subject: It's Time To Hear About Affiliate Marketing [print this page] So you have a home business blog and are doing pretty well. Hundreds or thousands of visitors come to your site every day; this article is dedicated to readers who return nightly to absorb profound wisdom about life, foreign policy and the human condition. They are receiving invaluable understanding in the world, and you are not making a dime. All that hard work is doing nothing for you, except perhaps to sit well to light the world, but come on! There must be a way to also benefit financially from all your hard work.
It's time to hear about affiliate marketing.
In short, affiliate marketing is a partnership with other websites. You put a link on your site to your site and get paid for each click, registration and sale. If you use affiliate marketing, you can generate a high return on investment (ROI) for the amount of time and effort invested in your home business blog. Misused, however, affiliate marketing may be just a waste of space on your site. Here are some tips on how to use affiliate marketing as more than placeholders.
1. Make links...
Your readers come to your blog for a reason. They come to read about your exploits in the jungles of South America or its forays into the vicious world of international politics. It is likely that readers of these areas are not going to want to go to a site that sells toys Barney. They might be interested in your products that will save the forests of South America or a book about an international diplomat. You do not have to completely exclude chance Barney toys, because maybe some tree-huggers are Barney fans, but make sure that most of its marketing affiliate links are related to your content. Users will be more likely to click on them.
2. Place marketing affiliate links in your articles.
If you just discovered a great charity to save the rain forests of South America that has an affiliate marketing program, include the link in the body of one of its articles. Links on the side can be lost through the windows resize or ignored completely and become useless ads. Anything within an article, however, it should be read and considered, because the writer, whose opinion aspects reader feels that the other site is useful or valuable. The reader is more likely to visit the link, and you will be more likely to make money.
3. Change the affiliate marketing links.
This is especially important if you are a returning user base. If your affiliate marketing links were never change, people will not go to them because they will be old news. You should be always on the lookout for new affiliate marketing opportunities that can be harnessed. New links are added to your site. Users will be more likely to notice the changes of the links.
