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Ever since I started affiliate marketing I have been using php redirecting to mask my affiliate links and make them look “prettier”. Once you learn this little trick it is really easy to and up until a few months ago I was really satisfied using this method to add affiliate links to my websites and blogs.

Thing is that sometime you have already got a lot of information on your website when you find a good affiliate product that could work well on your site.

But do you really want to go back and edit all those posts and articles to make sure your affiliate link is added?

The solution to this problem is both simple and genious. It is called the Ninja Affiliate. The Ninja Affiliate is a wordpress plugin (yeah…. love those plugins!) … that is easy to install.

Once activated you can add your affiliate link in one central place (go to “manage” in your dashboard and then click on the Ninja Affiliate). Indicate which are the trigger words and each time that specific word (or small sentence) shows up on your blog, it is automatically turned into a live link to your affiliate product.

Another superb feature of the Ninja Affiliate plugin is that it will automatically cloak your affiliate link so that visitors don´t get to see it.

You also get to see all the click throughs on the links you have put in your blog so that you can keep count and track which product is doing well and which isn´t… Very important if you are looking to make money online.

The Ninja Affiliate will take out the guessing and hard work of making your blog more profitable so check it out!

Go to Ninja Affiliate for more details!

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If you are reading this post chances are you are very interested in making money online. Chances also are that so far your results haven’t been all that great, since only a few percent of people who get started with online marketing will actually reach the point of being able to give up their day job and get a full salary from their online ventures.

Like I have said in other posts already, it is possible to make money online and receive a good income doing internet marketing speaking from personal experience, it might take a while to figure out just what you need to do. Once you have seen the light though, Internet marketing is probably the most full filling job out there, and the one single job that can make your wildest dreams come true.

There are many possibilities and affiliate programs you can join in order to build your online empire, but recently I have come across one program in particular that really helps their affiliates getting on the right track.

I was looking for a new product to start promoting along with the numerous websites I am already running, and at first did not really pay a lot of attention to all that this particular program was offering, I was just interested in the huge commission pay-outs this affiliate program is offering.

However, after signing up and getting to know the website, I can only say to be very impressed with all that they are doing in order to get their affiliates bringing in large pay cheques.

Which affiliate program to choose

Most affiliate programs have a huge number of products listed to promote and at most they offer a few banners to their affiliates to use in their promotional campaign. Now, once you learn how to promote and what to do, these programs can make you a lot of money, but what happens if you are just starting out?

Without knowing what you really need to do, you will probably end up throwing in the towel sooner or later; because of the lack of knowledge and support you need in order to become a success. Is that the type of affiliate program you need?

The affiliate program I want to focus on today is quite the contrary. They are going way beyond any other program I have know so far, with their efforts and guides to make money.

A short list of what they are offering their affiliates:

• A total of $45 in bonuses you can start building up once signed up for the program for free, including a welcome bonus, bonus for participating in their excellent forum, a bonus for setting up your links correctly and a bonus for starting to send traffic. These bonuses are designed to make you participate and keep you motivated while still working on your first sale to be made, which is the only condition to be able to cash in.

• More importantly, they offer excellent guides for beginners on how to get started, how to set up a website, how to promote, how to improve SEO, basically all you need to know to start making money in your first month of signing up with them.

• Apart from that, they give you the tools you need to make a website, free templates, free images and banners and a lot of articles you can use to create unique content and grow your website and link building efforts.

• A very active member forum where you can ask for advice and website reviews, including a ton of information and support in order to become a success.

• Videos which offer quality information on how to improve your website and get started earning money, plus if you need to, you can always contact the product owners who participate in the forum as well with your questions and needs.

• Very high commission pay-outs of up to 40% or $175 for different products, plus extra incentives like competition bonuses for your website.

The most impressive of this whole affiliate program is probably the energy everybody is putting in to really get those sales going, but I have to warn you, the only one accountable for your success is you, so you will need to put in the elbow grease, dedicate time to setting up websites and promotional strategies.

Since this is not a get rich quick scheme, don’t bother signing up for it if you aren’t serious about Internet marketing. You will need to understand that it involves work and time to build your business, but using the excellent guides and promotional material, the affiliate program team has taken out all the guess work and you can follow their steps which have already proven to be successful.

At present you can promote health products, men’s health, casino sites and business-to-business products, but the team is working hard on adding more products to promote in the near future

Going back to the initial title of this post, if you sign up for this program I will personally be available to offer my help and advice and you can always contact me if there are things you are having a problem with, because if you sign up with me, I really want you to succeed and get those sales going.

Make a positive change in your life and

check out this affiliate program today!

When I first started writing this post, I had signed up for a lot of “Get Paid To” programs, thinking it would be the answer to my financial trouble. I mean, what would be easier than getting paid for giving my opinion, or write a simple review on some product, read some emails etc.

I had even prepared a nice little list for you guys of all the different options out there, giving my opinion on all the different companies that pay you to do a certain task, thinking that maybe I could get a few bucks out of the deal as well if I could persuade enough people to sign up for free.

I never finished the post, and even if I would have, I am sure I would have had it deleted by now, because I would not want to sucker you into trying something out that is a complete waste of time.

You have heard it right, I believe all those “Get Paid To” programs are a total and utter waste of time. Some of you might jump up now and say that I am crazy because they themselves are making a few bucks filling in surveys or reading emails, but let’s be honest here, do the math, calculate how much time you would spend to earn a few bucks and then think about whether your time really is that cheap.

Most programs are scams anyways, never allowing you to reach the minimum payout so you waste your time, and have others make money off of you, without ever seeing a dime.

If that does not sound bad enough already, there are two other more important reasons why I would never ever again sign up for a Get Paid To program and I would really want you to think about the following:

1. The whole reason I went into making money online, was to be able to start working less in the future, while my earnings would go up, instead of trading my time for money and therefore never achieve financial freedom, selling myself short and devaluating my time. I want to make sure I am actually creating a strong foundation I can keep improving and amplifying.
2. The whole Get Paid to Review deal is going to be detrimental to your website in the long run. Cool, you might be making a few bucks here and there, but what you are doing is selling links, or in other words, selling page rank, having to post several links to whomever is paying you to do a review. In the long run you will get penalized for doing so by the search engines, and thus breaking down the importance of your own website.

This last point can’t be stressed enough in my opinion, because many people just don’t seem to get it, until they actually get penalized. If you are running a blog with low PR you won´t land any big orders of writing reviews because the companies really aren’t after the quick buzz a review might give them, they are after high quality links, even dictating how they want to be linked to.

Now, you might want to argue with me on this point, saying there are blogs out there showing that they actually receive hundreds of dollars for a review, but I predict this amount will soon go down. The ones that have made big money doing paid reviews, have gotten in at the right time, before penalization became a big issue and they were slapped by google last year.

So, if you are thinking about making serious money with your website, you might want to reconsider just how you plan on doing it. Just make sure you don´t get paid to trade your time for money,  nor get paid to kill your own pagerank!

There are a lot of people in the blogosphere who want you to believe that it is almost impossible to make money from a blog, probably because they aren’t making hardly any money at all.

I am here to tell you though that it is possible and that in fact, it isn’t even that hard.

I would also say that it is possible for anyone to make money from a blog (I have seen people from many countries, of most ages - from children to elderly people - male and female, able bodied to people with a variety of physical hardships and people of different education and social levels make a go of blogging for an income).

It is very well possible but the reality is that most who try don’t make a lot of money.

The reasons why many who try don´t make much money blogging are many but here are 10 reasons that come to mind:

1. Not enough time - it is hard work and takes time on an ongoing (daily ideally) basis.
2. Giving Up too quickly - most successful blogs don’t hit their strides till they are at least 12 months old, but that does not mean your blog can´t make money starting the first month.
3. Non commercial Topic - some topics are easier than others to find significant income streams for.
4. Lack of writing skills - like it or not, blogging is a written form and unless you are able to write (or rewrite, or pay others to write for you) you’ll almost always struggle.
5. Breaking the Rules - some bloggers get greedy and break the rules, either of the ad programs they use or the unwritten rules of blogging.
6. Distractions for the core functions of a blog - many get caught up in one of the many distractions that challenge bloggers and forget to concentrate on their actual writing of quality content.
7. Unluckiness - sometimes a blog´s success hinges on a lucky moment - miss it or fail to take the opportunities that come and you might miss significant rewards.
8. Taking Readers for Granted - I have seen a couple of blogs over the last year or so that fell over because the blogger became so self absorbed that they forgot that a blog rises and falls upon whether it´s  readers find the blog useful to them.
9. Spreading yourself too thinly - many bloggers have the gift of being visionaries (a good thing) but fail to have the gift of realism. The result is that many start things that they have no way of seeing through or spread themselves across too many projects too quickly and by doing this, ensuring themselves of failure.
10. Lack of Focus - hyperactive bloggers who flit from one unfinished project or idea to another without seeing anything through tend to fail to build sustainable blogs.

Even as I write this list I realize that some of the above factors (and others that continue to come to mind even now) are within the blogger´s  grasp and some are not. Like any business there are both internal and external threats and risks - blogging for money is no different.

So let´s face it, anyone can make money through blogging. Fact remains that only a few actually do, because they are the ones determined to make it work and don´t mind putting in the elbowgrease it takes to build links and content continuosly.

If you are thinking of going into online marketing you must make sure you are able to follow and obey the 2 most important rules in order to become a success.

Let’s assume you belong to the huge crowd of people who dream of making a lot of money without having to leave your home or put on a suit and tie. To many people nothing sounds better than having a multiple stream of income ensuring their financial independence, without having to stick to a strict working schedule or following the orders of a boss.

Earning reports of successful online marketers make most of us dream away, thinking they were just lucky to get where they are today.

But nothing is further from the truth.

In order to cash in large affiliate checks, there are 2 things you have to really and completely understand and live by if you want a success as well.

The first thing you should never forget is: Content Rules.
Let me repeat it in case you did not understand… Content Rules!
It really isn’t all that hard to get people to your website, the more complicated issue is actually have them read more than just a few words before hitting the back button. This means you have to be able to produce quality stuff and come up with your own content. And keep producing quality content, over and over again.

The second most important thing is getting organic traffic to your site. Forget about cheap traffic you can buy in blocks of 100,000 hits, you need to make links pointing to your site so it goes up in all the search engine rankings. Building links should become your second nature and ideally you should be spending at least 80% of all your online activities on creating more and more quality links.

How to do it:

Identify the niche market you want to focus on, pick some topics and start creating your content. Write at least 10 articles and put them online before you start building your links to all separate articles, either by submitting to directories or creating links through article directories.

Keep creating new and fresh content and keep focussing on submitting the articles you wrote and after a few weeks you will start noticing how your traffic is building up. You might want to have a closer look at the first articles you wrote and rewrite them if you think they were poorly written, or you could actually link to those articles in-site as well.

Many people focus on looks just too much, wanting to have everything 100% perfect and in the end they will just give in and freeze. Remember it is better to keep refreshing your content and show people you are actually a real person with something interesting to say.

You really don’t need to worry too much about slick marketing campaigns, their importance is overrating in comparison to active link building and content creation.

You don’t need to spend a huge amount of money promoting your site either, just make sure you are using enough keywords throughout your articles and put in links to the merchants website you are promoting, and you will see that organic traffic that you have build up will start to create your bi-weekly or monthly pay check before you know it.

There you have the big secret to becoming a successful affiliate marketer, the 2 most important steps you need to do, over and over again, without overcomplicating things for yourself.

Does that sound too simple to you? Did you really think there was a hidden secret nobody wanted to share with you? Sorry to disappoint you then, it really is that simple, although it isn’t always as easy to do the work it takes.

Create your own strategy you can stick to or get the help from the guys at Making you Richer, where you will find an online marketing program that covers a lot of the affiliate marketing fundamentals. But, only do it if you are determined to achieve multiple income streams and financial independency!