Monetize Your Business Weblog With a Web Affiliate Program
by Kathleen Hobbins
A great way to monetize your business weblog is with a web affiliate program. You may be blogging to promote your own product or service. If you are, promote that. But if you don’t have your own product or service, or you don’t have it yet, and you are blogging to make money, you need to give some serious thought to affiliate marketing. This post will give you some basic information about sponsoring a web affiliate program on your business weblog.
A web affiliate program is a way to promote someone else’s product. Your promotion of the product includes a link to the product-owner’s site that is coded to identify you as the publisher. When a visitor to your blog clicks on the link, he or she will be taken too the owner’s site where your reader will complete the sale. You don’t have to worry about a shopping cart, collecting money, customer inquiries or taking returns.
Affiliate products can be digital downloads, such as e-books, software or educational courses. Or they can be tangible products that get packaged up and shipped. And the range of products for which you can find a good web affiliate program is vast, so you can find something suitable for your business weblog. Everything from improving your golf swing to ending your anxiety attacks to growing hydroponic tomatoes can be the subject of an affiliate ebook. Everything from luggage to tobacco to automotive products are available for promotion through a web affiliate program.
Often, affiliate products are offered through outlets like Commission Junction or Clickbank. When you register with the outlet, you get paid through them, instead of through the individual vendors. Although there is bureaucracy involved in those relationships, there are advantages, too. For one thing, the payment records of both of them are excellent. If you work directly with a vendor, you may need to prod them to get paid your commissions.
Clickbank deals with digital downloads. Once you have signed up with them, you can promote anything that any vendor lists with them.
Commission Junction is an outlet for physical products. When you have registered with CJ, you still need to apply to each vendor that you may be interested in. And you can get rejected.
The amount of commissions vary, but they are always fully disclosed when you investigate a vendor. And sometimes they can be hefty. You can find a lot of products to promote on both CJ and on Clickbank that offer a commission of $50 or greater.
I’ll be discussing affiliate programs in greater detail over the course of the next couple of weeks. It is a very valuable way to make money online. If you are looking for ways to monetize your business weblog, you definitely want to look into a web affiliate program.
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