Affiliate programs are one of the best ways to make money online through your blog. If you are not aware how to start with affiliate programs you can check out previous article of Shoutmeloud about starting with affiliate program. The main problem faced by bloggers to start with affiliate program is that they don’t know which affiliate program is good for them and which affiliate program to choose from huge number of affiliate programs available online.
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Here are 5 tips which will help you to select best affiliate program for your blog:
Relevant to your niche
It is very important that you must select the product of affiliate program relevant to your blog niche. Like if you are having a blogging and WordPress blog, you can choose for Thesis Affiliate Program. You should analyze what kind of traffic you get and choose the affiliate program according to your visitors so that your visitors will be interested to purchase the product.
Also Read: Make money online with Thesis Affiliate Program
Offer new products
Why visitors will purchase from your affiliate program if they are getting same products on other blogs also. Thus when you select product, make sure that you provide new products to your visitors so that they will be keen to purchase new and unique products from your blog. If affiliate program allows you to change the products then it is better to keepon changing products so that visitors will get something new to buy.
Payments
There is a myth that with high rates of payment you will earn more even if you get fewer clicks. Before choosing the right affiliate program for your blog check out the minimum payouts, referral commissions, terms and conditions etc. Know how they are going to pay you either with PayPal or cheque.
Also Read: Find your Recurring Pay list in Paypal
Research
It is very important to research about the affiliate programs before signing up. You should not register to any affiliate programs just because your friend suggested you for same. Check out few forums and know the customers reactions, read discussion boards. Know about their customer support and the mailing list. These things are generally ignored while choosing affiliate programs but these are very important.
Trustworthy
Going for unethical way to earn money is the worst part of blogging. Don’t ever try to sell off things just because you have to earn money through affiliates by hook or crook. If you don’t trust any product, don’t try to sell that product to your visitors.
Choosing affiliate programs are very important thus you must choose them wisely. Do share with us, which factors you keep in mind while choosing affiliate program for your blog.
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Well categorized info., looking forward to implement some.
Thanks Ankit.
Nice post. Too many mentions of “affiliate program” though I guess (20!). Affiliate Bloggers usually forget that for earning six-figure incomes they need to build trust more than just add scores of banners and links to their blogs! That trust is usually built through well-known products, long-term association and large number of posts on the blog. Sad to say, but most of them use article re-writing tools to create blogs with no sense of language! Some blogs with affiliate strategies which I really like are : Shoutmeloud (obviously!), Problogger, Daily Blog Tips and John Chow’s Blog. They really know how to gain the visitors’ trust.
Agree with you Samir….Trust is the biggest factor when it comes to affiliate marketing.
Thanks for liking Shoutmeloud
Nice but short post Ruchi. It would be nice if would have hinted on other affiliate programs available to choose from. I had lost 70 pounds on payment issues with advertiser, So I think its very important to choose payment options available in your country.
Hey Farukh…will surely come up with list few affiliate program to select from. Thanks for the tip.
For now, I only sell product that I had been try and of course, I must satisfy.
That’s good habit Dana….Many bloggers just want to make money no matter they trust the affiliate or not.
Payments is the Key of a good Network, If they Paying on Time, that i am checking. Thanks Ruchi for the tips.
Glad you like the tips Anish.
Important points made in this article
well worth reading if you are considering affiliate programs
Thanks Jeff.
Points taken…
Hey Ruchi,
Great tips. Thanks for sharing this great post. I think researching is very important before choosing an affiliate program.
Thanks,
Dev
Thanks for useful post… This will help us a lot
@ Techno-Pulse @ Vishal …Glad you found the post useful.
@ Dev…Research is important for us as well as for others whom we will sell products through affiliates.
i have tried many times to get a new good affiliate product for my blog but it is not working….not a single sale till date
Tushar , Better to research, have relevant affiliates and keep your visitors in mind. I am sure it will help you a lot.
Choosing the right affiliate program will help us boost commission. I think full reviews will convert very well as I mentioned in my late April earning. Thanks
Right Tinh… genuine reviews always work.
Great tips Ruchi, I agree with you we should do a lot of Research when signing up for an affiliate program. There can be many scam affiliate programs too which may never pay you
Thanks Shiva…. There are many scam affiliates programs which is bad for us as well as for our clients.
Affiliate programs can be a great way to make money however we must remember that we want to capture a list first or else we are just turning our warm leads over to someone else for their own list. Once we have a visitor in our own list we can market to them as long as we can keep them… being certain to give loads of value to make up for the occasional marketing piece. There are a lot of great affiliate programs that I have found and been happy with. For me they’re mostly tech oriented because that is my niche (hostgator, thesis, woothemes, graphic packs, wordpress plugins, design services, etc) There is tons of programs but it definitely is buyer beware – starting with trusted companies is the way to go.
Thanks Kimberly for great tip . Trust is the key factor when it comes to Affiliate programs.
Nice info, sis.
It’s makes me more carefull to select an affiliates.
Thanks
Glad you found it useful Andri .
Hi Ruchi,
Thanks for this nice post about affiliate. I like you especially for saying going for unethical way to earn money is the worst part of blogging. Many new comers read everywhere about how to make money blogging and this is what they will try. Your post rightly shows the correct path. I wish they check these tips before attempting to sell something.
Joining Affiliate programs depends upon the Niche. Blogging Niche has far more success than any other Niche.