Do You Want To Make Money Blogging And Selling Affiliate Products? Read My Important Three Tips

By: Emil Yau

Many people start blogging in order to make money. There are many ways to make money on the internet and niche blogging or affiliate blogging is one of them. The idea is that you find a niche to blog about, write some great content for your readers, and then monetize your blog utilizing adsense or providing affiliate links to affiliate products. Each time someone clicks on your affiliate link and buys a product you will make a commission.

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

For you affiliate bloggers, here are three tips that work for many people. There are many systems in place to do internet marketing but it all comes down to these practices.

What are these three tips?

1. Isolate each product with its own unique online presence.

That means at a minimum a unique blog post for each product. Depending on the product and niche you may want to dedicate an entire blog to the one product as well. It is best to have a site or at the very least a blog post focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

2. Include a useful freebie, such as a report or ebook. This will help you attain repeat traffic.

A good place to position these as at the top-left side of your page. If you think about it, people read left to right and top to bottom. So they will see your report. After they have your report, you can take advantage of the fact that many studies show that a sale is often made on the seventh contact versus the first contact. This free report allows you to recycle traffic!

You can place your ads in this freebie report as one way to recycle traffic. The other is to ask your prospects to join your mailing list to obtain the free report.

By asking for their email address, this means that you can always email them back with more information, useful blog posts, and products you are selling after they have left your site.

Besides building your list, you can include your advertisements in the report whether it is a link back to your website or the actual affiliate link in the report. The more often they read the report the more likely they will come back to visit their site. OR they may distribute the report to their friends in which case the report is now generating possible new traffic.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.

This is pretty much common sense. If you are selling gum, you have a higher chance selling to someone who is looking for gum than to someone who is looking for a computer monitor.

There are four great sources for this that should keep you busy: blog networking, forum networking, social networking networking, and Article Marketing.

With blog networking, you want to interact with blogs related to your niche. This involves something as little as commenting on blog posts to asking if you can submit an article to that blog as a guest author.

For forum networking, you can participate in discussions in the various forums related to your niche and participate.

With social networking sites, there are often groups created. Find a group related to your niche. Two examples would be myspace groups and facebook groups.

For article marketing, that involves writing useful articles related to your website and posting them in one or more of the many article directories with a link to your website in the author’s resource box.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic. The better targeted your traffic, the better your conversation rate.

All of these tactics are not difficult. They are simply time consuming. It requires a commitment of time and effort. However, when you do all of these tactics for a sustained period of time, you will find that you will be in a good position for creating a nice source of online income with blogging.

Best of luck!

Want to learn more about starting a blog? Come by Emil Yau’s site How Do You Start A Blog and watch his video as he creates and posts to a blog in less than 10 minutes right in front of your eyes.

Article Courtesy of iweberarticles

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