I was informed by one of my blog buddies that Google PR had been updated in December 31, 2008 and it is the last PR update for 2008. I quickly checked the PR of Your Money Online but there was nothing changed at all.

"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.

Although it is said that Content Is King, The web design is as important as the content. Believe it or not, a new visitor to your blog may decide to stay or leave within few seconds according to the layout of you blog. A well-designed, professional design will make your visitors glad to stay and read on your content hence increase your blog page views.

When Your Money Online was set up there months ago, I just used the default template and did not modify it too much. I wanted to add as much fresh content as possible at that moment. I knew the layout was ugly but had no time to modify it or create a new one. As more and more readers came to YMO these days, I realized I need to tidy up my room and welcome my honorable guests.

I am 100% sure that this is one of the most concerned questions. In fact, it is very hard to answer. And the question should be answered by yourself. But I would like to provide relevant information here: The truth is top affiliates make more than 30K dollars (like Nabs) every month from affiliate marketing and make a decent living as full-time affiliates, but on the other hand, the unsuccessful affiliate marketers make much less even no money from it.

While the earning potential is unlimited, there are also objective conditions affecting your affiliate income：

1. Marketing Skills: How Skilled you are in Marketing and sales.

Affiliates are just like salesmen in a company selling products and/or services to their customers. As the good salesman sells much more than ordinary one and get much more performance bonus, the great affiliate who knows where the customers are, what the customers want and how to persuade the potential customers to buy will make much more money than who does not.

December 2008 is the third month since I began to write this blog seriously. In the past three months, more than 50 posts were published. There are still not too many visitors but the number increased month by month. You can find my monthly report for October and November.

Now let's begin my Monthly report for December 2008.

What did I do in December 2008: