Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing

Section 11: Affiliate Marketing Methods (Basic Overview)

In this section, I will discuss four different methods you can use to generate revenue via affiliate marketing. While there are quite a lot more than four methods, I will be covering the main four methods that many people use to generate huge incomes online.

Basic Overview:
The four main methods I will be discussing are:

Social Media Marketing (Recommended starting point)

Pay Per View Marketing (Recommended starting point)

Search Engine Pay Per Click Marketing

Media Buying

 

What is Social Media Marketing?
Social media marketing is marketing ads on facebook, myspace, and other social media sites. On facebook, these are the small little ads you see on the right side. On myspace it is the ads you see scattered throughout the site.

The great thing about social media marketing is that these sites are among the easiest to get started in and can have great potential to make some good money. In fact, I personally make 6 figures in revenue per month using social media marketing. It’s one of my favorites for sure.



The main problem with social media is that the campaign longevity is generally not very long because as soon as a campaign becomes large, many people jump on the bandwagon and copy everyone else’s ads. The competition drives down the profit.


 

What is Pay Per View Marketing?
Pay per view marketing (also known as CPV Marketing) is becoming more and more common in the affiliate marketing world. PPV Marketing is essentially advertising via popups.

 

These popups are triggered by adware (not to be confused with spyware) on a users computer. These users allow the adware on their computer in exchange for things such as games, premium content, etc.

 

The great thing about PPV marketing is that you can either direct link or use a landing page. This traffic type is really starting to increase in popularity which means that if you become an expert here, you have no place to go but up!

 

What is Search Engine Pay Per Click Marketing?
Search engine pay per click marketing is when you advertise on different keywords in a search engine and pay each time someone clicks on your advertisement. The price you are willing to pay (along with a few other factors) determine your position in the sponsored results.

In the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) you can see these ads on the right hand column when you search.

The major search engine advertising platforms can deliver a huge amount of traffic and result in some major profits.

The downside to these search engine pay per click sites is that it is nearly impossible to have a campaign work without a landing page. While it is possible, many of the search engines have banned direct linking for affiliates. Therefore in order for you to have a long term and successful affiliate marketing campaign on these search engines, you’re going to need a landing page.

What is Media Buying?
Media buying (also referred to as display advertising) is simply a fancy word for purchasing banner ad space on a website, a network of websites, or an ad exchange network.

Media buying can be as simple as buying banner inventory on a website directly from the website owner or buying banner ad space through an ad network that provides you access to very high traffic websites.