Part 3 of the AM Getting Started Series

Again, if you're coming to this late. AM stands for Affiliate Marketing. I'm not going to bookmark it again because I already have a bookmark around here somewhere. From now on, I'm just going to say AM.

So now you might be bringing in, say, $50 a week from AM if you're lucky. You did this by typing your little fingers off and a lot of hard work. However, that can trail off eventually and it gets tough to keep on adding content.

One way to keep adding content is to cut and paste from other sites, quote those statements with italics and indenting (if not by coloring and adding quotes as well), and definitely mark your sources and provide a hyperlink to them. Then, you must not solely do that! You must then intersperse your comments around these other comments. That's what the copyright law says you can do except in two cases -- when the copyright holder asks you to not do that, and when the copyright holder has something on their site that says you are not entitled to do that.

Now you are ready to sign up with other free ad networks and use those on your free blogs. A great one is Amazon.com, where you recommend books, movies, or other gifts. It pays very handsomely, currently, and is a good "starter" ad network to get involved with. But don't stop there, look for others and read their FAQs on how to include their ads on your sites. If you have to pay or do some other annoying thing to join an ad network, then don't join those sorts at least yet -- that's for when you move up in the food chain as an AMer and can afford to take those kinds of risks.

Just note when mixing ads that some ad networks don't like to see their ads mixed with other ads from a competing network, so you may have to have different blogs with different ad networks. Read the rules for your ad network.