Here is the clever and easy way to promote products and services

More than 200 million times a day people use Google and its partner sites to find what they are looking for.

Google AdWords Select is a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising system maintained by Google. If you use Google you have probably seen the AdWords. They appear as little text ads next to search results on Google.

They also appear on AOL, Ask Jeeves, Earthlink, Teoma, Sympatico, and many other search engines.

Content-Targeted Advertising service is Google's latest addition to AdWords. It displays AdWords ads on web content pages related to your chosen keywords. This provides broader exposure and greater reach for your AdWords campaign. Not only will the AdWords show on Google searches and on the search results of their partners, but also on other websites such as HowStuffWorks, Weather Underground, and Blogger.

With Google AdWords you create your own ads. You choose keywords which tell Google where to show your ads. You only pay when someone clicks on them. You have total control over every aspect of your campaign. Real-time online reporting tells you what's working. You can put limits on daily spending. Changes are free and instant.

The Google AdWord system works differently than a traditional Pay Per Click service. AdWords ads are ranked based on a formula of the Cost Per Click and the Click Through Rate (CTR), which enables an ads rank to improve without increasing the cost. The better your CTR, the higher up on the screen your ad will be placed. This is advantageous to you, because your ads are more visible to the customer. Therefore, you get more clicks.

Initially this system may be a little confusing, but once you master it, it is very effective. As your ad's CTR improves, its ranking in the search results also improves at no additional cost.

Here is an overview of the process:

You write small Google AdWords promoting companies, products and services. In your AdWords is a link that, when clicked, takes the user to the product or service that you are promoting. Your Affiliate ID is passed along with it. When the customer that clicked through your ad buys something on the site, or fills out a registration form, then you receive a commission. If the customer did not buy at that time, no need to fret, many merchant sites place a "cookie" on the customer's computer for a certain period (such as 180 days). That means that, within the next 6 months, anytime the customer goes back to the site and buys or registers, you get a commission.

In the past, to be successful in Affiliate Marketing it took considerable time and money. Typically, it took 6 months from concept before you received any commissions. Once you had an idea the next steps were to register a URL, build your website, and pay to have your website hosted. Then you had to spend a lot of time and money to get listed in the Search Engines and on other marketing efforts (not to mention the time spent maintaining your website).

Now, with my concepts you can start earning money immediately without having to build a website. Once you've found a very successful program you may want to build a quick webpage to get even more profits, but it's not necessary to begin receiving commissions (You'll read more about this later on).

Here is how the process works:

1. Find a product that you want to promote (Step #2 on p. 38). For example, I found an Online Casino affiliate program that pays $40 per registration.

2. Join the Affiliate Program and get the link with your Affiliate ID embedded in it (Step #3, p. 48).

3. Next, make a list of keywords that people would likely consider when searching for that product or service. (See the techniques discussed in Step #4, p. 50).

4. Write some effective ads for Google AdWords (More on this in Step #5, p. 59).

5. Log in to your Google AdWords account and submit some ads with their corresponding keywords. Put the link with your affiliate ID in it into the destination URL field, and put a bid in for the keywords on your list at 5 cents each (Plenty more on this in Step#6, p. 65).

The above casino example generates about 600 clicks (visitors) each week from the Google AdWords at a cost of $50 and generates at least 3 Casino registrations each week. That typically brings in $280 of profit a month for something that took 10 minutes to setup. And some months are much better.

Sounds pretty easy right?

Being an affiliate is an easy way to make money. You guide customers to the product or service they want, the merchant provides the product or service, and you simply collect the commissions!

Continue reading here: Step 3 Join Affiliate Programs and get the link

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