Maximizing Your Affiliate Revenue from Your Blog

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by monsur, May 6, 2011.

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    Affiliate marketing has always been a great way to make money online. That's it. When you work affiliate marketing into your blog well, there's nothing that can stop you. How can you make money with affiliate marketing on your blog? Let's read on to learn more...

    Understand the Needs of Your Readers: Before you can earn lots of money through affiliate sales, you need to have a deep understanding of your readers and their needs. In order to achieve this, study the changing trends from time to time, analyze how your readers are responding back to your affiliate offers and find out what exactly they are looking for. If you start to feel like what you're promoting is taking away from your content you need to figure out a way to fix it so that you can serve both your own interests and the needs of your readers.

    Banner Placement: If you choose to use banners to promote your affiliate products you need to be very smart about where you want those banners to be placed. Your blog readers need to be able to spot your banner ads as soon as they load your site. As a basic example: banners belong at the tops of pages and not at the bottoms. Besides this, don't overcrowd your blog with too many banners because that would actually work against your goal, and will affect your affiliate revenue. If you use banner ads, you don't want to promote more than two products. These two products need to be the best products in the market so that they will serve your main purposes. Each affiliate product that you choose to promote on your website is going to be seen by your users as a personal recommendation and that's why you need to be careful about your choices.
    Promote Bonuses: Even though there are all sorts of different techniques used by Internet Marketers for affiliate marketing not all of them are wildly successful. One good way of increasing the chance of boosting your affiliate sales through your blog is to add value to the product you're promoting by giving away a bonus. Your conversion rate will be quite a lot better if you offer strong bonus materials that can raise the value of your affiliate product. This bonus need not be extravagant; it just needs to compliment the original product while still offering the buyer much more for his or her money. Try to remember that a bonus shouldn't be added just for kicks; it needs to help your offer stand out from all of the others and help your offer look better than those offered by everybody else.

    Targeted Traffic is Key: In order to earn consistent money and have consistent conversion rates, targeted traffic must be obtained from somewhere. Search engine optimization is the best way to do this. You can literally get thousands of visitors pouring in without paying a cent when you do proper SEO. Remember you're sending that traffic to a blog and not to a landing page so don't worry about pay per click ads. You want every post to be optimized for the search engines so that when you do get lots of traffic over a short period of time, that traffic will actually be relevant. It isn't that hard to earn affiliate revenue with blogging; as long as you focus on offering something of value to your readers and network you can earn quite a nice living.

    A curious thing about all of this is your readers will look at you every time you promote something new - so only go with good products and services. There are tons of high quality affiliate products to promote, so there is no reason to ever promote a bad one. This is a strategic consideration because the effects can harm your standing with your market. Even if you need extra time to find the best to promote, it will be so much more worth it. Do your homework first and if possible try out the product yourself before recommending it. Since you will acquire the product, then there is no question about knowing if it is good, or not. Making money from your blog through affiliate products isn't that difficult; as long as you're focused on giving value to your readers, you will earn your profits.
     
    monsur, May 6, 2011 IP
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    Excellent points, especially about the targeted traffic converting better. <3 seo
     
    JohnRazmus, May 6, 2011 IP
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    some good & valid points about banner placement...
     
    unnamed333, May 6, 2011 IP
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    Thank you very much for your article. This is very nice and informative.
     
    faysal969, May 7, 2011 IP
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    For making a good amount of money from your blog your blog must receive a steady amount of traffic specially organic traffic from search engines and for getting this you must have to work on both on-site and off-site SEO.
     
    shuvo, May 8, 2011 IP
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    content optimization
    Some on-site SEO Tweaks
    Selecting niche products with highly converting products + optimized landing pages
     
    88dbsakthi, Jul 26, 2011 IP
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    Nice tips targetted traffic is the key for any blog, once you have figured out what your audience wants, and how to market to them, then it is easy from then on
     
    golfpro1, Jul 26, 2011 IP