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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Affiliate Advertising


There are many ways to monetize your blog. Once you establish your blog and start recieving some traffic, you can try your hands on affiliate programs.
Affiliate advertising is all about online marketing. An advertiser pays a blogger to promote the advertiser's products or services on their sites.

You can earn money mainly from three affiliate ads - pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-click. You earn money when your visitors perform some action such as clicking or purchasing on the page to which that link brings them to.

There are many well-known companies that offer affiliate programs which you can set up on your blog regardless of whether your blog is established or not.

Here are some companies that offer Affiliate Advertising Programs to bloggers.

1. Amazon - They offer to choose from a wide range of ads such as text links, banner ads and a lot more. You can also select the exact Amazon products you would like to add to your blog.
2. eBay - Ebay gives a lot of its auction items and other specific products that you can advertise on your blog.
3. Walmart - You can access to professionally designed banners and text link ads once you get approved through Linkshare.
4. AllPosters - AllPosters has 400,000 products from which you can choose to advertise on your blog.