Affiliate marketing has great potential and is a great way to earn some money online as well as interacting with your viewers. You could recommend a tried and tested product to your viewers which can be mutually beneficial. There are two different ways to adding affiliate links to your blog the first being adding the affiliate link directly to the entire blog while the second way is to add affiliate link to specific blog posts to specify specific target audiences which in turn can increase the rate at which the link is being visited. In this blog let's take a look at how to do both of them step by step, it's really easy.
That''s it, that's how you can add an affiliate link to your blog
Now go ahead and search for the specific product you are looking for and click on go. You will now find all the products related to your search term just below your search. Go ahead and find your product and click on get link which will open up a new page, here you select the type of ad you want to display. In this case lets select text only, after this click on the link box which will provide you with the link below go ahead and highlight the link and copy it.
Let's start of with adding affiliate links to your blog (blogger blog page)
Step 1:
Open your browser and go to the amazon affiliate program page (Create one if you don't have it it's free). From here place your mouse over the Widgets sub-menu and select your desired choice. In this case let me click on Search under the Widgets sub-menu.Step 2:
Clicking on Search should open a new page, now click on add to your web page. From here you will be able to select the dimensions of your add and it's theme and just make sure that the Show search results in widgets box is ticked else it is going to take them to amazon which may prove to be an inconvenience when they are reading your blog.Step 3:
On the right side of your screen you will see a HTML Ad code, highlight the code and copy it.Step 4:
Open another tab and open up blogger, from here click on Layout. Now go ahead and find the sidebar sub-menu and click on Add a gadget. In here you will find something called HTML/JavaScript, click on it and paste the code on the content section now click on save after adding a suitable title you wish.That''s it, that's how you can add an affiliate link to your blog
Next let's take a look at how to add affiliate links to specific blog posts
Step 1:
Step 1 here is the same here but since we will only be posting content specific links here instead on going to the Widgets sub-menu in the Amazon affiliate program site go ahead and keep your mouse over the Product Linking sub-menu and click on Product Links under the Product Linking sub-menu.
Step 2:
Now go ahead and search for the specific product you are looking for and click on go. You will now find all the products related to your search term just below your search. Go ahead and find your product and click on get link which will open up a new page, here you select the type of ad you want to display. In this case lets select text only, after this click on the link box which will provide you with the link below go ahead and highlight the link and copy it.Step 3:
Open another tab and open Blogger, from here go ahead and click on edit on the post you want to add the affiliate link to. Place your cursor in the right spot and click on Link from the blogger edit options menu which will open up a new smaller tab. Paste the copied link here and select a suitable text to display. One more important thing is to make sure that the Add 'rel=nofollow' attribute is checked else the link will not open. Click on OK after you are done with it.
That's it you are done and have successfully added the affiliate link to both your blog and specific blog posts. Thank you for sticking on till the end, hope this helped you. Do follow my blog for more such useful helps and tips ,don't forget to share the post which can help someone.
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