Monday, April 13, 2009

How to make Money Online without HTML or Web Programming Skills Part 2

This is the second part of a series discussing how anyone can go about starting a website without any prior HTML or programming experience and make money online. The series is titled "Programming Illiterate Web Gurus". Part 1 of this series can be found Here

Generally there are few types of affiliate websites that can make you money online. The best part is you do not need HTML or Web programming experience. For simplicity reasons, we can define an affiliate website as any website/email/newsletter that requires visitor to do more than just click on an advertisement to earn money. For example, I can start a website/blog about lets say how awesome Paris France is, and about all the different wonderful experiences one could have while on vacation there. On that page I will put a link(I will show you how later) :


If I want the link to look more more natural and less like an advertisement, I would do do it like this :

I started off my vacation by booking online at Travelocity.

Now since my website or blog is about traveling to Paris, you can assume that the visitor is likely looking to travel to Paris. If s/he clicks on my link and books an air ticket, hotel, or any other service/product they offer, Travelocity will pay me a nice commission. This method is called Pay Per Action(Sale).

Not all pay per action is completed by a sale. Another famous per per action is a lead, which is generally predominant in the insurance and money lending industry. Currently, if you as an affiliate refer your visitor to one of these companies(Lending Tree, Capital One, Gieco etc) you can average more than $50 dollars per no obligation application they fill out. This is a great field...imagine you concentrate your efforts to get one person a day to fill out an application, you will average $1500 a months. Not Bad!

To this point, if your new to this line of business, you probably have a few questions most importantly 1) How do I find these companies willing to be pay me 2) How do I guarantee they pay me fairly.

The answer to both of these questions is simple. There are companies that specialize for this kind of service. They are a marketplace for publishers(You) and Advertisers (Them) to get together and form partnerships. They also guarantee fair play by being the middleman. They track the visitors and store cookies that enable you to get credit even if the customer returns to the website at a later time. The most popular service is Commission Junction and Link Share. I strongly suggest CJ.Com if you are a beginner because they are free service for publishers. Also if you are looking to promote electronic products, use Click Bank. They are also a free service. You can read my articles about promoting, writing and affiliating e-books here.

Now that you know the basics of running an affiliate website you can read further for a step by step instructions on how to build one without any programming experience.

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