Why Having a Blog for Affiliate Sales is Essential?

Today, everyone has a blog anyway. In fact even those who up until 3 years ago were totally against CMS and believed in flawless static XHTML, nowadays get themselve a blog. Why? Because it’s easy to put online, ultra easy to update and even easier to customize in one click.

Apart from that, however, it has one great advantage: your readers will listen to you. Once you develop a community of readers that actually value your opinion, you can occasionally blog about your affiliate products and get a good percentage off the sales.  When you just place the hosting banners on your sidebar (which lead to Aff urls) the chances of someone clicking are slim, and the chances of someone actually making a purchase are even slimmer.

I learnt from personal experience that there is nothing like writing a review about the product your are trying to sale. Write an honest review, outlining the advantage, however not hiding the disadvantages either. Make is easy to understand, easy to follow, tempting to buy/sign up, and you will see your sales growing. This is how I promote DreamHost on this site and the results are impressive. This is also how I managed to refer advertisers and bloggers for over $250 to text link ads last year and many other sales.

So… make a blog, if you don’t have one already and regularly write about your affiliate products. Good luck!