One of the easiest and most pain-free methods of earning money is when you get an affiliate fee. The first type of affiliate fee is where you earn money when visitors to your website click on a link or advert and buy a product. So what’s the catch this type of passive income? Well normally very few will click on your link/advert and even fewer will buy anything, so it’s a numbers game the more visitors you get the higher the probability someone will make a purchase.

The second type is where you earn a fee when somebody becomes a member of another website using your affiliate link, this is potentially more profitable as you usually get a cut of everything they spend and for how ever long they stay a member.

So what’s the catch? Well the catch is that it’s hard to find good affiliates at least 95% remain inactive free members, I cannot criticise these people because I’ve done it a many times myself, joined some website and never returned , never mind upgraded.

However when you do get a good affiliate it is marvelous to know that someone out there is regularly sending you a fee.

So all in all it’s a numbers game, the more targeted visitors you have the more chances you have to earn affiliate fees.

And one final bugbear “thresholds” many websites will only pay you when your fees reach a threshold, I much prefer the sites that pay monthly via PayPal however small the amount!

All my affiliate links are here http://www.makemoneytips.org/

Since I wrote this I have a new active affiliate here with NeoBux and earned $5 and reached my threshold with eBate.com which has cheered me up!

And now I have a new upgraded member at ClixSense which earns me $2, plus 1cent every time he clicks. It’s funny since writing this post I’ve had a stream of mini-successes. I’ll let you know know when I get my first super-affiliate (an incredibly motivated affiliate who signs up many other people)