The InHouse Affiliate

There are many websites on the internet that promise to pay you for receiving e-mails. When I started out in the online money making business a while back and in my quest to earn a quick buck I have signed up for a quite a few.Some of thempromise to pay you large sums of money for reading e-mails, sounds simple enough doesn't it.

I have signed up at paidforemails.co.za among others and all I ever got was a few ads to click on for 50cents each and one sign-up offer and that was it. All in all I made about R1 and I have yet to receive an e-mail or review a product/site.

At this rate it will take me a whole year to reach the R100 payout.

Many new bloggers often wonder if they should start their blog on a free host like this one or if they should just go all out and get a host and a paid domain name. In my opinion if you are just starting out it's best to first get a feel of whether you like the idea of spending long hours on the computer and getting paid a few bucks a day in return or you'd much rather stick to the 9-5 cycle like most folks. I started blogging in 2007 and there's no accounting for the money I've lost with hosting services and domain names that I have since dropped because the idea that seemed so great at first turned out to not be so great after all.

Rather start small, start on a free platform and if you go the monetizing route see if it brings any cents in. when you start doing well you can get your own domain name and either continue using free hosting or pay for hosting.

1. Blogger

Is wonderful for beginners. It's owned by Google but you can also use all your other affiliate ads on the blog.

2. Weebly

I found it hard to use all the widgets and I just gave up in the end. But for those of you who are not as technically challenges as I am, you can give it a fair go.

3. YolaSite

Yola looks more like a mini website than a blog but it has a lot of great features and built in widgets.

I've recently joined offerforge
Some have called it South Africa's largest affiliate network. It works much like any affiliate network out there, but the Easyads option is also a nice way for those who don't want to go through the trouble of selecting adverts to put up on their site.

Info Link basically puts ads in your posts. They usually have double underlinings on specific keywords and you mouse over the words a pop-up ad comes. A few bloggers have claimed to have made a few bucks off this service while others feel it is an imposition.
In my opinion if you are still starting out and do not have the patience to build up your traffic so that you can generate enough revenue from Adsence and other PPC's you should definitely go for it.

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