Google Adsense will make you some money if you have a
large readership, but I am a fan of affiliate product marketing. There are currently thousands of affiliate
programs online that you can join to market their products to your
readers. I believe that one of the best
affiliate programs to offer is a domain registrar company that also includes
hosting and website services.
One such company that I have been working with is
GoDaddy. GoDaddy is the number one
domain registrar in the world and for good reason. Their prices are low in comparison with the
competition and they also have many other products that can go along with a
domain purchase.
If you join Conversant, formerly Commission Junction, you
will discover that a lot of affiliates market GoDaddy. This is most likely due to the fact that they
have an excellent EPC. For those of you
who do not know, EPC means the affiliate earnings on average per 100 ad
clicks. A high value means that a lot of
customers are impressed with the company, resulting in high sales.
You might ask the question, “If GoDaddy is so huge and is
doing so well, why would they still need affiliates to help market their
products?” This answer is simple; all
the affiliates are helping to drive the sales.
Sure, GoDaddy spends millions on advertising; however, it is their
affiliates that bring them lots of customers each and every day.
GoDaddy provides affiliates with great promotions that
aid in obtaining more sales. As an
affiliate, you can change your links and banners regularly to showcase these
great sales. This is the reason why a
lot of people click on GoDaddy links and end up purchasing products from their
easy to follow website.
As a blogger, your readers all have internet access. And, many of them are website owners or are
going to become website owners. Domains
are a good choice for bloggers which currently blog on subdomains, those who
wish to make money online, those who want to do any kind of business online,
and those who just want to have a personal website so that the family can keep
abreast of family activities. Also,
there are a lot of individuals and companies that buy domains in hopes of selling
them for huge amounts of money in the future.
Domains are big business.
The highest selling domain, according to Erik Overen was Insurance.com
at 35.6 million in 2010. Just look at
this chart that I have compiled from Wikipedia.
Many domains are worth millions and in the future many more will be!
There are millions of domains currently registered. And, GoDaddy has registered the majority of
them. More and more domain extensions
are becoming available do to the fact that the market for domains is still
increasing. So my burning question is, “as
a blogger, why are you not taking advantage of this huge market and marketing
domains, websites, and hosting to your readers?”
Many times when someone purchases a domain; they also choose
additional products to go along with it.
Some of the products that they can choose is a website, hosting and
storage, a private server, shared servers, search optimization tools, extended
period domains, blog hosting, SSL Certificates, online stores, shopping carts,
and the list goes on. Sales of these
products greatly increase your affiliate commissions.
A typical commission on domains and domain products can
be very high. Only one sale per month
can be more than you regularly make with Google Adsense ads. Here is a secret that I will tell you today
which is in December of 2015. I know of
a website hosting company that will pay you $100 USD for each sale. Now do you see why as a blogger you should be
marketing domains and web hosting?
If you do not like GoDaddy or would rather market some
other companies products and services, there are many to choose from. The hosting company I mentioned above is not
GoDaddy, although it is very possible to make $100 USD on sales made at
GoDaddy.
I am not in a hurry to abandon GoDaddy, though. I have been using them for years and am very
happy with their products and great customer service. I have bought servers from other hosting
companies and ran into problems. GoDaddy
has always been able to help me out.
If you just have Google Ads on your blog, you are missing
out on a lot of money making opportunities.
By simply joining an affiliate company and placing a few links in your
blog, I can almost 100% guarantee that you will make more money blogging. The main problem with making money blogging
is usually traffic flow.
You can have the best blog in the world but if only 3
people find it a day, you are not going to be making much money. However, if you do have good traffic flow it
is time to monetize your blog with affiliate ads and think about getting rid of
others that can alter the look of your blog and actually turn your readers the
other way.
In conclusion, I hope that I have enlightened some of you
and you’ll decide to market affiliate products on your blog or blogs. The main thing to do if you decide to place
affiliate links is to always keep them current.
Dead links or links that are outdated confuse your readers and they will
stop clicking on them. If you keep them
current, you can reflect on the most recent sales and your readers will
appreciate them.
Many people don’t tell others to market affiliate
products on their blog because they are afraid of the competition. But let me tell you, there really is no such
thing as competition online. Utilize
your competition to actually help you and in return you will get more
sales. I came across a quote online that
I would like to share with you. “Competition
makes us faster, Collaboration makes us better.” –FyreFly. It makes total sense to me when you are a
blogger. You are much better off working
with other bloggers to achieve steady income results than you are being a lone
wolf and trying to devour them.
