CategoryAffiliate Programs

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 11. Link to your hosting or blog theme provider with an affiliate link I spoke with one craft blogger recently who has a medium-sized blog and told me that her third-strongest income ...more

This guest post is by Harrison Li of Blog Lectures. If you have ever bought something online, with no doubt, there have also been times when you rejected buying a certain product. And if you won’t buy it, the seller loses money. What about when you do buy something? As ...more

It is the end of the year, and time for a little fun. What’s the funniest, weirdest, or most surprising thing someone has bought through one of your affiliate links on Amazon? I was trawling through my Amazon Associates reports yesterday to see what items were selling, and here’s my ...more

At a conference this year, I presented some tips on affiliate marketing in one of the sessions I ran on monetizing blogs. One of the most powerful affiliate marketing concepts—one that can make or break an affiliate campaign—is summed up in this slide: The key is to find the overlap ...more

Guest post written by @ChrisGuthrie from Make Money on the Internet I made a little over $60,000 in the past 12 months using Amazon’s Affiliate program and it’s actually my primary income stream. Many people are turned off by Amazon primarily because of it’s short 24 hour cookie length, but ...more

A guest post by Dee Barizo eBay’s affiliate program doesn’t get mentioned much in the problogger space, but it’s been the best monetization option for my collectible card game blog. The program is called eBay Partner Network, or ePN for short. It’s been a great for my blog. AdSense was ...more

One of the most common questions I’m asked since the new FTC regulations regarding bloggers came in is around disclosing affiliate links. As an Australian I’m not directly impacted by the FTC and its regulations so I’ve not really had to change my own approach to disclosure – but I’d ...more

In the last few minutes Blogger.com has flipped the switch on a new way for Blogger blogs to be monetized from within their system – an integration with Amazon Associates program. Expect an official announcement from Blogger/Google shortly on this new partnership (update: here it is) – but in the ...more

A guest post by Kevin from BeginnerBloggerTips.com (with some comments from me below too). Image by Shawnson. My journey into affiliate marketing. Before I start, I’d like to make two disclaimers: I don’t hate google or AdSense—this article isn’t a rant against either. I recognize that every blog is different—what ...more