Affiliate Marketing Blogging Monetization Tips

Ok so everyone is telling you that you have to start a blog, but let me tell you, a VERY high percentage of bloggers never make any money!

So here are a few steps to ensure your affiliate marketing efforts cash in on your blogging efforts.

First things first, you need some banners on your blog.

You can of course have banners linking to affiliate products, or you can go another route and sell advertising space on your blog too.

When linking to affiliate products from your blog, always try to use an ad rotator that provides stats so you can see your best performers and choose products with high conversion rates too. Most bloggers tend to use digital products from clickbank, but don't rule out real or physical products, related to your blog content from, Amazon or Ebay.

If you wish to go down the advertiser route you will first need to grow your blog readership and increase your traffic to attract advertisers first though.

There are many great free traffic generation courses to be found online, so take advantage and implement these traffic strategies onto your blog.

Another blog monetization option is Google Adsense, which allows you to add text/video or image ads onto your blog.

Profits from adsense can often be very low, so you have to decide if you are willing to lose your blog visitors for a few tiny cents when they click the ad and leave your site. Perhaps it would be better to add a cost per action Product/link.

Cost per action basically means that when a person takes a specific action, for example applying for a loan or a free trial, you get paid a commission, which is normally much higher than an adsense commission.

Test, test and test is the key element in blog monetization.

You must know your numbers, which adverts are producing the most commissions, use tracking software such as Crazy Egg to determine the ho spots on your blog and place your highest converting adverts on that part of your page.

Now you know which options you have for ads on your blog, the important of tracking your ads and how you can find out the best place to put your ads for maximum visibility, get out there and monetize your blog to the max, you do not have to one of the affiliate marketing bloggers who never make a dime!