One of the best kept secrets in todays affiliate selling world is the pay per click selling version with Google AdWords. Adwords allows advertisers to place small ads on websites or on Google.com search result pages. You most definately noticed the little advertisements to the right on Google.com.

In Affiliate Marketing you are selling 3rd party products and in return you earn a share of a sale generated from your branding efforts. We all have seen those little Amazon.com banners on different web sites . These would be a very simple form of affiliate promoting. More sophisticated versions are complete stores make around Amazon.com or based on data feeds from other vendors. In some cases the affiliate has to build his own internet site and store - in others there are white label web page templates or pages available for the affiliate to work with. Only when it comes to the actual sale the customer is redirected to the 3rd party vendor who carries the actual product.

Not a new variant but a not very well-known version of affiliate advertising is the promotion of affiliate merchandise links/web sites via Google AdWords. The power of selling on Google.com is combined with the affiliate backlink . The affiliate partner does not absolutely need a internet site anymore, he directly links the customer to the 3rd party. With Google AdWords very targeted selling is possible and well-written ads equipped with the right keywords might bring in big bucks. All the affiliate has to do is to figure out which keywords are affordable to promote. And thats where secret to success is. Everyone might buy the expensive and obvious keywords to promote products but when it comes to affiliate success via PPC selling (aka Google AdWords) the inexperienced promoting folks are being weeded out or are left with big holes in their pockets. Finding the right combination of keywords, target group, ad copy is the critical piece of the puzzle.

Overall - affiliate selling via PPC on Google or via Overture (competitor of Google AdWords) could be very lucrative and quite a few many people are creating a living of it. It sounds brain friendly to do but to break into this field a new affiliate needs a lot of luck, big bucks or patience and experience.