Affiliate Marketing

It's tough moving an affiliate marketing blog into profitability, you know you have a voice, you write diligently about your niche yet the traffic just doesn't come. The frustrating part is no matter how hard you work; it can take months to make even that first affiliate sale. Luckily there are a few resources on the web that will actually pay you for what you have now; a content-rich website. Below I'll describe several popular options so you can start generating that cold hard cash ---immediately.

Get Paid for blogging...

This type of service pays you to do what you should already be doing; posting to your blog. It's pretty straight forward, advertisers order a certain number of posts about their product or website; often they'll have a specific keyword that they'll want linkbacks. You (the blogger) choose the ones you want to post about, then simply write the post following the advertisers instructions. Typically you can earn five to ten dollars per post. There are often some restrictions regarding the number of paid posts you can make per day and the ratio of paid posts to actual content posts, but this is a valid way to take advantage of your existing blog. Lastly, while these services are free to join, there is a review process before you can start posting.

I've tested several of these system, the two here are the two listed below are the once I recommend:

Blogvertise

Pay Per Post

Get paid for linking:

Most bloggers realize that Linkbacks are valuable to SEO and for old fashioned traffic generation. We participate in link exchanging schemes, submit to directories and more. However, there is a market for paid text links ---where webmasters pay you for a link to their site. You can either do this yourself, by contacting webmasters individually or you can sign up with a service that will list your site for advertisers to browse. I've had good results with Text Link Ads. With this site you sign up (it's free) and submit your blog(s) for approval. Once approved, your offer goes out to their ad system. Advertisers then browse through the offerings and select the sites they'd like to buy a link from. All transactions are handled through Text Link Ads, they split the fee with you. Each site is allowed to sell a maximum of eight links, link prices are based on the demand within their particular category - it's