...eativity andstrategy. One can write a book about how to be a successfulaffiliate, but in this article I will focus on a strategy thatcan make you a top selling affiliate even if you don't have awebsite. What affiliate program you should choose? Well, it's up to you,there are many to choose from. I recommend using Clickbank,since they have over 10,000 digital products and rank theirproducts based on number of affiliate sales each product isgenerating. I suggest selecting a pro...

...duct that gives you atleast $20 commission on a sale. Products with lower commissionsare simply not worth promoting, because promotion is going tocost you money. The main advantage of an affiliate program is that you don'thave to develop your own product to sell. The product is there;your efforts must be focused on promoting it. One of the bestways of promoting a product, when you don't have a high trafficwebsite, is using Pay Per Click advertising. Pay per click advertising is the hottest new marketing medium.Pioneered by Overture, PPC advertising is offered by majorsearch engines including Google. PPC method allows an advertiserto bid on specific keywords and when a search engine user issearching for that particular keyword, the advertiser's addappears in the search results. You get charged only when thatuser click on the ad. For example, an advertiser may bid on theword "camera". When a user searches for the word "camera", theadvertiser's ad would appear in the search results. The rank ofthe ad in the search results depends on the advertiser's bid,since the highest bidder gets the top position. Which search engine should you use to promote your affiliateproduct? I recommend using Google's Adwords. PPC advertising is quite effective for promoting affiliateprograms, especially if you don't have a website. When you signup for Clickbank or some other affiliate program, you will begiven a nickname or an affiliate code that you must insertinside a link used to direct people to the vendor's sales page.In a PPC advertising campaign this will be the destination link.For example, let's say you have signed up with Clickbank andhave decided to promote an ebook about weight loss. You open anaccount with Google Adwords, and create an add for thisparticular ebook. When creating your add, you will be asked toenter a destination url, this is the address of the website thatthe user will be taken to when they click on your add. You mustuse your affiliate name or code inside this destination url orlink, so that when the user clicks on your add and is taken tothe vendor's sales page and subsequently purchases a product youwill get your commission. As you can see, you do not need awebsite to promote an affiliate product. You can use the PPC addto drive targeted traffic to your affiliate's sales page, andwhen someone from this pool of traffic purchases the product,you get a commission. More sales you generate, more money youmake. When setting up your add you have to decide which keywords youwill bid on. Google has a keyword suggestion tool but it doesnot tell you how many times a keyword was searched in the past.I recommend using another free keywordsuggestion tool. This amazing tool tells you the number ofsearches that were conducted both on Overture and Wordtrackerthroughout the previous month for each keyword phrase. Thisshould give you good idea what words and phrases are beingsearched by search engine users and enable you to target yourkeywords accordingly. When writing your PPC add, you must use a catchy headline to getthe viewer to click on your add. I suggest using words likeachieve, discover, lose, make, overcome, protect, enjoy,enhance, satisfy, seek, win. These words have a psychologicaleffect on humans and have been statistically proven to getpeople's attention. Of course, your headline must fit theproduct you are promoting. In the body of your add describe someof the benefits of the product and include a call to action.Tell the viewer what you want them to do: buy, order, download.After your add goes live, you should monitor it and see how manyclicks you are getting. If you are not getting enough clicks,modify your add and try a different headline. Mastering PPC advertising takes time, but once you know whatyou're doing, you can promote any affiliate program and makegood money doing it. I know several affiliates that make acomfortable living by promoting affiliate products using solelyPPC advertising. If you want to learn more about using PPCadvertising to make money, I recommend an excellent book byChris Carpenter called GoogleCash. I recommend this book because it is a step-by-step guidefilled with practical and real examples. Remember, the worstthing an affiliate can do is give up easily. Set a strategy,stick by it and you will succeed. Good Luck.