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Want an Affiliate Marketing Blog?

July 17, 2009 · Posted in Make Money with a Blog 

Oooh, want to make money with an affiliate marketing blog? Whoa slow down! While you’ve heard you can make lots of money blogging with affiliates, let’s take a look at some quick pointers on blogging and affiliate marketing. While that’s all well and good…some people go overboard. Let’s look at what happens when you don’t control this aspect.

There are many bloggers who started their blog for the purpose of making money. There is nothing wrong with this and it is not a hidden fact. There are a number of ways to make money through blogging, some are looked on favorably and some are not. Anyone who spends any amount of time checking different blogs out quickly and easily can see some of the popular ways to make money online. Many bloggers make money through blogging through pay per click ads, the selling of links, affiliate sales, and more.

Each money making method does have its own downsides though. A significant amount of damage can be done to a blog that goes overboard in each of those methods. Here is a look at the dangers of going overboard with affiliate marketing. There are two main problems that can happen to a blog that spends more time worrying about affiliate marketing than it does about the stated purpose of the blog itself.

Loss of Credibility

Blog readers like to read interesting and thought provoking information and feel that the blog author feels strongly about the subject. When they start to feel, because of over saturation of affiliate posts and ads, that the blogger is really blogging just for money and trying to sell products to the readers, they may decide to value what the author says less, and may even decide to stop visiting the blog. By sacrificing blog quality in the name of increased affiliate sales, a blog owner has decided that they and their blog’s credibility is not important to them.

Loss of Focus

When a blog exhibits too many affiliate marketing ties and promotions, sometimes the focus of the blog can suffer. A blogger may merely be attempting to increase their online earnings, but if this forces them to post about things that are only vaguely related to their blog’s subject matter, or worse yet, post about things that are unrelated to the topic of their blog, they are damaging their blog immensely. Readers frequent a blog because it consistently gives information about a subject they are looking for more information on. When a blog is taken over by affiliate ads and blog posts promoting affiliate products, especially ones that are not of particular value to the readers, then they may decide to stop visiting the blog on a regular basis.

Making money online via blogging is not a sin. Most blog readers know that most blogs are set up as income generation mechanisms to some degree. The thing is though that they don’t want to feel like they have walked onto the stereotypical used car lot when they visit a blog they are hoping will provide them with the information that they are looking for. Two qualities that a blog must have to be a success are credibility and focus, but going overboard on affiliate sales, ads, and blog posts risks losing all the credibility and focus that a blogger has built up during the life of their blog.

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