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I was thinking about how internet marketing changes over the years, from the days when it was as easy as magic to rank in google and make tons of money by posting some keyword rich content online. Today the game has changed a lot and what worked in the past is hard to be duplicated for today’s web.

If you go to Alexa.com and choose to see traffic information about facebook.com you will see that it has tripled it’s traffic in 2009, and it’s growing even more. this large number of visitors is so huge that today everybody is trying to market to them somehow.

So, with this continuous change of the internet, you have to know what works now in order to make money from your affiliate marketing business. here are some points you need to be aware of to make money in 2010:

1. Don’t choose the make money online niche as a start, as it’s the hardest niche to get into today, in addition to the growing competition, people are smart in this niche, they know what Adsense is and they will not click on it, they know what affiliate link is, and will not use it or will use their own to buy what you are promoting. On the other hand the Make money online market is very small compared to some huge low competition niches like weight loss, and working out.
2. Don’t limit yourself to one method of promotion, although search engine optimization is my favorite way of driving traffic, I get so much more traffic applying some non SEO techniques. Building a list is something that will change  the way you look at affiliate marketing forever, using social media and youtube is great and effective ways too.
3. Look for low hanging fruit, if you start a website today, it’s very important not to try to rank for hard keywords, even if you are not using SEO don’t go into high competition sources of traffic. You need to make longer research that will always result in discovering some sources of traffic to be used.
4. Competition Is not always bad, although I told you to avoid high competition, competition in a niche simply means that there is a big number of people who are making money from promoting products that relate to that niche. You need to dig into what those people are making and come with a better or similar system.

The last point is very important one, you can always make use of what your competitors are doing. Internet marketing is a continuous process of researching and testing.