How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business and start to build a database of interested followers that turn into buyers

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Blogging is a great place to start a business

A blog can be done in several ways however some ways are better than others.

They can be part of a website. WordPress

Done on a professional blogging site, Blue host

Use a share site to write your work like Blogger

On a hosted forum site like Medium

There are many more however there are some big differences in what you get.

For fun or social sites that you do not want much control over then, Blogger and Medium are great starter places. Cost is minimal and instructions ok however they are shared sites so a bit slower at times and you never own the material. Furthermore, you can not transfer it out even if you want to.

Professional-based sites are at Wealthy Affiliate, Blue Host, and Weebly.
YOu own the material and the site comes with full security, speed, and transferability thus you have control over your destiny.

When you have a website the addition of a blog is easy

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business

Your blog is a post on the websites. Posts are accessible individually having their own URL and list in chronological order in a way you choose, latest first or oldest first whichever way you want it.

Web site pages are however static but may contain links to other parts of your site.

Having a blog can grow your website hits by as much as 60% thus increasing sales and income.

Therefore a Website is an important addition to a blog site.

When you don't have a website.

The answer is pretty easy,

  • pick a name
  • register a URL
  • Park it with a reputable host
  • Build your main page
  • Add an about you page, terms, and conditions,
    Affiliate Disclosure
  • Start writing your blogs

What does a blog site achieve

Your blog is a very important part of the business and is a capture center for affiliate links.

In general terms, a blog is there to answer questions or solve problems along the lines of requests made to Google or other search engines.

For example, my Web site is titled Online business marketing.
Blogging is one part of that and a question sometimes asked is ;

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business. The subject of this page

This blog will also contain affiliate links and in fact more than one of them. This is a great benefit of affiliate marketing where multiple income streams can be had at the same time.

So my blog site is;

  • An entry to my webpage where extra sales can happen
  • A place to include my affiliate links
  • Advising readers on subjects they may be interested in
  • Gathering a database
  • Somewhere I can sell advertising to maximize my income
  • a link either to or from Social Media
  • A creative outlet to express myself and to help others
  • Gain value as a disposable asset

I am sure you will agree that is a very strong portfolio of benefits for any business

Blogging is labor intensive

One of the downfalls of blogging is that it is reasonably labor intensive taking a good couple of hours or more to complete a blog.

However, like anything else, there are many ways to help with writing.

  • Outsource the writing to someone to do it for you
  • Use speech-to-text to speed write
  • Employ an AI writer to do some of the work. japer.io
  • Get ghostwriters to add to the list of blogs


It should be noted however that you do need volume and the optimum is 30 posts a month although less would be okay except the traffic generated will be much less.

How do readers find your blogs?

With over a trillion blogs on the market and several million being written every day getting your blog in neon lights takes a bit of knowledge.

First of all, it is around Keywords, or what is asked into a search engine either typed or using a mobile devise and operator like Siri. Get the keyword right and you get the readers.

( note when I say keyword I mean longtail keyword or Keyphrase which all mean the same thing.)

SEO has a role to play as well

SEO or Search engine optimization is the rules set by Google that will help you gain a first-page position in a web search.
These rules are fairly general but include writing short paragraphs and sentences, using lots of linking to other sites, and establishing authority.

You will quickly understand all this with a bit of training and support along the way.

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business

One important point is developing a plan for your journey. Working out what you want to achieve and by when and commit this to writing. If you don't know where you are going you can never get there nor can you celebrate those small successes along the way.

Plan your keywords as well as what you will promote so you don't wake every day wondering what to do

Naturally enough this is an important part of the process. However, money comes after success so it will take a while for your work to be indexed and shown by Google and Bing.

I like to use Pretty links to handle all my linking activity. This gives me a good idea of traffic volumes because it is reported live and I can see what is working.
At times I will have several links to one place to discover what works best.

For example, I link To Wealthy affiliate because that is the starting place for all blogging activities.
On any page, I may have a page link, a banner, and a footer image and I report these differently because I want to see what works best. It is interesting that the footer image has really operated well and is getting a good deal of traffic. I made this image using the free service at Canva.com

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business

You can have as many links as you want providing they relate to the subject you are discussing. However, they can not be close together or they will overlap on a mobile device.

You must also make them no follow links for Google because he does not want to wander the internet going to affiliate links.

The beauty of blogging and affiliate marketing is gathering income from more than one source at a time or from one page.

However, overuse of links will get a reader reaction and they will turn away from your page so run a fine balance.

Remember that your purpose is to help others and getting paid is a side benefit and not the other way around.

Conclusion

Starting a blog is the easy part. Getting affiliate backing is important however consistency and action are the keys to success.

The more you blog the greater your success will be.

It is important to understand that a new post will not get attention from Google in the first three or four months so results are not instant. But stick with the journey and you will be there in the winner's circle.

How to start a blog for your affiliate marketing business by Peter Hanley

Peter Hanley

I have been in business for many years and the internet to find ways to grow your business faster

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