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Affiliate Marketing is a smart way to monetize your blog. When non-bloggers ask me that how one can earn money on the blog? I simply reply them that, websites and blogs earn money through ads. In depth answer would definitely explain more detailed analysis that ads are different and affiliates are different to earn money on blog.

In this post I am explaining little more on Affiliate Marketing and blogging. Since I started bloggingmatter, I have been studying Affiliate Marketing and now I have started sharing my understanding and learning on Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate Marketing is basically done through different Affiliate Programs so Affiliate Program will be the main part of this post and I will keep an eye on the impact and value of Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Marketing for bloggers before going straight to the tips to join Affiliate Program.

Affiliate Marketing is the best way to earn money in the start of your blog and in money making blogging. Obviously you need some relevant traffic on your blog to make your affiliate program successful. But its not like CPM or PPC ads that need high amount of traffic which generates clicks and impressions and you have to monitor CTR (click through rate) that should not exceed much, or its not like CPM ads in which you need more amount of traffic which gives impressions and clicks more than PPC ads, CPM ads work on Cost per 1000 impressions. In Short, both PPC and CPM ads need high amount of traffic and clicks on your blog to make ad revenue.

The best thing about Affiliate Program is you don’t need big traffic or clicks to earn money. It can start giving you earnings even on the day 2 of your blog launching. Affiliate programs offer commission to the affiliate members. If you are a blogger and just started a blog about Search engine optimization, and you join affiliate program of a company which provides SEO and Blog performance consultancy to the companies and blogs. This will be the perfect match for you. Companies like Hubspot and SEOMoz are the companies which work on blog and websites stats and give you SEO Consultancy. Basically these types of SEO consultancy firms work on an online software which gives you updates in your account about all the aspects of your blog or website.

Affiliate Marketing works if you understand the concept well. If you got lucky as a new blogger and you got my few blog posts on Affiliate Marketing then you will be super excited!

On a serious note, if you want to earn income in the start of the blog, obviously everyone would love to earn then you need to study Affiliate Marketing and before launching your blog, plan your blogging strategy, in which deeply think about the niche, target market, affiliate programs and growth of the blog. So enter into blogging, and see how to start things on the blog, as I always say to start blogging with the philosophy, in which key things are, what you want to deliver through your blog? Who is your target market? What to do to monetize your blog? What targeted audience needs to know? Each and everything must be clear in your mind, than you would be a successful blogger in a year.

I did not know all these things in 2007 when I started blogging, If you are learning these tips and knowing all this stuff before starting your blog, then its real good deal for you.

See also: How to do Affiliate Marketing on your blog?

How to choose best Affiliate Program?

 Choosing the right Affiliate program is the first step in making it successful. Because If you choose appropriate affiliate program according to the blog, niche and target market then you it will become successful. There are two concepts which I understand in Affiliate Marketing, first one is, go for most hot trends and products of the time, and make content about them and use related Affiliate Program to earn money, but one setback of hot trending items is, it is always temporary, what you will do when trend will change? This is the problem with this one. Second one is, use the different useful and necessary products in your affiliate program but according to your niche and blog. If you blog about books and education, you should go with some books affiliate programs, for that you can join Amazon’s Affiliate program or Smashwords affiliate program, always looks for affiliate before you enter into a niche. Amazon covers almost all main niche and categories of the products that can be sold on the blog.

Top 10 tips to join an Affiliate Program

Here I am mentioning 10 tips to join Affiliate program, these tips would be helpful for you if you are going to join any affiliate program to monetize your blog:

1-      Always choose demanding category and niche for your blog to make a successful affiliate marketing campaign.

2-      Don’t start a blog on particular latest model of any company’s product unless you don’t have a history about the company and related products.

3-      Choose well reputed Affiliate network if you are looking to join any affiliate networks. For example, Amazon, Clickbank, JVZOO and CJ.

4-      Choose Affiliate products related to your blog.

5-      Always make unique and helpful content on your blog.

6-      Consult to fellow bloggers and professionals about the affiliate programs.

7-      Check the reputation and reviews on the affiliate network you are going to join.

8-      If you are going to join any specific company’s affiliate program, then make sure it is related to your blog and niche, and try to start writing on your blog about related topics for at least 15 days earlier before placing affiliate ads.

9-      Don’t join different and multiple categories affiliate programs, because it will divide your focus on your main affiliate program.

10- Don’t decrease the quality of your content while working with affiliate programs. Keep more than 80% focus on your reader’s benefit and great content development.

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Has San Khan

Has San Khan is a Blogger and Content Strategist. He loves to write on Blogging, Readers Engagement, Customers Value, Small Businesses and Business Development. He writes on other blogs occasionally.

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