Regardless of what type of site you’re running, you need a method of monetization. Most of the sites I run are monetized with affiliate marketing. Affiliates can work for almost any website model, including flagship blogs, niche blogs, niche stores, review sites, mini review sites, mini site, and one page mini sites.

Affiliate marketing is often regarded as the easiest way to make money on the Internet. Unlike other business models, affiliate marketing requires no inventory or shipping. All one need to do is recommend products to customers who buy them using a special hyperlink. If the customer buys the product, the person who recommended the product, known as an affiliate, receives a portion of the sales price.

There are many products that have nice affiliate commission rates for those who know how to pre-sale their product and deliver click through customers who are ready to buy. As long as you choose to promote a product or service that can be very useful to a wide variety of people, then pre-selling your chosen company may not be that hard at all. The key in this situation may likely be getting those customers to your website so that they have a chance to see your recommendations and click on your affiliate links.

One such company with a unique service is www.3click.TV an online television provider with premium content. 3click.TV has an excellent service that is being affiliate marketed through a well structured program. A web owner/blogger signs up for the program, selects the banners they wish to display on any of their sites and all click through and signups from these banners earn you a quick $5 paid directly to you online merchant (PayPal iKobo or Moneybookers account) of choice. Typical of most systems, they provide real time stats so you can see what banners are working where. Easy money and not just limited to bloggers, anyone can take part posting banners in forums, or even social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook

Internet retail giant www.Amazon.com has a more complex system which pays you a percentage of each item sold and with advanced marketing reporting, however already millions of sites feature Amazon products making them a household name. You can often have less competition with smaller more unique services and goods ultimately generating more positive result ratios.

Things to look for when choosing an affiliate:

You should not have to pay anything to join.

There should be no minimums

You should always have access to stats.

That’s enough information to get you started. Remember, these programs work the best from a wide variety of websites and postings and don’t ever limit yourself to the possibilities.