Comments on: 10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog

By: Do You Do Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog? [POLL]

Do You Do Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog? [POLL] — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:45:45 +0000

[...] 10 Tips for Using Affiliate Marketing on Blogs [...]

By: dom taylor

dom taylor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:30:19 +0000

definitely some good advice from the OP and the comments, perhaps one thing i have been guilty of in the past is trying to sign up to too many affiliate programs and littering my sites with banners and links. Will make a concerted effort to change this and just go for one or two affiliates.

many thanks

By: 6 More Tips for Affiliate Marketing on Blogs

6 More Tips for Affiliate Marketing on Blogs — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:01:39 +0000

[...] Almost four years ago I wrote a post here on ProBlogger with 10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog. [...]

By: PraShawn

PraShawn — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:52:58 +0000

Great post, I think following these steps you can not go wrong. These steps are very clear I will try it my self. I think building traffic is the hardest part. I think selling other peoples products are rewarding and the big money is where the affiliate products are sold.

By: Paramendra Bhagat

Paramendra Bhagat — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:04:19 +0000

Amazon is a good one, especially the one with the search box.

By: CNC Machine Shop

CNC Machine Shop — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:37:11 +0000

Great list. In my personal experience, number 8 has been the best of all. When I began telling my visitors about my affiliations and included a little explanation that the small change I make helps to support my site, conversions increased 3 times.

By: Louis

Louis — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:03 +0000

My tip would be pick out a high dollar affiliate program and work it hard before going to the next.

By: More Full Time Bloggers than Computer Programers? - Thoughts on Making Money Blogging

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:24 +0000

[...] course there is also the affiliate/commission type model that many bloggers also do quite well from but a trend I’ve been noticing for a year or so [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:20:06 +0000

Excellent post! One method I’ve found is trying to find other affiliate programs (other than just Amazon) that would be of specific interest to my readers; especially links that provide some kind of content for the audience. One especially good converting program was a program from http://otrcat.com/idevaffiliate/ which has a kind of ‘widget’ that plays classic recordings, but converts if people purchase from the website.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:48:23 +0000

you need people to visit your site to make money with affiliate you could have the best site out there but if you not got many visitors to your site your not going to make any money i’ve try different ways to get people to vistit me site in 6 months I’ve made $22.56 and i’m still working at it.thank you for all your post I enjoy reading them as it all help me
so a big thank you.

By: send flowers to Moscow

send flowers to Moscow — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:05:24 +0000

I definitely agree with Darren about keeping affiliate links “contextual” – it is possible to build keyword links with Amazon to show links that it thinks are relevant – to do this dynamically you could pass the keywords into the appropriate part of the affiliate link. In WordPress this could be done with custom fields, although I’m not too sure how effective it would be.

By: PMF

PMF — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:06:01 +0000

It seems so much easier and natural for a visitor to click an adsense ad then to actually buy something.. I do both Adsense and Amazon, i get a few adsense clicks, but no amazon sales at all.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:45:04 +0000

Several people have mentioned that traffic is key. On some level this is true, but I urge people to be mindful of quality also. There are lots of blogs whose sole agenda seems to be hawking products without providing sincere content. This is a major turn off.

By: Frank Wong

Frank Wong — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:23:05 +0000

Thanks for great article above.

I just want to know how you set up for 125×125 image adsense ads at your widget and I also want to know if the quantity for ad content is already more than ten. Is it still ok to google?

Thanks.

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:22:40 +0000

Traffic is the key, buy you can do good conversions with low traffic to. Affiliate marketing is a skill which develops with time, practice, patience and work.

By: Mamashares

Mamashares — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Thanks so much for your tips. In creating my parenting site I had so many ideas and wanted to incorporate them all, but it made for a confusing site.

I am still trying to pull it back and fit it into a smaller niche, although it does involve so many subjects. I also use a number of different affiliate programs in the hopes that all my visitors will act upon at least one. It’s definitely a work in progress and I am working on adding content and positioning my affiliates.

By: kunal

kunal — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:52:36 +0000

Can you recommend any tools to track affiliate sales? Thanks.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:12:50 +0000

I’ve never tried affiliate program, but now I think I can give it a shot, thanks for the tips.

By: Blog Your Way to the Bank

Blog Your Way to the Bank — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:30:35 +0000

Does trying out different affiliate programs at a time hurt your site’s search engine rankings and deviates traffic?

I have started onto affiliate programs recently.. just wanted to know.

Thanks

By: 5 Ways to Make an Empty Ad Slot on Your Blog Work For You

5 Ways to Make an Empty Ad Slot on Your Blog Work For You — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:18:50 +0000

[...] convert as I usually find affiliate programs work best within a post (as I’ve written in this post on affiliate programs) – but at the end of the month realized that the affiliate program had earned me about 80% of what [...]