Affiliate marketing is where you direct traffic to a site and when someone purchases something then you get a percentage of that sale. Or it could be an action that you get paid for like getting them to sign up for a free trial. If you’re new to affiliate marketing, you may want to start by reading our “Affiliate Marketing 101” guide.

Thousands upon thousands of people are trying to use Adwords to make money using this method with varying levels of success, I know of one affiliate making $1000’s a day from just one keyword and one ad!

With a well oiled sales funnel that gets the visitors to convert well to customers then in markets where there is a lot of search volume you can get thousands of people every day to go through your ads to your site.

Product creation:
The other side of the coin is where you have your own product or service to sell which you can advertise using Adwords. This means you get more control over everything as you control the product pages and you get to keep all the profits from any sales.

Surveying and testing:
PPC can have your advert up and running in just minutes and your first visitors soon after, so it makes a great medium to survey your market and also to test out ideas and processes.

Although not something you typically directly profit from then surveying and testing can have a huge impact on your profits later on, if you can survey your market and find out exactly what they want then you can create or sell products that they really want.

Testing means you can either make your sales process more efficient and test out ideas. Or it could even save you a load of money by stopping you from making a big error. You can quickly and easily test out new ideas by putting up a salespage and seeing if people click the buy button to see if they are interested. Just make sure you tell them after they click to buy that you are still developing the product and it will be available soon, as it is illegal to sell something you don’t have ready to give them!