One of the easiest ways to monetize a blog is to market others’ products and services as an affiliate.
While affiliate marketing is easy, because you don’t need to create a product, store inventory, or fill orders, it does have its pitfalls.
The major pitfall is to treat affiliate marketing as a form of advertising. It’s not advertising, it’s marketing. There’s a huge difference. I’ve explained that I fell into this trap.
Your first step as an affiliate blogger is to sign up with a couple of the major affiliate networks. ClickBank products are easy to market, as are those of Commission Junction. I first joined Commission Junction to market eBay products. Whatever the topic of your blog, you will usually find eBay products that you can market on it.
Next, I suggest that you put effort into learning as much as you can about affiliate marketing. I’m an enthusiastic member of Wealthy Affiliate, and can’t recommend the site highly enough. It’s a site I visit every day, because the information and affiliate marketing instruction it offers is unequalled.
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