Comments on: Why Affiliate Links are the best Form of Blog Advertising

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:08:06 +0000

Hey Darren,
I am also trying to join more affiliates. Thank you for all the valuable tips about affiliate programs.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:40:21 +0000

Great article..I am proud to say Im apart of Matts Blogging Community and have featured him twice allready at blogcarnivals..Great work guys keep it up

By: Cher

Cher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:36:12 +0000

A good technique to promote affiliate programs so that one could get affiliate commissions instead of less adsense clicks.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:06:12 +0000

Good point. Anchor texting affiliate links within a review is a great idea. It’s ingenius. People don’t trust a webpage they never seen before so its hard to make a purchase. What people rather do is find another person out there that talks about their view about that product. If its positie, it might become a sale and you get the commission. Thanks.

By: Missa

Missa — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:24:57 +0000

Hey I just want to say that your blog is one of the best that I have seen. Thank you for the great tips about affiliate links on blogs.

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By: CoolLion

CoolLion — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:31:52 +0000

A nice post need to think about it……may i will follow your advice

By: David Rader II

David Rader II — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:34:46 +0000

I posted the wrong link after all, lol. I’ll put it there instead now.

By: David Rader II

David Rader II — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:32:28 +0000

I think I just may link to your blog through one of my blogs! Maybe even on my cool sites one I put in my link, it’s more related to Web Design, so maybe there instead… Anyway, I think this is a really good post.

My problem in the past was I wouldn’t use any advertisements at all! I just LOVE to write! Then I end up writing too much and not making any money, so I throw all of the ad’s in at once and people are probably appalled at the accidential aggressiveness of the ads. I’m finding balance though :-)

Actually, I’ve changed the link to the web design link, because that’s where I’m going to post your link at. Also, I took your advice, and used an affiliate link in my (what will be) post before the one mentioning your website.

Thanks again!
David

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:31:34 +0000

chirs, I would try to think ‘what will interest and be of use to my readers’, that way the conversion rate would be high and your readers would be happy, this normally involves the ‘theme’ of the affiliate programs to be closly related to the blogs topic.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:29:35 +0000

Matt,

Would you keep the affiliate adds flowing with the content of your blog? ie, I have a blog at http://www.40hourstogo.com which is work related. I incorporated Yahoo Hot Jobs as one of the affiliates, should I keep with the same theme on any additional affiliate links?

Thanks. This was a very informative article.

By: Artem

Artem — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:16:31 +0000

Sometimes an often use of affiliate links is not good. I have only two of it on my page, but Blog Explosion denied my blog because of “much quantity of affiliate links” :(

By: Mosley

Mosley — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:37:33 +0000

I also had a post about this here is the link if you want to check it out.
http://mrbaconpants.com/thearchives/270

I guess great minds really do think alike. ;)

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:48:24 +0000

Ooh, this is true! This is true!

I talk about luxury products and services all day long on my blog, and I can attest that the greatest percentage of my traffic comes from people searching for those things.

I think having your own unique voice as a blogger is key, too.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:26:47 +0000

Re comment #21 – What tends to happen for me is that I write a post straight off the bat and then realise that without even consciously thinking about it that I’ve actually name dropped companies or products that I have an affiliate partnership with so the link out is a genuine one.

Personally I couldn’t link out to a product or service just because of the affiliate partnership. I’ve got to know that it adds value to my reader.

Interestingly enough, I wrote a review of Yaro Staraks free eBook the other day and that was one of the hardest articles I’ve ever written! Knowing that I would drop my affiliate link in, I found myself editing and re-editing just so that the copy didn’t look spammy. I endorse the eBook 100% and so it shouldn’t have been so tough. I guess that’s why I could never do Pay Per Post or any of those kind of things.

By: Blend

Blend — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:23:39 +0000

Good article. I like traffic from organic search because it for long term traffic. Good keyword on our affiliate review and make top on organic search this will make the visitor become buyer.

By: Lifesperspective.com

Lifesperspective.com — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:54:26 +0000

while one can say that one tries to recommend only good products, but when there is a conflict of interests like in this case, the lines sometimes become blurred. The question one needs to ask is ,’If i’m NOT being paid to write this about this article, will I still do it?’ I wld think that many a times, the answer is no. Why? Because unless a product is really fantastic, you wld not really bother and how many affiliate products out there are fantastic? What makes blog posts stand out? Those that are unique and have really good content. If you review alright products that are not fantastic, you are creating an alright post that will also not stand out if you want to look at it that way.

Nevertheless, i’m not saying this is not a good source of revenue, but this conflict of interests will always tend to compromise one’s standards and significantly more if one is not careful…

By: Alvin

Alvin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:27:18 +0000

I’ve learn something from this post. I think I will give a try on advertise Affiliate Links. A great advice for me =).

Thanks.

By: willy

willy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:09:09 +0000

I use affiliate link every page of my blog, I will chang it…

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:39:28 +0000

Maki – I wrote this post before 2 days ago… you can ask Darren! (I think it was about 5 days ago).