"Affiliate Blogging" Posts

We wanted to let you know about an excellent resource that can help you learn the ins and outs of affiliate marketing: WebmasterRadio.FM.

They feature a channel called Affiliate Thing. It’s hosted by Lisa Picarille, the Editor-in Chief of Revenue Magazine and Shawn Collins, the Co-founder of Affiliate Summit.

Each week, these two affiliate professionals announce the latest groundbreaking affiliate stories and conduct interviews with well-known industry leaders. Lisa and Shawn divulge affiliate marketing tips and valuable resources for increasing your revenue in the affiliate marketing world.

As of today, they had 42 podcasts for your listening pleasure. They are a knowledgeable duo – go listen!

To help promote The Secret Power of Blogging book, we sign up for our first affiliate program: Amazon Associates.

How it Works

By linking to Amazon products and services you can add content to your site and receive up to 10% in referral fees for doing so. Participation is free.

Associates drive internet traffic to Amazon.com through specially formatted links that track sales and other activity. Associates earn up to 10% in referral fees on all qualifying revenue made through their links. Amazon sends monthly payments to Associates.

You’ll have access to Associates Central, the place where you will build your links, view your traffic and earnings reports, and read about the latest news and opportunities available to you through the program. Reports are updated daily.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of WordPress themes available. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you look at it) they run the gamut:

• Many themes are very badly done, but some have very nice implementations
• Many feature minor modifications of existing themes with new names on them, but some are unique
• Some are free, but many are not

While it might be cost effective to begin with an existing, free theme, you might run into design limitations or find that badly coded themes may not support your future goals.

Welcome to the technical portion of our program. While everyone wants to get right to blogging, you have to know where the website is gonna be stored, right?

There are alot of hosting packages with a variety of price points. It can be overwhelming to find the right one for your affiliate blog. We offer some basic direction when considering hosts.

What features should you look for in a hosting plans?

• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• The ability to create and maintain databases (WordPress requires one and some ad servers require one as well)
• Decent bandwidth (200GB/month transfer)
• Storage (3000MB disk space)

What is the ContentRobot affiliate blog gonna focus on?

If you are familiar with our team, you’ll notice a strong affinity for Apple stuff (can you say fanboy/fangirl). Between us we have a stash of desktops, laptops, iPods, iPhones, and even a Mac TV (Not to be confused with the Apple TV, although we have one of those too ).