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Jul 11, 2008

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Affiliate Marketing When Making Money At Home

Copyright © Liane Bate
http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com

While work-at-home moms are often the favorite target for internet scammers,
website owners who are making money at home are a close second.

You own a website and are possibly paying a bit of money to keep the site running. Do you not wish you could make money at home with the website you work so hard to maintain?

Imagine how wonderful it would be if you could be making money at home with a real business that would not only pay for itself, but even offer you a few extras that could be put to good use for the kids, or your family!

To a webmaster, affiliate marketing is almost always the answer to this dilemma. In and of itself, affiliate marketing is a wonderful opportunity to share in the profits of a reputable company by displaying their links and banners, and allowing interested parties to visit those sites and perhaps purchase a product. When they do so, the company will often offer you a small percentage of the sale as a finder's fee.

Yet there is a bit of a seedy underbelly to the affiliate marketing industry
that will actually jeopardize your good name as a webmaster and will also
result in payouts that are pennies on the dollar. Making money at home this way may not be as easy at it appears!

For example, have you ever been surfing the web only to suddenly stumble across a website that touts an amazing nutritional supplement that does it all? Weight loss for the overweight, hair growth for the bald, an increased sexual stamina for those
lacking it, and a host of other items are cured or corrected with a pill after breakfast, lunch and dinner.

These miracle cures are touted on the website via a long list of testimonials, and you can almost always recognize the feel of these sites simply by the long list of text they sport, the varying fonts employed, and also the different colors these words are written in.

You may simply shrug your shoulders at such a site until - about
halfway down - you see a copy of a commission check the webmaster has posted
and suddenly he or she has your undivided attention because now you know you will start making money at home!

The check is small enough to be realistic yet big enough to have you consider what you could do with the money, and how it could ease the tension at home from lack of
disposable income.

When you are hooked, the spiel usually involves a site owner who is so successful that he or she has decided to take on two or three qualified novices and train them to do the business as well, making the opportunity to make money at home an even simpler one.

This involves selling the miracle product to your friends and neighbors and then just sitting back and waiting for the money to roll in. Additionally, you will need to post banners on your website if you hope to make money at home.

What has just happened, in a nutshell, is an affiliate scam that ties your success directly into a multi-level marketing scheme. While your links will attract more interested parties to the originator's website, you are meanwhile alienating your friends and families by the legal drugs you are peddling.

This is not what affiliate marketing is all about, and it is important that you understand the implications of your putting links or banners of any business on your website for making money at home.

About the Author:
Liane Bate owns a Plug-in Profit Site web business and is author of 115+ articles related to online business and internet marketing. Avoid the Affiliate Marketing Pit and start Making Money At Home! Visit HonestMoneyMaking.com's Home Business Blog
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Comments:

Hello, Liane:

Your post offers information to make a person really think twice about affiliate marketing. It certainly pays to be careful what opportunities you consider getting involved with. It is sometimes hard to tell the difference between scams and legitimate opportunities.

GT Bulmer

# posted by  GT : 9:00 PM

 

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