Phillip van Coller of South Africa recently launched a new site, the affiliate lounge which clear explains good solutions to making money online utilizing affiliate programs and social networking sites.

The affiliate lounge offers everything you need to start making money using affiliate programs. This includes a FREE HOSTING service which offers 5 GB  of free space, no forced adds, and 200 GB of bandwidth.  It’s hard to believe that this would be free.  However, he later mentioned to his readers that this company had poor service and did force ads on their site.  What do you expect for free? Philip was very honest and upfront about his experiences with them and warned people once he knew about the poor service with this company.
He also offers a FREE KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL which can be used for SEO marketing and site promotion.

He talks about promoting your site on social networks such as Digg and StumbleUpon.  He says that StumbleUpon is better for generating traffic than Digg which agree with 100%, but he also says that they won’t bring 40,000 users to your site in a day, however my GPS post was Stumbled by the guy who runs SeedsForWealth and for some reason, it did actually bring 42,000 people to my site in day.  I still want to know the trick that he used to do this so effectively.  I would suggest joining the StumbleUpon group over at BlogCatalog and posting a message asking them to stumble any interesting new posts that you may have and it will be sure to improve your the attention StumbleUpon posting attracts.

He also discusses other SEO tactics, how to promote your site on social networks, and different ideas for making the most of your affiliate programs.  I think that he has some great ideas and has lots of potential for being the next John Chow.