Affiliate Marketing Tip - Create A Blog

A blog is a great way to quickly add content to a website. You can use a blog as an add-on to your regular website or as a stand-alone blog. Either way, a blog allows you to share content such as reviews, articles, information on a particular topic with your readers. To create a blog, you'll need blogging platform (CMS) and a hosting account. You have several options for both. The CMS is usually free, and you have the choice of free hosting or paid hosting on your own domain. The two major providers of blogging software are Blogger and Wordpress. The main difference between the two is that Blogger hosts its software on its own server, while Wordpress is free software that you install on your hosting account.

While a wordpress blog is always hosted on your own account, you can host your blog for free on Blogger, or you can host it on your own hosting account and domain. You can start creating and publishing content once your blog is set up. Using a blog is similar to using email or a message board. You type in a title for your post and then type in your message. While you can not use regular search engine optimization strategies, you can use your most important keyword for the topic you are writing about in your title as well as at the beginning of your message or post. This will help the search engines determine what your blog and this post is about. Blogs also tend to get indexed by search engines fairly quickly, which means you will also have actively searching visitors to your blog fairly quickly. Blogs are another great tool for any affiliate marketer because you can add more content very easily and very quickly. To monetize your blog, you can include product recommendations in your post. For example, if you are an affiliate for an ebook on how to get your baby to sleep through the night, you could write a review about the ebook and post it on your blog, or you could write a short article about how new parents can cope with the lack of good night sleep until your baby sleeps through the night, and then mention the ebook as a resource at the end of your article. Include links to some of your favorite affiliate products in your blog's sidebar so that they appear regardless of which post the visitor is reading. There are very useful blogging tools that can help you to make your blogging easy. These tools are available at a very high discount during Black Friday Sale on Blogging Tools. You can also include pay-per-click ads like Google AdSense either in the sidebar or in individual blog posts. Here is a tip if you are using Google AdSense in the body of your post. Make sure your posts are not too short and you limit yourself to one specific topic per post. This way, Google can display ads that are related to the topics of your posts and hopefully are interesting to your readers and entice them to click.