Affiliate marketing is one of the ways to make money online where you dont need your own website or your own product. Affiliate programs are very popular now days on the internet. You can join anyone. Clickbank is a famous affiliate program that sells digital products. Commission Junction is another affiliate product that sells physical product.

When you join an affiliate program, you get commission on selling a product. Usually you promote that product through the merchants website. This method is also known as direct linking or Google Cash Method.

Each affiliate program will provide you with a unique link for each merchants website that you want to promote. You can use that link to advertise the merchants website on the internet. When someone buys from that link, you are credited with a commission.

The main question is how you are going to promote your affiliate site. One of the fastest methods is through Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC). Google, Yahoo and MSN allow advertisers to display ads on their search engine pages for keywords that you choose. But you will have to pay for each click on your ad.

You can open a Google Adwords Account with $5. Similarly, you can open an MSN account for $5. Yahoo lets you open an account if you deposit minimum $30. All the three search engines also can give you a free $50 or $100 voucher also in the beginning.

This is just to entice you to start ppc by these search engines. But these $50 or $100 free clicks can help you test a few products. Open an account on these three search engines.

First, choose a niche that you want to promote like music, movies, weight loss, dating, iPods etc. Once you have chosen your niche, select a product that you want to sell. Start a campaign on any of the search engine by making ads.

In the beginning dont set your daily budget more than $2 and choose your keywords carefully. The choice of keywords in PPC is very important. Think like you are the one searching for the product that you want to sell.

The art of PPC lies in the selection of proper keywords that convert. See which keywords are converting. Think like the buyer! Choose keywords that are very specific to your product.

Google, Yahoo and MSN all three give you a free Keyword Tool that you can use to see what type of keywords people are typing to search for the product that you want to sell.

Use them, choose your keywords wisely. If a website does not convert on 50 clicks, simply abandon it. Choose another merchants website. Your aim should be to make $50 daily in the beginning.