Best Affiliate Money Making Tips - $100

[Jeremy]

Ok, let's make some money bitches. Whether it be whitehat or blackhat, or even gaming or non-gaming; post your best money making tip that you feel comfortable sharing.

The winner gets $100, and all eligible posts must be in by Friday at midnight. And then I'll decide, although if you know me, then realize it might be on Monday at some point.

I'll start, Ebay, tons of niches, automated, ship the CPA's. This works well if you think outside the box and can SEO.

http://www.myfamouswebsite.com/wordp...nd-phpbay-pro/

If you want to see this in action, PM me.

Next............

[Gydian]

Mmm. This one is actually really tough for me. I've managed to come across quite a few money making techniques. Some whitehat, some blackhat, and some that're more than likely full blown illegal.


1. CPM Cheating: I've made by far the most money using this technique, and for reasons which could possibly land me in jail, I will not mention ANY site names here. Back in the day I used to be an ace hacker (I'm still quite good though I do not lower myself to using these tactics anymore) however, since I now run an honest business, I no longer use this technique. Anyway, I used to register on CPM networks (there were quite a few back before Google took over the market with CPA/CPC). Anyway, all the old networks and most of the new ones use/used Javascript and stupid setups that were fully exploitable. Anyway, long story short, I hard-coded an on-the-fly click faker to basically inflate my CTRs on these networks. I think linked the ad codes through mirrored iframes to inflate my impressions. So, for the longest time I pretty much spoofed traffic across an entire network. Though the traffic was technically real, they never really saw the site, but all the time I did that I never once got a single complaint.


2. One of the easiest methods of making cash now is to give away stuff and place a CPA portal in order to let the user access it. My god, CPALead in particular is lovely. I've got a couple sites out there that have "premium content" on them that can only be accessed by completing a CPA offer and I tell ya, 9 times outta 10 the person that hits it will do an offer just to see what the hell it is.


3. For those who are talented in one form or another, creating ANY type of media and selling it is the simplest and by far the most cost effective way of making cash. Those who are even smarter about this process will outsource to people. I used to have 10 people on my pay-per-task payroll for doing anything from design to writing to full on site creation. They'd end up with about 5% of what I'd make in the end.


4. Before the fall of the hosting empire due to saturation this used to be a gold mine. I could (and did on numerous occasions) clear $1000 per day doing absolutely nothing. It takes very little to get one going, and as you expand the income is just lovely, or at least it was.


5. Advertising management for others is also a huge thing even now especially with ad networks going to shit. A lot of companies don't want to do it themselves and will pay a pretty decent sum to do it. I've owned 2 ad networks in my time, and while they didn't make me the majority of my income, they did make a hell of a lot. On the side I used to obtain link placements for companies also. The profit margin on this is enormous, though this one did take some work compared to my other endeavors.


These are just a few of the things I used to do to make a lot of money rather quickly. The bulk of these things didn't take me long to setup and for the most part required little to no effort at all. I'm sure a lot of these will still work, I just can't be arsed to do any of it anymore.

[Jeremy]

This thread definitely has HOF potential, I can see that already.

[Gydian]

This thread definitely has HOF potential, I can see that already.

Agreed. I was going to write more, but fuck, it's 3am and I'm exhausted.

[Graham]

I know a lot of people will probably read this thread thinking I am going to find something here that is going to make me millions, but the reality is there really aren't many tricks in this game. Most of everything affiliates do is right out in the open, which leads me to my tips...

Use common sense. If I have to explain this then it really isn't common sense.
Just do it. Thinking about something for long periods of time that only takes a few hours to do is pointless, don't think about it, just do it.
Experiment with new things. Copying ideas that don't work is a waste of time. Sure you can make some money to get by copying what most affiliate sites do, but if you really want to make some real money either be innovative or know what you are doing.
Persistance. It took me about a year to make around $1000 dollars. I worked so many hours on my sites and made peanuts in return. But eventually I asked for help and it turned things around and became profitable.
Ask for help. Every new affiliate is afraid to sign-up under someone's sub affiliate link. DON'T BE! Many affiliates will mentor you, teach you the knowledge that has taken them years to acquire just in exchange for you signing up under them. Because after all, if you LISTEN then you will both make lots of money. I wish I had of done this when I first started, but I was so afraid it would cost me to lose money. IN MOST CASES IT WON'T! There are tons of people willing to help.

Those are just a few things, but really what I am trying to say is the only thing holding you back from making lots of money is YOU!

[Spry]

1. Create a sticker and sell it through cafepress. A friend of mine created a Bob Barr, Libertarian for President sticker on CafePress and sold the hell out of them during the election. He said he was was taking from a fake libertarian (bob barr) and giving to a real one (him). Find a seasonal fad and make a sticker... do the basic cafepress seo optimization with quality titles and description and mark the price up significantly as people who want this shit will buy it regardless of the price (within reason... they aren't price shopping). I believe he made around a grand doing this for about 25 mins work.

2. Ebay - easiest money we've made. Thanks J for the link up there. The baseball site is about to be a year old and already seeing around 8x the traffic volume than we did last year. The site has made on average 2-3 hundred per month with literally no work once we set it up. I think i've spent maybe an hour on it in 2009, and that was just adding a piece of content we had outsourced and submitting some random article to one of the article sites. I'll say that this is no where near the gambling affiliate money, but it is so uncompetitive compared... it's easy money and a way to diversify. We've now got similar sites in the football, basketball, hockey, mma and race niches, and each of these could even be expanded more. If you are really struggling to make money in the gambling niche and need to get some revenue going I'd really recommend trying this. You will need to have an existing site prior to applying to the ebay affiliate program as they are now much more picky as to whom they will allow to affilaite for them (sorry Randy!).

[pokerprop]

Just do it.

If I was the judge. You win

[Newjabber]

Get a day job.

Ship the $100 please

[KevinMcC]

Write Content... a shit load of it

I know this has been said time and time before and it doesn't seem like a big secret money making tip, but in reality it is a huge money making tip. It is one of the hardest things to do because most of us affiliate are a little lazy or don't enjoy writing too much. But I guarantee that any affiliate new or old who writes 5 pages of content a day, 5 days a week for a year (1300 pages) will be making a shit load of money by the end of that year and the money will continue to roll in the following years, give it a shot.

[Randy Ray]

The eBay tip at the beginning of this thread was solid gold. Nicely done.