How to Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing?

It simply means, selling other people products.

You can sell others stuff by promoting at your blog or website.

You will be paid by the merchant(affiliate program) if your readers/customers make a sale. In other words, you’ll be paid if anyone of your readers buy something which you refer on your blog.

Understood? I hope so. Let’s get into the next step.
How to become an affiliate?

Affiliate marketing is the best way to monetize your blog rather than making money with any other programs like Google AdSense, BSA, Infolinks etc.

There are thousands of merchants which have affiliate programs that they want to sell their stuff. You’ll earn money if you sell their products.

Few things to keep in mind while doing affiliate marketing
You can make more money by using email list
Before you recommend, use it personally and write an honest review post
Choose relevant products to promote
Use affiliate links at your email links, blog posts, sidebars etc
Track your affiliate sales using bit.ly
Top affiliate programs you might want to join

Clickbank

Clickbank is one of the top affiliate programs. You can make decent money using this affiliate network because it pays very good commissions.

You can find tens of thousands of digital products to promote through your blog.

E-Junkie

If you want to sell your own products like eBooks, podcast or videos then this is the best choice.

Few Features of E-Junkie

Just $5 per month(you've to pay 5$ every month to E-junkie)
No transaction limit
No transaction fee

Amazon Associates Program

You’ll find all kinds of products here. No matter which blogging niche you’re in, you can still find relevant product for your blog using this program. Though it pays less commission, still you can make good money.

Share A Sale

Most of the top internet marketers are using this program. You don’t need to pay single penny to join this program because it’s FREE to join the Shareasale network.

You can use following individual products to do affiliate marketing

You can also promote individual products like
AWeber(aff. link)
HostGator
Premium themes like Thesis, Genesis etc
eBooks like 31DBBB, other useful resources
Membership programs and the list goes on.

I personally recommend using individual products if you’re just starting. Because you don’t need massive traffic to make decent amount in the early days of your blog monetization process.

How to promote affiliate programs to earn money from your blog?

Though there are many ways to promote affiliate programs, the following are the best ways to make more money without selling your soul!

By writing reviews

If you’re using few products, then write reviews about them.

Ex: If you’re using AWeber, you can write a review about it and use affiliate links to it.

If you’re good enough to convince your readers about the product, the chances of their purchasing rate will be high.

Using banner ads

You can use banner ads to promote products. Placing them in the right places is really important and it totally depends on your skills. The more you are into affiliate marketing, the more skills you can gain!

Promoting through email lists: As I said before, email list should be your weapon to promote your products. If you've built a great list, the chances of getting paid via affiliate programs will be more. You can send affiliate links in your emails using AWeber. You can’t do this through MailChimp.