Jun
When to Post Reviews of Affiliate Sites
Obviously one of the largest ways of making money with your blog is through affiliate accounts. An affiliate is when you get paid for bringing business to a site. It usually involves either the person clicking on one of your specially coded links that have a referral code on them, or a banner displayed on your site with the same referral code on it.
The question is, when do you review these affiliates? If you are in the same niche that I’m in, then there may be a wise time to review them. If I were to put up some reviews of the sites I wish to show you in hopes of you signing up, I wouldn’t want to do that as my first post. Not many people search through your archives, especially if they aren’t easy to search through.
If you post it after you have 200 RSS subscribers you will have 200 people who will potentially read the post and maybe even sign up. Keep in mind a review should be honest to your readers because there is no point in lying to the reader, they will only sign up and quit. You will get nothing out of this, and you will have wasted your readers time.
You should review them after you get a decent amount of daily traffic. This amount will vary depending upon your blogs niche. I would suggest somewhere in the neighborhood of 200+ daily uniques, or 200+ RSS subscribers. The longer you wait, the better your success.
If you happened to have posted these offers before why not throw links to yourself in the middle of an article? Point an article on the topic of the affiliate site to your review. People will generally click this link to another one of your posts if they are interested in the topics.
Another rather common way of getting these links out there would be in a monthly earnings report. If you share with your readers how much you are making each month, why not put amounts you earned from each program. Then with links right next to the earnings you can have your affiliate code in there. This way they will choose some of the more profitable sites and hopefully sign up.
The longer you wait to actually dedicate a post about them, the better you’ll do. If you have reviewed them already, don’t republish it. You can use many techniques to display your affiliate codes elsewhere on your site.
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June 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 am
I’ve just read through all of your posts. I was going to say welcome to blogging, but by the sounds of it you’ve been blogging in one way or another for quite some time. My blog doesn’t really fit into any niche, but I’ll continue to read yours in the hope of picking up some pearls of wisdom. What does signing up to an RSS feed involve? Does it involve getting an email each time you post or do I open myself up to being bombarded with ads?
Dee
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 am
Signing up for somebody elses RSS feed can mean two things. One is you can set up a google homepage that will allow you to receive a list of the 3 most recent posts posted on this google page. You can add unlimited blogs to this so it is easy to keep track of your favorite blogs and when they are posting. It’s very similar to the area on Triond where we see the newest articles by our friends only each friend would have their own slot. Email subscribing I have no experience with. I’m assuming you get an email every time I post, which can get repetitive.