Using A Blog As Your Affiliate Marketing Web Site
Using A Blog As Your Affiliate Marketing Web Site
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One of the most powerful tools for affiliate promotion is your affiliate marketing web site, and with today’s online technology a blog is usually your easiest and best choice.
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Self-hosted WordPress blogs are easy to set up, easily updated and can be indexed in many directories beyond the traditional search engines automatically. This makes doing SEO for your affiliate marketing web site much easier and lets you focus that much more of your time on other affiliate promotion strategies.
Building a money-making blog using affiliate marketing involves everything from the ads in your sidebar to the topics you write about. By keeping all your posts targeted to the particular audience you’re targeting you can build a following and start to warm them up regarding the products and services you’ll be offering them in your affiliate promotion.
Further, you can use ads and posts to drive targeted traffic to your squeeze pages and opt-in forms, thus building your affiliate marketing list at the same time. This dual purpose – building your list and demonstrating your expertise within your target niche, will constitute the bulk of your affiliate marketing work online, and can go a long way towards making affiliate marketing pay for you.
Your affiliate blogging also gives you a home base online, a great place to drive targeted prospects to from your article marketing, podcasting and affiliate marketing video efforts. While your site is designed to be a traffic magnet on it’s own, sending additional web site traffic to it using these techniques and the various Web 2.0 sites that allow business networking will help a lot for making money affiliate marketing.
Using affiliate marketing to make money online, especially with your own affiliate marketing web site, is one of the most common ways to start a home business – and setting your site up right, hooking it into the various Web 2.0 sites and using strategies like Twitter affiliate marketing to drive targeted prospects to your web site should make your affiliate marketing pay that much sooner.
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6 comments
Luca Di Nicola - Follow this person as @rsonline on Twitter
on June 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM
Affiliate blogging is the best way to do affiliate marketing these days. You’ve mentioned many benefits of using blogs to get your message out there be it an affiliate promotion or your own product or service. The days of having static web pages are long gone. I even see squeeze pages designed with WordPress.
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Mike Paetzold - Follow this person as @mikepaetzold on Twitter
on June 8, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Yes I too think a blog is one of the best ways to set up your affiliate marketing around. Add in Twitter and the Web2.0 sites and you can create a great traffic funnel to pre-sell your affiliate promotions.
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Joel Osborne - Follow this person as @JoelOsborne on Twitter
on June 8, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Very true Doug. For someone who has been blogging for years now, you sure do know how to use them to make a lot of affiliate commissions.
There are so many different ways to make sales, but blogging is probably one of the best free ways.
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Andre Arnett - Follow this person as @learningaffil on Twitter
on June 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM
I have seen how a blog can be used and it really is a lot easier than most think. And what a great way to show your affiliate products. Can turn out to be a pretty good way to earn some money, especially if you are shown the right way to do it.
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Earl Netwal - Follow this person as @EarlNetwal on Twitter
on June 8, 2010 at 6:51 PM
totally agree about the use of blogs to support affiliate marketing, but it almost implies the need to do affiliate marketing in a relatively limited number of niches doesn’t it? If you start going afield a bit it gets difficult to create all the components for each program one might promote. Or can you get by with some single post blogs? And post on them infrequently or not at all?
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