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Here is an overview of the process:
You write small Google AdWords promoting companies, products and services. In your AdWords is a link that, when clicked, takes the user to the product or service that you are promoting. Your Affiliate ID is passed along with it. When the customer that clicked through your ad buys something on the site, or fills out a registration form, then you receive a commission. If the customer did not buy at that time, no need to feer, many merchant sites place a ?cookie? on the customer?s computer for a certain period (such as 180 days). That means that, within the next 6 months, anytime the customergoes back to the site and buys or registers, you get a commission.

In the past, to be successful in Affiliate Marketing it took considerable time and money. Typically, it took 6 months from concept before you received
any commissions. Once you had an idea the next steps were to register a URL, build your website, and pay to have your website hosted. Then you had to spend a lot of time and money to get listed in the Search Engines and on other marketing efforts (not to mention the time spent maintaining your website).

Now, with my concepts you can start earning money immediately without having to build a website. Once you?ve found a very successful program you may want to build a quick webpage to get even more profits, but it?s not necessary to begin receiving commissions (You?ll read more about this lateron).

Here is how the process works:

1. Find a product that you want to promote (Step #2 on p. 38). For example, I found an Online Casino affiliate program that pays $40 per registration.

2. Join the Affiliate Program and get the link with your Affiliate ID embedded in it (Step #3, p. 48).

3. Next, make a list of keywords that people would likely consider when searching for that product or service. (See the techniques discussed in Step #4, p. 50).

4. Write some effective ads for Google AdWords (More on this in Step #5, p. 59).

5. Log in to your Google AdWords account and submit some ads with their corresponding keywords. Put the link with your affiliate ID in it into the destination URL field, and put a bid in for the keywords on your list at 5 cents each (Plenty more on this in Step#6, p. 65).

The above casino example generates about 600 clicks (visitors) each week from the Google AdWords at a cost of $50 and generates at least 3 Casino registrations each week. That typically brings in $280 of profit a month for something that took 10 minutes to setup. And some months are much better.

Sounds pretty easy right?
Being an affiliate is an easy way to make money. You guide customers to the product or service they want, the merchant provides the product or service, and you simply collect the commissions!