Making Money With Affiliate Programs

Making Money With Affiliate Programs

If you ask me, about the best way to make money online. I will tell you affiliate programs is the best way of making money online. there are various way of making money online, but i prefer affiliate programs to all of them. Come to think of if, do you really know what an affiliate program is and how it works? If you don't know, then this article will tell a little about affiliate marketing as you read on.

Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting another company's products or services for a commission. I love affiliate marketing because it's a very simple, transparent model for earning an income online. It's not about joining some pyramid scheme where you have to recruit people to sell random products (I really hate those programs.)

You create a useful, themed website that provides information, and then casually recommend products that are related to your topic. Let's say your site is about reviewing plasma TV's. You could join Best Buy's affiliate program and earn a commission when someone purchases a TV based on your site's referral.

A Quick Affiliate Marketing Tip

The key to finding success with affiliate programs is to build a content-rich website with useful information centered around a specific topic or theme. Don't just haphazardly throw up a quick site or blog and string a bunch of affiliate links all over your pages.

You have to start by building credibility. And the best way to do that is to write about something you know a lot about. Instead of hard-selling, the key is to subtly recommend products and services that fit in with what you are writing about in your content.

It's also a good idea to own the products you promote so you can speak intelligently about them and appear more credible to your audience.

Affiliate Programs/Networks I Use

I am an affiliate of many networks such as Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareaSale, Clickbank, Amazon and more. It's really not about the network, it's more about the relevant products that you promote on your website.

So if you are creating a website about babies, you would search the various affiliate networks and look for products that relate to the theme of your website. Grab the affiliate code from your account, paste it into your site and you can begin earning from the referrals in your articles.
It's Not About The Program

People ALWAYS ask me which program to join in order to make the most money, and that's a question I will never, ever answer.

It's NOT about the program because you could make a killing with any program. What matters is if the program is relevant to your site or not. If you are seeking out the most profitable program, you're already starting off on the wrong foot. It's about finding programs that match whatever your site is about.

I could tell you that I make $2,000/month with one program on this site, but if your site is about cooking or some other topic, obviously that program is not going to be relevant to YOUR visitors. So of course, your income would be a lot lower than mine.

So be careful about comparing your potential results with other people.

If you can generate enough traffic, you can sell almost anything on your website. So don't get caught up in the affiliate program. Focus on the topic of your site and search for products that fit your site's content.

That was all for now, regarding making money with affiliate marketing. feel free to leave you questions or contributions in the comment section.

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Reasons Why College Students Should Own A Blog

Reasons Why College Students Should Own A Blog
There are various reasons why people blog. Today i want to share with you the important reasons why college students should blog. As I said earlier, there are various reasons why people blog. If I may ask, what really interested you about blogging that you started your first blog. please drop your response in the comment section. Is it because because your friends of or college mate owns a blog that made to create your blog.
Whatever the case may be i want to share with you the reasons why college students should blog.

Reasons Why College Students Should Own A Blog

As a recent college graduate, I have learned so much since graduating. It’s definitely been a big transition to go from heady book knowledge to actual hands-on experience. Looking back, I wish I would have had more practical experience, and I strongly believe that starting a blog in college would have helped me tremendously to bridge the gap of knowledge to practical experience.

Here are just a few reasons that I think blogging in college helps students gain great experience to help with future career aspirations and life in general. I also must put in a disclaimer that blogging is not for everyone, and it takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to really become a “successful” blogger.

Reasons Why College Students Should Own A Blog

Develop your Voice – One of the hardest parts of blogging in my opinion is finding your voice as a writer. It’s easy to write formal term papers, but it takes another skill to become an engaging, creative writer for your audience. Becoming a good storyteller with your writing is also very difficult, and it’s something I am still trying to learn. Finding your voice and implementing storytelling into your writing can be difficult and definitely takes some practice to perfect, so why not start developing these skills in college?

Build your Audience – Networking and building your audience is also a major challenge for beginning bloggers. You may have great things to say, but if no one is listening, you are not making nearly as big of an impact as you could be. It takes a lot of time and hard work to build your audience / tribe, so do not become discouraged if you don’t have 1,000 subscribers right away. You won’t have an audience like Bloggodown over night, but do not let that discourage you. Persist diligently in your writing and continue to engage in conversations on other blogs, and your hard work will pay off in the long run.

Contribute Information – When you are in college, you are constantly being fed a deluge of information. Many times, you may not necessarily agree with your professors, but don’t let that stop you from sharing those thoughts and ideas with others. Controversial ideas make for great discussions online, and using a blog to host these discussions is highly beneficial.

Online Resume – Having a well-developed blog can be a great asset for you as you look for jobs post-college. Engaging writers who are also great at social media are in high demand for companies these days. Companies are turning more and more to online networks to make important decisions and engage with customers, making writing and social engagement a great skill to have. Having a well-developed blog shows that you are not only a good writer, but also have the necessary skills to manage online resources and are motivated to succeed. Upon graduation this will help you differentiate yourself among your colleagues.

Personal Reflection – It is my belief that personal reflection is not discussed nearly enough in conversation surrounding the benefits of blogging. Confucius once said,

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Most people talk about either the experience or the benefits surrounding blogging, but rarely do you hear that anyone discuss the benefit of reflection. Our lives are very fast-pace and we have so many interruptions and conflicting messages sent to us all of the time, and rarely, do we actually think about a topic for longer than 20 minutes, let alone write about it. Therefore, writing a blog about something you are passionate or life in general can be of great personal value to learning wisdom. You may not always make a dime on it, but sometimes wisdom in and of itself is priceless.

If you are not a college student, starting a blog can also be of great value. After all, the above points aren’t exclusively for college students. If you are a college student, consider writing a blog. Also, if you are interested in looking for guest blogging opportunities to further enhance your skills and gain exposure, check out sites like blog.hellopostify.com, which provide blogging opportunities

That was all i have for now regarding reasons why college students should own a blog. Please use the comment section to contribute to this article.

Reference: Bloggodown

Google Analytics Beginners Guide

Google analytics is one of the blogging tools that all the bloggers must use, if you must get on track with your keyword competitors, I recommend google analytics for you to use i. So for you to have the desire report to work on your desired keyword so as to stay ahead of your competitors, you need google analytics.

After my publication of basic blogging tips for beginners, I found it necessary to also write on google analytics beginners guide to contribute to the basic blogging tips I published earlier. There are a lot of beginners venturing into the blogoshere without proper knowledge about the use of google analytics that is why I’m titling this post “google analytics beginners guide”.

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What is the purpose of your blog? Is it a business blog designed to generate sales and customers? Are you looking to grow a community of like-minded people, or start a movement? Or perhaps you are trying to generate revenue through your content?

Whatever the goals of your blog, it is important to know what people like and dislike, what content is best serving your target demographic, and how far your posts are reaching.

‘But I’m not trying to make money from my blog’, you say? Even so, if you care about the experience of your readers on your blog, you’ll want to know how you can improve it.

Analytics are the only sure-fire way to measure the success of your blog, in whatever terms that may be.

What is Google analytics all about?

Google Analytics provides “powerful digital analytics for anyone with a web presence, large or small.” It allows you to monitor the overall performance of your blog post. Through detailed statistical analysis, it can tell you how many people visited your site, where they landed and how long they stayed. It is also good to know which pages are holding readers’ attention the longest, and where they were when they left you.


Measuring the success of anything depends on having clearly defined goals to measure it against. Google Analytics, integrated into the source code of your blog, will measure your blog’s performance against your specified goals.

Why google analytics?

How else will you know which content to optimize in the future, how to tailor your blog experience to your readers, and which social media avenues are best for sharing your content?

If you don’t know which posts are doing well, you’ll never know which ones to optimize. Analytics, by identifying the avenues that are generating the most traffic, give you the information you need to leverage the right traffic for growth.

If you have any other goal for your blog other than the simple act of writing it, google analytics is essential.

How to use Google analytics

Are you sold on the value of using analytics to monitor your blog’s performance?

Good, now for the important bit. To avoid getting completely lost, it is important to know how to read your statistics correctly, and to separate the inaccurate and confusing from what is most valuable to you.

RSS feed subscriptions, visit duration and the number of pages per visit are all good indicators of general audience engagement, although they should be approached with some caution. For example; any visitor that only visit one page will automatically be categorized as a short-term visitor (0-10 seconds) by Google Analytics. By the very nature of a blog, many visitors will only visit one page, but if they read all the way through the post, they’ll stay for a lot longer than 10 seconds!

Don’t be mislead and disheartened by these figures. You’d do much better to focus on time spent on your site. Are people reading your posts all the way through, and are they navigating to your older posts too? There is no better measure of whether your content is grabbing readers’ attention than this.

Keep a close eye on your email subscriptions as a clear indicator of how many readers are converting to loyal followers. Features such as Real Time, Page Views, Unique Visitors and Traffic Sources and Referrals. Google Analytics allows you to pinpoint the behavior of your visitors, the content and avenues that are working well for you.

There you have it, your general introduction to analytics. There are a lot more specifics to get your head around, but hopefully you have learned the value of analytics and how it can improve the blogging experience for you, the writer, and for your audience.

Analytics is not just about measurement. It is about informing future action, so that you can concentrate on pushing what is working for you, tailor your content for your followers and stop wasting time on fruitless labors.

Reference: Bloggodown

How To Change Permalink In Blogger

Changing your blog post permalink from the default to a custom post url is also one of the major tips for boosting your search engine ranking. For the newbies, SEO does not mean "Spam Everywhere Online", it means Search Engine Optimization.

We all know that in blogger blogs, once a new blog post is written, the url for that blog post will be generated automatically, but the automated url may not suit your target, that is why I'm coming up with this tutorial on how you can customize your blog permalinks.

Now the big question is:

How Do I Change My Post Permalink In Blogger?

• While on your post editor, I mean while writing your blog post, check the right hand side of that your post editor, you should see something like Permalink. Click on it.
• After clicking on it choose Custom Permalink at this point you will be provided with a box to key in your desired custom post URL.

• After keying in your desired custom Permalink, click on done;  and that's all.

Note that after each word you have to put a dash e.g change-blog-post-url-set-a-custom-post-url.

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How To Deactivate Airtel Blackberry (BB) Subscription

Today i want to write briefly on how to deactivate your Airtel blackberry (bb), for you to be able to subscribe to a new blackberry (bb) data plan on Airtel network, you must deactivate the current data plan that you are using.

Assuming you bought a data bundle that was slated to expire on the 31st of July, 2014, but you exhaust it before the scheduled date of expiration, you will not be able to purchase a new data plan unless you deactivate the former data plan.

Now the big question is:

How do i deactivate my Airtel blackberry (bb) subscription?

It's easy, to deactivate it, just send DEACTIVATE as an SMS to 440 on your Airtel Sim, after which you can buy the desire data bundle.

Also Read: New Airtel Cheap 4GB BIS Subscription (1+1)

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How To Find Widget ID In Blogger

Knowing your added widget id is important when it comes to adding a scrolling effect on your blogger blog link list for example, and other related CSS related tutorials. So it is necessary you know the widget id that you've added to your blog, just in case you want to use now or later.

In today's tutorial I'm gonna show you how you can get the widget id of any added widget on your blogger blog.

How To Find Widget ID In Blogger

• Add the gadget that you want to your blog.
• After successful  adding of the gadget under it you will see edit, click on it, you can see the screenshot below.
  
• When you click on the edit a window will pop up, on that window maximize it so that you can see all the included url in the address bar because your widget id is contained there.
• After maximizing the window check on the address bar of your browser, at the top right corner of your browser address bar is your widget id. You can see the screenshot below.
  

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How To A Make Static Homepage/Front Page In Blogger

Making a static homepage/front page in blogger requires you do use the custom redirects function in blogger, while in the case of making a static homepage/front page in a WordPress blog, you can set your static homepage with some clicks and your homepage will be ready.

Though it is a little bit tricky to set a static homepage in blogger, but this tutorial will walk you through all the steps you need to create your static homepage.

Now the big question is:

How do I make a static homepage in blogger?

As I promised earlier that I will walk you through the steps, here are the steps:

• Log in to your blogger blog dashboard
• Create the static page you want to make your blog homepage and title it as home. The link below will guide you through the page creation

Read Also: The new way of creating a static page in blogger

• After creating the page, take note of the page URL, because it will be required as we proceed, you can copy the page URL to your notepad
• Now from your blogger blog dashboard, navigate to Setting > Search preferences > Custom Redirects.

Read Also: How to use custom redirects function in blogger

• Now use / in the first box and the page that you want to make your homepage, tick the ”permanent” box, save it and you are done. Check the image below for more explanation
  
• Now when any of your blog users visits your blog, homepage, they will be redirected automatically to the static page that you choose as your homepage.

That was all about making a static homepage/frontpage in blogger, if you have any question or contribution regarding this article please use the comment section to send them.