Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Online Marketing vs Affiliate selling

Another area that I have investigated for earning some extra money is affiliate selling. That is to sell products on behalf of the 'parent' company and earning a commision in the process. This works extremely well for some markets but can be difficult to build up customers. Just like running a traditional business extensive (and sometimes expensive) marketing campaigns are needed to fully realise the protentials available.

I tried a few systems like this and found that I could not really attract enough customers to make it worthwhile. The biggest problem is that your affiliate website is usually a clone. Identical to all the other affliates. As a result the search engines such as Yahoo and Google will not rank them. The major search engines all prefer unique sites with original content.

As a result I now prefer to direct my efforts to online marketing, check out my website (link available under my profile) to see how I do it. Bookmark the page and have a look at some of the other sites available. You'll see how different my approach is.

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