After investing so much time, effort, and energy into getting your blog up and running, followed by regular updates with interesting and valuable content that is raking in tonnes of views, you have decided to use your existing customer base as a means of generating revenue from your blog through affiliate blogging.
Affiliate blogging can be defined as a type of affiliate marketing where you partner with a major brand, enterprise, or business whereby you recommend their products or services to your readers, and if they make a purchase, you earn a percentage from that sale which serves as your payment in the business arrangement.
Although affiliate blogging is one of the numerous ways through which you can generate revenue from your blog, there are specific approaches you need to adopt and certain things you need to avoid to succeed as an affiliate marketer.
To remain credible, authentic, and earn money as an affiliate blogger, here is a list of the top three things you need to avoid when starting your blog to earn money as an affiliate.
1. Dishonesty
As an affiliate blogger, you need to be honest with your readers.
When you are trying to promote a new product to your readers, you need to tell the truth and be plain because that’s the only way you can get them to trust you.
Gaining trust requires your honest and genuine feedback on a product.
If you experienced any benefits from using a particular product, you should emphasize that to your readers, and also if you had any issues while using the same product, those challenges should be mentioned as well.
If you are dishonest, you lose credibility and authenticity, which are both crucial elements that play a pivotal role in your success when operating an affiliate blog.
Therefore, for you to retain your current audience, attract new ones, promote a product and get them to actually make a purchase, you need to build trust and not suck them up with empty promises.
To grow and thrive in affiliate marketing, takes time and if you use the right techniques and remain trustworthy, you can be certain of bringing big bucks in less than no time.
2. Lack of SEO
You cannot underestimate the immense power of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
You have to pay full attention to your keywords, metadata, backlinks, and all the important elements you need for great SEO work.
If you want to build a business giving affiliate recommendations then you need to optimize all your affiliate posts in order to gain traffic from organic search results.
Therefore you should not forget to use the right keywords and invest your time and effort into optimizing those keywords, including them on your article titles, in your videos, pictures, etc. to help you fulfill all the necessary criteria for a higher ranking on search engines result pages.
If you are a new blogger starting out in the affiliate world, then SEO has the potential to help people find you, read your content, click on your links and become a loyal reader and customer.
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3. Failure to Use Your Affiliate Resources
You cannot ignore or forget to tap into and take advantage of the affiliate resources that may be an added feature when you decide to work with a successful program.
You need to realize that most successful affiliate programs always have certain resources in places such as customized banners, specific offers, custom links, coupon codes or special landing pages, or customer support to help you in setting everything up on your blog properly and begin to make sales much easier with little or no issues as an affiliate partner.
To Wrap Up…
No blogger starts his blogging business with affiliate marketing right away!
There will be a lot of trials and errors.
But, if you follow the right steps, you will do just fine.
Do you feel you have created any of the above following mistakes to earn as an affiliate?
If so give your blog the added makeover changes by implementing the right strategies and see where you can improve on your journey to become a successful affiliate blogger.
Over to you!
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My name is Sujoy Mukherji. I am an Internet Marketer, Entrepreneur & Professional Blogger. Founder of the Affiliate Hub Blog.