If you want to make money online, promoting books is one way to do it. Here are some tips on how you can accomplish that.

There are plenty of ways to make money online. One of them involves becoming an affiliate of a certain merchant and then promoting their products to your website visitors. While there are many products that are selling well online, books are one of the greatest examples. In fact, plenty of people buy books on the internet, such as romance novels, which has even made some physical book sellers go out of business as many of their customers were finding that they can get better deals on books online. If you would like a piece of the pie from the billion dollar industry that is online book sales, then you can do it even if you never wrote a book yourself and don't intend to. Here is how to do it:

-- Choose Your Niche

It is much easier to focus on one specific genre of books, such as erotic eBooks, business books or adventure stories, rather than selling dozens of different kinds of books. Therefore, selecting a specific niche would be important before you start building your website.

-- Sign Up for an Affiliate Program

There are a few affiliate programs available that will let you promote books. If you want to sell physical books that are shipped to the customer, then the Amazon Associates program would be great. If you want to sell electronic books, there are a few dozens of affiliate programs that you can join. The most popular one is ClickBank, however you should know they are focused more on products which are informational in nature, such as online business guides.

-- Set Up Your Website

There are many types of website models that you can use when promoting books online. However, the review site model works best. You can make specific pages for certain books that you're promoting and then write some information and a review about them. It is also a good idea to let your site visitors leave their ratings and reviews of the book as well. There are many people who buy romance books online, for example and they could leave some comments on some romance books they've read recently. This will be quite useful for you, as it will generate some free content for your site.

-- Promote Your Website

There are many ways to promote a website on the internet and drive some traffic to it. You can, for example, try to make it go up the rankings in Google and Bing by using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Or you could use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to draw some visitors to it.