I COULDN'T WAIT FOR SUCCESS, SO I WENT AHEAD WITHOUT IT.

JONATHON WINTERS

     The main goal of this blog is to record my successes and failures at making money online.  As I noted in a previous post, the first way is taking online surveys.  The second way is this blog.  I do not mean that I am selling the content of this blog, simply that I am making space available on my blog to advertisers who will pay me a commission if any of the readers of my blog chose to purchase the product(s) advertised there.  

     I have read of several ways to sell the ad space on my blog and as I go along I will try several and post my experiences here.  

     The first one I tried was Google Adsense.  It is supposed to be very easy to use.  In the descriptions it seems that you just sign up and google chooses the ads and you make money.  In practice it was easy to sign up.  As of this post Adsense still says that I dont have enough content for them to place ads here.

     Since I am trying a variety of ads, I decided to try another source.  I have now joined with Amazon as an affiliate marketer.  The sign up was relatively simple, and painless.  I did not have to spend one cent to become a part of the Amazon network, and Amazon provides ample tutorials and tools to make it possible to advertise for them.  Amazon offers a variety of "widgets" which are placed on the site to catch attention.  If a reader is interested in the product they simply click on the "widget" to make the purchase.  The referring site is then credited with the sale and a commission is paid.  

     I will be keeping you updated with the results.  Stay tuned