subject: Blogging Marketing - Create Your Blog, Monetize it [print this page] Blogging Marketing - Create Your Blog, Monetize it
Monetize your blog means adding publicity related to your niche, but from different merchants. You must add relevant publicity, you must select what you want on your blog. The best way to start is by selecting big names.
Amazon and Barnes and Noble are among the best affiliate you can find. Amazon is offering an incredible selection of products and surely have something related to your niche. Barnes and Noble is the biggest online book seller, they definitely have a book about your niche.
They will give some notoriety to your blog. Big names are good, you work for the greatest. They are not the only ones, BestBuy, Dell, Zappos and a lot more. Visit there site and see what they offer that is related to your blog.
These above are independent merchants that have affiliate opportunities. There are many merchants that are not big enough to create their own affiliate program. To solve their problem and being able to have a very good presence online, they join an association of affiliate merchants.
Commission Junction, ShareaSale, LinkShare just to name a few. These affiliate programs are free to join. Most of them will accept you instantly. When done, log in and select sites in relation with your niche.
Each merchant will give you tools as banners, text links, email ads, etc. Add these merchant pubs on your blog. A little advice here, visit regularly your merchants, they might have new products or sales you could post about and offer more relevant info to your readers.
The last source I will talk about are site that Pay Per Lead and/or Clicks. These sites are free to join and give you just a few HTML codes to add to your blog and that's it. Some will pay 3 a click and up to $10 per lead (CPALeads as an example).
What is important, is to offer the visitors a relevant content, an answer to their question or a way to fulfill their need. If the readers find the post interesting, it will place him in trust and might just decide to visit a sponsor.
