As you may know, the success of the affiliate programs resides in the traffic you drive to them. I have seem websites with several affiliate links but they have not success because their webmasters don’t know how to drive traffic to those pages. So the key to be successful in this business, is to drive traffic to your links!

There are many techniques which you can do it, besides to crossing your fingers, let’s study some of them:

• Advertising: This is the first thing you can imagine when you talk about promoting. By buying advertising you can drive a lot of persons to your landing page, giving you high probabilities to catch some of them and earn money. You can advertise with programs like Adwords of Google, Blogads, StumbleUpon or another network like Bidvertiser, which gives you $20 in clicks for free.
• Building Links: If you are a blogger and you want to promote your affiliate programs, you should start checking your past posts looking for those ones where you talk, or just refer/mention something related to affiliate marketing. When you find those posts, you need to optimize them to be potential landing pages. You need to build links into your posts pointing to your affiliate programs, but in this case you need to advertise the post itself. But wait, just build the links only if your post is related to it!
• Placing Banners: Well this is part of advertising, but I want to mention something very important. Some of those affiliate programs provides several banners which you can use to promote them. When you are going to place a 125×125 banner on your blog for example, you should study which one is the most impressive and catchy to the eyes. This way you have more chances to attract new affiliates… Remember to use just 1 banner, placing 3 or 4 banners won’t give you more affiliates, instead you could be scaring them, it’s suspicious when someone place several banners of the same type.

Well guys, as you see, to make money with affiliate programs, you need to invest some money on this. Once you are established in this business, it will pay itself so don’t worry about that. Just be sure to promote it in the right way, avoid spamming and drive traffic to your landing page and you will start making money online .

How long should be a post? This is a great question which someone asked me by email. This is somewhat relative, because every blogger has a different way to think and write their thoughts. Some of them like to keep the post relatively short, and other ones likes to write as crazies, writing a post with 1000 words or even more.

Remember that it’s better quality than quantity. Is better to write a short post with quality than to write a long post without quality. With a good post, being this one short or long, you can attract many people who could comment in your post and subscribe to your RSS feed. Aside this, by writing a poor post you won’t get anything from the readers, instead, you will frighten them.

The length of a post depends of how informative will it be, for example If you are going to announce a contest, it can take you 200 words, being good for everybody. Instead, if you are going to write about a very discussed topic, you should write a good amount of content with some interesting points, if you don’t, your readers won’t have any content to discuss!.

Another important thing you need to remember, is to be accurate. If the post is about Marketing, don’t end talking about Fishing. You should stick into the main topic, and its relatives… People could get bored if you write about an information that they were not expecting to read about. This usually happens when the blogger is not clear about the topic he wants to write about. May be he can be clear, but sometimes, while you are writing a post, many ideas can cross your mind. If you don’t know how to differentiate them, you can mixx all those ideas and get a twister of thoughts on your post.

Conclusion

Before to start writing, you should organize your ideas. I recommend you to set priorities, tags or keywords, which you could clear your mind and this way, you will be writing a good post. The post length is not too important, as long as you write good content and keep your thoughts focused in a point. You can mixx all your ideas, which is normal because that’s the point of blogging, but if your ideas are not ordered with certain sense, no matter if your post is long or short, it will suck!

Remember, it’s up to you

Hello people, as you may know the Blogging Contest Idol is live! It will be great to see how the bloggers compete to be the blogging idol.

As I mentioned in my last post, the winner of this contest will be the blogger who gain the more quantity of readers in the month of July, starting from today! Actually, I have 198 RSS subscribers, which is a good number that I think to increase exponentially. This way, I could be the first Blogging Idol

My Strategies

For obvious reasons, I will not publish my strategies to increase my RSS subscribers by this way. Instead, I will make a kind of newsletter, and I will send my secret strategies to everybody subscribed to my feed via email. I will take all the email addresses, and I will send a weekly edition with the strategies I’m implementing to gain more readers, and how they are affecting that number.

Of course, surely will be another contestants who wants to get or rip my strategies, but I don’t care about it, at least they are giving me one RSS subscription .

If you visit the contest’s page, you can see the statistics of every contestant, and how they have increased their RSS subscribers, so stay tuned!

The following one, is a little list of some posts (written by me) which I consider very helpful for every blogger:

• 7 Ways To Keep Your Audience
• Under What Name Is It Best To Leave Comments In Other Blogs?
• Organizing Your Ideas Before To Write
• How To Light A Fire Under A Post
• Things You Should Consider At The Posting Time
• There Is A Post Structure ?

You can find more of these kind of material by visiting the categories in the sidebar. So, what do you think about these posts? if you think that I should be the first blogging idol, consider subscribing to my Full RSS feed. And if you prefer, in addition of my posts, to get my secret strategies to increase my RSS subscribers, consider to subscribe via email!

Hello readers, yesterday Zac published a post titled Do You Suck at Making Money Online? And I consider that it’s something that can create a good discussion here.

Gary Vaynerchuk was who initiated this topic with his video post I Suck!, where he talks about the things he sucks at. The thing is that he suggested to focus on what you are good at, skipping those things what you suck at.

Well I think that the people who think negatively, will not ever reach their goals, or at least, will be very difficult for them to reach their goals. This is not about blogging or making money online, this is about an attitude that you can assume in the life.

Thinking negatively or thinking the things what you suck at, will stuck you in a mental state where you will see the bad side of everything, being difficult for you to appreciate and estimate the things what you are good at. When I started blogging, I had not idea of how hard blogging could be, but really I didn’t care about that. Instead, I was very motivated to learn and do my best in this life style.

I Suck, so what?!

I can recognize when I suck and when I don’t. I’m conscious that I’m not the best to teach you about affiliate marketing for example. There are many guys like Zac Johnson who earn thousand dollars a month through this way, and I congratulate them for that. But I can’t frustrate or stop blogging because of that. Instead, it is good for me, giving me the motivation I need to keep learning about that niche, until I could find the way to be than successful as they.

So, you need to focus on what you are good at, and explode those skills. At the end, everybody has forts and weak… If you suck at blogging for example, my recommendation for you, is too keep reading and reading about it, the mind never stops learning.

To conclude, work hard in the things what you are good at, and work the hardest in the things what you suck at, but don’t surrender until you have exhausted all your energies .