I’ve been reading John Chow’s blog since late last year, which is longer than many people can say. He has really exploded in popularity this year and it’s fun to say that I have been reading John Chow dot Com back before he was making five figures a month from blog income alone. His blog is an excellent resource for people that are interested in learning how to monetize your websites and clearly states to not rely soley on Adsense for bringing in online income.
One of the posts I highly recommend you check out is The Proper Way To Do Affiliate Marketing. I’m new to affiliate marketing, but when you think about the statement he makes in that post, “Affiliate Marketing Is All About The Presell” he’s right. If you can find a way to presell your forum members on various products instead of just throwing up an affiliate banner on your website you will improve your conversions and subsequently your revenue. If you’ve developed a good relationship with your members, they will value your opinion on a product or service that you recommend to them. I will be testing his ideas about preselling by creating various review pages on most of my sites with affiliate links to products that I recommend to my forum members. I will post back with my results later, but in the meantime if you haven’t already checked out John Chow’s blog I highly recommend it, he has some great tips to make money online. If you review his blog he will link to you and send you a lot of traffic.
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