Most internet marketers will agree, that affiliate marketing is how to earn an income online for those with little to no internet experience. If you have a known brand or a face that most everyone around the world recognizes, you should use it to sell your own products before you lose it, otherwise affiliate marketing is where you should start your quest to earn online.

What you will do is setup websites to entice your visitors to purchase products produced by others for a commission. The commission will range from around four percent on Amazon to seventy-five percent on some items on Clickbank. Ok, do not forget about Amazon because of the low commission rate, for two reasons, first the rate goes up when you reach various quantity thresholds and there are thousands of expensive items that pay you more than what you can make on any Clickbank product, no matter how high the pay rate is.

Some people prefer to market real products from Amazon or Commission Junction as opposed to electronic products from Clickbank. Amazon has the largest affiliate system on earth, which provides a good vehicle for learning how the affiliate process works. First thing, we are going to learn how to earn an income online, so you need a computer with an internet connection for getting online and a website. For our purpose of learning an affiliate marketing process, we will make the following assumptions. you know the details of setting up the computer, internet connection, hosting account and purchasing a domain name. If not we can help with that later.

Go to Amazon and set up an associate account, this allows you to use their information to send them traffic. When you have your account, start by going to the Amazon website and look at the department list for something that you are familiar with. Select a category with products that cost near one hundred dollars and above. Check the details of the product, does it have at least ten reviews? If the reviews are all bad move on to a good product with mostly good reviews. It helps to have something negative to work with, the review will seem more real.

Now that we have a product, we can go to the Google keyword tool and find a keyword that will become the root of our domain name. We are looking for a good product with mostly good reviews, a monthly search volume under 5000, a CPC of around $ 2.00 and low competition. The first selection or three may not work, just keep digging and you will find a good one. Now we take that search term to godaddy and try to purchase a dot com domain name to match our new found search term.

Be patient here, the product name, keyword and domain name must work together as one. If it does not seem to work open all three windows and dig for the best solution. Just keep going from Amazon to Google keyword to Godaddy until you find a perfect match for all three. Make the purchase and let us get that website up to see how to earn an income online.

WordPress is so easy to install, so easy to setup and so inexpensive (free), we just have to use it for our first website. The beauty of using a good Amazon product is that all the information for your new site with the exception of a movie can be found on the Amazon site. Do no just copy text directly from Amazon it will not work, copy pictures, descriptions and the all important links that are yours to use because you are an Amazon Associate. Everything else on your site should be original, that is the only way you can standout from Amazon and all the other associates marketing the same product.

Original titles, text and video can get you ahead of Amazon with some products. However, if you can land on the first page consider it a victory, because you will earn when people click you on their way to Amazon. You must give them useful information about the product and request an action. Look for the reasons that they may not buy and convince them that it is not an issue before they perceive it as one. Read those reviews pick the best one and provide an introduction and a link to the real reviews. Find that negative review and disarm it before it becomes a deal breaker.

We now have a website that needs one more big thing to be successful, that being traffic. No not Steve Winwood and the guys, what we need is visitors with credit cards and paypal accounts looking for our product. They can be found on forums, blogs, websites and social networking sites related to the product. Your next project is to go there and create links back to your landing page do the pre-sale, so you can send them off to Amazon to make a purchase.

If you need help with any steps, my free Mad Marketing Method course is available twenty-four seven. A short article like this will get you started in the right direction, if you are serious about the internet and affiliate marketing you need a mentor to assist you. The best source of instruction and information on the internet can be found at the Wealthy Affiliate University.