The Foolproof Way To Pick Affiliate Products Your Blog Readers Will Thank You For Recommending

July 24, 2008 by Edward Lomax

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Affiliates A great way to make money from your blog is by recommending affiliate products related to your niche. After all, you are an authority in your niche. Who better to recommend products and services?

But, here’s the deal…

Don’t litter your blog with TONS of affiliate ads and flashing banners. It’s just distracting and tacky. The main focus of your blog should always be to provide high-quality content related to your niche.

Remember the section about Pre-Selling? Go back and read it.

Here is my advice on affiliate marketing, which goes against what a lot of you might have read…

Use your expertise to identify a SMALL quantity of the BEST products and services… and recommend them to your visitors.

If you’ve studied affiliate product selection at all, you’ve probably heard about doing all kinds of research to figure out what products are “hot sellers” or “selling now” and pushing them on your visitors. Picking an affiliate product in this way has little to do with the quality of the product, and everything to do with the performance of the product.

But be careful, just because a product appears to be selling well, doesn’t mean it is the best product for your blog visitors.

Then what happens when the product you are promoting “cools off”? Most marketers move on to the next “big thing” that comes down lane. So instead of providing solutions for your readers, you are just taking advantage of buying trends in your niche.

Don’t do it…

Your visitors don’t want to be pitched to. They want YOU, the authority in the niche, to FILTER out all the junk. They want YOU to use your vast knowledge to test, research and identify the BEST solution to their problems… so they don’t have to!

When you are the authority in your niche, and use your knowledge and experience to pick the very BEST to offer your readers… you DESERVE the affiliate commission.

So, when you pick an affiliate product to promote, it should be a product you are going to recommend long term (or at least until a truly better solution comes out). Pick the best, and stick with the best. Don’t jump from one recommendation to another in hopes of a quick sale.

OK. I’m not going to kid you. There is a lot to learn to be a high-paid affiliate marketer. (But I have to tell you, if you stick to the above advice, you’ll be well on your way).

If you choose the affiliate products to promote in this way, your readers will be grateful. They can trust you because you have done all the leg work for them to find the absolute best solution for their problem. And they will show their appreciation by purchasing your recommendation through YOUR affiliate link!

But making money from affiliate products are only one way you can earn money from your blog. Possibly even a better way is to sell your own products from your blog.

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