Making money with an affiliate program is easy but it does take time. You can look at this as a form of passive income and should be included with other passive streams of income like writing for eHow. You will not make much money if you don’t let people know about your affiliate program. Companies benefit greatly by offering people like you and me a way to make money by promoting their products. Amazon, eBay and many other businesses offer an affiliate program because it is an effective way to get their products noticed which means more sales. This could be a great way to make money from home.
Here is a Step by Step Instructions

Step 1
Promote your affiliate program by writing articles on the topic. For example, I am an affiliate for several retailers that sell large size women's shoes. I write articles talking about how hard it is to find my size, which is a 13, and tell other women how to find cute, stylish, large size ladies shoes and I include links to my affiliates. When they click on the link and make a purchase, I make a percentage of each sell.

Step 2
Make a niche blog. Writing a blog about a particular niche is a great way to make money with affiliate links. You will make more with this blog by writing on a regular basis since this will allow Google search to crawl your page and keep it indexed.

Step 3
Make use of your resource section in your eHow articles. Add a few affiliate links to related topics. You could not only be making money from your eHow article but also your affiliate marketing program.