Jun 11 2008
Can I sell affiliate products from a blog?
“I have a blog and wonder if I can use it to sell and make money with affiliate programs. How can I do it”?
That is the question I recently received and I wanted to attempt to answer it as best I can.
Yes you can sell from your blog, but first you must consider what the main subject matter of your blog is. Does it already have incoming traffic? Do you already have subscribers to your RSS feed?
If the answer is yes to those questions, then by all means just go find a good affiliate program like the Amazon Associates Program and sign up. Then load some affiliate widgets on the side bar of the blog and see how it goes. Also, make some reviews of certain products within the article content area, and load in the affiliate links within the context of the articles. If you already have the traffic, then the sales will follow. You may have to test different ways to present the products to get the highest success rate.
Also, sign up for Google Adsense. Place the code on the blogger, and use the large rectangle as it seems to be the most well clicked in my expereince.
There are 2 examples of ways an established blog can make some money. But, if the blog does not have existing traffic, then I recommend that you first build content, traffic and subscribers before adding the affiliate links.
The exception is if you have a blog about sports and sports related products already. By all means place articles about the sports stuff you prefer and install the contextual ads within the article content. The content and affiliate products may actually help get the blog more traffic through the content indexing in search.
Some really good affiliate networks provide content articles for products that affiliates can use in their blogs and websites. I do not recommend using only these pre-written articles for your content. Always publish a good mix of your own original content with the articles written by affiliate program managers or company writers.
Keep your blog fresh every day and eventually it will begin to find it’s own unique traffic and then if the affiliate products you offer are within the context of the unique content, you will very likely sell and make money.
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