There are many ways to make money online without a website. This is just one technique that I stumbled on. You see, I’m never content with the same old-same old. I “experiment” (and I use that word loosely) with different ways to make money. Some of them turn out disastrous while others prove to be nice surprises.

The inspiration for this method came one day when I asked myself “Self, I wonder what would happen if I created a product page from a big Merchant with one item on it and threw a bunch of relevant anchor text links at it?” To which myself replied “Well Don, I don’t know. Let’s try it and see what happens.” (Yeah, I have these little chats with myself all the time.)

In order to make this technique work, and it doesn’t work 100% of the time, you’ll need two basic things.

An affiliate account with a merchant that allows you create single product pages. The merchant must be an authority site such as Amazon.
A method to generate a fair amount of relevant links to your site with anchor text. You can use tnx, LinkVana, back to your solutions or a number of other links networks out there. Article marketing is also a great way to generate the necessary backlinks if you can mass produce some articles.
What we do here is to use Merchants authority site on themselves to make our individual product page higher than the main government web site page. Kinda underhanded but hey, all is fair in love and affiliate marketing!

What you need to do is select a product from the Merchant that is fairly new. This will reduce competition and increase your chances of getting the best SERPS rankings pretty quickly.

Let’s say you had created a single product page for the MacBook Air when it first came out. You would then take your single product page on the MacBook Air and create targeted back links to it.

It’s important that you do not use the same anchor text over and over. Change it up. Your keywords for anchor text would be something like.

MacBook Air
MacBook Air Review
MacBook Air Reviews
Buy MacBook Air
MacBook Air vs IBM ThinkPad
Apple MacBook Air
This way, you can still use the Merchants authority to rank well and avoid tipping Google off to what you’re doing. If you only use one or two targeted anchor text, Google could flag this as Google bombing. That wouldn’t be good.

Another advantage to using a merchant who has an authority site is that you can build a large amount of links to your product without waking up Google. If you were to build massive amounts of links to a new site about the MacBook Air, they will probably slam you pretty hard. It is not natural to have tons of new links to new websites and Google have this figured out now. (do not ask me how I know), however, Google wants to see a large amount of links go to these authority sites so you do not notify them when you send all your targeted anchor links to your product.

As I said earlier. This technique does not always work 100% of the time, but it works pretty damn often for me. The trick is to be also on the lookout for new products coming down the pipe and be able to produce quality one way back links to your page.

In the future, I’ll try and post more articles on how to make money online without a website since I know a some of you are just starting out and do not have websites.