This is a beginners guide on Affiliate marketing 101 for bloggers.

1. Yusuf Chowdhury
210-316-3123
www.SAOnlineMarketing.com
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Affiliate Marketing 101
For Bloggers

2. NOTE: Please read the FTC Guidelines for affiliate
disclosures.
http://1.usa.gov/1m93Xh
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What is an Affiliate Marketing?
An Internet-based system where you as
an affiliate get paid commissions for
referring products and services to
customers.

4. Why Affiliate Marketing Is Important for
bloggers?
• You can earn commissions 24 hours a day.
• No setup fees no hassle.
• You can earn from 4% to 75% commissions.
• More products and services with little risk involved.
• You do this on part time, spare time or full time basis.

5. How an affiliate marketing program
works?
- Sign up for Merchant’s affiliate program.
- Get a link with an affiliate code.
- Send traffic to your affiliate links.
- Customer clicks your affiliate link to visit merchant's website
- Customer purchase products.
- Merchant tracks your affiliate code.
- Merchant sends payments.
- Merchant will generate report of traffic to your affiliate links.

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Types Of Affiliate Commissions
• Commissions Per Sale
• Commissions Per Lead
• Commissions Per Click
• Commissions can be a flat fee
• Commissions can be a percentage of sale

7. Affiliate Networks!

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Advertiser (Merchant)
vs.
Publisher

10. Keyword Research Tools

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12. Search engine optimization (SEO)
is the process of influencing the
visibility of a web page in a search
engine's organic search results.
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Affiliate Marketing Tips For Bloggers
• Research your target market.
• Chose the right affiliate network.
• Sign up with an affiliate program.
• Promote within your blog posts.
• Optimize your posts with On-Site SEO
• Stay consistent because it will take time.
• Keep learning news tools and strategies.
• Test, track and keep trying.