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18 February 2008

How To Add Internet Marketing Programs To Your Blog

In a previous post, How To Monetize Your Blog, I introduced the ways I use to monetize my main blog, The Necro Files. These include mainly advertising programs and affiliate marketing.

This post deals with using affiliate marketing.
I will give you a step by step guide in setting up one of my affiliate programs, namely BidVertizer.

Affiliate Internet Marketing Programs I Use


You will note some of the following ads on The Necro Files:

If you want to sign up for any of these programs, just follow the links and see if you meet the requirements.

How do you put affiliate program links on your blog? I use Blogspot for hosting my blogs, so simply use the Blogspot authoring environment.

Using Blogspot To Display Affiliate Links



  1. Sign up for your chosen affiliate program. In this case, it is BidVertizer.

  2. Get the code from your affiliate program. Bidvertizer uses JavaScript code.

  3. Add the code to your blog. In Blogspot, this is made easy because you add a new HTML/JavaScript widget and paste the code in there.

  4. Publish your blog and you are done!


Adding Affiliate Code To Your Blogspot Blog


Even with a well-designed interface like the Blogspot dashboard, it is sometimes confusing for new users where to click. I made some screenshots of the procedure for adding affiliate code to your Blogspot blog:

  1. Sign in to your Blogspot account.

  2. Click on Customize.

  3. Click on Add a Page Element. You need to click on this in the section where you want your affiliate ads to appear.

    Also note that you may need to adjust your browser settings to allow Blogspot to show you pop-ups.

  4. Click on HTML/JavaScript.

  5. Paste the code from your affiliate program into the Content text area.

    You do not need to supply a title, but it does make it easier to edit the code later. If you don't supply a title, the widget will just indicate it is HTML/JavaScript.

  6. Click on SAVE CHANGES.

  7. Publish your blog and you are done!


It's that easy.

Beyond Affiliate Marketing


Realistically speaking, affiliate marketing offers you about 1% of your traffic in click-through. The reasons why this is so low is that affiliate marketing links are often impersonal, readers can identify the ads easily and avoid them and often the links are irrelevant to the personality of your blog.

We can conclude two things from this lesson:

  • you need to generate traffic to your blog

  • you need to diversify sources of income on your blog



You generate traffic by marketing your blog. We will deal more with marketing your blog and diversifying your sources of income in future posts.

Note: This post contains affiliate links.

Useful Internet Marketing Links


1 comment:

HEALTH NUT WANNABEE MOM said...

Thanks for the tip! I appreciate the advice and will give bidvertiser a look!