With the abundance of freelance scams, people who try to pitch a job to a person who has no know how or experience in the job are not helping either the job, or the person or the entire concept of freelancing at all. Over the past few years I have read many advertisements that offer genuine jobs, but the sales pitch is so fierce that the person thinks that this is the simplest job in the world, when it's not and this gives a bad name to the job as well work at home or freelancing as a whole.  One recent ad that I had seen that seemed guily of this was Affiliate Marketing. 

 Affiliate Marketing is an umbrella term to you selling any products and services on your website on a commission basis. There are several rules and regulations and requirements of various Affiliate marketing programs, and only if you adhere to them will you get into a affiliate marketing program which will get you any kind of money. 

Firstly, you would require a thorough knowledge of how the Internet works and how it changed since the past few decades. You would also require a website, or at least a landing page, where the user who clicks on your website or article is taken to, so that they can further complete the process by completing whatever point of action that is required by the affiliate marketing program.

To use Affiliate Marketing to its full potential, you would need to have at least basic web designing knowledge and a thorough knowledge of how the Internet works, how to get traffic onto your site, what profiles you would need to make your affiliate marketing site different from the countless others that are existent for the same product. Also, you should know the best associate and affiliate marketing services and know how to deal with them, so that your affiliate marketing website is up and running soon.

Affiliate Marketing is not your two month ticket of work to a lifelong of income. The money that you make from affiliate marketing depends on what  sort of traffic you have for your site, and what niche you website is all about, and whether you have the products that might interest that particular target market.

Affiliate marketing is not residual income, or income while you sleep. True, people make their websites only once and put on the posters and links into the site only once, but however, the method that they use to drive traffic to the website is different and varied. Therefore, the income from affiliate marketing can skyrocket one month and be nothing the next month, simply because the idea used last time was great and the one used this time was not so great.

 If you have a sound knowledge of web development, and if you are actually interested in discovering all the possibilities of the Internet, it would be a good option for you. 

In conclusion, if any company is selling you dreams that with affiliate marketing you would be in the Bahamas within two weeks, or is basically selling you an online MLM, be ware