Most of the bloggers start their blog with a main motive of making money. And they always think that Google adsense is the only way to make money from blog. Actually Google adsense is one of the best platform for making money, and there are other alternatives available on the internet. But a blog beginners may not know about these alternatives, and even if they know, they will not believe in these alternatives. Thereby they only publish adsense ads on their blog. By any reason if their adsense account is banned, they completely stop blogging career and feel blogging is bore.
Actually bloggers can make more money from affiliate marketing. It helps a blogger in making more money compared to adsense.Its free and easily available. Now lots of affiliate marketing providers are available in the internet. Select the best providers and join.
How Affiliate Program Works
Basically affiliate program is nothing but promotion of some products.If you are promoting some products through your blog or website making your reader or visitors to purchase any product you will get some percentage of commission. The commission is based on sales,clicks and signup etc.If your blog have more traffics you must try to apply for affiliate program. There are no minimum qualifications for getting approved from affiliate program. But selection of program is important.Try to select program based on your blog niche.
Earn From Referrals
Most of them never mind about the referrals of affiliate marketing services. All are just observing only on a high commission offering sites. But you can earn from referrals also. Linkshare is giving $1.50 per signup. So you can make more from linkshare referrals. When you signup in Linkshare it will automatically approve your referrals program and get links.Why I am saying this is because there is no cost for signing up in linkshare publisher account. So if you are referring this site to your readers you will get $1.50 per signup. It is a great idea to increase your earning.