One of the most profound statements I’ve read recently about how to succeed if you do blogging or write other website content: Write about what people are looking for.
For years, part of my career and my livelihood has been writing content for various affiliate marketing websites I own and writing articles for some “how-to” and blog websites. I read that statement, “write about what other people are looking for,” yesterday in a post at a forum I frequent regularly. Of course I’ve known the truth in the statement for a long time, ever since I started trying to do keyword research and trying to find ways to get visitors to come to my websites.
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When I wrote earlier today on this topic, I’ll admit I was a bit prejudiced based on my personal bias — I don’t want an online business that demands attention to buying/selling products, sending orders, monitoring shipping and customer service issues, and all the rest.
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From time to time, I’ve written articles on this site about affiliate marketing. I hang out online at some forums where there are lots of people doing affiliate marketing — most of them doing much better at it than I — and I work at it myself daily. (Some days I do much better than others.)
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I’ve been giving some thought — as you can tell from the last few articles I’ve published here — to how I would approach marketing health related products or giving health “tips” on a website. My overriding concern would be that I might give someone bad medical or health related advice, opening them to harm and myself to a lawsuit. So, for what it’s worth, here are some things I would try to do if I were to market diet pills, nutritional supplements, weight loss products, or even personal fitness equipment online:
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I was hoping to get some comments on the article I published here a couple of days ago about health and health product related websites. In that article, I invited those of you who market health related products or write health tips to tell us how you handle the inherent risks in this type of online marketing.
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One of the forums I go to daily deals with affiliate marketing. A lot of savvy people go there, people far more successful at affiliate marketing than I. But I’m constantly learning things there, so that’s good.
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I know this article may seem to contradict my last article about working with products or services you have an interest in, but think of it more as a “corrective.”
While interest, knowledge, even passion, is valuable for any affiliate marketer, as a writer you have skills that could give you a competitive edge, even if you choose to market something you know little or nothing about.
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If you’re interested in trying affiliate marketing as a business model, or if you already are doing affiliate marketing, you need to think about what you’re “selling” as well as how you’re selling it.
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I’m not sure why my thinking is on affiliate marketing so much more than on writing these days, but that’s just the way my mind is working.
We’ve been going through sort of a double-whammy of family crises the last week or so, but things are getting better. It becomes very hard for me to concentrate on any serious writing projects with such distractions, so I suppose my head has turned away from my writing right now and toward the marketing. But it really is all related anyway, since my online work focuses both on writing and marketing.
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As a follow-up to my last article about writing affiliate marketing copy, I wanted to discuss a very popular form of “niche marketing” and affiliate marketing: writing reviews of products and services offered by your affiliate marketing merchant partners.
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There are some real advantages to affiliate marketing for all of you writers out there who want to do some blogging or other website writing, and use that to bring in a bit of cash to help pay the bills. I’m sure many of you who’ve been around here often for very long know that the two things I work at trying to pay those monthly bills are writing and affiliate marketing.
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For those of you doing affiliate marketing of many products, and those of you doing online writing, you’re probably very aware that such work can be very seasonal.
Yikes! I’m running behind the season myself!
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This article is probably not for “noobies” to online writing and blogging. You probably need to do some work on fundamentals about keyword research for website content before it makes much sense.
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For those of you out there like me who rely on affiliate marketing for at least part of your monthly income, what products or services are your best money-makers?
The Internet offers an incredible opportunity for marketing. From a life insurance quote to a desktop paper clip holder shaped like a bathroom sink — you can find and buy it all. Given the incredible diversity of products and services out there which can make money for affiliate marketers, I’m just curious about what sorts of ways you readers are using successfully to make money.
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Affiliate marketing is as much an art as “science.” No, it’s actually probably more of an art. And one of the best tools you can use for affiliate marketing is to write careful, unbiased product reviews.
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