Does blogging about Affliate product generate income?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by dadougalee, Nov 6, 2007.

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    Hi Everyone!

    I was thinking about doing this, and I wanted to get everyones opinion in case I am going to be wasting my time. Anyway, I have a small blog, the informativepost.com, I just started. It has a lot of work to go yet, but in the mean time of design changes, I have been adding posts and more and more content. So far, the most I have been able to generate is about 1 dollar from adsense in three months.

    I was thinking about changing a direction. I am a clickbank member, and I was curious if I found a good product on clickbank I wanted to help sell that is related to my interests, would it be a good idea to write a blog article about a product or service or something, and then put the clickbank link throughout the article. Then put the article in all the social bookmarking sites.

    I was just curious if anyone else has done this, and if it generated them a lot more income than adsense. I could have said this in a lot fewer words, but I just want to get my point across. Anyway, please let me know all your ideas guys!
     
    dadougalee, Nov 6, 2007 IP
  2. jschuman

    jschuman Active Member

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    That can work if you keep the article informative. Even better is write it so it identifies a problem that you can solve in the ClickBank ebook!
     
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    sport302 Well-Known Member

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    Yes, but I personally am not a fan of clickbank products. I felt like I was ripping people of when promoting them because there is a lot of garbage on there. So I no longer use them.

    I prefer using CJ and actually finding direct affiliates with a decent product to promote.
     
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    richkid Well-Known Member

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    I think if you are good at communicating then you can easily make money blogging about affiliates.
     
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    pkwood Peon

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    You actually can do quite well with promoting affiliate products, whether it's from Clickbank, CJ, or whoever. The main thing is to choose products that your readership might be interested in. Give an honest review of the product (this usually requires reading it or using it). Point out what you disliked about the product, as well as liked. This will make your review alot more believable.

    Make sure you continue to provide real content and throw in a product review now and then. You should do better than the Adsense returns you were getting.

    Paul
     
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    It works very well. Writing reviews of great products on your blog definitely sells well. I make a lot of money from that, blogging about certain products. Try to optimize for the product name to rank well in the serps and you get targeted audience who convert well into buyers. ;) I teach folks how to do that in my free report.

     
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    lol, I know, thats where I got the idea from! Thanks! :)

    What is CJ? I kinda agree with what was said, all the products on clickbank look like scams. I would never buys any of the products on there (the ones that I saw anyway) just because they look like a scam.
     
    dadougalee, Nov 7, 2007 IP