Affiliate Marketing and Blogging

Affiliate Marketing is simply promoting someone else's product for a percentage of the sales price. Because it is so simple to set up, it is very popular with new Internet marketers and long-standing marketers alike. The most important thing needed to succeed is a stream of interested visitors to see your advertisement.

With more than a million web pages being added to the Internet every day, the struggle to get a share of traffic is fierce.

Why consider blogging?

· Many are 100% Free which make them a cost-effective alternative to a website with the associated cost of hosting.

· Today's content hungry search engines quickly index them. Web sites and individual pages can take up to 30 days to be indexed, but with content rich entries a blog will show up in a search within 2-3 days.

· Adding content is simple; entries can be typed directly into the new entry form or copied and pasted from another document.

· The ability to add hyperlinks makes it a great way to send traffic to a partner site.

· RSS Feeds allow visitors to be notified when new content is added allowing an affiliate marketer to reach more people and attract new ones.

There are as many different types of blogs as there are bloggers; v-logs for video journals, link-logs to compile links, sketch-logs that contain a portfolio of sketches, even photo-blogs that contain digital images. By focusing on one specific topic, a marketer can become an expert in a specific niche with an avid following of readers.

Instead of spending hours creating individual web pages, new content is completed in the time it takes to write the entry, leaving more time for actually running the business. New entries are added to search engine indexes very quickly. Adding affiliate links is simple, only the basics of HTML are necessary to put in an anchor text (or click-able link) to direct interested parties right to the partner site.

It is no wonder that a lot of marketers are turning to this new form of advertising as a way of getting their product into the public eye. Compared to the cost of designing and hosting a website, for new Affiliate Marketers, blogging can be an inexpensive and simple alternative.