Promoting and Earning Money with Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs, when used properly, can be a huge money earner. However, promoting an affiliate can be difficult as well as uneffective. Don’t get frustrated. It can be difficult for a blogger to find the right affiliate and earn money with them. You don’t earn money for impressions or clicks, you usually have to get your visitors to do something, whether it’s to join a website, or purchase a product.
Selecting your Affiliates
The key to promoting an affiliate is to make it look like you aren’t. Writing about cats and dogs then promoting a diet pill is an obvious advertisement. That’s why the Text-Link-Ads affiliate program has been so successful with bloggers in the past. Since it is on the topic of blogging and earning money with your blog, it’s easy to promote and fit into content.
Affiliates that may be good for a blog like this one (blogs about blogging etc) would include ways to earn money with blogs, hosting services as well as website designs and themes.
Our latest affiliate we’ve been promoting is Domaining Manifesto, which is an ebook that teaches you everything you need to know about buying and selling domains. As well as other helpful tips for domains.
Promoting Your Affiliate
If your affiliate is on topic of your blog and website you can write an entire post about them. By having a great title and keywords in that post when people are interested in joining them they will go through you to join etc.
You can also use the PPC method to drive traffic to that post, which ZacJohnson has seemingly perfected. He has earned over 50,000$ just by using NeverblueAds. I have yet to grasp the PPC strategy, but you can definitely learn a few tips from him.
Creating Niche Blogs
By creating niche blogs for your affiliates that you want to promote should make it easier to convert. On Its All Free Online, my freebie site, I promote loads of free offers that I find all over the internet. Can you tell which are freebies and which are affiliates?
We run banner ads on the sidebar that convert with by visitors entering their email or zip codes on the landing page. Each convert is worth about 1-2$.
I am also in the market to set up a few recipes sites where I could promote healthy affiliates as well as other recipe sites and recipe books. There is life without Adsense.
If All Else Fails…
Refer yourself. By referring myself to Hostmonster we got about 90$ back I believe (it was a long time ago). There are tons of free trial offers out there that you can participate in, then even blog of experience if you want. NeverblueAds is full of free trial offers that you can refer yourself to and earn money. Some as high as 20$+. Just remember to cancel before the free trial expires.
Other websites like TreasureTrooper and CashCrate pay you to do the same thing, but they take a cut.
I think this years blogging resolution for many is to cut out the middleman. It has been ours.
6 Responses to “Promoting and Earning Money with Affiliate Programs”
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January 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Affiliate marketing is very powerful and a great way to generate an extra side income. I am hoping myself to make it more of a primary source of income by the end of this year, but I make a couple thousand a month right now doing it in my spare time so I can’t complain. I never heard of neverblueads but I will checkout their program.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Thanks Matthew, I’m hoping to do some great stuff with neverblueAds. I’ll let you know how it goes.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
make sure to let me in on your secrets :-p
January 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’ve been using amazon affiliates, it’s working so far, and I’m sure it will blossom the more I do it
January 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
yeah thats good, ive made about 4$ from them so far lol… but i keep on promoting.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:13 am
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