Are you a user of Google Blogger and meanwhile an Amazon Associate? Then you might had the experience inserting your affiliate links into your Blogger post manually. To do this, you need to sign into your Amazon Associates Program, find the right Amazon products related to your current blog topic, generate your referral code, and then come back to your post editing page to insert the code.

Well, I finally want to put a full stop to the Affiliate Marketing FAQ. I think it is enough for a complete newbie, because it covers almost all the basic principles of affiliate marketing. I hope people who asked me about these questions may satisfy with what I have written. You can learn more advanced skills about affiliate marketing from other articles at YMO and other websites. And you will learn practical skills from your own actions if you start your affiliate marketing business now.

For Those who are new visitors coming to Your Money Online and read this post firstly, I would like to give a summary of Affiliate Marketing FAQ as a table of contents:

Although affiliate marketing is easy to start, it is hard to reach a certain level of achievement. Just like any business model, Only a very limited affiliate marketers will achieve their brilliant success in affiliate marketing while others will make ordinary amount of money and much more affiliate marketers even make no money at all. It is said that 80% of affiliate marketers never make their first single sale.

We can not change the fact because it itself is a natural rule, but by knowing why most affiliate marketers fail, we can avoid such mistakes made by them and stand out as successful affiliate marketers. Here are the reasons why most affiliate marketers fail:

"I am a newbie in this field, which affiliate program/network should I join?"

"I just created a new website about ..., can you tell me which is the best affiliate network for me?"

Because there are so many affiliate networks and in-house affiliate programs, many new affiliate marketers don't know which one to choose first. So the above questions are the most frequently asked questions in affiliate marketing forums.

The bottom line to choose your affiliate program is that it has the products/services you want to promote. So the first time you need to choose these qualified affiliate programs whose products and/or services are relevant to your website's topics. By doing so, you have more chances that your visitor will make a purchase and your conversion rate will be great.

"I have read your previous FAQs. I know what is affiliate marketing and there are big earning potential in it. So If I want to make money from affiliate marketing, where can I start? I am not afraid of hard work, but please show me what Should I do and how can I become successful in affiliate marketing, OK?"

Well, if I answer your question in details, that can be written into a whole book as most of ebooks teaching you how to make money online. So let's cut to the phase and tell you the general steps of affiliate marketing.

1. Find the proper products or services to promote

What is so called proper product? It must meet 3 requirements. Firstly, it must be in a profitable niche market and in great demand, therefore you have chance to sell it to your customer. Secondly, you know the product very well and have strong interesting in it. This will enable you write good product introduction and reviews to presell the product effectively. And the last one, the merchant who sell the products must have an affiliate program for you to join, regardless of an in house affiliate program or third-party affiliate program.

There are many way for you to find the proper products. The most common way used by other affiliate markers is to use the keyword suggest tools, for example, Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Wordtracker free keyword suggestion tool and the powerful great Keyword Elite Software. And you can also check the hot products listed on Ebay and Yahoo! shopping and find what products interest you most.