Does It All Boil Down to Keywords?

byKelliD

178 followers

13 years ago

Although I am new to affiliate marketing, I have been studying a lot about it. I guess it's a bit of being overwhelmed and trying to weed through the crap that's out there. A few websites suggested that
1. Get a clicksense account
2. View ads until I make enough money to get pay for PTC ads
3. Get a youdata.com and hits4day.com
4. Get there referral ID and then put that link into the clicksense PTC ads.

So far I've done everything and am waiting for the results. I do enjoy that you can sign up for all these free websites and get paid $.02 a survey, but then it does start to get a little overwhelming just trying to keep up. I do keep an excel sheet with the referral links on there so I can just copy and paste it.

Another marketing idea I've come across is the Clickbank affiliate program. This is where you pick a product you want to sell, put it on a free website, like web.com and then sell it. However, because so many people are doing the same thing and most of those websites are scams, I really don't feel comfortable selling a product that I don't believe in. Plus I think it all comes down to adding the right queries.

Lastly, there is WA, which I do greatly appreciate the free lesson. But again it all comes down to keywords. I do have a blog on blogspot, so when they had me build a website from Wordpress, I ended modifying what I had on my blog. I also did the keyword searches and wrote down my top 25 keywords. However, I'm still not understanding how to make money off of this.

One thing I hate doing is referring links to my friends and families because I know they couldn't care less about online marketing. Most of them are old school and don't believe on making money on the internet, so I find it hard doing the "Earn Your First $50" training.

I do feel that I am closer to understanding the affilate marketing business because I have made a few dollars from various websites, mainly doing surveys. But I still think the marketing comes down to having the right keywords, no matter how bad the article is. I don't mind writing articles, I just don't understand the whole "getting you article on google's first page" aspect.

Maybe this topic should be my next website.