subject: Affiliate Marketing With Blogs - DeMystifying This Potentially Powerful Affiliate Medium For Profit [print this page] Affiliate marketing with blogs can definitely help you create traffic and profit in (at least) two different ways as follows:
Creating Backlinks
A frequently updated blog with content centered around a niche can be used to generate links to your web site or squidoo lenses. The site and lenses then direct you to product sales pages. The objective is to build the backlinks necessary for higher google ranking.
Advertising Space Potential
Internet marketers can generate revenue from their blogs. They use article marketing (or any other technique) to drive traffic to the blog and then capitalize on this targeted traffic. The higher the Google ranking for the blog, the more likely the post will rank higher in Google.
For example, this article points to the affiliate-marketer-success blog via the link at the end of this article. The blog is created using Google Blogger, a flexible and free platform tool. The right-hand column on this blog contains several different types of AFFILIATE links as follows:
The picture (a beaver building a dam) links to an affiliate sell page for the free product. Even though the product is free, a purchase of the vendor's paid product generated by this link will generate a potential commission.
The picture with the statement: 'this little square can change your life today" and the picture of the "One Week Marketing" library connect with actual vendor sell pages.
A third type is Google AdSense ads. They also show up between posts.
Another Link Type - Your Own Product
You can also use your blog to promote your own product.
For example, a new ebook created by the author is in the first position in the right column of
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