Best Affiliate Programs For Bloggers To Make Money By Blogging

Affiliate programs are one of the best ways for bloggers to monetize their traffic and subscriber base.

But it can be hard to pick out the best affiliate programs for bloggers. So in this article we will look at how to choose an affiliate product to promote with your blog as well as the highest paying offers to be a part of.

Lots of bloggers do a good job in building loyal followings to their blog via RSS feed subscription, email newsletter, Twitter, and Facebook. But very few bloggers do a good job of actually making money by blogging.

They are amazing at the relationship building stuff, but do not make enough money to earn a full-time income as a blogger.

I am the other way around. I get less traffic and have less of a following that many bloggers out there, yet I monetize my traffic very well and thus work as a full-time internet marketer. For most people though, blogging is unfortunately just a hobby.

So the first step to making money with your blog is to pick an affiliate program to promote. This can either be blogging tools and services as providing by companies like Empower Network, Blog Profit Network, Pure Leverage etc. Or it can be information products that teach people a certain skill that makes a good fit for the topic of your blog.

So if your website happens to be about how to build an online business then you can promote ebooks about internet marketing and online lead generation.

To find an ebook to promote on your blog take a look at websites such as Clickbank, Payspree, JVZoo and the Warrior Forum WSO section.

A good way to integrate this affiliate e-book into your blog would be to have an opt-in form on your website where visitors can subscribe to your email newsletter or request to receive a free gift in exchange for their email address. And then immediately after subscription, they are directed to this affiliate product.

Then you can follow-up via email to provide more tips and tricks and point people back to this ebook for more information.

However, a mistake that man bloggers make when promoting ebooks to their blog visitors is they base it all around one low ticket $37 ebook. You will have to sell that ebook thousands of times to make a living with blogging if that is all you are offering.

So it is instead a better idea to offer an initial low cost ebook as an entry point to your sales funnel. So then each customer will be offered more advanced training as upgrades in the future.

Make sure you are selling high ticket programs as well. So at the backend of your sales funnel you could promote a "done for you" type service as an affiliate that pays $497+ commissions. Or you could even offer your own private coaching program, which you would be entitled to charge good money for.

To make money blogging is all about thinking beyond simply building a relationship with your visitors, but how you can monetize them as well. As long as you are providing excellent value, then you should not be afraid to ask to be properly compensated.