For several years now I have been making money on the “net” and several people have asked me “how”.  When I get my checks, my family is amazed that I can even make cash from the internet.  I’m the kind of person who will not buy anything unless I can buy it thru an affiliate link.  I believe in the affiliate system and try my hardest to make it work.
People have said its impossible to make a living off of the internet and others are more than willing to sell you a $200 e-book on how to do it.  What they dont tell you is, thats how THEY are making there money.  They come up with some watered down version of how they do it and write a small book and then sell it.  Others have joined affiliate programs and place banners or products on there personal pages to create hype around a product so that someone signs up for it or buys that product.

The key to affiliate marketing is being found and having an outlet for your promotions.  If you dont have a web presence already or are ready to build one, making money on the net is quite difficult.  Plenty of people out there advertise that you can even make money without a computer.  We all know this is bull puckey and its playing on the minds of those who really do not have the cash to begin with.  I call that bottom feeding.

The absolute BEST way to sell any product on the web is to create a product page.  One where people can go to and read about this product.  You need to write a PERSONAL review of this product as you make this page to give it your own seal of recommendation.  Without your own recommendation, most people will not buy.  Especially if the people visiting your site value your recommendations.  A good example is Amazon Web services.  While this is a great feature of the Amazon system, quite honestly, I never made a DIME from Amazon until I implemented a CGI program to pull there entire site into my own.  I would hand pick products that I thought would suit my visitors and NOBODY was buying.  With AWS (Amazon Web Services), I am making a decent income.

I found this little perl script called Amazon Products Feed (http://www.mrrat.com/scripts) which basically creates an online store of ALL of Amazons products for you.  Being the little hacker I am, I hacked his script up and added  a mod_rewrite ability to it.  Now I will admit, I’m not the first or only person to see the value in mod_rewrite.  In fact, I got the idea from this script.  Today, that little APF script earns me enough money to run my own servers.

Now you are sitting there thinking, big deal, how do I make money using APF.  The first step is to get a copy of Jessie’s mod_rewrite (http://www.codeshq.com/webmasters/mod_rewrite.shtml) and upload it to a new domain name.  If you need webhosting or a domain name, visit my companies site (http://www.emagin.us) and get yourself a fresh domain with webhosting.  Heck, before you buy, SIGN UP WITH THERE AFFILIATE SYSTEM!  That way you can get paid a commission on your own sales.    After you get the code uploaded and running, you need to, and this is the MOST IMPORTANT STEP, modify the default templates to be ORIGINAL!  So many APF sites are being closed out of search engines because they just upload, configure and forget hoping there little wallets get fatter.  Well guess what.  Your wallet will stay LITTLE if you do nothing to the default layout.  And finally, the 3rd step, GET TRAFFIC.  You need to get traffic to your site.  Create a blog like I have here or a movie review site.  Something that search engines like.  Once you start getting traffic and people start linking to your pages, you will get higher on search rankings and crawled more by spiders.

If you follow these steps, you can and will make money using Amazon.

-SJ

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