Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Most affiliate and CPA networks are legit in that they do pay if you’ve earned money. And most will safeguard your SSN, just like any other employer. But there are a few that will look OK, will pay its affiliates, but will also sell SSN’s to criminals on the side.
SO, making money online is great. THERE IS NO GRIND! NO COMMUTE! NO BOSS! NO CUBICLE! Plus people make money online all the time.
So if one tries to do that, how can he protect himself from SSN/credit fraud?
P.S. DON’T say “get a real job”, because working online is in many respects BETTER than a real job, if you know what you’re doing.

Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.
There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.
Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.
Commissions are often a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion.
Conversions are generally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that enables the advertiser to track where conversions come from (usually by cookies). Other times an advertiser might give a publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps to track conversions.

Well recently ive been unemployed, and i’m looking for ways to make enough money online to pay my bills. I don’t need much around 20-25 dollars every day for 7 days a weak. I don’t mind putting in 4-6 hours a day to reach this. And for the ones that say it’s impossible, textbroker.com and slicethepie.com have already made me around 20 dollars a day, although it takes around 10-11 hours of work.
Any way i have been considering starting a blog or something, the problem is i don’t really know where to start.
the niche that i enjoy, since i know i would have to write about something that i enjoy
Gaming ( mainly MMORPGs and such )
And Computer support. I enjoy helping people fix a computer problem and so on
The other would be just off the wall stuff like geekologie.com
The thing with computer repair is i have many year experience in it, it’s just finding a job around my home town is almost impossible in this field.
Okay, so i’m not sure how to focus a blog on computer repair, or mmorpgs. The only ideas i can come up with are for a computer repair it would have to be almost like a forum, you ask a question i give you answers but those are a dime a dozen right now. Mmorpgs i can only think of doing websites similar to onrpg.com or mmohut.com but again thats not really a blog. So i don’t really know how to do a blog about the subjects.
Also due to my financial situation right now it would be best if i didnt’ have to purchase a web domain or hosting as right now i don’t have the money. Of course i wouldn’t mind using a place like weebly.com and starting the blog there, and when i get the moeny moving it to my own domain. And just posting ont he weebly site where the new site is located. But any way, i’m wanting to start building a residual income. I don’t care if it’s starting at 10-20 dollars a month, i can learn to make it grow and multiply. And as for the people who like to say it’s impossible shut up i’ve been making money online, albeit the hard way, i’ve done it.

Well, my way of newbies making money online is paid forum posting.
The problem with paid forum posting is where to find work! You make a short post, and get paid. It is pretty easy work, so it’s hard to find. Fortunately, I have a website where you can get paid to post on forums. Forums pay my website
to get posts, and I have clients like you post. The higher quality your posts are the more you get paid.
You are ranked based on your posts. The lowest rank gets $0.05 per post, and the highest rank gets between $0.15 and $0.20 per post. All payouts are by Paypal within 24hours. Our website tracks your posts AUTOMATICALLY! When
you accept a job you register on the forum and input your username into the site. We automatically check the username for posts and credit you money instantly.
It is an easy way to make between $5 and $7 an hour, and you will never run out of work. For more information checkout the link
http://bit.ly/l7tCcL

I have looked endlessly.
I want an option to do some work online for just a couple of hours a day, i dont need to earn a huge amount just some extra cash for of the some things i want like a holiday or a new phone. I have found a few ways but to be honest i cant be bothered spending 30 minutes on a boring survey for just 50p.
The other condition is im in the UK so finding sites is a bit more difficult as alot only offer US residents or pay in dollars which isnt too much of a problem but i would prefer if it was a straight UK site.
SO, what ways are there to make money online? I was thinking about making a site with affiliate programs+ adverts etc.
What I want to know is what YOU have already tried and failed/suceeded in. I dont mind spening time making something like a website as i have the patience with more design work unlike surveys.

Before i start, please give this question some thought to what it is i want (best answer will be rewarded)
I want some good business ideas for making money online with out relying on search engines and affiliates in the future!
I am thinking on a large scale and of course over many years and a lot of time and money spent to get this really big.
What i mean is:
Relying on search engines and affiliate programs at first to grow the business of course. But I don’t want to rely on any affiliate programs like AdSense for my income nor the search engines forever, i want to be able to forget about them and have a online business that stands on its own 2 feet.
Some might say search engines with PPC, they are good, but this is not what i want to start, the competition is at the top.
Having my own PPC ads is something worth having a look at, like Facebook, it is not a search engine, but they do have PPC ads and Facebook don’t need search engines for users or any affiliates for their income.
So any ideas? even if they take a long time to get established, I am not looking to make any quick money or any decent money for few years, I am in it for the long run.
Thanks for reading my long winded question.