You can make money from home, make your computer a tool for it, and take back your life. In order to do this with Article Marketing, a method within affiliate marketing, there are a few things you need to do and I want to help you with some of that information.

Your Money from Home Makeover Starts Here

In order to write a valuable article with relevant content, wouldn't it be best if we always write about something we know about? It would help, wouldn't it? That is the reason for the advice Kyle and Carson of Wealthy Affiliates give when they say you should write about something you know and are passionate about. Finding something for sale that relates directly to your passion might be a trick, so a fall back could be to search for a product you would be excited about promoting, which could be a physical thing, an e-book, or a service that has an affiliate marketing program.

You Can Sell Things You Do Not Own

Many companies want you to make money from home. Make a list of things or services you are interested in promoting and either go to Clickbank, Commission Junction, PayDotCom, or directly to providing companies and see if they have affiliate programs. To find out, do a search for the merchant's name and add "+ affiliate program." Maybe the merchant has such a program and maybe they do not. You will find out when you do the search. BTW, did you know Wal-Mart has an affiliate program? That's crazy. I understand it requires a different method of marketing and I have not looked into it, but it seems intriguing.

Build your platform

For many affiliate programs, you need to have a website already. Clickbank does not require it. There is a lot of information at this point to keep track of, but pay attention and I will try to make it easy to understand. Google is a search engine that has many basically secret parameters for how to rank highly on it, but one thing that has been discovered is that websites that have URL's (the http://www. address) that seem to be relevant to the offering ON the website tend to rank high easier than those where there is an evident disconnect. You want your website to rank high on Google. Making rank on Google is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. If you put good, relevant content on your website, then you should write articles and submit them to websites that put articles online for free, and these articles will get good ranking from the article site and give your site good ranking because of backlinking (where you send people from your article to your site.

Alternatively, when you buy your domain, you can choose to redirect those whom you direct to your site to the merchant's website. Godaddy provides this service along with masking, which gives you the ability to make the link say what you want it to say to someone who "mouses" over it. You can then write articles on Squidoo directing to your redirect site. A con to this approach is that several article sites have gotten to where they do not allow links to redirects. This is a reality of affiliate marketing - the need to be flexible in your approach so you can adjust for changes that do happen.

To Make Money from Home, Make Google Like You

You CAN make money from home,make Google like you, and keep your self respect. It IS possible :).