Now, how does one go about doing this? First you need to find a product to sell. There are many affiliate programs available on the internet. I think that if you are a beginner, you should start with a program such as Clickbank. I do not promote Clickbank. I am just using them as a good example of a product clearinghouse. Here, as with other programs, you will find hundreds even thousands of digital products to sell.

There are several factors to consider when choosing your product to sell. The first thing you should do is look at all the categories available and select about five or six items that interest you. The reason for this is you will tend to have more passion about that which you are promoting. Next, you should look at the "gravity" rating for these products. You want to choose something that rates one-hundred or higher. Finally, you try to choose something that pays fifty to seventy-five percent commission and sells for at least thirty dollars.

Now it is time to set up an account by following the simple instructions. Next, you create the hop link for the product you chose, again by following the simple instructions. Ok, now it is time to advertise!

Of all the advertising means available, today we'll go with Pay Per Click. There are many good pay per click search engines. Some of the top ones are Google Adwords, Search123, Yahoo, MSN Adcenter, Miva, Searchfeed, and Marchex Adhere.

Simply go to one and sign up for an account. After that, you give your campaign a name and type your ad. There are essentially four lines of ad space. The first one is your headline. This has to be good. It must really grab your readers attention. For this, go to any search engine and type in a word or words that describes your product, then study the first three to five headlines you see. This will give you a good start for a headline.

The next line will be for identifying with the reader, such as, " I have the same problem" and in the third line, you want to give them the benefit. This is where you tell them you can help. The fourth and final line is where you place the website URL that they will see. There is a fifth line that the reader does not see. This is the actual website address they will be taken to. In this case it will be the Clickbank hoplink address.

Now it is time for keywords. These are how your readers will find you. Using the PPC search engine's keyword tool, and again like you did above, type in the word or words that best describe your product. The tool will display the best keywords for that description. Pick and choose which keywords you like and add them to your keywords box.

Proceed by setting a daily limit for how much you want to spend. I suggest ten to fifteen dollars to start. Then set a default bid of thirty cents for keywords. This is how much it will cost every time someone clicks on your ad. Start your campaign and every couple of hours or so look at your ad position. Ideally, you want to be in the one to three position. Sometimes four to six is fine. Adjust your keyword bids up or down to where you are comfortable in price and position. This is very important.

And finally, start an ad variation of the first one and over a day or so see which one performs better. Delete the lesser performing one and write a new ad. Do this at least every other day till you have the best ad possible.