Affiliate links can be a great passive money maker for your blog (or even your business). What takes affiliate commissons from good to great is lots of successive tweaks, tests and some planning ahead.
It’s a commonly held myth that you need to write about blogging to earn money from your blog. One of the easiest ways to make money is through affiliate commission, so this post is all about how to incorporate affiliate links – particularly for tech products and services you use yourself as a blogger or business owner – into your online life even if you don’t blog about blogging.
As an added bonus, nearly all of these tips work with the Lyrical Host affiliate program!
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a great time to earn affiliate commission. People are in the mood for buying – especially from the warmth, quiet and comfort of their own home! – so you don’t need to push for a sale. The most important thing is to create an appealing buying guide and market it well to get ahead of the competition.
This post takes you through planning, creating and promoting a Black Friday buying guide for any niche…whether you already have an audience or not!
Since the launch of our affiliate program, we’ve paid out thousands to bloggers and business owners happy to recommend our services. One of the surprising things we’ve noticed is that it’s not always the people with the high traffic and followers that get the most sales. In fact, many smaller, newer website owners make a lot of our sales, even if their traffic and followers are in the hundreds or less. Here’s how.