Affiliate Blogging
Three Affiliate Blogging No-No’s
If you’re monetizing your blog by promoting an affiliate product, here are some basic tips on what NOT to do:
Do NOT promote more than 1 or 2 products:
If you look like you’re a big spammer online, Google, and other search engines are going to throw you out of the results faster than you can say “I’m not a spammer!”. Good, informative content is where your money is, and it’s best to stick with one product per blog. This also keeps you focused on learning about the product, instead of just saying “Buy this
product!”, which is a big turn off.
Do NOT use sales page material:
This one is pretty controversial because most affiliate marketers with ClickBank or Commission Junction don’t want to purchase the product, therefore, they don’t have any information on it. So they use the sales copy on another person’s sales page. This is not only tacky, it makes you look robotic, and without passion.
Do NOT forget to cloak your affiliate links:
One big no-no is putting your affiliate link on the internet. It can get stolen, not to mention it just looks bad. No one wants to click a link that looks like “http://imanaffiliate.clickheretomakememoney.com/youreallydontwantthisjunk2×33mdm. A great way to cloak your affiliates is to use tinyurl.com or urlfreeze.com. If you own your own hosting, and website, use your domain name and a redirect page. That method actually boosts click through rates.
Blogging as an affiliate is about presenting the problem to the person (making them feel like they need something to fix it) and then giving them the solution (the product). Make sure you know about the product you’re promoting, or at least feel passionately about it. This will give you plenty to talk about, as well as a passion in your writing that will make people feel they ought to buy it because someone else feels so strongly for it.
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