Advertising Your Website Link.

Having a Website, blog, splash page, an affiliate link or even a forum post or an article on the internet is almost the same thing as creating a new product or idea in real life.
You want people to see it, patronize it, get it's meaning, it's significance, you want to reach out to a crowd of alike or similar people like yourself, a target audience you want, which are more than likely to understand you and your product and probably patronize your idea or product.
This is a great dream which can only be actualized by you making your idea or product known to the public (advertising). Just hosting a website online or posting a blog post and hoping for people to somehow come across it is not just enough.
It takes alot of hardwork and great advertising strategies to get people interested in you and what you are selling.
In real life, a salesman's appearance and composure is usually what gets him noticed, his pitch and how convincing he sounds is what gets him sales. The same logic applies to websites, but here we are more concerned with getting your site noticed.

The first step in generating people's interest in your site is "advertising" and just like the salesman, the number of interest generated by your site ads starts with its appearance. It's theme, text structure, graphics quality, it's design.
A catchy or trending theme usually piques or attracts curiosity from an audience and curiosity i've heard is one of the hardest feeling to deny.
Now there are numerous means of advertising your website, with some more cheaper than others while some more effective (would get back to this later)

The second step is maintaining your audience's interest long enough for them to get the information you are trying to deliver about your product. A good and well organized interactive website design can help you accomplish this.

Another method of redirecting traffic to your site is via search engines optimization popularly referred to as "SEO". There are lots of searches carried out daily on search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and a lot more. Having your site listed among the search results of searches related to your area of expertise or services could have your website receiving a buttload of traffic. Manipulating SEO is a field that requires some level of experience on how the internet works, understanding web languages, and a willingness to explore and research keywords relevant to your sites and searches made on search engines and how they could be manipulated to get you listed among the top search results.

Means of advertising includes; banners, text ads,safelists, traffic exchange sites, ptc sites, social media networks, website directories, classified board sites and so on.

A research on advertising mediums should be carried out before engaging one and a budget prepared tailored to suit your advertising needs.

SFI AFFILIATE PROGRAM- THE REVIEW.

One of the most popular and prominent affiliate program on the internet is the SFI AFFILIATE PROGRAM. With more than 20 years of online activities and on time commission payments, SFI can be said to be one of the oldest and most consistent affiliate program, with a data base of more than 600,000 affiliates worldwide.
   For the benefit of those who might be interested in becoming an SFI affiliate and also those who recently joined the program and haven't heard from their sponsors, i would try my best to be very elaborate and communicate an understanding of why SFI is such a great program.

  It is common knowledge that "for someone to successfully promote a program or service, a basic understanding of the program and what it entails is required, without which all promotional efforts might yield a less than satisfactory result or even failure."
  
  The Strong Future International popularly referred to as SFI, is a division of Carson Services Inc., which has its headquarters in Lincoln , Nebraska in the United States . The organization was founded in 1985 by popular marketing guru Gery Carson; famous for his business ingenuity and outstanding marketing performances.
   The strong future international is a global affiliate program with over 200 countries accepted worldwide and with a variety of payment options particularly structured to the different global region of all accepted affiliate states.
   Signing up as an SFI affiliate is free and easy, and also comes with a one month free training series once you've been registered and confirmed your account. But becoming a successful SFI affiliate depends solely on you and how determined you're to succeeding.
   SFI is not a get rich quick program or scam, but a brilliantly structured and well calculated program which provides individuals a means of earning a steady reoccurring monthly alternate salary on the internet, with  the amount varying according to the input and hardwork of each individual.

    SFI incoporates two programs to makeup its affiliate program (namely Tripleclicks and Pricebenders auctions).

Tripleclicks is a conglomerate of stores, an internet mega shopping mall containing over 6000 products of a variety of categories ranging from electronics to magazines, games, jewelries and lots more plus SFI's own services and products.
  Triple Clicks also allows a Private Seller Program for SFI members, which allows members to sell their own products (be it ebooks, old furnitures, crafts and art works, whatever) on the tripleclicks shopping site alongside other tripleclicks products for free. This is very similar to the popular EBay listing and it has contributed to the rapid growth of the SFI program .
   Pricebenders, is an auction site where SFI members can bid and win a variety of products at more than 50% less than the retail price.
Though bidding credits (called tcredits) has to be purchased first, reccommended credit pack cost at $29 for 100 tcredits, with bids charged at 1 tcredit per bid.

   SFI takes affiliate marketing to new and interesting level by ranking affiliates due to accomplishments as an SFI affiliate,points called VERSA POINTS (vp) are assigned to every successful product sale and affiliate actions and rankings are made in a hierarchical order based on the monthly accumulation of these points up until a specified mark, starting with the lowest at Affiliate (0-1499 vp) and the highest at Platinum team leader(6000vp or above).
Each rank comes with an added compensation than  just the normal comissions, but the most popular rank is the executive affiliate (EA) which is just a rank above the normal affiliate attained by monthly accumulation of 1500vp, as it is the easiest rank to acheive and maintain without much stress, and has the compensation benefits of
1. 10 tcredits monthly for pricebenders bids or shopping at tripleclicks.
2. Two co-sponsored refferrals monthly.(you earn up to 25% comissions on sales made by your co-sponsored downlines).
3. Monthly shares in the total profits from both pricebenders and tripleclicks.
The catch to these extra compensations is that you have to maintain your EA status monthly to qualify, failure to make EA status would revert you to your default normal affiliate status and you would lose all previously accumulated co-sponsored downlines and eligibility to share in the pricebenders and tripleclicks monthly executive profits pool, tcredits won't be affected.

Sign-up as an affiliate for Strong Future International (SFI) :
CLICK HERE

BECOMING AN AFFILIATE

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular internet jobs and an affiliate, is a third-party mediator between internet programs and internet surfers. An affiliate can be better described as an internet sales person, as commissions are paid to affiliates when they manage to refer paying customers to the affiliate program which they represent or are promoting. Affiliate programs sometimes also pay their affiliates commissions when they refer other persons to register as affiliates themselves. These commissions are paid either in single tier payments (i.e a certain amount paid only once), or in multi-tier payments (i.e a certain amount for the affiliate's direct refferrals which makes up the 1st tier, and a lesser amount for direct refferrals of the affiliate's 1st tier, which thus makes up the 2nd tier, and so on depending on the refferral tier limit being operated by the affiliate program. Multi-tiered affiliate programs are also called multi level marketing programs popularly referred to as MLM programs. While the the referred persons are called downline.

It's an affiliate's job to promote or advertise the program he's a member of, creating public awareness about the program, goods or services which he's selling amongst his family, friends, neighbourhood, community, state, country, continent, worldwide!, depending on how global the program is. This could be done by word of mouth, posters in public places, handbills, social networks, blogs or webpages, internet ads networks and so on. Before registering for any affiliate program, it is advisable to carry out your own personal researches as to whether or not the program suits your needs in terms of payments (both mode of payment and percentage commissions), your personal skill and capacity, the market demand of the product and mediums available with which to promote it. There are numerous affiliate programs on the internet with various commission rates and benefits. Registering with affiliate networks such as Linkshare, Comissions junction, Shareasale and Clickbank amongst numerous others is a way of sourcing legitimate and paying affiliate programs, or carrying out a personal research via search engines and forum or ranking sites to validate programs which might be of some interest to you.

AFFILIATE PROGRAMS I RECCOMMEND.

000WEBHOST- refer visitors to the program via your refferal link and you will be paid $5 for each signup which stays active for at least 30
days.
Join site, CLICK HERE

SFI- this site incorporates two programs tripleclicks (an online shopping store) and pricebenders,( an auctions site). About 45% of the price of goods purchased by your refferrals is paid to you as commission.
Join site, CLICK HERE

THE START OF A VERY PROFITABLE CAREER OR HOBBY ON THE INTERNET

 MAKING MONEY ONLINE!!!

          Making money online is something that almost everyone at some point has attempted or would attempt; this is probably because the internet is the largest single database community of numerous residents or visitors of varied origins and nationality all interested in one thing “information”. These information are varied according to niches.

          To earn online income one has to decide on which niche he/she wants to exploit, this requires or determines on the extent to which one is familiar with the niche he decides to partake in or how curious and dedicated one is to learning about that particular niche before starting up and promoting a business in that niche.

*Note:  A niche can be defined simply as a selected specialized

category of topic, community or an area which one is

familiar with or knowledgeable about.

When selecting a niche, it’s usually advisable to pick

one with a lot of public appeal, something lots of people

Are curious about which has a high market demand.*

          There are numerous mediums through which earning online is possible, some of the most popular means includes;

1.     Affiliate marketing

2.     Paid to click sites

3.     Blogging

4.     Survey sites

5.     Information marketing

6.     Freelance work sites.

AFFILIATE MARKETING: This is probably the most popular means of earning online income. As an affiliate of a program or service you are paid commissions for every registered member to the program under your affiliate link.

          The problem of affiliate marketing is finding the right program or service in your niche of expertise to promote, another problem is that not all niches have affiliates programs incorporated.

          In order to find the affiliates program that suits your needs, it is advisable to register with affiliates directories and networking sites for a vast selection of legitimate and trending affiliates program. 

Visit AFFILIATE SEEKING and select a program from a category of niches.

PAID TO CLICK SITES: Second most popular online earning programs are paid to click sites, these sites are dominated by two major players; the advertisers and the publishers.

The advertisers pay for their ads to be displayed on these sites in order to drive traffic to their sites or affiliate links; 

       *Note: as an affiliate you would learn that one of  the most important     tasks to be completed in order to be successful is that of generating traffic to your offer. PTC sites are a great medium for advertising your affiliate link and driving traffic to your sites and affiliate links.*

The publisher gets paid for viewing advertisement placed by the advertisers. In order to make a sustainable income from PTC sites, it is advisable to join at least three (3) of such programs. Membership to these sites are usually free, also there is the option of upgrading of your membership in order to enjoy more benefits, such as higher number of available ads for viewing and a higher PTC view rate.

Some great paying PTC sites which I recommend you try out includes;

CLIXSENSE

NEOBUX

ULTIMATE TEAM SUCCESS

IMPERIAL GET CASH

EASY HITS 4 U
GLOBAL WEALTH FORCE
PTC WALLET

BLOGGING: Blogging has gained a lot of popularity in the work online circle, this is as a result of the popular google adsense program and its alternatives which pays you for placing advertisments on your blog either per ads viewed or ads clicked by your blog audience or visitors. But note, before starting a blog it is advised that you reseacrh a profitable, trending and popular niche which you have some sort of interest in or are knowledgable about and that you at least have writing skills and can convey on interesting topics to captivate your audience.

          Starting a blog can be fun, easy and a great hobby, but as a business which it should be considered as if you are expecting to start earning from it, it can be a little tasking, because before you can monetize your blog with google adsense or its alternatives, you have to be driving an average population of traffic to your blog and building your subscribers base.

          Start blogging free with Google Blogger or Wordpress.

SURVEY SITES: these sites are great paying sites which could earn you a lot of monthly income depending on your qualification and dedication.

A survey by top market companies are carried out via these survey sites in order to get through to their large customer base and get public opinions about their products for which they pay you the survey taker for completing and validating each survey you  complete.

Some popular survey sites which are great paying forums and which I recommend include;

SURVEYHEAD

VINDALE RESEARCH

SWAGBUCKS

GLOBALTESTMARKET

TOLUNA

MYSURVEY

INFORMATION MARKETING: This is a not so popular means of getting paid in the earn online industry but can earn you a lot of cash just for knowing a lot information that sells. For example, lets say you know alot about pastry, you could decide to put all of your recipes together into a pastry cookbook and then sell it on the internet to people in the pastry niche seeking for the information about pastry that you can provide them with. Information can be packaged as ebooks, video series in a dvd, softwares, tickets and so on, so long as it has a high market demand and you got it to supply.

       *Usually you need your own site or a blog for this medium of earning online. TIP: It is advisable to    extract an excerpt from your work if it is an ebook, probably the table of contents and a few paragraphs which potential buyers can read, something to give them an idea of what they are purchasing*

FREELANCE SITES: Working online as a freelancer is another way of earning online income. As a freelancer, you bid for available jobs for which you qualify and can fulfil all necessary requirements.

There is a date of completion alloted to each project, if you successfully complete the project and on schedule, before payment is then remmitted to your account.

FIVERR.COM

      There are a lot of different ways to earn on the internet, all that's needed is the dedication, patience, zeal and the obvious necessities, a computer set (PC/Laptop), an active internet connection, a notepad and a pen ( for taking down important notes and organizing the programs you decide to be a part of.) 
      Always make sure you carry out comprehensive researches and validation on all programs you get introduced to before you make the crucial decision of becoming a part of that program, also make a habit of visiting informative forums, read articles and blog post related to your area of interest.