Affiliate Programs

Are you satisfied with the money you’re making off of your Blog? Are the Adsense dollars pouring in? How about those Affiliate links? If so, stop reading, this post is not for you. Now if you’re in the group that is not satsified with your Blog’s earnings potential, I have on technique that will likely be more profitable than Adsense and Affiliate links combined.

To maximize your Blog’s earnings, you should offer your very own information in the form of an eBook or Special Report. Yeah, for some of you that may sound corny, but it happens to be a fact. Why else do people visit your blog other than to obtain information you have to offer?

What is a niche blog? You should already have the answer to that, if not, here is the definition of a niche blog in a nutshell.

A niche blog is a very focused blog about 1 aspect of a subject. Let’s say you have a Car blog. A niche blog would be a blog about Muscle Cars. No VW’s or Pontiac Sunbirds. Muscle Cars from the late 60′s and early 70′s and that’s it. That’s a niche blog pure and simple.

I have two niche blogs that I’ve been experimenting with. Both were ho hum performers with Adsense and Affiliate links. I then had an idea to write a small ebook (well, more like a Special Report) on one aspect of the niche. I wrote one 24 page report and then I hired a writer from eLance to write the other (16 pages). Needless to say, the one I had written was a lot more professional looking but it did take longer to pay for itself. The one I wrote was making money on the very first sale.

Both eBooks were sold for $10 each on their respective blogs.

I ratcheted up my marketing efforts for these two niche blogs over a period of 1 month. These two blogs made anywhere from $3 to 7$ per day with Adsense and Affiliate links prior to adding the eBooks.

After the eBooks were added, the Adsense and Affiliate link income remained basically the same, however I was selling between 2 and 5 ebooks per day. Now I know that’s not earth shattering, but then again, neither was the traffic to these sites. These sites only average about a couple hundred hits per day. The conversion rate was extremely good I might add (no pun intended ). One benefit of traffic to a niche blog is that your traffic is interested in what you have to say or they wouldn’t be there in the first place!

Is this really a “secret”? It must be. Have you ever visited a site that you were interested in and spent hours, if not days or a week clicking around looking for more information and caught yourself thinking “Damn, why don’t they just put all this information in one place that is easy to get to?” I have and I bet you have too. But they don’t make that info easy to get at. Click here, click there, follow this link. I want my information in one place that is easy too get and I’m willing to pay for it! Guess what, so are your readers!

If you’re looking to maximize your niche blogs earnings, seriously look into offering your own informational product. You don’t have to be a great writer to do it. You can hire your own great writer to do it for you. Do you think all the Guru’s write every single eBook or all the content for their websites? Not at all. They all use paid writers to leverage their time and their site’s earning potential, at some point you’ll have to consider hiring your own as well.

But for the mean time, write down several ideas for an information product that you can include on your niche blog. Begin the research and start writing. Give yourself a time line of one week to finish this project, otherwise it may be one of those projects that never get done. I finished one eBook in about 3 hours working on it part time for 3 nights after getting home from my “real” job.

Good luck, go out there and make some money with your blog!