Affiliate Marketing Another great way to monetize
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:18 am
Affiliate Marketing
Another great way to monetize your blog is through affiliate marketing. This means promoting other people’s products or services and getting a cut if they make a sale as a result.
There are loads of different affiliate programs out there – including belize telemarketing data Associates, which lets you get commission on a huge range of products on Amazon.
To start affiliate marketing:
Choose some of the products or services you already use and love. That could be Bluehost for web hosting (they have a great affiliate program), a camera you bought on Amazon, and QuickBooks software for doing your accounts.
Sign up for affiliate programs with these companies. To find the details, you can search on google for “Affiliate program” and the name of the company. Not all companies have affiliate programs, of course – but you might be surprised just how many do.
You’ll get a special unique affiliate link to use when promoting the product/service. You might also get access to images or product information that you can use on your blog, too.
Write a “Recommended Tools” (or books, software, etc) page for your site. Explain what you love about each service/product and link to it using your affiliate link.
Be honest when promoting products as an affiliate. Don’t recommend poor-quality products or ones that you have no experience of using. Readers won’t trust you a second time if they buy a shoddy product on your recommendation.
For lots more about affiliate marketing, check out my article on ways affiliate marketing can transform your blog (and side income).
Advertising
You’ve probably seen plenty of blogs that are supported by advertisements. These might appear in a sidebar or as sponsored posts.
Advertising can be a good way to support a site that gets a lot of traffic – but it’s not a good monetization strategy for new blogs, as it won’t bring in much money at all when you only have a few hundred or a few thousand monthly visitors.
Ads often pay “per click”, meaning you’ll get a small amount of money whenever someone clicks on the ad. The problem with this, especially for new blogs, is that it means you only make money when someone leaves your site.
If you have products or services of your own to sell, it probably makes more sense to promote those than to run ads.
If you do want to experiment with ads, however, check out these ten best blog advertising networks. You’ll also find an explanation there about why I don’t use blog ads here on RyRob.com. However, I’ll soon be experimenting with implementing an advertising network on a new food blog I’m working on called VeganTable.
Another great way to monetize your blog is through affiliate marketing. This means promoting other people’s products or services and getting a cut if they make a sale as a result.
There are loads of different affiliate programs out there – including belize telemarketing data Associates, which lets you get commission on a huge range of products on Amazon.
To start affiliate marketing:
Choose some of the products or services you already use and love. That could be Bluehost for web hosting (they have a great affiliate program), a camera you bought on Amazon, and QuickBooks software for doing your accounts.
Sign up for affiliate programs with these companies. To find the details, you can search on google for “Affiliate program” and the name of the company. Not all companies have affiliate programs, of course – but you might be surprised just how many do.
You’ll get a special unique affiliate link to use when promoting the product/service. You might also get access to images or product information that you can use on your blog, too.
Write a “Recommended Tools” (or books, software, etc) page for your site. Explain what you love about each service/product and link to it using your affiliate link.
Be honest when promoting products as an affiliate. Don’t recommend poor-quality products or ones that you have no experience of using. Readers won’t trust you a second time if they buy a shoddy product on your recommendation.
For lots more about affiliate marketing, check out my article on ways affiliate marketing can transform your blog (and side income).
Advertising
You’ve probably seen plenty of blogs that are supported by advertisements. These might appear in a sidebar or as sponsored posts.
Advertising can be a good way to support a site that gets a lot of traffic – but it’s not a good monetization strategy for new blogs, as it won’t bring in much money at all when you only have a few hundred or a few thousand monthly visitors.
Ads often pay “per click”, meaning you’ll get a small amount of money whenever someone clicks on the ad. The problem with this, especially for new blogs, is that it means you only make money when someone leaves your site.
If you have products or services of your own to sell, it probably makes more sense to promote those than to run ads.
If you do want to experiment with ads, however, check out these ten best blog advertising networks. You’ll also find an explanation there about why I don’t use blog ads here on RyRob.com. However, I’ll soon be experimenting with implementing an advertising network on a new food blog I’m working on called VeganTable.