Chapter 3
Making Money with Affiliate Marketing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding affiliate marketing
Benefiting from affiliate marketing
Knowing the problems of affiliate marketing
Making affiliate marketing work on your blog
Finding popular affiliate marketing programs
Affiliate marketing is a form of online advertising where online publishers, such as bloggers, encourage readers or followers to visit an online store and make a purchase in exchange for a percentage of the sale, otherwise known as a commission. Affiliate marketing is popular among both bloggers and advertisers. Not only does it offer advertisers a way to promote their products and services in front of highly targeted audiences, but it also provides an excellent way for bloggers to make money from their blogs with little additional effort. After an affiliate program is set up, it typically runs on its own!
This chapter explains what affiliate marketing is and how you can use it to derive an income from your blog. I also ...