There are many ways to make money online. I chose to go the affiliate marketing route. The main reason I chose affiliate marketing was that I needed no investment to get started.

Why pay money out of pocket for products that may or may not sell. I had a couple of ideas that I thought were going to do well and invested thousands of dollars out of pocket to purchase those products, only to get stuck with them when I could not sell them at a profit. I ended up liquidating them at 50% of what I paid just so I could get rid of them.

The thing I like about affiliate marketing is that you can sell anything you want to as long as you are signed up with an affiliate program that has those items. My personal favorite affiliate networks are CJ.com and PepperJamNetwork.com.

Between CJ.com and PepperJamNetworks.com you pretty much have 100’s of niches at your fingertips. I am now looking into ShareASale.com which looks to be a great niche affiliate network.

I use  to build my web stores link by link which would take me weeks of tedious boring work to get a store up and running. I now use data feeds which allows me to offer more stuff for sale. As any affiliate marketer will tell you, the more products you have to sell the more money you make. Also by using data feeds I can set up a store in under an hour which allows me to spend more time building the site out by adding unique content such as product reviews and articles about the products in the store.

By adding unique content to a data feed store you gain much higher ranking in the search engines. Many search engines look at data feed stores as duplicate content because all feeds are the same. By adding unique content such as product reviews and unique articles your stores you will get great ranking in all the search engines, especially Google.

I have experimented with this so I know it works. I can create 2 identical stores under different domains and the ones that I add unique content to get 2000% more traffic via natural search engine searches.  While Yahoo and Bing are not so picky about duplicate content, Google is very, very picky. My stores that have no added unique content get very little Google traffic while stores I have added just a dozen articles to get tons of Google traffic.

If you want top traffic from Google then consider adding some unique to a data feed store.