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How to Make Money With Your Affiliate Marketing Blog

Turn your blog into an online revenue stream by monetizing it. The most effective way to do this is to connect it with affiliate products. 

Done successfully, you can practically live off on your blog. With the right affiliate product, you will be earning commissions for a lifetime, too. 

Making money from your affiliate marketing blog doesn't happen overnight, however. Just like any other goal, you need to set the foundation to get the income rolling.

Let's do it a bit of Q&A first. 

What is affiliate marketing?

Think of an affiliate as a bridge that links the customer with the merchant. Once the customer finds the merchant's product and purchases it, the affiliate is rewarded for their efforts via a commission. 

If the affiliate marketing program pays a recurring commission, the affiliate marketer is paid repeatedly for as long as a client stays with the same subscription plan. 

How do affiliate marketers get paid?

They can be paid in three ways - per sale, per lead generated for the merchant, and per click. 

Among the three, the third option is the quickest way to make money but not a lot of merchants offer this arrangement. Can you imagine how much money an affiliate marketer ends up making if they're paid per clicks?

Now that you know what affiliate marketing is and how you will get paid if you pursue this strategy of monetizing your blog, it's time to get down to business. 

What you need to make your blog earn for you

The first thing you need to do is to create a blog (obviously) and get it out there. It's important to make it as visible as possible so you can generate steady and consistent traffic of monthly visitors. 

A blog that is frequently visited is also one way to create an extensive email list that will provide you with a good number of potential clients to market affiliate products.

Once you satisfy both requirements, you can then start making money through your blog. 

What are the steps involved?

Quickly grow and build your blog audience by:

Promoting an affiliate marketing program or product for a specific niche and for a specific target audience. 

Creating content that is relevant to the product you are marketing. Make sure it convinces readers to check out the merchant's website (to get paid per lead) or to buy the product on offer (to get paid for sale).

Networking with other affiliate marketing bloggers. Doing so is the best way to establish a relationship with them that may be mutually and financially beneficial.

Writing a guest post for other bloggers. This way, you can increase your engagement opportunities with them and, at the same time, boost your blog’s visibility to other potential clients.

Connecting with your target audience through social media. Just add social media share icons on your blog, and make sure to engage and connect with your followers on social media platforms that they frequent.

Optimizing your blog for search. When your website appears on the first page and at the top 10 of search results, the chance of it being clicked and visited first is high.

Add a money page to your blog and watch your income increase. 

Some of your options are:

Comparison page

Resources page

Review articles

Squeeze page 

Quiz funnel 

Promote an affiliate product with the best returns. 

This means:

It is an affiliate offer that earns you a substantial income without a lot of work. Digital products, such as software, for example, will earn you commissions without the need to set up a storefront.

It has a commission structure that is beneficial to you. Do you want to be paid a commission at one time or a recurring one?

Use the best advertising strategies for affiliate marketing products.

Promote an offer to the right target audience.

Test the product yourself to become an effective marketer.

Don't flood your blog with a lot of products. 

Keep your blog simple and created with a specific purpose.

Identify the best placement of affiliate links for maximum impact

You can place them on:

Email content

Product titles

Video descriptions

Avoid flooding an article with links, or you’re going to lose a reader’s interest in what you’re promoting. 

Reach mobile users by optimizing your blog for the device. 

It must have a responsive design.

It must be built for mobile use, without the bulky and bandwidth-hungry features. 

It must be secure and safe to access and share personal information. 

Always add a CTA that is hard to ignore. 

Place it at the best location, preferably where it quickly catches the eye. 

Made highly-clickable and targeted. 

Designed to stand out and compel visitors/readers to click on it or do as it commands. 

Make it a point to regularly test your blog, analyze it, and improve where needed. 

Run a split test to catch mistakes. 

Find out why the test results are such and what you can do with them. 

Make changes with your blog for optimum returns from affiliate marketing. 

Now that you have the information and the tool to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, don't delay. Grab the opportunity to earn commissions without working too hard today!