Passive Residual Income Using Affiliate Marketing

By Martin Laritz

Passive Residual Income is income that continues to be generated after your initial effort has been completed and continues to make you money with little effort to maintain it. Isn't this what all affiliate and internet marketers dream of? There are plenty of ways to passive residual income, some of which are easier than others.

One way to passive residual income is by letting other people do the work for you. An example of this is by referring people to affiliate networks. Once you refer people, you get a percentage of the commissions they earn. Some places offer up to 5% commissions for life, meaning they do all the work, and you make a small cut off of them. Five percent may not seem like much, but refer enough people, and you can make a real nice paycheck for only doing some small up front work.

Another way to passive residual income is allowing the search engines to work for you. Get some websites with good SERPs and allow search engines to send traffic to you. If the website is properly monetized, the visitors continuously come from the search engines, and you continuously make money. Only a minimal effort of link building is required to keep your place in the search engines and keep the money flowing into your pocket.

Passive residual income is not as easy as it sounds. There are few affiliate and internet marketers who are able to achieve a sustainable income by this method. That's not to say it cannot be done. It takes some work to set up, but with the approach, you can gain the passive residual income that will be enough to live off of.

The Conduit Method, an eBook from the Lazy Marketer, is an excellent read on how to build a passive residual income. Also, visit the Desk Coder website for more information on residual income.