The almost complete guide to affiliate marketing
I wrote a pretty popular post about paid posting. Now i wanted to extend that with affiliate marketing. I think it’s a natural progression because paid posting can only go take your blog monetization so far. After a certain point, it makes more sense to push affiliate links as opposed to taking a flat fee for writing a post. In the long run, you will make more money online by pushing affiliate links. I will try to keep this post up to date. If i spot new affiliate networks, i will be sure to add them into this post.
There are some blogs that try to make you believe that it is easy to be a successful affiliate marketer. Well let me break the news to you. It’s not. It’s actually really hard to make your visitors click and purchase something. I hate adsense, but i think you might end up making more with your blog via adsense then with affiliate links. With that said, let me try to write some positive words.
Although it is difficult, it can be done. I was fortunate enough to hit some affiliate pay dirt early on in my blogging career. I was able to push some hosting deals and i got lucky. I’ve learned that make money online blogs are not the best places to push affiliate links. It’s because most MMO blog readers are already signed up for such programs. Also, most MMO blog readers are cheap.
Affiliate programs work better on high traffic sites. I’m talking about sites that get thousands of hits a day. An idea site would be a “Deal” site that gets around 3 thousand hits a day. It’s a difficult niche to tap into, but if you do, you’ve hit pay dirt.
You can also try to set up review sites. If you constantly review new products, you are bound to get some action clicks. As your audience grows in trust, you can profit from your reviews. So get in the habit of including your affiliate links into all of your posts. With that said, let me list all of the affiliate programs i use.
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June 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hi,
Pass by to take a drop.
Just noticed your almost complete list of affiliate programs.
Great list. I’m also looking for affiliate programs to join. I will look at these programs one by one to see where I am interested to.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Nice article. I’m thinking of making money through affiliate program. This is really helpful
June 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
i need to win real money from my blog
thank you
June 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Great list of affiliate programs. I’ll have to check all of them out while I work towards getting 3,000 hits a day.
It was also cool looking at Angie too!
June 14th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
wow! very beautiful picture. is this the tomb raider girl? i forgot her name. she’s so beautiful.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
hi there. i’ve been reading thru your post. nice blog. you have a lot of good info here!
~maria
June 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Nice one noob!
Hey, I am also hosting a contest!
Check it out guys.
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June 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I believe something is wrong with your feed. Your posts are showing up very very late. Like this post still isn’t on my feed and it wasn’t even posted today…
June 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am
WoooooooooooT*
I could Fall in Love with a Blogger like her*
She is Gorgeous!! Far better looking than John Chow thass fer darn sure*
;PPP
June 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
in future.. i wanna learn something about affiliate prgram from u…
mind to exchange link wif me?
June 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
infinitewebprofit- thanks. affiliate links are the way to go. when ur site gets properly indexed, you’ll make some nice passive income if you start putting up affiliate links now. build for the future i say.
desmond- thanks desmond.
mohamed- ur welcome
catherine- yeah angie is pretty sweet. i need to work to get 3k hits a day too.
did you know- blasphemy. how do u now know angie jolie? yes she is tomb raider.
maria- thanks
jack- nice contest jack. i won!
jared stenzel- hmm. is the problem still occuring?
billywarhol- if angie was a blogger, she’d have more subscribers then techcrunch or gizmodo or engadget combined.
imdavidlee- thanks david. checked out your site, sure i’ll exchange links with ya. leave me a comment here. when u put mine up. then i’ll put urs up. cheers!
June 17th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Yeah, well it’s for every blog now. I first noticed it on yours. Must be some google problem.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:38 am
jared- yeah probably slow loading.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
maybe amazon the biggest affiliate, u don’t added it
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 am
m4stono- good point. how could i have forgotten. I don’t make money with them on this blog, but i’ve monetize with amazon on my other sites.
thanks for reminding me.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Cheers for that….
I have just signed up with one not on the list… http://www.maxbounty.com
Seems an interesting site mostly with pay per lead type affiliations.
Just thoguht you might be interested in having it on the list.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
recruitment nick- thanks for the input. i’m going to check it out and see. If i like the program, i’ll be sure to add it to the list. thanks for the heads up.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Very good listing. I only used 3 in the list to make money. I will try them slowly and see which one work out the best for me.
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