If you want to make money with your blog, the easiest method you can try is affiliate marketing. First you need to find out which blog posts are the most popular, and getting the highest steady traffic. After identifying your most popular blog posts, you should look for relevant affiliate programs that you can place their banners or text links on these posts.
There are so many affiliate programs available for bloggers. However, not every blogger can really make good affiliate money. You will find below a few tips which will help you get the best results from any affiliate program.
Many products and companies have affiliate programs. Even if they don’t manage their own, there’s a chance that they run one through a third-party affiliate management program like Commission Junction or LinkShare.
Most of the third-party affiliate management programs run similarly. As a blogger you use your own affiliate URL to refer traffic, and a cookie is placed on the visitor’s computer. The good thing is, that cookie might expire anywhere from 30 to 90 days from now. If the visitor makes a purchase before the cookie expires, you still receive a portion of the sale. Commission ratio can range from 5 percent to 75 percent, depending on the product.
In Part 1 of the how to make money with blogs series we take a look at Google Adsense. Now let’s talk about affiliate programs.
Affiliate programs allow bloggers to earn commission when they refer customers to other businesses’. Affiliate marketing offers bloggers the opportunity to earn a steady income by generating sales for some of the Web’s biggest e-commerce sites like Amazon.
The new Bloghology Blogging Community, or Social Network, is another important extension of Bloghology. However, it is significantly more interactive, to reflect the community nature of blogging and the softer web 2.0 style of marketing. It functions and looks similar in many ways, to today’s popular social networking sites. The Bloghology Community Platform is unique in that it provides additional features and functions which are special to bloggers and blogging related issues.
We launched it a few weeks ago. It is still at BETA stage. We started with a hundred BETA testers. After having received so many positive feedback from them, we decided to open our doors to more bloggers. You are also invited to join Bloghology Community.
Up to now, the users were able to add friends, send message, update their profiles. We will add chat and classified ads functions by the end of this weekend. Our members will be able to chat with their friends/contacts/partners, and develop better relationships.
The “Classified Ads” will allow you to post classified listings. Categories created (like “Sponsorship Opportunities”, “Jobs”, “Personals”, etc.) and you can post relevant listings. You will also be able to search for other listings via a “browse marketplace” area. The good thing is each users’ listings will appear on their profile. No need to spend your time at forums like Digital Points to find sponsors/advertisers for your blog!
Join Bloghology Community, and feel free to invite your friends/colleagues/partners. You can do so by clicking on the TOP header”Invite” and you will be taken to the form where you can add your friends details.
I hope you will like these new features. We look forward to have your feedback. Please go to “Help” menu, and then click on “Contact Us” and submit your thoughts.
I will also appreciate if you can post about Bloghology, and help us spread the word.
The PRWeb is worldwide known with its effectiveness on online promotion and marketing campaigns. They have recently launched RSSPad, a free service for RSS feed promotion for websites/blogs. RSSPad provides a tool that will allow you to syndicate your content through the power of RSS.
What is RSS and How Do You It?
You use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). By syndicating you subscribe to the feed of the site which means you do not have to go visit the website to read the latest content. Instead you use feed reading software or a website to read the latest articles. Instead of going to each of your favourite sites individually you can collect all the feeds of the sites (provided they make them available) in one place. The purpose of syndication is to therefore make it more efficient for you to consume your favourite content. For more details about RSS please refer What is RSS and How Do I Use It?
How Can You Use RSSPad.com?
Here is my RSS Feed address at RSSPad: http://www.rsspad.com/SearchForBloggingcom.xml.If you find the information helpful, you may want to take a minute and subscribe to My RSS so you do not miss any great articles.