Affiliate Marketing Blog - Category: Content creation

There can be a myriad of reasons why you might want to start a blog. Maybe you want a 'make money blog', or you want a blog that reviews affiliate products, or perhaps you want to setup a corporate blog to promote your business. Or maybe you just want the adoring attention of a blog community that hangs on your every post, a devoted group of blog readers who will defend you to the death.

Irrespective of your reasons for starting a blog, there is one thing you must have if you are to avoid...

Writing for the web has its fair share of challenges. We've already addressed a few in our blogging lessons but what about learning more about your audience? There are some enormous advantages to spending time discovering what makes your readers tick, above all, holding their interest in the long term! The difficulty is that when you’re writing it’s...

A few months ago I wrote that the FTC were considering regulating bloggers who make paid endorsements or false statements and affiliates disclosing their links. Now that it looks like this is going to happen, you're probably asking yourself; what does it actually mean? How will I have to change my affiliate site? And will I one day get a fine in the mail for promoting an...

Whether you like it or not, writing is a key skill for any internet marketer. The most successful affiliates and internet millionaires are often the ones who have got writing for the web down to a fine art, crafting compelling articles and sales copy. And while you can use services like elance.com to outsource your writing, or use PLR (private label rights) articles...

To delete or not delete – THAT is the question. Many people don't think of blogs as two-way communication mediums, however the truth is that blog comments are an essential part of what makes the blogosphere tick. Therefore deleting comments has to be approached with caution – especially when you're using a blog to promote affiliate products. Comments are the...

If you’re reading this, it’s quite likely you have your own blog. That being the case, you face the same challenges that all bloggers face, including us here at Affilorama. What do I blog about? How long and how often should I blog? How can I keep it interesting? How can I encourage comments?

So what is the magic formula that makes a blog popular? How did the likes of Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin rise to the giddy heights of online ‘celebrity-ness’? It's good to remember they weren't always...

One of the primary aims of an affiliate site is to attract visitors and build traffic. It goes without saying then that if you're more likely to be found by a search engine, then your site will be more successful. In fact, it's most likely the biggest issue facing site owners and quite possibly what keeps them up at night (hopefully in a good way!).

So the question has been asked – what achieves a higher ranking; a blog or a website? Before we discuss this question in more detail, let's just...