Comments on: What Works with Affiliate Sales

By: Brian Purkiss

Brian Purkiss — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:28:34 +0000

Hm… I’ll have to remember that…

That same principal can be transferred to blogging.
You often blog best about stuff you know about and love. You’re posts will be more interesting/gripping if you hold the topic near and dear to your heart.

By: Sterling

Sterling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:43:15 +0000

Affiliate sales through a blog and/or podcast works like crazy! We add affiliate links to everything; books, products, course, anything that you can get an affiliate commission on. Suddenly we were getting a huge income stream off something we do anyway, recommend stuff.

The big KEY to this is only recommending stuff you REALLY have gone through. Credibility in this type of relationship is very important and I don’t imagine it would be easy to recover if you loose your credibility recommending something that is terrible and you haven’t really seen.

By: VIVA THE GAME

VIVA THE GAME — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:47:16 +0000

Wow. I didn’t quite get where you were going at first. But then I realized that you can stumple upon interesting points.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:20:26 +0000

Depends on your niche but I find ebay works ok, it is very occasional you will get a signup (who hasnt got an ebay account now?) but I get a good trickle of sale commissions from my camera blog. It’s like amazon, you probably get money from people who were going to buy using the service anyway

By: Emmet

Emmet — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:24:07 +0000

I find it quite difficult to get any attention to my adsense, but the amazon affiliate stuff works well. How does the ebay affiliate program work? Well??

By: Teryn

Teryn — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:33:37 +0000

Thanks for the pointers. Sounds like an awesome thing to stumble into.

By: Payment Blogger

Payment Blogger — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:26:25 +0000

I strongly agree with you. When I was starting with affiliate marketing I was writing long tailed articles about the product without being honest and without showing any bad side of the product (which looks phissy in many times)

Now I write smaller reviews but strict to the meaning, and I have much more results even when I am saying bad things. People know that there is no “perfect” product so they want to know possible problems before buying, and the fact that you write those make them feel better both about you and the product :)

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:40:03 +0000

Interesting idea, Chris. I think it would be easy to overdo it, though, if one isn’t careful. An occasional review would be fine, unless that is the focus of one’s blog.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:48:08 +0000

Yes absolutely be honest, both because it is the right thing to do (obviously) but also you will be more credible if it is a “warts and all” review rather than a hypey booster post

By: terra

terra — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:01:29 +0000

I never really would have thought about this! Another great idea for non-photog blogs would simply be to review products related to your niche’, and of course sign up as an ebay affiliate for those products and list them on your posting. I guess the main objective is to be very honest about these products… you don’t want your audience not trusting you after they end up buying a busted up product on your recommendation.

By: Pua

Pua — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:24:35 +0000

thanks problogger for some more insight into the affiliate sales stuff. so far, i had no luck with my affiliate ’sales’, not on my sites and neither on my blog.

i like your point to compare the product with other companies and also show my own experience in a target post. easier said than done with my hawaii vacation blog which is obviously about hawaii and vacation. i am an affiliate with ‘1and1.com’ and ‘vonage’ which i am pretty happy with. i guess i need to wrap that up in a post?! thanks for your feedback, pua

By: Etienne Teo

Etienne Teo — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:12:56 +0000

Great tip there chris, i thought it was a good call and to allow user to know how you made money will your SLR camera.I love your writeup in your blog.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:31:20 +0000

Lucky you! I need to sign up for an affiliate program as I’ve been too lazy to do so.

By: Ruby (@Advice and Rants)

Ruby (@Advice and Rants) — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:26:14 +0000

Hmm… I’ll make sure to come back to these aff marketing posts on problogger, once my blog is old enough :)

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:20:04 +0000

Okay, I found it. The links in the text show up only faintly different in color in my browser. I would use a more obvious link, but that is just my preference.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip, but when I looked at the post I couldn’t find the ebay link. Can anyone point me to it?