It's long been a matter of conjecture when it comes to building theme based web sites or building a series of mini sites.

Some of Internet marketing gurus say that building big 20 plus page theme based web sites is way to go. and yes search engines love those type of sites.

Other marketing gurus swear by a series of mini sites of between 3 to 5 pages and containing good content about product being offered on site and search engines like these type of sites too. You might call these sites mini theme based sites.

Ok! It seems to me that you could make an excellent living going either way.

So where do we go from here? Theme based or mini sites. Why don't we think out of box somewhat?

Is there some reason why we could not combine 2 types of sites, theme based and mini sites. If both types contain good content for humans of our world and both, were optimised for search engines then it would seem to me that we could have best of both worlds.

As an affiliate your job is to drive traffics to program owner’s site. You get a commission from each sale made to a customer that originated from your marketing efforts.

Once you become interested in making money through affiliate programs and do some research you will come to know that there are many affiliates, who consistently make thousands of dollars month after month.

James Martell, who also wrote a handbook on affiliate marketing, claims that he makes over US$ 40K each month from his 30 over niche affiliate sites.

Phil Wiley lives in a remote area near Australia’s Great Barrier Reefs but it does not create any barrier for him to make a comfortable living from his online incomes.

Rosalind Gardner, author of Super Affiliate Handbook, made over US $400,000 last year alone by promoting different affiliate programs.

There are numerous examples like these, but question is do all affiliates make that much of money? Is it truly possible to make your living by promoting affiliate programs?

The truth is very few of thousands of affiliates are successful in making good amount of money from affiliate marketing.

If you follow tips stated below scrupulously your chance to become a super affiliate will increase considerably.

Try product first

Don’t just start promoting an affiliate program because they offer handsome commission! Internet marketing is a complex and time consuming process! If you decided to spend your valuable time and ingenious brain in promoting a product, you better check out product first. Try product! As a consumer if you feel that money spent on product is really worth it, then you probably found a right affiliate program to market.

Sell products consistent to your website’s content

If visitors are coming to your site and spending time, that means they like content of your pages. If you offer them something which is relevant to this content, chances increase dramatically that they will check out that product.

Write ad articles and text ads for product

Don’t use banners to promote your chosen affiliate programs! Our eyes are so accustomed to see banners that in very rare case, nowadays, we click on a banner. Use text ads instead! But don’t just use generic ads supplied by affiliate program owner. Spend sometimes in creating text ads. While writing text ads, think how you can relate content of page with text of ad.

Write articles about subject matter of affiliate product and use links within article. Studies show that ad articles have good click through response. You can submit these articles to other websites and create a viral marketing process for your affiliate program. Get a domain name for affiliate program

If you are getting result from promoting an affiliate program and would like to get more serious in marketing this particular program, get a domain name for this program and use it to redirect to link given by you affiliate program owner. Here is why you should do this: