(Making $500 to $1,000 a day from Amazon before the opportunity disappeared overnight)

Then I found a new love: Amazon Affiliate Marketing.

When I realized that Amazon offers internet marketers the chance to earn commissions by advertising Amazon products on their websites, I thought to myself, “Hmm, I could try that too!”

The basic idea with this is that you get a unique tracking link that links to any product sold on Amazon. If someone clicks on the link from your blog and goes back to Amazon and purchases the item, you’re credited with the sale.

It’s quite easy, and it sounded like a good way to make some extra cash. So I started affiliate marketing as an Amazon Associate.

When I started, I bought the programming script that can make tons of landing pages showing the products on Amazon with my affiliate links.

Then, I modified the script to increase its search engine optimization (SEO) performance and registered the free shortened domain. (I was using the **co.cc **short domain.)

At that time, **co.cc **was a very powerful shortened domain because of its SEO advantage. All web pages that had co.cc had a very high ranking in Google.

I made lots of money from Amazon easily. Most of my web pages got a lot of visits and lots of clicks. It was clicking-heaven for me at that time.

It was all unicorns and rainbows for a few months, until Google decided to switch things up in their SEO. Unfortunately, web pages with the co.cc short domain were weeded out.

All of my money-making systems became irrelevant… overnight!

Boy, that was hard for me!

At that point, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make as much money as I used to. I had to think of something else… and fast!

What did I do? Like every other smart internet marketer, I started researching the next possible thing I could make money from.

I learned that a lot of people were making money from CPA (cost per action) offers – and that was that.