When I first got into affiliate marketing I read two books that I can strongly recommend if you want to learn how to become a successful affiliate marketer.

The first one is Rosalind Gardner's "Super Affiliate Handbook" http://www.superaffiliatehandbook.com/

...and the second one is James Martell's "Affiliate Marketer's Handbook".
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/


I found both really useful. Rosalind's book is more basic, while James's book is focused on an own strategy that he has worked out that rely mostly on search engine traffic.

Personally I would probably use a mix of their methods when building an affiliate site.

James Martell actually had a few of his sites penalized by Google, which is the reason why you shouldn't rely on search engine traffic alone. However, I believe he said he was using some technique that he's not teaching in his book, and I haven't heard of any readers who've got penalized following his strategy. It's the linking part that you should be careful with. Don't ever crosslink sites that don't fit together, and you shouldn't have any problems.

You can view some video and listen to some audio on James's site for free that is really inspiring. Here's the link: http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/pop...ideo-files.html


Check them out. If you're planning to start a career as an affiliate marketer I can definately recommend these two books. James's book is a little pricy, but at least check out the clips!

Jakob

Jakob,

thanks for all the information, I appreciate the links and the names of the books. I think that this may be very good to read and learn from. If you have any addtional information that you can pass along please help. thanks

The Affiliate Masters Course: Widely Accepted as the modern affiliate Bible.

Download the Very Very Complete from start to finish course: It's Free.

http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/

This thing is a Huge pdf, you'll need acrobat reader.

14 Chapters: 207 Pages:

Don't Touch, lol, affiliate marketing, without First reading the AMC.

enjoy. and good luck.

MO. ps: what's the 'catch'? well, they push the sitesell products a bit, but it's not that much interruption, and clearly marked when you encounter it. Excellent Read.

Totally agree Madmeikal!

The Affiliate Masters Course is also a great book, and as you mentioned, it's free.

Jakob

Thank you guys, I just downloaded it and will have to give it a look at in my free time. I appreciate the help it makes a big difference when people are here to help other people succeed online, which helps them suceed in life. You guys are great thanks.

With all the information on the web, how do you determine which is the best information to read and where do you usually look for that information. I have found so many articles to read however I do not have enough time in a day to read them. What do you suggest?

lol, attagirl, Yeppers, there sure is a Ton o stuff out there to read, That's for sure.
It can Totally Over-whelm you, to the Point of non-productivity in fact.
Biggest problem I Found, was Not Finding reading material, but rather, finding Resources, that tell ya Which of the reading material is Worth Reading. Yes, there is a lot of Junk out there as well.

I'm sorry that I don't have a link or two for you right off, perhaps someone else here has a couple of good sites, but I'd suggest the following approach, if you've not yet done so.

Make a time-resource Sacrifice, as it were, (it'll pay off 10k fold), and do some searches for Forums on google. *Try overture for this as well*.

Look for 'advertising forums' and 'affiliate forums', that sorta thing.
Try and find a couple that are fairly large, and informative, and up to date.
Find One at Least, that You feel comfortable in, Join, and Ask Away...

Good Luck.

MO.

I agree with the above statements. There is way to much and most of it is useless. I like to evaluate and do research on many topics, but I think that I can determine if it is garbage early on in the reading. This is what helps me get through it quicker.

i read GoogleCash..

get inspired a lot..

www.googlecash.com

whowantsomecash... i have not heard of that, I will have to give it a try maybe I can find something very useful in it for me. what kinds of information do they provide. I will let you all know after I look.

if you are searching Affiliate marketing ebooks,you can go to Amazon.com and ClickBank Mall,or click here ,there are aslo something that all is about Affiliate marketing ebooks

Thanks for the information there is never enough for me to keep reading I have read so many and most are garbage. So I hope that these have some good useful information.

What other tools, and ebook can you recommend for us to use. I can use all the information and help that anyone will send my way.

It looks that there is so much information about that topic, its getting confusing for a newbie like me!
If there is more help for us newbies please post!
Thanx!
Nico

Do not let is confuse you as you will find out that if you take the time to check each one out and then let it sink in before moving onto the next one you will be much better off.

googlecash is good but you should use it to learn and not to try it

at least in the same way

the ebooks from mike filsaime are also good

but to learn more about marketing try to join a program and the groups promoting it... their foruns have a lot of info

also you can try the forum of Instant Buzz

yup.. 100% aggree..
it's the way of thinking that inspire me a lot, not the money I generates from reading that ebook.

Marshall's Definitive Guide on G00gle Adwords is also so much helpful!

also true

I'm not reading any books regarding affiliate marketing. Don't like those reading stuff.

and are you making money?

Yes, I'm making money.

what is money?


$10 per month...


$100 per month...


$1000 per month....


$100 even without work...

$500 even if you are in vacations...

More than $3k even I was in vacation.

Anyway, I'm not meant that we no need to read any books. Just myself hate to read some books sometime.

What I was trying to say to you is...

"those reading stuff" made me $500 even when I was on vacations