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Creating multiple streams of online income – PART 2

It has been a while after I posted the the first part on creating multiple streams of online income.

I am going to introduce the concept of Affiliate Marketing in this post and cover some of the useful tips on how to achieve better results based on the experiences from other experts. Affiliate marketing is basically selling other people’s product by recommending others to make a purchase through a specific referral link.

Creating a page online just to promote a product is easy but never recommended. Why? The reason is Google will be tracking down pages with no value to the users:

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Another phenomenon we have observed is the steady influx of domains which only have content from affiliate sites without adding any unique value or relevance…
- Google Webmaster Blog

Source: Google Webmaster Blog

The most useful affiliate marketing method as of now is to do a honest and helpful review of a product / service. John Chow has posted an excellent post on how to do a proper affiliate marketing. In his blog, he talked about how we can write useful reviews and help to increase affiliate income. To date, his blog generates thousands of dollars just from the affiliate income alone.

Writing reviews is useful but hiding the affiliate links are important too. According to many affiliate marketers, users tend not to click on affiliate links if it looks like one. Hence, many marketers modify the links to point to a internal file before doing a redirect. John Chow has also showed an example of his hiding affiliate links.

Recommended Affiliate Networks
Some of the recommended affiliate networks are:

• ClickBank
• AzoogleAds
• LinkShare

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