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

By: Ed Hardy bags

Ed Hardy bags — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:19:09 +0000

it’s actually catching up with my Adsense revenue

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:43:46 +0000

I’ve never done it. I just about know what affiliate marketing is!

By: BloggerDaily

BloggerDaily — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:30:01 +0000

I feel frustrated the first time I do affiliate marketing because there’s no feedback / result from my effort. But then I learn some tips and techniques on how to do it and it works!

Now I do it occasionally and it give me frequent income per month. Love it =)

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:51:44 +0000

I do better with adsense, but do do affiliate advertising as well.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:48:51 +0000

I don’t post affiliate links, but I do have an affiliate program on my blog so kind of backwards on the idea.

By: Yeast infection

Yeast infection — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:19:30 +0000

I already tried it but didn’t earn well from it.. But I’m thinking to do it again on my new blog, as it’s receiving a good amount of targeted traffic..

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:35:05 +0000

I tried but gave up as I’m obviously not very good at it.

What little money I did make I never received anyway and so I’m now very wary of earning and promoting others’ work and products for zero return.

By: David Stillwagon

David Stillwagon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:31:21 +0000

I am about to try affiliate marketing. I am looking for a niche right now.

By: Johann

Johann — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00:03 +0000

We do it often on our blog. We’ve been surprised by how much money it’s actually made us!

http://www.smartwallet.org/

By: fas

fas — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:47:28 +0000

Well those who have done it and found succes with it, wont leave it.

By: Strength and Fitness

Strength and Fitness — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:28:20 +0000

Shopzilla is the main source of affiliate income for me. So far it is my favorite affiliate program.

By: Hooshmand Moslemi

Hooshmand Moslemi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:33:54 +0000

Well, I regularly do affiliate promotions and make money from different programs and networks.

I have divided this promotion into 2 main parts.

1. Putting affiliate ads as text and banner on my websites.

2. Writing review posts on special products and services.

I find both of them effective and I do believe it only works if you run a high quality website or blog. If you just make a web page full of affiliate offers with garbage content, visitors would not take action and buy something through your links.

Thanks Darren for this interesting poll.

Cheers!

Hooshmand

By: Celes | CelestineChua.com

Celes | CelestineChua.com — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:32:18 +0000

Hey Darren, thanks for pulling those links into a single post. Makes it easier to get access to them. I don’t really do affiliate marketing on my blog (Amazon links rarely count for any, since it’s just occasional text link mentions in my articles). By the way, thought you might want to know that there’s a typo error in the word occasionally in your post (occassionally)

By: Domain Name Blog

Domain Name Blog — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:06:27 +0000

Hi Salman, I see you having a blogger platform site, so just install any poll plugins for blogger and fire away.

By: Alex Brooks

Alex Brooks — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:17:33 +0000

I’ve done a couple of review-posts on products with affilate links, but nothing more then that.

By: Maria @ Online Business Resources

Maria @ Online Business Resources — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:11:03 +0000

I’ve been involved with affiliate marketing for many years now. I mainly post banners on my blogs – and once in awhile I’ll write a review of a service or product that I’ve used.

By: turisuna

turisuna — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:00:15 +0000

I have done it for couple months, but I don’t get good earning from there, maybe because lack of promotion :(

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:59:19 +0000

I find it interesting that you folks with new blogs are steering away from affiliate marketing. The most interesting thing I hear you saying is about being concerned about losing visitors or not wanting to do ‘in your face’ advertising.

Keep sight of the fact that its your blog so you can advertise as aggressively or as passively as you choose. My blog is literally 4 weeks old. I have done almost no work in terms of driving traffic yet the readership is doubling each week with a good RSS subscriber base and a nice start to my list building efforts.

I have so far promoted 3 individual programs through posts and 2 of them (with a a bonus offer) to my small list. I have already made a couple of sales which I realise is nothing to brag about but I am a virtual unknown and I have no network to speak of. I am literally starting from scratch at all levels.

I guess what I am trying to convey here is that how you think about it is a direct reflection of your results. My blog is nothing more than a test on myself, with a little leverage, to succeed in creating a money making blog. These very early results are promising but then its been no accident. I am determined to make a success out of it so its only natural that I would be promoting products. Most of you would have far more traffic, and much bigger lists than I have and if you set your mind to it you should be able to effectively montize very easily. If your readers like you (they must because they keep visiting) then build up a trust relationship and you will have a very easy time converting them to sales.

By: ITrush

ITrush — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:09:32 +0000

It’s good to have options rather than stick to just one solution. Just voted for the first option.

By: Paul Dickinson

Paul Dickinson — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:17:15 +0000

I have been seeing so many posts about affiliate marketing. I’m hopefully going to get started in the following week!