If you want to make your sales in affiliate program, you should make sales through your affiliate link. But the question is how to promote your affiliate link so that someone can click your link and make a sale? There are many ways to do that.

Here is 7 ways how you make sales by promote your link:


1. review from a blog
2. google adwords
3. e-mail advertising
4. social networks
5. free article submission
6. free banner exchange
7. free advertising

Review from a Blog
Make your blog like a review of the product. These reviews would include your Affiliate link. When someone reads the review, clicks on your affiliate link and purchases the product, you will earn commission. You can promote your blog link instead of your affiliate link but this is optional. You don't need to create a blog at all and just promote your affiliate link everywhere. It's up to you. Creating a blog can be useful for places on the internet that don't allow affiliate links so you can give out your blog link instead. Make sense?If you have no blog yet, just go to http://www.blogger.com and create a blog.

Google Adwords
This is most effective way to sell the affiliate product. By Advertising with Google AdWords your ad will appear on the right hand side of the Google search engine. This is an extremely powerful way of advertising.
Click here to sign up for free:
Below are some helpful tutorials about Google AdWords. I strongly recommend you look at these.
Google Sign-up demo
Google Account Navigation
Google Bidding and Ranking
Google Keyword Matching Options
Google Optimization Tips
Understanding Conversion Tracking

e-mail advertising
Sending emails to your list or ezines can be very effective. A single email campaign can bring in instant commission. You can make thousands of dollars in literally a day or two advertising using ezines email campaigns. The follow ezines are very effective for creating and email campaign with and sending to theysubscribers.
ListJoe.com
cashfromhome.com
superpromo.com
probiztips.com
smart-list.com
rent-a-list.com
youradblaster.com
If you do not have a list check out the following programs.
http://listdotcom.com
http://yourluckylist.com
http://tripleyourlist.com
http://thelistmachine.com

social networks:
If you are a member of an of the social networks like Friendster.com, Myspace.com, Facebook.com, Hi5.com, Squidoo.com etc, you can give out your affiliate link to your friends, groups etc. Just message them or add comments to their profiles.

free article submission
One of the most effective thing you can do for FREE is write articles and submit them to online article directories. Why? Well because when you submit the articles to the directories, you can put your blog or affiliate link in the signature box at the bottom. And when thousands of people read the article, a lot of them will click on your link and go to your blog and then buy the product.
Below is a list of some good article directories. It also rated how easy or hard it is to submit your articles to these directories.
GoArticles.com - Easy
SubmitYourArticles.com - Easy
vandewealth.com - Easy
articledashboard.com - Medium
powerhomebiz.com - Medium
Helium.com - Medium
webmasterslibrary.com - Medium
ezinearticles.com - Hard
news.boconline.com - Hard
Suite101.com - Hard

free banner exchange
Now that you have your own blog, you can do banner exchange with other sites. This works by you displaying their banner on your blog or website and the banner network site displaying your banner on their network of sites. This can be very effective and it's free.

free advertising
These are some free classified ads sites where you can submit an ad for free. For a ready made ad see below.
www.CraigsList.com (RECOMMENDED)
www.Gumtree.com (RECOMMENDED)
www.Ad2Go.com
www.AdToad.com
www.Adlandpro.com

Good Luck on your affiliate marketing!