now, my experience has been that from the day I earn commissions from my website, it may take anywhere from 1 - 3 months for me to pocket that money. The length of time can vary in many ways, but much depends on when during the monthly cycle of commissions the commissions were earned. So you have to be a little patient in getting the money from Commission Junction into your bank account.

Customer Service Is Weak

Commission Junction has done a lot of work to improve their customer service lately. But their customer service is still not as good as other affiliate marketing programs. For more details www.greatpromotionsite.com The primary source of contact is email, so it may take a couple of days to get an answer to your question. Also, their FAQ is really too large. There is so much information in there that you sometimes can't find what you need.

As a final review, while there are disadvantages to Commission Junction, they are still one of the top affiliate marketing programs and I would recommend using them if you are interested in affiliate marketing.

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