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Thursday, October 16, 2008

How Affiliate Marketers Make Money With Product Reviews

Writing product reviews is a simple skill to learn, and one which may help you create a significant online income.

Affiliate marketing is widely touted as an easy way to start making money online. While there are certainly some affiliate marketers who are able to generate six and even seven figure incomes, most people who are starting out as Internet marketers find that a lot of work is involved.

Affiliate marketing is highly dependent on traffic. It's fairly easy to calculate how much traffic you'll need in order to make a certain income. Before you even start, you can make certain assumptions.

For instance, you might want to earn an extra $1000 a month. If you are promoting an affiliate product which pays you $25 for every sale, you'd need 40 sales a month. At a rough industry average conversion rate of 1%, that means you'd need to send 4000 visitors a month to the sales page for your affiliate product. That means about 133 visitors a day clicking on your affiliate link.

One way to get people interested in the product you are promoting is by writing an honest review and posting it to a blog. Free blogs, such as those hosted by Blogger.com and WordPress.com, are well-liked by the search engines. It is quite possible to find your free blog listed by Google within a day or two.

Once your review has been published, you will need to drive traffic to your review site. There are a number of ways to do this at no cost, including writing articles and publishing them to article directories, writing press releases and submitting them to free press release agencies, making pertinent comments on other peoples blogs and so on.

If you are persistent, you will find that it is quite possible to generate a reasonable amount of income from simple product reviews.

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