what is Affiliate marketing?

What Is An Affiliate LInk?

It’s your ticket to your First Million, and then your Second Million too!  An affiliate link is a unique identifying URL that Affiliate Programs assign to you personally when you join their Affiliate Program.

If you learn how to add your links from a number of affiliate programs, and learn how to market your Affiliated products effectively, you can make really big bucks.  In fact Affiliate Marketing is one of the most popular and profitable ways to make money online.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a way for blog owners to make money online by selling other people’s products for a commission on sales.  Here’s a basic over-view of how it works:

1. You sign up for a company’s Affiliate Program.

2. The Affiliate Program gives you a unique URL that links your name and account details to their products.

3. You write riveting articles that encourage, persuade, convince, bludgeon your readers into wanting to buy the Products made and sold by your Affiliate’s website.

4. You very helpfully embed (add) your personal link to that Affiliate program’s products into a word, or line of text, or image in your article. This allows your readers to click on that link to the Affiliate’s products from your website.  This means they are using your link.

5. When your readers click on that link from your website with your personal Affiliate URL already embedded in it, and then go on to buy a product from that Affiliate, the Affiliate pays you a Commission. Easy, right?

Your Unique Affiliate LInk is Your Secure Ticket to Mega Stardom & Untold Wealth!

Disclosure: ‘Untold Wealth’ could be anything from 2 cents to 2 Million – that’s exactly why it’s called ‘untold’ .  Neat, eh?

But I digress…..That personal identifying URL link that you have already embedded into the word, line of text, or added to an image on your blog, automatically tells the Affiliated Company that you were the person who sent them that sale.  This means that the company ‘knows’ that you are the person who should receive the Commission on that sale.

Commissions, of course, come in all shapes and sizes, but it’s all good, honest, well earned cash.  It sounds like an easy way to make money online, but to do it successfully there’s lots of information and selling tactics that need to be understood.

But, before you can make even your first cent from Affiliate Marketing, you need to know how to add your affiliate links into Texts and Images.

First, I’ll explain how to add Affiliate Link URLs to Text, and then how to add Affiliate Links to Images.  Lastly, I’ll cover how to add Affiliate Banners into a Post or sidebar using your Affiliate’s HTML Code. (Don’t panic, not all HTML is scary )

For a more detailed step by step article on How to Add Affiliate Banner Ads To Your Blog using HTML Code, see: How To Add Banner Ads To Your Blog.

How to Add Affiliate Link To Text

1. Using your mouse, select your word or couple of words where you want to embed (add) your affiliate link.  For example, the phrase: ‘List Building Simplified’.  I just typed that, so it has no affiliate link added to it yet.  Now I have to select it with my mouse:

2. With your Target/Anchor Word  still selected, (List Buliding Simplified in this example) Click on theInsert LInk icon in your rows of Formatting icons, and you will see the ‘Insert/Edit Link‘ drop down box.