CategoryAffiliate Programs

This is a guest post from communications and marketing consultant Brook McCarthy. When I was a young hippie, I accidentally joined a cult. I was a student of religious studies at the time and believed I was merely observing, until one morning, when I found myself at 5am, chanting to a giant image ...more

Today, I was looking back over some of my earliest attempts at making money from blogging. I realised that this month marks 10 years of me using Amazon’s Associates Program. How I Started Making Money with Amazon’s Affiliate Program I first heard about Amazon’s Affiliate program in April 2003. I ...more

As we’ve already seen today, affiliate marketing is a relatively trouble-free way for bloggers and other website owners to earn money. In fact, these days, even social media sites can become lucrative platforms for affiliate marketing campaigns. Because affiliate marketing doesn’t require affiliates to offer their own products or services ...more

This guest post is by Anshul Dayal of Nichsense Niche Marketing. Once upon a time, making money with affiliate marketing and AdSense was a question of following this step-by step recipe (circa 2009): Find a product to promote on Clickbank or other affiliate networks. Find a low-competition keyword. Register an ...more

This guest post is by Regine Becher of Syndicated Partners. Like most bloggers, you probably want to make some money from your blog. Chances are good you’ve tried things like writing product reviews or putting banners or links to affiliate products into your sidebar. But while many bloggers have mastered ...more

With the holidays almost upon us, now is a time for bloggers who are Amazon Affiliates to act to capitalize on what is usually one of the most profitable times of the year. While Amazon is not my biggest source of income (it makes up around 5% of total income ...more

This post is by Chris Wise of Expressionables. Product review blogs are one of the best ways for ecommerce sites to spread the word about their products and build backlinks to increase organic search traffic. That being said, there are thousands of small-to-medium-sizes product review blogs on the Internet all ...more

This guest post is by Peter Lawlor of B2Web. One of my favorite methods of monetizing my blogs is by promoting products as an affiliate. As an affiliate, I have the opportunity to learn all I can about a product I promote, and share what I know, including likes and ...more

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 12. Create a “Best Seller” list based on Amazon Affiliate reports If you promote products on the Amazon Affiliate program, why not dig into the reports, look at what your readers are ...more