How To Create Your Own Affiliate Blog by Arnautweb
Ready to learn how to make your own affiliate blog?
(FYI: This post is chapter 2 of the mega-guide "5 Ways To Create A Profitable Affiliate Site")
Blogs monetized through affiliate sales are another very common business model.
They take a lot more work than some of the other models but the rewards can be worth it considering just how much some bloggers make as you'll find out below.
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Content
- How To Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog
- Pro's of Affiliate Blogs
- Con's of Affiliate Marketing Blogs
- How These Sites Deliver Value
- Examples of Successful Affiliate Blogs
- How You Can Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog
- What You'll Need To Get Started
- Affiliate Blog Summary
- Go to chapter 3: How To Create Your Own Niche Comparison Site >>>
How To Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog
So we all know what a blog is. You're reading one. Read how to make an epic blog here.
Blogs that make money through affiliate marketing do so by promoting products in their posts and / or through their email list.
Some choose not to promote on the blog at all and keep it exclusively to email whilst others choose never to send any email promotions to subscribers and keep it on the blog.
(P.S. If you'd like to download a free list of 101 expensive affiliate niches click here or the image below)
Both models have their merits.
Typically the ones that see real success with this model are the bloggers who are open, honest, upfront about the fact they receive commissions and who deliver incredible value in every post.
They don't write fake reviews of products or say 'XYZ' is great simply for the sake of promoting in.
HOT TIP: The most successful affiliate blogs are open, honest and provide incredible content packed with value.
They show what they are promoting in action, write in-depth reviews, create case studies, provide actionable content that their visitors can see results from and in turn their visitors reward them by clicking on their links and buying.
So essentially they stand behind what they promote and more often than not have used the product themselves.
Through their great content and over the top value their visitors begin to trust and develop a relationship with them and you're much more likely to buy from someone like that than a random internet stranger.
Aside from content that promotes something the bulk of your content is likely to be pure value that your visitor can use that doesn't promote anything.
Pro's of Affiliate Blogs
- Great way to build up trust and a good reputation which is the easiest way to promote affiliate products.
- Allows you to easily build an email list that you can use to further grow your business by sending traffic back to your site and promote to.
- Through actionable content, case studies, and reviews you can make affiliate commissions with relative ease.
- Blogs are easy to draw traffic to – you'll pick up Google traffic, referrals from other bloggers, mentions on forums, social media shares and so on assuming your content is good.
Con's of Affiliate Marketing Blogs
- Takes time to build your reputation for being a trusted marketer with high quality content.
- 80% of your content likely promotes nothing so you put in a lot of work into writing and creating new posts that don't directly create income – though do help with your credibility, traffic and building your email list.
- Not a fast way to make money in most cases as you'll have to build up your content and traffic levels before you see significant results.
How These Sites Deliver Value
By creating some of the best content in the niche on the subjects that your audience want to know about.
Through solving their problems and giving them actionable content they can use to improve themselves or their situation.
Being upfront, honest, open and always over delivering.
Never putting out content that half hearted or designed simply to promote a product.
Only promoting products which they truly believe in.
HOT TIP: Solve your audiences problems whether it makes you a commission or not and they will buy anything you recommend.
Examples of Successful Affiliate Blogs
Matthew Woodward at matthewwoodward.co.uk
Earning over $14,000 p/m just from affiliate sales.
Matt's blog is an incredible example of an 'affiliate blog' done properly.
High quality content, in-depth tutorials, how to articles, video guides, honesty, openness, trust – it's EXACTLY how it needs to be done.
In less than 2 years he's built up a solid reputation of a blogger you can trust for advice and in return people are HAPPY to click on his affiliate links.
In this case, the same user cannot register again.
Adding, Editing, Removing Affiliates
Adding a new affiliate
To manually add a new affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click New Affiliate.
Fill out at least the Name of the new affiliate, you can leave the rest empty or provide the Username if the affiliate already has a user account. You can also add a user account later if desired. If you provide a Username the email associated to the user account will be used as the affiliate’s email.
The From date will be set to the current date automatically, leave it empty unless you would like to enable the affiliate at a certain date.
Click Save to create the new affiliate.
Editing an affiliate
To edit an existing affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click the Edit icon, here you can modify the email address, the user name or the validation dates.
The same basic options apply when a new affiliate is added.
The option “Edit username” allows you access to edit the user information.
You can now define affiliates attributes.
Removing affiliates
To remove an affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click the Remove icon for the desired affiliate. Confirm your decision by clicking Remove.
Note that you have removed albert7 as an affiliate of your affiliate program database.
In this case, the same user cannot register again.
If you also need to remove him as a user, go to your WordPress Users menu and click the Delete button.
If you simply want to invalidate an affiliate so that the affiliate will not be credited with referrals anymore, you can set the appropriate Until date by editing the affiliate. This will retain information displayed for that affiliate and the affiliate will still appear in the affiliate listing when the Include inoperative affiliates filter option is checked.
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