What works in generating an extra income at home affiliate marketing? 5 main things come too mind classifieds, articles or hubs, forums, viral marketing or videos such as you tube etc..., and your own affiliate website! Lets start off by talking about articles or hubs, whats so good about them? First off when you write an article or a hub too promote an affiliate product, your hub or article will have a great advantage right out off the gates. What's that advantage? I'm glad you asked its a high page rank ezinearticles.com and hubpages have a high page rank of 6 or 7 on a scale of 1-10 so you will essentially rank very high for your keywords in your article or hub! The title of your hub will rank very well when optimized correctly for the keyword phrase you are going after! Lets put this into simple terms, if you have a website with a page rank of 0 or 1 with the exact same content as your article or hub. Your article of hub will be indexed higher each and every time just because of the simple fact that it has a higher pr or pagerank. Ezinearticles.com or hubpages, is simply seen as way more important than your website because they are. They have millions of users and have been rewarded from the big players in the search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Take advantage of this by writing quality articles, and you will be rewarded for your efforts by a lot of free quality traffic! Not too mention articles don't expire like classifieds do, so they will be out in cyberspace potentially making you great affiliate marketing commissions for years too come! I can't stress this enough take advantage of article writing. Tip for hubpages - which is by far my personal favorite! They give you an option too set up an adsense account with google. which puts related paid links on each of your hubs, when someone clicks on those ads you get paid. Another great residual income stream too earn extra income at home, take advantage of it!