It’s nice to graduate from novice to success, isn’t it? If you want to succeed in affiliate marketing, blogging can certainly help you move from newbie to seasoned.
Read on for some tips on how and why blog marketing is a great way to sell affiliate products.
Why Blog?
Blogs are interactive. Blogs are quickly noticed by search engines. Blogs entries can be published often. People can easily link to them and comment on them. Blogs are a great way to communicate with others, to cover a lot of keyword phrases for your optimization strategy, and offer a great way to get noticed.
Blogs can be custom designed very easily. As an affiliate marketer, you can customize your sidebars to include plenty of money-making opportunities. You can make money with Adsense, affiliate products etc, and you can also use opt-in boxes to help you build a marketing list.
Within your individual blog posts you can target even further so that you can write around a specific product or idea. Within that post you can list other items for sale or other specific call to action choices. It’s easy to learn how to blog, blogs are easy to maintain, and you don’t have to be technical to manage your blog. These are just some of the reasons that blog marketing is a great vehicle for making money online.
Blog Marketing – Search Engine Optimization Tips
When you write and publish a new blog entry, you draw attention, particularly if you optimize those blog posts. Instead of putting up a static website that won’t get noticed unless changes are made to it, you bring traffic to your site on a continuous basis. Here are some search engine optimisation tips to help you optimize those blog posts:
• Keywords – Choose a few keywords for each blog post you write. Make sure you sprinkle them throughout the text, especially in the title, first paragraph, and in subheadings.
• Photos – Add a relevant photo to the blog. A picture really is worth 1,000 words and if you give the photo an alt image tag name that relates to keywords and phrases in your niche, this is another way to get search engines to take notice and index your site.
• Links – Link to other pages within your site. This is good practice, keeping visitors on your site longer and telling search engines that stop to visit the new content, exactly what the other pages on your site are about.
• Bookmarks – Add social bookmarking buttons, for example, you may like to use the Sexybookmarks or Sociofluid WordPress plugins. Encourage your readers to bookmark your new posts and share with the world. This can help you get more blog traffic.
• Write good content – Show people that your site is a valuable resource and they may come back more often, subscribe to you, recommend your site to others, and they could purchase something, too.
• Encourage people to subscribe – Subscribers to a blog will get new info delivered to them via their feed reader or via an email. This can help you build a following who buys from you and recommends you to others on a regular basis.
• Post new blog content often – The more often you post, the more often search engine spiders will stop by to see where they can list those new pages.
• Buy a domain name – Sure, free hosted blogs are useful for building links and directing traffic and you may even earn money from them. By all means, use them! But you’ll have more control if you also have a self hosted blog on its own domain so register a domain as well. You can even do the vast majority of your business on a blog. Choose a great blog theme, learn to optimize your blog, put together a solid affiliate marketing strategy to follow, and get going! Blogs and associated tools can help you build great communities and be great vehicles for helping you achieve the success you want.
Learn all you can about how to use blog marketing to sell affiliate products and regularly analyse your blog traffic statistics so you can see what’s working and what could be optimized further. Happy Blogging!
Sean Rasmussen
Aussie Internet Marketer
Learn Affiliate Marketing with Year Of The Affiliate © 2012
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Some more wonderful and positive tips to add to the many I have learned during the internet marketing competition For A Few Dollars More. You should wear the crown Sean Rasmussen for being the King of affiliate mentors.
I am an affiliate marketing newbie and so these are some good blog marketing tips as a revision and chance to check for new ideas.
Bookmarks is one of them. I like the idea of a Sexybookmark, well actually one that will encourage people to bookmark to increase their chance of return to find out what’s new or to go back and re-read.
A lot more things to learn and to search for!
Thank you Sean.
Hi Sean,
Great tips here for budding affiliate marketers!
Than ks for the awesome tips, I have just replaced the silly little share button I had on my blog with the stylish ‘SexyBookmarks’ plugin you have suggested. I have actually seen a similar one I wanted but the cost was out of my reach so I am stoked to have downloaded this one! Thanks again Sean, your content continues to provide great blog marketing tips & strategies that help me along as an aspiring internet marketer : )
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Glad you like it Jeremy, it’s certainly a pretty cool bookmarking plugin
Thanks Sean for some more great advice to help us with affiliate marketing. This stuff really works.
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I wondered if you knew why some companies prohibit their marketing affiliates from posting anything associated with their companies on social media sites like Facebook?
It seems to be a really mixed bag of various types of companies, both large and small that prohibited using social media sites.
I have asked a couple of the affiliate marketing company reps and incredible they didn’t know why they prohibit it just that they do.
I have thought about writing some of the companies to ask them directly, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it yet and thought you might know the answer.
Thank you
There seems to be a fear of meddling with social media giants such as Facebook. If there is a reference in their Terms and Conditions about “not using them for commercial purposes”, then that seems to send fear into many webmasters. I suggest to move on to other avenues when sites restrict those options.