Pay per click advertising on Google, MSN, or Yahoo can be inexpensive, depending on your site's topic. You might spend as little as 5? per click.
Charlie
Affiliate marketing IS great. What it is not is fast, easy, or automatic. It is work, despite all of the books and articles that suggest that you can get rich overnight.
It's worth it.
Charlie
There are many free methods for bringing traffic to your site that work well. None of them work as quickly as buying pay per click traffic, however.
If you are either poor or patient, free works well. If you are in a hurry or have a lot of money to spend, buy some pay per click ads. You can...
I don't know that using TinyURL helps much, as I don't like clicking on links when I don't know where they're going.
I also don't like clicking on links that look like this:
hxxp://www.blahblahblah.com/e?=this_is_an_affiliate_link
I cloak my links so they help motivate my customers to click...
You can set up your own affiliate program using 1ShoppingCart, DL Guard, or E-junkie.
I'm sure there are others, as well as custom scripts that may be floating around.
Clickbank just makes most of the work "hands off" for publishers, and most of them appreciate that.
Charlie
Paid traffic tends to be untargeted, so it only works if you've got a site that would interest just about anyone.
Otherwise, it's just pretty random. And random gets expensive in a hurry.
Charlie
I write one, but submit it to multiple article directories. I'm more interested in getting backlinks for SEO purposes than I am in trying to drum up sales from an article.
And I hate writing articles. ;)
Charlie
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