Affiliate Program 7 Tips Running With Personal Blog

April 20, 2010 · by tinyportalmedia · in

1. Focus On Needs Your Blog Visitors
What did visitors search your blog? What information can you give your blog visitors? Often we are so tempted to promote products labeled “Best Seller” or “Deals Hot” from affiliate programs without regard to whether we follow the blog visitors you need the product or not. As a result, rather than want to buy, your blog visitors even sales pitch uncomfortable with the page that you created. Try to meet the needs of visitors to your blog first. If your personal blog more about the “flower arranging tips”, do not push yourself a Nintendo Wii to promote your blog visitors. :)

2. Select a Product and the Best Affiliate Program
After determining what products are in accordance with the needs of visitors to your blog, the next step is to choose the best affiliate products and programs you can promote. There are thousands of products that you can promote through affiliate programs that you can follow. I personally attended several affiliate programs (Amazon Associates, Commission Junction, ClickBank and Linkshare), but I feel more comfortable promoting Amazon products rather than products from the three other programs. Maybe it’s because Amazon is already well-established branding makes it relatively easier to be accepted. Or maybe because I still have a lot to learn about the three other affiliate programs. To be sure, choose the best affiliate products and programs according to you so you feel comfortable to promote it.

3. Your Personal Experience Is The Best Recommendations
One of the advantages is the personal blog of a personal nature. Relationships personal blog owners and visitors are often like the relationship between friends. By exploiting the nature of this personal relationship, it’s easier for you to promote affiliate products to visitors of your blog. Especially if you’ve bought or want to use affiliate products you promote in your blog. Ken Evoy, founder of CTPM Pilar (Pilar CTPM InsyaAllah this topic I will write at another time), referred to it as pre-selling advantages. When you have a friendly and warm relations, honest, serve, and show proficiency in the areas that you speak to visitors of your blog, will be much easier for you to do the selling without having to impress “sell” something.

4. Text Link Banner Much Better Than Link
Setting up an affiliate banner link is easier, but its effectiveness is much smaller than using a text link in the section of your blog posts. Concretely, try to include text links that you follow these affiliate products in posting articles you write. Of course the topic of articles must comply with the product that you want to promote. I personally use more text links to promote products that I follow the Amazon Associates. And the result is different than just put up banners Amazon Associates links.

5. Be Honest To Your Blog Visitor
Promoting affiliate products on your personal blog is not something unlawful. However, there is no harm in also to be honest with your visitors by conveying that you want to paste the link in the posting of your articles is an affiliate link. Put an (Ref) or (Aff) if you use a link that will bring visitors to the landing page of your blog that you follow these affiliate programs. Why should I be honest? First, your integrity. Due to the nature of a personal blog, visitors will be more appreciative of your blog if you are honest to them. Second, appreciate the time your visitors. If they want to know more, they would click a link on your blog affiliate products even though you have given signs (Ref) or (Aff).

6. Giving Options More Visitors To Your Blog
Adage that cliche but true: “Do not put all your eggs in one basket.” Try to diversify your revenue streams from online business. Do not become fixated on one program alone. If possible, merge with another affiliate program or even with other programs online business. However, it remains important to note that your personal blog is not too much crammed with a variety of programs. Imagine if in every post your article 10 insert affiliate links from 10 different programs. :) Your blog visitors will definitely fed up and run away from your blog. :)

7. Promote Your Time Together
The key is: do not be too quick to stop promoting affiliate products that you follow even if the value of earnings that you get is small or even nonexistent. Try to continue to write and insert a link (of course once again relevant to the topic of your writing) affiliate programs on your blog. With time, it is not impossible if you’re new affiliate product links are sought after month, two months or even a year after you write it on your blog. If your post pages already indexed search engine, it is not impossible people will find your blog, click on your affiliate links and make purchases. So, just be patient. Do not despair. :)

Perhaps the seven simple tips above could be the beginning to start running affiliate programs on your personal blog. What do you think? Do you have any personal tips that proved to give positive results for affiliate programs that you run? Or is it not working?

Good luck. Hopefully useful. :

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