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How Affiliates Make Money Blogging

Blogs, or weblogs, are one of the most effective affiliate marketing tools available. If you are a blogger or would like to become one, the following tips and advice can help you make the most of your affiliate blogging.

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So how do bloggers make money through affiliate marketing? By joining affiliate programs and adding links to merchant products and service, you can earn money every time a user buys something via your affiliate links. Sometimes affiliate programs pay a flat fee for each customer referral, but most offer some type of percentage of every successful sale. Payments can range from mere pennies per referral to over $100 for a single sale.

Many merchant and retailers want to increase their online sales and affiliate programs offer the perfect option for expanding their 

online audience, attracting new customers, and generating revenue. How do these programs work? When you join an affiliate program, you will be give a unique affiliate ID that will be used to identify the sales you have referred.  Your unique identifier will be embedded in the affiliate links you add to your blog.  Every time a user signs up for an offer or buys an item through your links, you will be credited.

Joining Affiliate Programs

Which affiliate programs should you join? With thousands to choose from, finding the programs that are right for your blog can be difficult. The best affiliate programs are those that offer products and services that your readers need or are interested in learning more about. By understanding what your readers want, you will be better able to choose the best affiliate programs and products.

Choose a Blogging Service

Once you have decided to become an affiliate blogger, you need to choose the right blogging tools for your needs. Some bloggers have had success with free blogs, but you should also consider purchasing your own domain name and paid Web hosting. Some services offer hosting starting at as little as $30 a year, which makes this a very affordable option for affiliate bloggers.

Typepad, WordPress and Blogger are some of the most popular options for many affiliate marketers. All three offer an option for free hosting, but you can also add your blog to your own website. Consider your needs as a blogger before choosing the option that is right for you.

Affiliate Blogging

In order to become a successful affiliate blogger, you need to learn a few important affiliate marketing techniques before you begin. Successful affiliate marketers always strive to match their offers to their topics. For example, if you are blogging about career advice, you should showcase career-related affiliate links. If you were to start a blog about the latest fashion trends, you would want to feature clothing and other fashion-items on your blog.

While some bloggers have success with banner ads, text links are usually the preferred choice. Add affiliate links to every relevant blog post, but always strive to integrate the link into your actual content. Product reviews, shopping guides, tutorials and other advice are great ways to prominently feature your affiliate links.

If you plan to monetize your site by becoming an affiliate blogger, always take that time to carefully plan your marketing strategy. Choose a niche topic for your blog and join top-notch affiliate programs. Whatever programs and products you choose to promote, always be sure to diversify your approach. Join at least two or three programs in order to ensure multiple streams of income and always be on the lookout for new ways to publicize and promote your affiliate blog.

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10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog

We've now looked at a number of popular affiliate programs for bloggers and today I’d like to finish off this series by giving a few tips that should help bloggers get the best results out of any affiliate program that they choose to run with.

1. Consider your Audience

It almost goes without saying – but it’s worth putting yourself in your readers shoes and consider what they might be looking for as they surf by your blog. Are they shopping for specific products? Might they be looking for related products or accessories? What would trigger them to purchase? Start with your reader in mind rather than the product. If you take this approach you could end up doing your reader a favor as well as making a few dollars on the side.

2. Genuine Recommendations and personal endorsements always work best

There are literally hundreds of thousands of products and services for you to choose from to recommend to your blog’s readers but making money from them is not as simple as randomly adding links to them from your blog. Your blog’s readers come back to your blog day after day because something about you resonates with them – they have at least some level of trust and respect for you and perhaps the quickest way to destroy this is to recommend that they buy something that you don’t fully believe will benefit them.

The best results I’ve had from affiliate programs are where I give an open and honest appraisal of the product – including both it’s strengths and weaknesses. The most successful affiliate program I’m involved with here at ProBlogger is Joel Comm’s e-book which I reviewed here. If you read the review you’ll see that I not only tell readers who I believe the book is for but I also mention those it is NOT for. In a sense I critique it. On a surface level one might think that this wasn’t a wise move and that I should have given a glowing review – however the sales that I’ve had through the program have proven otherwise. People want to know what they are buying first and even if they know a product has limitations they will buy it if it meets their particular need.

3. Link to Quality Products

We all like to make sure we’re buying the best products money can buy – your readers are no different to this and are more likely to make a purchase if you’ve found them the best product for them. Choose products and companies with good reputations and quality sales pages. There is nothing worse than giving a glowing review of a product only to send your reader to a page that looks cheap and nasty.

4. Contextual Deep Links work Best

When I started using the Amazon Associate Program I naively thought that all I had to do was put an Amazon banner ad (that linked to Amazon’s front page) at the top of my blog. I thought that my readers would see it and surf over to Amazon and buy up big – thereby making me a rich man. Nothing could have been further from reality – I was deluding myself.

I always says to bloggers that I’m consulting with that they should learn something from contextual advertising when it comes to affiliate programs. The secret of contextual ads like Adsense is that a reader is reading a post on a particular topic on your blog and when they see an advertisement for that same product they are more likely to click it than if they saw an ad for something else. The same is true for affiliate programs. A banner to a general page on every page on your site won’t be anywhere near as effective as multiple links throughout your blog that advertiser products that are relevant for readers reading particular parts of your blog.

So if you’re writing a blog about MP3 players and have a review for a particular product – the most effectively affiliate program that you could link to from within the content of that page would be one that links directly to a page selling that specific model of MP3 player. This is how I use the Amazon program today. It is more work than contextual advertising because you’re not just putting one piece of code into a template but rather need to place individual links on many pages – but I find that it’s been worth the effort.

5. Consider positioning of links

One of the things I go on and on about with Adsense optimization is the positioning of ads. I tell bloggers to position their ads in the hotspots on pages (like the top of a left hand side bar – or inside content – or at the end of posts above comments etc). The same principles are true for affiliate advertising.

6. Traffic levels are Important

While it’s not the only factor – traffic levels are obviously key when it comes to making money from almost any online activity. The more people that see your well placed, relevant and well designed affiliate links the more likely it is that one of them will make a purchase. So don’t just work on your links – work on building a readership. Not only this, consider how you might direct traffic on your blog toward pages where they are more likely to see your affiliate links.

7. Diversify without Clutter

Don’t put all your affiliate efforts into one basket. There are plenty of products out there to link to so there is no need to just work on one. At the same time you shouldn’t clutter your blog up with too many affiliate program links. If you do so you run the risk of diluting the effectiveness of your links and could disillusion your readership.

8. Be Transparent

Don’t try to fool your readers into clicking links that could make you money. While it may not always feasible to label all affiliate links I think some attempt should be made to let people know what type of link they are clicking on. I also think consistency is important with this so readers of your blog know what to expect. For example here at ProBlogger usually put a note beside or under affiliate links to simply let readers know that that is what they are. On my Digital Camera Blog I don’t do this because of the large number of such links make it clear by the text around the link that clicking on it will take them to some sort of shop or information where a purchase is possible (ie a link my say ‘buy the XXX product’ or ‘get the latest product on XXX’.

9. Combine with other Revenue Streams

Affiliate programs and advertising programs are not mutually exclusive things. I’ve come across a few people recently who have said they don’t want to do affiliate linking because it will take the focus off their Adsense ads. While there is potential for one to take the focus off the other – there is also real potential for both to work hand in hand as different readers will respond to different approaches. You should consider the impact that your affiliate links have on other revenue streams – but don’t let one stop the other.

10. Track results

Most affiliate programs have at least some type of tracking or statistics package which will allow you to watch which links are effective. Some of these packages are better than others but most will at least allow you to see what is selling and what isn’t. Watching your results can help you plan future affiliate efforts. Keep track of what positions for links work well, which products sell, what wording around links works well etc and use the information that you collect as you work plan future affiliate strategies.

Affiliate Programs :

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These days, it's remarkably easy to set up your own Web site. If you have a computer connected to the Internet, you can simply go to a site such as GeoCities or AOL and use their ready-made Web design templates to construct a simple personal page. These sites will give you a URL, store the content of your page and slap on some advertisements. Just like that, in an hour or two, your page is on the Web! ­

But what if you want to take your site to the next level? If you have a content-driven Web site, how can you make money off your traffic? If you are an online merchant, how can you get people to your site to buy your products? One popular option that serves both of these functions is an affiliate program. In this article, we'll examine affiliate programs to find out what they are, how they work, who they are for and how you can use them to benefit your Web site.

Affiliate Programs:

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This is how you build multi-streams of income. Start with one affiliate program. Advertise every link and tools provided. Sign up with another affiliate program. Why? It's to give your viewers more and different material. Imagine going to the same blog site and reading the same thing. You want something fresh. Plus you want your viewer and potential buyers to come back. If you have a web site. Then start a new one with different and fresh material. Go to www.trafficboosters.blogspot.com  for past and future post.

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That's only two of many links that I'm advertising. Your going to want to know what kind of audience you have. Meaning what what kind of blog/web site are you creating. After you know what kind of material you'd like to advertise. All you have to do is add links, video, gifs, and other advertising tools provided by Paper Street Cash.

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Introducing TrainPetDog.com’s Dog Training Affiliate Program Are You SICK and TIRED of Promoting a Pet Affiliate Program that Pays a Pittance in Commissions and has Poor Conversions? Are You FED UP with the low Earnings per Click that you earn from the Google Adsense ads and other contextual ads on your site? Are you FRUSTRATED With the Amount of Time That you are Devoting to your Dog Related Website, Without Earning Anything Substantial in Return? Then read on... (If you are already a member of our affiliate program, please click here to log in). From: Nancy Richards, TrainPetDog.com Dear Pet Website Owner, If you have a web site that is targeted towards Dogs or if you have a general pet or dog training related web site and want to earn a substantially higher income from the site than what you are doing now, then you've come to the right place... By joining TrainPetDog.com’s industry-leading pet affiliate program, you can earn a WHOPPING 80% COMMISSION when you promote any of our front-end digital information products on dog training! (And once you've joined, we'll show you how you can increase your commission rate to as much as 85% by taking a few simple steps!) And if that wasn't good enough, we pay you a 25% RECURRING monthly commission on all subsequent monthly payments made by any customers you've referred to us! All that you need to do to earn the recurring monthly commissions is to refer at least 1 NEW customer to us every month. What this means is that for our most popular training product - our Dog Lovers Membership Site (with more than 52,000 paid members) that sells for $37 - you will be earning an initial commission of $29.60 every time you refer a new customer to us. Plus, your customer will also receive a 30 day free trial of our Elite Dog Owner's Club, our monthly continuity program, as a free gift whenever she buys the Membership Site or whenever she buys any of our other front-end products. TrainPetDog.com's Elite Dog Owner's Club costs $37 per month after the 30 day free trial. If your customer decides to retain her membership to the Club after the 30 day free trial, you'll receive a residual commission of $9.25 per month for as long as the customer remains a member of our Club. All that you need to do to be eligible to receive the recurring commissions on the monthly fees paid by the customers you had referred to us in previous months is to continue to refer at least 1 NEW customer to us every month. There is no other dog training affiliate program that has such a high commission rate of 80% on the initial purchase and that offers a monthly recurring commission (we've checked). Most other dog training affiliate programs offer commissions in the range of 50 - 75% on the first purchase made by a customer with no monthly recurring commissions. Click here to join TrainPetDog.com's affiliate program. In addition to the 80% first-tier commission, you'll also earn a 5% second-tier commission from the sales generated by any affiliates who you have referred to us. Here is a summary of the products from which you can earn commissions with our affiliate program: Go to www.trafficboosters.blogspot.com for past and future post.

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