These 10 affiliate programs are just the telemarketing data of what’s possible. There are hundreds of ways to earn affiliate commissions with your website, including product reviews, top 10 lists, how-to guides, and more
But what about traffic and conversions? How do you make sure your affiliate links get clicked?
I used the affiliate training here to turn my seo for construction companies: 8 tips to build your traffic new website into a six-figure income generator in less than two years. Build a business, not just a pocket-money side project!
Are You Wasting Time & Money Learning To Blog?
The #1 Fear Of New Bloggers Is That They’ll Waste Time & Money & Get Nothing In Return
I get this comment all the time, “How do I know this won’t all be for nothing?”. People are scared that they’re wasting their time learning how to blog.
Although I’m a nice guy and respond kindly with my own trust review of success and links to other successful people online, secretly in my head, I’m thinking – what the hell else is so important in your life?
People waste hours and hours – literally daily – doing nothing but watching TV and screwing around on social media. My own screen time according to iOS is currently more than 4 hours per day on my phone. Sad, but a good example.
Everyone spare time. Everyone wastes time.
If you want to start a business, it’s going to involve some risk. Get over it. Yes, you might waste some time. No. You are definitely going to waste some time.
Part of learning how to blog with no previous experience is figuring out what’s waste of time and what’s not. You are going to make mistakes. That’s OK. Every entrepreneur makes mistakes. The successful ones you hear about are the folks who pick themselves up and try again.
You cannot go into this thinking that you are going to get everything right on the first time. Time will be lost. Money will be spent. That’s the cost of doing business. Given enough time, energy, and focus, you’ll come out on the other end with a profitable business you can run with nothing but a laptop in your living room.
So what do you have to lose? Some seasons of the newest Netflix series?
You’re Learning “Real” Online Business Skills
What a lot of people don’t realize is that as you learn to blog, you are learning real, marketable, income-generating skills in the meantime. Learning to build an affiliate blog is basically a self directed “earn while you learn” job training program.
While you build a site to earn money online, you are also learning skills that can help you land freelance jobs online in the future. If you can do these jobs well, some pay a LOT of money.
Social Media Manager
I hate social media, but it’s a good source of traffic. That’s why I always hire out my social media tasks. Things I’ve hired for in the past include:
- social media image design
- branded image packs
- content creation & scheduling
- daily following of relevant accounts
- online groups (Facebook pages, Pinterest boards) engagement
- paid social media ads
Some of these campaigns ran for more than six months, which was six months of work for someone.
Personally, I hate social media but some people are good at it, and even enjoy it. If you can learn how to things like video SEO for YouTube, or how to optimize pins for Pinterest, or how to get engagement on Twitter, or how to do Facebook ads, this is a skillset that blog owners like myself will pay for.
SEO Expert
SEO for blogging is easy in my opinion. No need to overcomplicate it, yet that’s exactly what everyone does. This works to your advantage.
Since everyone things that SEO is complicated, and you can become an expert at blogging SEO relatively quickly. Many times doing “good SEO” is just about optimizing a single page for a specific phrase. The basics are not very technical. I think of it like editing content.
Still, it’s a useful skill people will pay for. If you can get familiar with something like Ahrefs and a some of the more advanced technical stuff then you can really charge a lot of money for this service, even on a monthly basis. Ahrefs is great for generating reports and scores so you can see your client’s website’s progress over time.
Freelance Writer
The fastest and easiest way to start making money online in any capacity is simply writing articles. Everyone can write, right?