We’ve been over affiliate marketing already, but from a blogging perspective there is much to be said for including some affiliate links in and around a blog.

This is small time affiliate marketing and don’t expect one blog to make money by the truckload in doing it. Who said you have to stick with just one blog?

I’ve been looking at this from a slightly different angle lately and have realized that you have to think in terms of a bigger vista. One blog is fine if you only want to tick over money wise to begin with and see where your promotional efforts take you. There are plenty of successful bloggers out there who only run one blog. A big part of that success comes down to building that blog up so that it has a huge readership and then you can make money by charging advertisers a small fortune for you valuable high traffic space.

But when your blog hasn’t got that kind of grunt and you need to start pulling in the dollars, there is an alternative to get things moving, although it does entail a lot of work. Doesn’t it always?

It means finding several niches and doing the required keyword research work and then setting up several blogs to cater for each niche. Then using the affiliate programs you already belong to (join more if you need to), put up affiliate links on all of your blogs.

The method in this madness is by rationalizing that if one blog makes you “x” amount of dollars from it’s affiliate sales, then ten blogs will make ten times as much. Give or take depending on the popularity of the niche. That’s where your research will pay off of you’ve found some good niches to begin with.
It won’t work if you don’t. Plain and simple.

So depending upon how ready you are to take on a whole load more work, you can turn small time affiliate marketing into a big time business.

Because if ten blogs make you ten times as much, think how much money you could make with twenty, thirty or more blogs… if you can manage that many!

Here’s to your success!

Terry Didcott
Author and Creator of Blogging Web 2.0

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