In a nut shell — affiliate marketing is all about placing links on web page of any sort and then having your readers click on them. When the links are clicked on you can make money per click or you can make a commission when somebody goes to the recommended site and then buys something. It is in essence, a quiet, unobtrusive way of being a salesperson.
You dont necessarily need talent or even good grammar to write a blog. You do however need a real passion for what you are writing about and to have some kind of idea of what you would like to sell that might be attached to your blog and the keywords that go along with it.
Once you have decided what you want to sell finding affiliate links is pretty simple. Lets say that you want to write about exotic bonsai trees on a blog. Your next step is to simply type in the words bonsai affiliate into a big search engine like Google and you will be lead to scores of sites that have affiliate programs for selling bonsai.
Sometimes the affiliate link will also read “affiliate program”, “associates” or “partners”…there will normally be some kind of help section on how to...