Making The Most Money From Your Affiliate Links

So you've joined some of the paid to click, paid to read and paid to complete offers sites and you can also get credit and residual income from your referrals. You only have so many family and friends and they may not be interested. So, how do you get referrals without having to pay for advertising?

Social Networks

If you're online, chances are you belong to a few social networks and forums. Most have strict rules against spam, but you are usually allowed to put a link or two in the signature that people see when you post or send private messages. Take advantage of this, and post often! Here are two where you can actually get paid for your posts and page views, so your ads are automatically targeted since the members are interested in these programs. I love Yuwie - everyone tries to help each other and there's very little drama. MyLot has hundreds of very interesting discussions going on all the time.

Yuwie.com
MyLot.com

E-Mail

Again, you don't want to spam, but you can add a link and brief message about your program to your e-mail signature. Be aware that e-mails you send to people who are not on your contact list will likely end up in their spam inbox because of the link, but this is still a good way to promote.

Free Classified Ads

There are several sites that offer free classified ads and even the opportunity to have your own ad site.

Adpost.com
MyFreeAdboard.com


Save Your Points and Cash For Advertising

Order advertising from the sites you belong to. Most have very reasonable packages and allow you to save your points and cash and redeem them for advertising. Here are just a few of my favorites:

Hits4Pay.com
HoneyAdvertiserPro.com
Donkeymails.com
No-minimum.com
Matrix-Mails.com
ClixSense.com

ClixSense has recently begun to encourage people to advertise their eBay auctions, which is a great idea. A lot of people will see your ads because they're paid to click on them, so your listing will really get some exposure.

Traffic Exchanges

Some don't allow paid to promote affiliate pages from PTR/PTC sites in the site rotation, but they do allow banners. These two traffic exchanges have some extra features I haven't seen anywhere else, including cash:

TrafficTaxis.com
Moonlight Fairy Traffic.com
Super Surf The Top Five Traffic Exchanges Together And Earn An Extra 10% Or More

Marketing Pond's program list includes many more sites like these as well as more ways to advertise for free. When you join Marketing Pond, you can promote all of them with just one link.

Although I've chosen Marketing Pond as my focus, I'm a member of two similar sites that I joined prior to signing up. Both are very good and some of the programs cross over. You can give your income a little boost by joining all three:

Free Money Team
Daily Niche Idea

Did I mention that all of these programs are free to join? Upgrades that allow you to make even more money and get discounts on advertising are optional and the fees are very reasonable. Upgrades are usually well worth it if you can afford them.

You could even print up some business cards with a catchy title such as "Make Money Online," which is one of the top keywords for internet searches, with a link to one or two of your programs to distribute locally.

Pyrabang is another site where you can post news stories, promote your music, blog, business or whatever. I'm really excited about this one because I'm still a free member and I'm earning! I plan to upgrade very soon:



I hope that you find this information helpful. May you be blessed with success and abundance.

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Cash In Your Inbox

Inbox Dollars is a long-time favorite and part of the Marketing Pond group of earning programs.

I was offline for over a month and don't complete a lot of offers. When I returned, I was surprised to find that I had earned over $10.

At Inbox Dollars, you earn cash for reading e-mails, completing offers and surveys, registering on websites, shopping online and more. Most of the offers involve questionnaires and sometimes paying a buck or two for shipping. When you purchase an item from an offer, Inbox Dollars credits your account for amounts ranging from a few cents to a significant number of dollars.

How can Inbox Dollars afford to do this? Simply, advertisers pay for the ads and provide the incentives. Inbox Dollars helps them reach their targeted audience through its members and pays them a portion of the revenue. The result is effective advertising and you may even want to consider it for your business.

Signing up is completely free - and I should mention here that you should steer clear of any site that asks you to pay a fee to sign up. Legitimate sites of this nature are paid by the advertisers, not by the members.

The e-mails aren't excessive and most of the offers are online long enough for you to be able to complete them at your convenience. Since you are opting-in when you complete some of the offers and surveys, you still may want to open a separate e-mail account for this purpose.

Even if you have no interest in internet marketing or starting a home based business, this is a fun way to save money and earn a significant amount of pocket change. If you like to save money and keep up with what's new in shopping and information, join today.






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Niche-Mash - A Mish Mash

Another year, another blog. I'm told that in blogging I need a niche so this one is to keep the internet marketing separate from the art and jewelry and the psychic stuff in my other blogs. And I'm a lousy website designer and I'm better off with a blog anyway.

I've been missing in action for a while, long story, but Spring Solstice, Ostara and the New Moon in Aries have all supported a huge change and rebirth in my spirit and in my life.

I doubt that there's anyone who can not identify with the financial fear and insecurity we have all felt this past year. For me, it began a year or two before that but I attributed it to my husband's passing. Even though I knew there are a lot of scams out there, I became interested in internet marketing. I spent way too much time investigating the possibilities and signing up for way too many things. A few months ago, I found a sensible and workable method for making some extra money and I've made it my primary focus. It proved itself to me when I had to go offline due to lack of funds and returned to find that I'd made a little change and picked up a few referrals without even being here.

Marketing Pond consists of a number of programs that are all free to join. The majority are paid to click or paid to read sites, sites that pay you to complete offers and social networking sites that offer revenue sharing. There is money to be made at the free membership level and even more if you are able to pay nominal upgrade fees. The rest of the programs consist of a multitude of ways to advertise your programs and gain referrals for free.

You can promote the programs individually, or all of them at once by promoting Marketing Pond's site with just one link. Once you get the hang of it, you can get away with investing just a few hours per week. If you keep at it, the momentum builds and you begin steadily making money. It really is possible to earn from $500 to $1,000 each month from free programs.

I hate long posts, so that's all I'll say for now. Click here to visit the site. Take a look at the most recent news snippets. You'll find that Marketing Pond is now two years old and still going strong. Over 49,000 members have joined in those two years. Not all are active but that's still impressive.

This is great for stay at home moms or anyone who faces obstacles to working outside the home. It's also a great way to learn a lot about marketing and advertising.

I'll be discussing the individual programs and passing on what I've learned and am still learning. A few news stories and rants and raves will be sprinkled in here and there for a bit of variety.

Be well, and thanks for reading.

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