Monetizing Your Blog - Part II

Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend
products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the
merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission
too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to
start because you don’t have to create your own products or
services.

Let’s say for instance that you blog is about sets and reps for
fitness.  You discover Fitness Product X on a merchant’s website,
and they offer an affiliate program. You would join the affiliate
program and then create a post in your blog and do a mini-review
on Fitness Product X.

Be thorough and point out its benefits and bad points, if any,
and include your affiliate link (which is provided by the merchant)
for the visitor to purchase Fitness Product X online.

If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant
will track the sale from your link and will send you your share of
the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get
purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from
each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would
be a $2,700.00 pay check for you just for writing about ONE
product.

Now, affiliate programs are very nice ways to generate profits,
but how do you find affiliate programs that are related to your
blog’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for
<your niche> + “affiliate programs” (without the quotation marks,
but with the + sign). Another slightly better way is to go to programs
http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate
programs in your niche.

The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits
from your blog. We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways,
so keep your eyes peeled!