How To Make Money Blogging With Affiliate Marketing

How To Make Money Blogging With Affiliate Income

You’ve probably asked yourself the same question. Can I do it too?

Yes!

When I started my new blog in April 2020, I had different idea on making money with my blog (making money with your blog is called monetizing). I had other ideas I wanted to pursue that would financially support my business:

• writing ebooks which I did

• building online courses (haven’t had time to do this yet)

• advertising on my blog

• Affiliate Marketing

Then I started searching for different CPC (Cost per Click) ad servers while waiting for AdSense Approval. Though I found lots of them which I also blogged about on this blog but most of them turned out to be waste of time.. I could remember making upto $7.00 on Eleavers ad server when my account got disabled for reason only knon to them.

After trying other Ad servers I resolved to Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Marketing is simply having people's product on your site and you get commission anytime a purchase is made through the referral link on your site.

Now I love affiliate income. It’s simple – your blog acts as a salesperson selling products. Here is the good thing about Affiliate marketing:

• no inventory

• no costs of any kind

• no shipping of products

• no investment

• no fees to sign up and get started

Note: Am also new to blogging and That’s proof new bloggers are still making money. It doesn’t matter how crowded you think a particular topic is (there are thousands of personal finance bloggers like me) there is room for you to carve out a piece of the pie for yourself.

What’s nice about Affiliate marketing is that, it is a passive income stream. Meaning your blog has the potential to make money 24 x 7.

• while you sleep

• while you’re on vacation

• while you’re watching TV

Different Affiliate marketing website

Konga Affiliate program

Amazon Affiliate program

Jumia Affiliate program

Commission junction

ShareAsale etc..

Note: All these are free to sign up

How to Get started on Affiliate Marketing:

To get started with Affiliate Income, Here are the step-by-step instructions to get started with affiliate income. Remember all of these programs are FREE to join.

1. Join affiliate programs

There are many other affiliate programs available.

• Amazon Affiliate Program

•Konga Affiliate program

• Jumia Affiliate program

• Commission Junction

•ShareASale etc...

Some product websites have an affiliate program which may not be listed. If you have a product you love contact the company directly and see if they have an affiliate program.

You just have to click the link and go through the sign-up process. Konga is the easiest for me and has been around the longest. You should at least sign up for Konga to get started.

2. Promote the link on your blog

There are different ways to promote a product:

Product reviews:

Consider doing a book review or writing an in-depth product review.

Product comparisons:

Comparing two different products side-by-side helps your readers weigh the pros and cons of each. By helping them make a decision, you help build a loyal fan base.

There are many photography bloggers that talk about camera equipment. Camara equipment can be very expensive, and the affiliate commissions can be much larger.

Resources/recommendations page:

Many people will be interested in what tools and resources you use to do stuff.

It doesn’t have to be fancy – just a picture, product name, and a description. To go the extra mile include a brief summary of why you like the product.

Mentioning the product in what you write about:

This one is easy. If you are writing an article on baking a cake, for example, you can include a link to the cake pan you like to use in the recipe.

Tips for good product promotion

Honesty

Be honest in your review. Giving a glowing review of a bad product just to try to earn affiliate income is a bad idea. When you are honest and help your blog readers, they will reward you with loyalty and become a life long fan. That’s worth much more because they will help share your blog to other people.

Promote the benefits

People buy things because it helps solve their problems or makes them feel better:

• Does it save them time? (This ceramic pan cleans up in a flash!)

• Does it save them money? (This book shows you how to save money on groceries)

• Will it help them make more money? (This course gives you a proven plan to getting your dream job)

• Will it help them relax? (This hebal tea will help you sleep better)

I promote Betterment as a fantastic way to get started investing because it’s easy and only takes ten minutes to start saving for an awesome retirement.

The better you become at sharing the benefits of a product, the more likely the person is to purchase the product.

Good product placement

The longer your blog post, the more you can talk about a product or service. But that doesn’t mean you should include a link in every paragraph.

If it’s a short article, 1–2 times may be enough.

For longer blog articles it’s ok to include a link at the beginning, middle, and at the very end.