Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers

There are many different ways to make money online, but today I want to talk about affiliate marketing. Some methods of making money are very consistant but pay out in smaller amounts over time. I would place Adsense and Survey taking in this category. Unless you have a very high traffic site, it will take you time to make with Adsense as only a certain percentage of your visitors will view your Google ads and actually look further into them. Surveys build up over time and although they may pay smaller amounts it is consistant from good survey sites such as Clearview Surveys (even if you don't qualify for the whole survey, they pay a small amount- I wish other survey sites would take note and do the same). Anyway, affiliate marketing is what is catching more of my interest these days, particularly for bloggers.

First let's look at the money you can make. WIth one sale of a product you are advertising you can make anywhere from about $15.00 - $30.00 on average. Of course, there are higher paying and lower paying products. So even for bloggers who don't have a huge amount of traffic yet, with the right products, you may make quite a lot of money from posting ads or links on your site. One thing is important to remember, only pick products that you, yourself have tried and liked or that have a good reputation backing them. After all, your readers are ultimately what will make you successful, you don't want to sell them something you don't believe in. Stay away from get rich quick affiliate marketing schemes. These may be enticing but be realistic, these schemes end up bilking money from people. Only one percent of people (the top founders) make any real money the rest spend money trying to get other people to buy it so they can get their "investment" back. Avoid get rich quick schemes at all costs.

Where can you find legitimate and good products or services to recommend on your site? There are several places:

http://www.paydotcom.com/

http://www.commissionjunction.com/

http://www.fluxads.com/


Or if you are particularly impressed with a product that you have used, look at the home page for the product. Usually at the bottom there will be a link that says "Affiliates". The link will tell you how you can become an affiliate. These are the best products and services to suggest to your audience because you have had success with them and can, in good faith recommend them.

An example of two of the products that I have had personal success with and highly recommend are:

www.shadowshopper.com/index.cfm?adid=16958

www.paydotcom.com/r/40669/greatb/2997784

You will find the ones you can recommend in the process of developing your blog.