So apparently there are many options to make money online. But today I want to talk to you about how we do it and what has worked the best for us.At the beginning we tried to “shoot everywhere” and we build websites monetized with :
Google Adsense- Easiest way to make money using Google ads network, just embed ads on your site and wait for people to click on them.
Amazon Products- Amazon offers a really huge veraiety of physical products you can use to build many small or big niche websites.
CJ.com- CJ is also a big resource for physical products, but we found it less affective for us.
ClickBank- This site hold lots of informational products, you can make some nice affiliate commissions selling this.
Other CPA Networks – There are plenty of CPA networks you can monetize your site with, almost in every possible niche.
Well, to tell you the truth not all of them worked the best for us, more on that in the next posts.
How To Make Money Using Google Adsense:
Well as mentioned above this method is the easiest of all and the best suitable if you are just making you first steps online. (Side note:This method can be used to make tons of money!! Not for beginners only).
All you have to do is first build a website, you can either buy your own domain and hosting, or go to one of this sites:
Google Blogger
WordPress.org.
Create your own blog and name it after the niche you want to write about, add some content- at least 5-10 articles, and then go ahead and sign to Adsense. It may take some time until Google will approve your application- about two weeks or so.
When you have everything set and ready you can now login to your Adsense account create some ads and embed them to your site. As long as you will get a lot of traffic you will see many clicks. The minimum traffic I can say that is enough to know if your site is “ok” is about 2,000 unique page views a month.
Build Niche Sites With Amazon Products And CJ.Com 
There is a lot to say about amazon, and we use it many times in order to get ideas for new niche sites that we want to create, But you can also actually make money selling amazon products through your website.
Amazon commissions are quite good ,here are their rates:
They actually incurage you to increae your traffic and sales, and if you would do so you will earn a lot more money out of your sales.
It’s also a very Convenient way to embed amazon products in your site, they have banners,widgets and text links already tested for you using their giant network of affiliates.
You should know that Amazon has the shortest amount of time that their cookie is saved on your computer. Which means that every customer you send there must by an item within the next 24 hours for you to make a commission out of it.
Why Amazon Is almost the easiest way to monetize and make money??
Because most of the traffic that we have to our sites are US residents, and I don’t think there are a lot of people who haven’t bought or will buy some kind of a product in Amazon. They have lots of opportunities that it makes the chance of a customer to buy something(even the cheapest thing) almost 100%!!
CJ.Com
There is no much to say about this service, it is almost the same as amazon, their commissions are vary according to the product you choose to promote. Most of the product commisions we used to promote were between 5%-7.5%.
I have to say that we didn’t have a great success with CJ, I think the main reason for that is that you don’t send your visitors to a really known authority website such as amazon, but to a “Company Name” websites which are sometimes not the best looking and favorite.
CPA Networks We Use On Our Sites:
When we find a really nice keyword that we want to build a website according to and we can’t find a physical product to promote, we tend to go for CPA offers- worst case scenario is using adsense.
The easiest way to know if your keyword has CPA offers you can use is to go into google and type your keyword and the word affiliate, like that:
“acne affiliate program”
Then you will get lot’s of different products you can promote within your site to the person who is looking for a solution to an acne problem.
This are some of the networks we use:
MaxBounty- Really easy to use interface, they have lots of offers in many different niches.
Market Health- Great network for the health niche, we use it a lot and really recommend!
Pepper Jam- Here you can find almost everything, CPA offers, physical products- the most amazing one I have found is Diamonds and Swarovsky. really good commission and interface.
Digital Products From Clickbank
Well first I have to warn you, if this is your first day and even you first couple of months you are doing affiliate marketing then you should leave this option for now.
Why am I saying that?
Because almost every marketer out there in the world, the first site he hears about is Clickbank. Think about the size of the competition you have, and the effort you will have to make to earn you first buck.
Not only that , it is much harder to sell Clickbank’s digital products because in most cases they are not so well known such as physical products from amazon. Also in order to make a sale you have to create a great sales peach that will convince your reader that this is the best solution to his/her problem!
After being said I can say that you can make decent amount of money selling digital products because of two reasons:
1. There is no delivery- most product are delivered through Email.
2. Because of the first reason, the merchant expenses are much lower and he can pay you way more money to get him new customers.
We are not using clickbank within a lot of our websites, but in some niches it is inevitable.
I must add that we never had a problems until now with the payment and commissions with all the networks I have mentioned here.
To your success and ours,
Cheers!!
