How To Make Money On Your Blog With Affiliate Marketing
The idea of making money through blogging sounds great right? You invest some time, energy and passion into writing high-quality blog posts and you can earn an income doing this all for free!
One of the ways websites and blog owners use to generate revenue from their blog is through affiliate marketing. If you are not familiar with affiliate marketing, here’s a short run through.
Affiliate marketing involves signing up to an affiliate program (One of the most popular one is Amazon Affiliate), you will then receive special links to promote through your blog and every time someone clicks those links to purchase a product, you will receive a percentage from sales which is called a commission.
If this sounds interesting to you, then keep reading to discover how you can start earning on your blog with affiliate marketing.
Set up your blog and add great content
The first thing to do is set up your blog. To do this is quite easy. You can find an article on that here or go to Google and search with “how to create a blog”. Having done that, you need to invest a couple of months into building great content and media following before proceeding to website monetization.
Find an affiliate program or network
When it comes to partnering with affiliates, you have two main choice. Either you sign up to become an affiliate for an individual company or sign up with an affiliate network. When you sign up with a individual company, you will be promoting that company’s product or services, but when you sign up to an affiliate network, you can become an affiliate for any company that uses that network.
Add affiliate links or banners to your site
Once approved as an affiliate for a particular company or network, you can then create affiliate links for your website. These links can be used in 3 main ways which include to replace current product links with the affiliate links, add more links to content or add affiliate banner ads to your site.
Affiliate programs have an affiliate dashboard where affiliates can grab links to use on their website. Most programs also have affiliate managers who can be contacted should there be any trouble with using links.
Your high traffic pages is another great place to add affiliate links. Look through your analytics to see the most viewed pages, then add a strong call to action on these pages.
Use review posts to promote affiliate products
One great way to drive up interest in your affiliate product is through review posts. Review posts are simply blog posts that explain more about a particular affiliate product, selling the benefits mostly and urging people to try it out. Some examples of these include “review of the best cameras for photographers” or “ review of the best weight loss pills in the market”.
Create an affiliate policy to be trusted
Many people ignore this, yet it is one of the most important aspects of affiliate marketing. It many not be as exciting as the other steps but of you ignore this, you might be setting yourself up for big trouble in the future.
All affiliate marketers are required to disclose all affiliate links according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). What this means is that if there are affiliate links on your site, you must not deceive your readers about it, but make them aware of this.
An affiliate policy is necessary for your site, as well as disclosing affiliate partnerships on pages with affiliate links. Nothing is more important than gaining the trust of your audience which this guarantees.
Conclusion
With this article, you are sure to have found how to use affiliate marketing to generate money through your blog. Remember, that this is just one way of many to make money with your blog and it’s much better when this one is combines with others.