Internet income streams are how you build your online business. Amazon has an affiliate program that will allow you to make money with your Intuit/ Homestead Site. All you have to do is sign up for the companies associate program  and you will be set to start getting the products on your site.

This particular affiliate program gives you a commission on everything that someone buys from their website if they passed through your affiliate link to get to the products. There are a number of widgets, links and banners that can be placed on your Homestead Sitebuilder pages very easily.

Steps for Creating Product Displays From Amazon.com

1. Choose the style banner, carousel, widget or text link that you want to use

2. Enter into the search box a topic for the items you want to display on your website

3. Choose what products you want to try and sell

4. Copy and paste the final HTML code into the sitebuilder page on your Intuit website

Adding Amazon Products to a Homestead Website

All you have to do is click on the “Add HTML” icon in the sitebuilder and enter the code for the items you selected at Amazon to display on your website in the properties editor to the right.

As an example of one of the optional display items, the carousel above is from the Amazon website. I personally selected what I wanted to be in the display. I will only make money if someone clicks a selection and then purchases something from the Amazon site.

Through the years I have benefited from the Amazon Associates program. I originally learned how to make money using Adsense and then my second income stream was the Amazon Affiliate program. Today I have over twenty different income streams online. The more income streams you can get built and the faster you can drive traffic to your Intuit/Homestead website, the more money you will make online.

You will have to make sure that your advertisements are placed in appropriate places though. If you do not study the most affective ways to utilize your materials for generating money, then you will make less. This is not a chance game. Making revenue with an Internet site takes strategic planning.

Internet marketers are serious enough about what they are doing to make changes to web pages in attempts to see what will yield the most money As they monitor the results of their efforts very closely, they discover what is and is not working.

Of the two services that I mentioned, Adsense will put money in your account every time someone clicks on a text ad or banner.

With the other company, Commission Junction’s affiliates generally require a purchase or some form of action. Just having a visitor click on a banner will not yield you an income deposit into your account.

Both of these recommended services for making money will not send you a check until you have reached a minimum amount. The last time I looked one hundred dollars was the requirement that you had to meet before Adsense and Commission Junction would release funds.

Adsense was the first affiliate program that I joined several years ago and has become the one that produces the steadiest income of all of my revenue producing websites. After some testing, I learned where the best places were to put the advertisement on my web pages. I have several sites that I make money with using Google’s program, but one that out performs all of them. It is a Homestead website that the average click through rate consistently stays above fourteen percent. That is huge in comparison to other sites that fluctuate from two to seven percent.

How to add ads to a Homestead website
The Homestead website builder makes placing Adsense on web pages really simple. All you have to do is get the code from the affiliate program for the ad that you created and place it inside an HTML box. You do this by clicking on the HTML icon in the Site Builder program and entering the code by selecting an option in the properties editor to the right. Then like every thing else in the Site Builder, just point to the box, left click to grab it then place it where ever you choose.

The hottest spot for my most successful website is outlined in green on the Adsense heat map. The map shows the best places to put the advertisements on your web pages. The darkest shades of orange indicate the hottest spots.

If you notice the green lines I added encompass three of the suggested best places to have Adsense on your SiteBuilder pages. On my most successful site I have two advertisements stacked on top of each other that are 336 x 280. They are both text ads.

The side by side diagram, with the green lines, shows my second choice for good performing positions that generate many click throughs on my Homestead web pages. Both of those sizes are 336 x 280 as well.

The third place that I like to put Adsense ads is just below the content on the web page.

When I was testing to find the best place for Adsense on my Homestead pages, it took several different designs before I hit a prosperous layout. This may be the case with your design as well. Keep testing until you have success.

There are several other factors that I believe have contributed to the fourteen percent average click through rate that I consistently enjoy from my Homestead site.

1) I use more text ads than image.
2) The color of the text blends with the layout of the web page design.
3) There are no borders around the Adsense advertisements.
4) I write loads of content that is properly optimized. Lear more about this by getting the free Homestead SEO ebook.

By doing a quick search on Google you can find loads of free information about where the best place is to put Adsense on your Homestead web pages. One thing that I have discovered is that this is a program where the revenue builds slowly, but remains consistent. If I were you, I would design a page that can be replicated with every article you write so your most prosperous web page design can be duplicated with ease. Once the advertisements are in place on the page template, it’s easy to increase your revenue as you add optimized content to your site.

How to Succeed With Adsense
There are three keys to making money with Adsense.
In order to succeed you must be persistent,
have patients and monitor your web page performance.

There are three keys to making money with Adsense. In order to succeed you must be persistent, have patients and monitor your web page performance. So, let’s just call this the three “Ps” of how to make money with a Homestead website with this affiliate program.

Choose a Good Niche

You will have to do your research because some Internet marketers have saturated some niches so that you will never rank on the first page of Google. Markets such as real estate, the medical field and insurance are filled with online experts making money with Adsense.

In order to succeed with Adsense on a Homestead website you need a decent paying niche. If you can find a specialized niche that pays an average of fifty cents per click, this will help contribute to you being motivated to keep working the affiliate program. Create an Adwords account and use the keyword selector tool to help determine if it will be a good subject to write content about. You will be able to get an idea of how well your choice niche pays per click and how much traffic there is in that market. If you see that the people creating the advertisements are paying over $4.00 per click, for various keyword phrases, then you probably have a good paying niche.

How to be successful using Adsense with a Homestead website, the three “Ps.”

Persistence
You must continue to learn about how to get top rankings with the search engines because without traffic, you will not get any clicks. If you haven’t gotten the free Homestead Website SEO eBook yet, I would encourage you to download it now. You must learn how to get to the top. This is going to be largely dependent upon the amount of content that you write and the keyword phrases that you focus on. Be persistent in learning about doing effective keyword research and writing optimized content. Another good “p” word is passionate. Be passionate enough to publish an article a day on subjects related to your website niche. Place a few Adsense advertisements on your article pages. The bottom line is don’t give up! In time you will reap a harvest from all of the sowing that you are doing on the Internet if you have chosen a good niche.

Patients
It may not seem like you’re making much in the beginning. As you continue to learn about how to make more money with Adsense and continue to put the advertisements on your website, your income will steadily increase. Remember, an article a day is what it is going to take to see an increase. Listen, once you’re reeling in the passive income and enjoying the fruits of your labor, life will be good. The people who are making a couple of hundred dollars a day off of the Google affiliate program had to put in some serious time publishing content and learning how to make more money. Once the profits begin to pour in-they will continue to do so, even without you doing anything.

Performance
In your main Homestead website account you can check the statistics of your web pages. The ones that are getting the most traffic should be monetized the best. You will know which pages to focus on the most by checking the performance of your site. In the Google Analytics program there is an awesome feature that will show you which pages that your ads are getting clicked on. Certain keyword phrases will make more money than others. If you can sort out which pages are making the most per click, then you can try to push those higher on the results pages of the search engines.

A well- known Internet marketer encouraged me about two years ago when I was complaining about not making hardly any money. They said: “Jordy don’t give up, eventually you will start making decent money with Adsense.” Because of their reputation, I stuck with it. I am so glad that I did because the passive income is starting to pour in form having Adsense on my Homestead websites and blogs that I operate. The income stream is only working because of the amount of optimized content that I have consistently published on a daily basis.

It’s been suggested that you should try to discover keyword phrases that are paying fifty cents or more and expand on them. This is where the monitoring of the performance comes in. That’s the three Ps of how you can succeed with Adsense on a Homestead website. With persistence, patience and by monitoring your web pages performance you are certain to enjoy profits if your niche of choice is not fiercely competitive.

If you are interested in making money online with your Homestead website, but you do not have a product to sell, you can find other peoples products to promote by looking at the bottom of their website pages. This is usually the area where you will see the words, “affiliate.” Basically, you have to fill out an information form application and then wait to be approved by the company in order to be able to sell their products.

If you want to become an affiliate for some company, I suggest that you stick with products and services that are related to your website niche. If your website is about building model air plans, then look for companies that sell those items and sign-up to be a sales affiliate for them. It makes no sense at all to try and sell horse riding items on a guitar website. People will find your website because they are interested in your niche. So, sell them products that are related to what they were looking for when they found you.

As an example, one of the programs that I am associated with is Aweber. I have been making money online with them for a couple of years now through one of my Homestead websites. The companies’ products are great for automating your email service and for selling products. I am a sales associate with them because my niche is building websites and Internet marketing. Email marketing fits perfect with what I my website is about. I use the product and believe in what I am selling. Every time someone signs up for membership and continues to use the program, I will get a commission off of the sale.

You should never have to pay anyone to sell their products. Good affiliate companies will structure their sales association in such a way that the affiliate will not have to pay anything to become a sales person.

Popular Affiliate Programs

1) Amazon
2) Google Adsense
3) Commission Junction
4) Clickbank
5) Kontera
6) Linkshare
7) As Seen On TV

Every company has its own set of parameters. Something to be aware of is most of the revenue generating opportunities will have minimum amounts of sales that you must reach before you receive a pay check.

For example: Commission Junction requires that their affiliates must have $100 in sales before they will receive a check.

Building Homestead websites is fun and if you work the system well, you can generate enough money to pay for your website hosting. Making money in this manner requires that you have targeted traffic. The larger the volume of visitors is coming to your Intuit/Homestead website the more money you will make. This of course is totally dependent upon how well you structure the affiliate sales banners and text links on your pages. Your website design will play an important part in the process of making money with affiliate programs.