For the vast majority of website owners out there, they will be monetizing the traffic that reaches their website through platforms such as PPC, from the likes of Google Adsense. As much as this is a great way to make money from traffic, it is not always the best. In fact, the best platform to make money from online depends on what your website is about. One area that can earn website owners some serious bucks is with affiliate advertising. Here are some reasons why you should start affiliate advertising on your website.

#1 Affiliates Can Make Millions

The negative associated with PPC programs, such as Google Adsense, is the fact that the amount you make is usually directly proportional to the amount of traffic you gain. For affiliate advertising, this does not have to be the case. If you have a niche article reviewing something, it can make you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a month even with a very limited amount of traffic. This is because the conversion rate of that article to get sales could be extremely high, unlike the click through rate of adverts using PPC.

On top of this, affiliate advertising with the likes of Amazon can be very beneficial, considering that you also get commission upon every other product the web user buys when they shop from clicking on your affiliate link. Therefore, in this situation, the sky is the limit.

#2 You Choose What You Promote

A problem with some websites is that they sometimes appear dictated by what makes them revenue, as to what they write about and how they write about the matter. With affiliate advertising, you are not limited by any topic, sector or how and what you should write about. If you like something, then you can write about liking it and promote it with affiliate links. There is flexibility in what you want to promote, where you are never told to promote a certain product or service, even if you cannot recommend it.

#3 It’s a Cheap Start Up

To start making money through affiliate advertising, all you need to do is have a website with content, traffic going to it, and affiliate links on it. It is really that simple.

This tends to attract people to starting affiliate websites, such as review websites. They are extremely easy to make and can start earning money as soon as the links are up.

With affiliate advertising, a word of warning needs to go out that you should never change your opinion on something due to financial incentives. In many of these cases, the confidence the web user has in your opinion decreases, causing them doubt what you say and the impact it will have on buying the product or service you are an affiliate to.