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We’re continually improving MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate, and this time around, we’ve come up with a version that has greater capabilities for letting you manage your affiliate marketing campaigns with as little effort as possible.

In the previous version, we’ve added several effort-saving features such as a search option, the ability to mass edit, disable or delete links, and a custom field for excluding Ninja links per post. With our latest Ninja Affiliate version 1.7.1, you’ll have even more control by the addition of 3 new features that expand on these functionalities.

To access them, simply log on to your WordPress dashboard, go to Manage > then go to the MBP Ninja Affiliate control panel:

Now if you’re an existing user, you’ll be quick to notice these new options on the Control Panel. Among them is the new Backup & Restore link which you’ll see immediately. The other 2 new features can be found under the Keywords to Ninja Links Options.

We’ll now discuss the functions and benefits of each feature, beginning with those that give you better control over Ninja Affiliate’s powerful ability to automatically convert keywords into links.

New feature #1: Exclude pages from automatically converting keywords into links

For one reason or another, you may not want to put affiliate links on your WordPress pages, such as your About and Contact Me pages. In the past version update, an option to disable automatic keywords-to-links conversion for individual posts or pages was added to the write post editor. This time, we simplify this task even more that all you need to do is to check a box to make Ninja Affiliate exclude all those pages.

To enable this feature, go to Keywords to Ninja Links Options. On the next page, you’ll see two new checkboxes. The first one is for the global option for excluding automatic linking on pages:

New feature #2: Exclude a whole category from converting keywords into links

The second checkbox is for excluding categories. This is a great time-saving feature that lets you choose which kinds of posts not to insert affiliate links in, all in just a single mouse click.

An example are paid reviews where you are often not allowed to put in any affiliate links. Let’s say you have a ‘Paid Reviews’ category for these kinds of posts. So instead of excluding your paid review posts one by one, a time-consuming effort especially if you already have dozens of posts, our updated Ninja Affiliate version 1.7.1 lets you mass-exclude those posts by letting you exclude the ‘Paid Reviews’ category. Anything you label with this category will not have automatic linking.

To do this, go to Keywords to Ninja Links Options > look for the Exclude Selected Categories checkbox > and click on Save Options:

New feature #3: Ninja Affiliate Tables Backup and Restore

Another new feature that you’d surely appreciate is an option to backup and restore your Ninja Affiliate database. It’s always wise to back up your work, and the restore feature comes a lot in handy in case your server breaks down or something else untoward happens. Version 1.7 makes it even easier to protect all your hard work.

To access this feature,  go back to the MBP Ninja Affiliate control panel > then click on Backup & Restore. As mentioned, this wasn’t present in the previous version, so if you’ve used this plugin before, this feature is hard to miss.

Clicking on the link above will take you to the page below:

The Backup option lets you download a copy of your Ninja Affiliate database to your local drive. Should you lose your current database or want to replace it, the Restore function lets you upload that backup copy so you need not start from scratch.

Managing and tracking your affiliate marketing campaigns can’t get any easier than this!

If you’re familiar with the 80/20 principle, you’ll understand that about 80% of your income comes from just 20% of your effort. This means that only 20% of the things you do directly effect the amount of money you make from your blog. It may be different from person to person, but the general rule of thumb applies.

So what about the 80% of the things that you do that are a complete waste of your time? A few I can think of include:

• constantly changing and tweaking your WordPress theme
• checking your web stats and affiliate sales 3-5 times a day
• reading way too many blogs instead of writing for your own
• unnecessary trouble shooting and “fire fighting”

Speaking of “fire fighting”, let me tell you a true story. You’ll see why I wasted 80% of my time and got nothing out of it. Hint: you may be doing the same thing.

When I started making money online with my first affiliate program, I copied all the affiliate links and used them directly on my website. It was pretty straightforward at first, but eventually my site grew to more than 150 pages – that meant I had at least 150 “naked” affiliate links all over the place.

For a while, it didn’t matter. I was making money, the world was great. My 20% did the job.

Then without warning one day, the advertiser moved its entire program from Commission Junction to Link Share. Everything changed in the blink of an eye. Now I had more than 150 dead affiliate links scattered all over the place, and the race to save my income was on.

Every passing minute meant a loss of affiliate sales. It took me over 7 days to find, replace and validate all the affiliate links on my site. Even then, I could not do anything about the links I had posted in forums, article directories and social bookmarking sites.

I was spending 80% of my time “fire fighting” – trying to put out the fire caused by my own oversight not too long ago.

Think about it; if you’re currently promoting any affiliate program using the naked affiliate link instead of a link management system like Ninja Affiliate, what would you do if:

• You’ve aggressively promoted an affiliate link in forums and blogs, only to have the product you’re promoting discontinued or changed..
• You’ve naively used naked affiliate links inside most of your blog posts, only to have the product owner announce two weeks down the road that he’s migrating to a new affiliate software and that you have to update all your links ASAP in order to continue getting commissions..
• You’ve scattered links all over the place only to find the product doesn’t convert. You’ve found a better replacement but who’s going to do the dirty job of updating al the links?

As the Russians say, “Measure Seven Times, Cut Once”. Plan to do things the smart way and you’ll never have to waste your time in the future correcting mistakes that could have been avoided in the first place.

Using Ninja Affiliate, you should only use a “redirect link” that forwards traffic to your actual affiliate link. Here’s how easy it is to do:

• Step 1: Enter the a “Link Name” for your reference
• Step 2: Enter the actual affiliate link
• Step 3: Create a Ninja Link or redirect link
• Step 4: Assign it to a group (if you have many links)

Now when you promote your links on your blog or in forums, use only the Ninja Link. Let all traffic flow through your Ninja Link and resolve (redirect) to your actual affiliate link. Besides making your links look professional, you’re also doing things the smart way.

One day you get an email from a marketer (me maybe?) telling you that guess what, the entire affiliate program had been moved from Clickbank to PayDotCom. All you have to do is replace one affiliate link in your Ninja Affiliate admin panel – not hundreds of scattered links.

This is why Ninja Affiliate is getting rave reviews from professional bloggers and affiliate marketers – because it works like magic. If you haven’t got yourself a copy of Ninja Affiliate, you should.

A lot of us spend 80% of our time doing nonsense tasks that lead to only 20% of our income.Do it right the first time and you too can live the 80/20 principle, make more money, and live a better life.

Now you can upgrade every MaxBlogPress plugins to the latest version automatically without any need of downloading and uploading the plugins separately. You can get version notifications and other useful information about any plugin in your plugin management page and plugin control panel page. See how better it can get:

You are now provided with the “Download Latest Version” and “upgrade automatically” features in your plugin management page.

Like wise, in the Plugin Control Panel too, you’ll have choices of Downloading the upgraded version or automatically upgrading the plugin:

For the above features, make sure you switch to the latest version of your respective MaxBlogPress plugins now. This will be the last time you’ll have to manually update your plugin. From now on, as said above you can automatically upgrade to the new version with just a single click of a button.

Below is the list of all of our plugins. You can download the latest version by clicking on the “Download Now” button at the respective plugin pages:

• Different Posts Per Page Ver. 1.7.4
• MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget Ver. 1.4.2
• BlogRush Click Maximizer Ver. 1.2.3
• MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup Ver.2.0.1
• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer Ver. 2.2.4
• MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad Ver.1.7.6
• Psychic Search Ver. 2.0.2
• MaxBlogPress Favicon Ver. 2.0.5
• SEO Post Link Ver. 1.0.2
• Max Banner Ads Ver. 1.3.1
  
• Duplicate Post Checker Ver. 1.0.6
• Multi Author Comment Notification Ver.1.0.4
• MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Ver.1.5.9

I first heard about “RSS” back in 2005, with all the hype about how RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds are the future of online marketing. I admit I had no idea what it was and bought into the hype as well, figuring what was good for the masses was good for me. Fast forward a few years, and although I use RSS feeds on my main blogs and other sites, the truth about “making money” with RSS feeds has come one full circle.

The truth is simple. Let me lay it down for you:

1. Readers love RSS for it allows them easy access to your content via “feed readers”, mobile devices and even directly from their Firefox browsers.


2. RSS feeds eats blog traffic as once someone is comfortable reading your blog content via RSS, there’s no real reason for them to visit your blog.


3. RSS feeds eat potential revenue since not all blog advertising programs work for feeds, and if your readers are accessing your content via RSS will mostly see an ad-free version of your blog. Good for them, not too good for you.


4. Content thieves love RSS too, as they can easily grab your entire blog content and post it to their spam blogs. Your unique content is duplicated while they pocket all the revenue from “borrowing” your content.

While RSS is a great tool for blogging, it’s notoriously hard to monetize.  As most CPM / CPC ads depend on page impressions or clicks, they are largely limited to your blog pages and not your RSS feeds. Because of the ad-free content feeds, you’re leaving lots of money on the table.

I’m not suggesting that your “block” your RSS feeds in any way because if you care about your reader’s experience, you have to give them what they want. Forcing them to visit your blog pages instead of accessing your RSS feeds can alienate a vast majority of readers.

On the other hand, affiliate marketing is perfectly suited to RSS feeds, since any link in your actual blog post will also appear as links in your RSS feeds. Therefore if you write a good post and promote an affiliate product, response from your RSS readers are likely to be just as effective (if not more effective) as readers finding your blog posts via search engines.

Plus, anyone stealing your content now becomes your “friend” of sorts because your syndicated and duplicated feeds usually contain your affiliate link. Thieves are too lazy to remove them, so you benefit from your stolen content as well. It’s more than just a consolation – it’s sweet revenge as a sure-fire way to get more affiliate sales.

MBP Ninja Affiliate allows you to automatically convert keywords in your content to affiliate links that you can cloak, track and manage from one central location.

This takes affiliate marketing via RSS feeds one step further by automating the entire process. That leaves you with total freedom to write great content while knowing that your specified keywords will be automatically converted to keywords, making money for you for months or even years to come.

All you have to do is enter an affiliate link, give it a name and redirect URL, then click on “Convert Keywords to Ninja Links”. Then, you specify your keywords and everything else happens automatically. The keyword-to-link conversion happens for both previous and future blog content. If your blog already has a few thousand pages, this is incredibly powerful. Plus the fact that you can change keywords and affiliate links any time you want without any hassle makes it any affiliate blogger’s dream weapon.

Remember that in-content hyperlinks work far better than any contextual ad program out there. Readers see in-content links (even if they are affiliate links) as related content and are more likely to click on it. Just make sure you’re tracking everything so you’re never in the dark about which affiliate programs are working and which ones to dump.

Great for the reader, and great for you. I love win-win situations, don’t you?

You walk down the street can come across two shops selling DVDs.

The first shop looks run-down with faded posters of Rocky II and Terminator decorating its entrance. Dim lights imbue the place with a creepy aura, and the guy behind the counter is staring back at you with a toothpick between his teeth.

You take a look at shop number two, and immediately your eyes are drawn to the bright orange walls, neon lights and the big screen TV playing a scene from Fast And Furious II: Tokyo Drift. Someone opens the door and says “Welcome sir, come on in!” You happen to spot a few cute girls inside.

The choice is stunningly obvious.

In any type of marketing, the universal rules of professionalism holds true. People will always choose to do business with the establishment that is updated, clean, friendly, and has a pleasant outlook. The first glance is powerful, and people judge a book by it’s cover even if they will never own up to it. Good impressions last, bad impressions spread. Enough said.

Price, product range, functionality and most other factors associated with a sale aren’t as important as the buying experience itself. The fact is when people feel good about buying, they will buy more, and continue buying.

So what’s this got to do with you as an affiliate marketer, trying to convince people to click on your affiliate links and make a purchase, sending you some much-appreciated commissions?

Everything!

Early on in my web marketing days, I learned the hallmark of professional affiliate marketers. I discovered that by being just a tad more “pro” than 99% of the other “caveman affiliates” out there, I can also make much more than they do without any extra effort.

The most obvious sin committed by these caveman affiliates is that they don’t bother to “dress up” or “package” their affiliate links. They proudly display long, horrible affiliate links that they will never be able to dictate on the phone, something like this:

http://www.anyshoppingcart.com/affiliateid=3i4ud98fdf&merchant_id=934idf5

Compare that URL to the one below; which one would you click?

http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/boostyourtraffic

The choice, again, is obvious.

But why bother to be professional?

The truth is no one likes to click on ugly affiliate links with strings of codes that do not register with the average human brain (if you’re a programmer, you’re exempted) and therefore do not mean anything to them.

The second link on the other hand immediately tells your readers a few things:

• That the link has something to do with “traffic”, which they may be interested in
• That you took the time to make the link attractive
• You’re not insulting their intelligence by making it obvious that you’re about to get some money if they buy after visiting the link (hint: the word “affiliate” in the example above)
• That you are professional, and hence probably also reliable or trustworthy

Now look at these links, for variations on how you can dress up your affiliate links:

• http://www.yourblog.com/go/affiliateproduct
• http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/affiliateproduct
• http://www.yourblog.com/goto/affiliateproduct
• http://www.yourblog.com/ninja/affiliate/power/affiliateproduct
• http://www.yourblog.com/anything_you_like/affiliateproduct

Clean, meaningful, and from my experience, sinfully effective. It increases your CTR or Click-Through-Rate which means you can probably make more affiliate sales without getting any more traffic than you are right now.

You can create such professional looking short links instantly with an affiliate tool smart enough to create professional looking URLs for you.

The picture above shows how easy it is to turn the BAD into the GOOD with the MBP Ninja Affiliate plugin for WordPress. Transform ugly, un-readable links into neat, professional ones. Using the plugin you can also automatically convert keywords to links, cloak and redirect links, create sub-campaigns, see all your referrer stats, and much more.

But professionalism cannot be stated; it must be observed.

You cannot tell someone “I’m a professional marketer” – they must come to that conclusion themselves by observing how you do things, how you present yourself, and most importantly how you sell.

It must be integrated into everything you do as a business owner and as an affiliate marketer. It must be consistent too – you can’t afford to say “When I make more money I’ll get a professional affiliate link system..” – you need to be professional right from the start!

Remember that professionalism pays, and it pays big. Do it right, and the world will open new doors for you, inviting you into the realm where the big boys play and the ‘caveman affiliates’ stay away.

Several periodic updates have been made in MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate and there have been a series of improvisations made since Ninja Affiliate version 1.3.2. The latest version now is 1.5.6.

Here are the elaborations of all the updates made:

Search option added

A simple search option is added to Ninja Affiliate now, which will ease your search for any keywords in any groups or links.

It will search for the search string in link name, group, ninja link and destination link.

Mass Enabling/Disabling/Deletion of links

With updated Ninja Affiliate, you can enable, disable or delete multiple links at the same time. You can choose mass enabling/disabling/deletion of links according to your desire.

Display Total number of keywords added and keywords in each link

Now its easy to see the total number of keywords added and the total number of keywords in each link because of the “Keywords” additional feature.

As shown in the screenshot above you can see how many keywords have been added, as you can see, the number of keywords is also displayed accordingly.

Option for disabling Ninja Links dropdown box in write post page

We have found some bloggers are having problem with the drop down box in write post page. So now we have added an option to disable it if you are getting problem with it and don’t use it at all.

You can find this annexed feature in MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate’s Control panel>> “Keywords to Ninja Links Options”:

Custom field for excluding Ninja Links in the post

If you write paid review or other content of similar nature then you might don’t want to automatically put other affiliate links in your post. Now, you can control in which post you want to put links and in which you want to exclude.

As shown in the screenshot above, Ninja Links will automatically be excluded from the post:-”Seven Fitness Tips: Improving the Quality of Life”.

I have saved the best for the last:

Now you’ll get automatic update notification in the plugin’s option page itself

That means from now on whenever we release new version of ninja affiliate, you’ll automatically get the alert inside the plugin’s option page itself. Make sure to download and install the latest version 1.5.6 to get benefited from the auto notification alert as well as all the new features added.

Max Banner Ads is now available with updated features and control. Get the full scoop of the entire updates here.

Version Notification and Auto Upgrade

Now you can get version notifications and other useful information about the plugin in your plugin management page and plugin control panel with this latest version of Max Banner Ads. Also, you can upgrade to the latest version automatically without any need of downloading and uploading your plugin separately.

Plugin management page:

Plugin control panel:

Power over displaying your ads

Now you can display banners in home page, single page or post, category page, archive page and search page with the More Option’s “Show in” feature:

With “Show in” options, you get the flexibility to display your ads in all pages or only in certain specified pages (like-home page, single post per page, category page, archive page, search page) depending upon your own choice.

Like in the screen shot above, you can click on any boxes where you’d like to have your banner ads shown.

Add image title/tag to banners

If you’ve wanted to display an image tag or title to your banner ads when the visitors hover over the ads, here’s your chance. With the advanced options in the MaxBanner Ads version 1.3, you can give an image tag to your banner ad like below:

This way you’ll have a display called “Click here to find out why” whenever visitors hover around your ad.

Additional Advanced Option to make the banner ad link follow/nofollow

With the updated version 1.3 of Max Banner Ads, you can make your banner ad link - follow or no-follow. If you prefer your banner link to be no-follow then you can make your ad links so by choosing the “No Follow” option under advanced options section.

Template Tag can now use zone/banner name as a parameter

Previously, in the older version of Max Banner Ads, you could only specify the zone/ banner’s ID as a parameter in your template tag to display banners. Now, with version 1.3, you can also specify the zone/ banner’s NAME as a parameter in your template tag.

For example:
Let’s say there is a zone named “sky scraper” with ID “5”.

In the older version, the template tag could use only zone/ banner ID as parameter like:

<?php mba_display_zone(5);?>

Now, this has been taken care of and you can refer the zone/ banner with its name directly, like below:

<?php mba_display_zone(‘sky scraper’);?>

You might have already heard the 80/20 rule. It means 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort. And also, 80% of your effort usually produce only 20% of the result.

Logically, it doesn’t sound fair but that’s what the reality is. The amount of effort applied never produces similar amount of results. Sometime it produces huge results and sometime it produces only the fraction of result.

The surprising fact is that this rule applies to each and every area of our life. No matter, if it’s our business, personal or career life.

Of course the 80/20 rule get skewed to 90/10 or 95/5 or 75/35 but there is always big difference between the effort applied and the result produced.

If that’s the case then have you ever think of how you can apply this same rule to your advantage. Why spend 80% of your time in the things which produces only 20% result? Why don’t you find out which 20% effort produce the 80% result and put most of your time in those activities only?

That’s the reason it’s important to track whatever you do. Find out which of your 20% effort is bringing you 80% result and dump all those low return activities which produces only the fraction of your overall result.

Here is an example:

Suppose you visit 20 blogs everyday and comment there to bring traffic back to your blog. If you track how much visitors each of those blogs brings then you’ll be quite surprised by the result. Probably 4 of those blogs will bring the same number of visitors as 16 of other blogs combined. If you already knew those kind of datas then will you have spent time on 16 of those blogs? Of course not. Also, instead of wasting time posting on those 16 blogs you can find more high performing blogs like those 4 blogs and see your blog’s visitors grow day by day.

That is just one example. I can show you many such examples where you might be simply wasting your time because you don’t know what’s the actual result is produced by which of your effort. You might be seeing the overall results but not the exact result which is produced by your individual activities.

The habit that will help you grow faster each and every day!

Don’t make this blog post as the one you read everyday and simply forget about it. Promise yourself that after reading this blog post you’ll make a habit of tracking whatever you do and compare your results.

You’ll soon be able to determine the time eater and the result producer. Than the only thing you’ll have to do is do more of the result producer and dump the time eater. If you implement this one simple habit then I guarantee you that you’ll be much more ahead in the next 30 days than you were able to accomplish in the past couple of months.

Now, the question is how to track which of your promoting activity is actually producing the results for you?

Now, don’t get freak out by thinking that I’m going to start speaking in some technical language which a rocket engineer can only understand.

You don’t have to deal with heavy stats software for tracking your progress. You can do it simply by creating tracking link as well. This can give you all the basic stats which will be helpful for you to track exactly what’s the result producing action is.

From now on, instead of dropping your regular link in other blogs/forums/other websites start dropping your tracking link there. Tracking link will automatically track how many people visited your blog and from which websites.

 

If you own MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate, then here is how you can create tracking links:

Step 1: Click on "Add New Link"

Step 2: Fill in your link name, affiliate link/blog link and enter the final ninja link you want to produce

Step 3: Your tracking link is ready to use

Now you can use this link for tracking the clicks on it. You can use this link wherever you need to leave your link. It will automatically track from where visitors are coming from as well as how many visitors clicked that link.

You can even segregate the stats by dividing the stats into sub campaigns. Suppose, you are getting huge traffic from two websites A & B, and want to track the activity from those websites separately in detail.

What you can do is, instead of using same tracking link, you can use separate sub-campaigns for both websites.

You can easily create subcampaigns by adding "-" sign at the end of tracking link followed by the sub campaign name.

Here is an example:

Suppose, my tracking link is:

http://www.maxblogpress.com/demo2/go/maxblogpress

and I want to create separate sub campaign for Website A. I can do this easily by adding "a" at the end like this:

http://www.maxblogpress.com/demo2/go/maxblogpress-a

In the stats, the sub campaigns a and b will be tracked separately.

“Affiliate program can earn you more than twice what you are earning now” – That was the title of the blog post I published on Friday. I’m glad that this blog post was so much helpful for lots of bloggers.

Actually I had thought of posting that blog post around 6 months back. But I hold on. Now, I’m really glad that I didn’t post it then because I couldn’t have shown you an easy way or right direction to implement my advice at that time. Although the idea of linking keywords to affiliate link sounds easy, I knew most of the bloggers won’t do that at all. How can I ever deny the fact that some of us are lazy bones after all!

Instead I focused on creating something which will make it a breeze to do what I suggested as well as some more things which I think is a must for all the bloggers who promotes affiliate programs.

The result was: "MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate"

The first beta version of this wordpress plugin was ready around 5 months ago, but I wasn’t so eager to make it official then. After all, MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate is the first paid plugin that we were going to release after launching almost 12 free plugins!

My aim was to ensure that the plugin would meet everyone’s expectations, leaving no serious bugs behind. I checked and rechecked the plugin to bring out the best I can.

So, I did a small test launch with Gobala Krishnan. The response I got was grand, helping me fix some bugs too. The result I got is now worth sharing in front of you all.

In fact I was so thrilled to see few enthusiasts who preferred the plugin and they enjoyed recommending it to their friends. This gradually seemed to form an “inner blogging circle” who knew about the plugin and the words just spread on.

Like I said earlier, there couldn’t have been a better time than now to share with you this plugin treasured well in the “inner blogging circle”. It’s now much easier for me to answer some of the questions in the previous blog post as the solution is already ready.

Tim, Good News. What you are asking is already ready!

You can do exactly what you are looking for by using “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”. Look at the screenshot below:

With “Convert Keywords to Ninja Links” option, you can convert any and as many keywords to Ninja links.

Also, you can group and manage your affiliate links if you want organize them well. The following screenshot shows you how:

Ian, tracking your affiliate links centrally is no more your headache

I know how hard it is to manage all the affiliate links and to track which are performing better and which are needed to drop out.

Again, ninja affiliate is the solution. Tracking your affiliate links centrally is no more your headache. Check out how Ninja Affilaite does it:

Or, even if you want the details about the referrals, here’s the answer:

 

Thanks to all of you who shared their success stories

Good ideas usually never sound good as long as someone has tried that out and tell their success stories.

Thanks to all the blogger who shared their success with affiliate programs in my last blog post. I hope these comments will inspire you to explore more in affiliate world and start monetizing your blog in a better way:

Many bloggers who understand how well promoting affiliate programs works have seen awesome results from it. There is no denying about it at all.

I am sure you have queries regarding who and how can one be a Ninja Blogger.

Stay tuned for more insights about this on my next email on Tuesday. That is when I’ll officially launch "MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate" plugin.

I’ll be giving the introductory discount for this product just for few days. So don’t miss out that!

You are leaving huge chunks of money behind if you are not promoting affiliate programs. If you are seeking for remarkable possibilities with your blogging, affiliate program is the monetization way you certainly have to look into.

Look at the screenshot below for John Chow’s May 2008 earning. Affiliate commissions is the second highest income producer for his blog.

John Chow’s blog is quite famous and being in "money making" niche, he can easily attract lots of high paying ad buyers. That’s why "private ad sales" is his highest income producer. But for many other bloggers that’s not the case. They struggle with getting even a single advertiser. They mingle with adsense, kontera, text link ads etc.. but never get the kind of return in terms of money as they want to.

There are other group of smart bloggers who knows the benefits of promoting good Affiliate Programs. For them affiliate programs are the highest income producer and exceeds far beyond any other income source.

Look at it from this perspective. You may have noticed same banners being displayed at lots of blogs. Do you think those banners ads are purchased by the owner of the product themselves?

May be yes or may be no. Often the reality is many of the advertisers buying ad spaces in your blog are actually the affiliate of that product themselves and not the creator of the product. If they can profit by being an affiliate and paying you for the ad, then imagine how much more you can benefit by promoting that affiliate program yourself.

Think of the possibilities and fore-see how far you can go with your blog incomes.

Promoting affiliate programs in your blog is one of the best ways to earn maximum from your blog.

Just by selling ad spaces and putting up different type of ads, you are leaving behind a huge chunk of money on the table. And these have certain limits as well. You have limited number of ad spaces which you can sell in a month. You can’t sell more than what’s available in your blog.

The sneaky clever way of promoting affiliate programs which will actually add value to your blog post

If you be smart enough and promote affiliate programs the smart way then you can even earn two times more from your blog. You can even promote affiliate program in a clever way which will add value to your blog post and your readers will be actually happy to see them.

You can do so by linking specific keywords in your blog posts into affiliate programs.

Take the following example:

Your blog is about Health and Fitness and you’ve talked about "healthy diet". What you can do is you can link that very keyword to an affiliate program. Now your readers can follow that link to buy the related product and you’ll be the one earning commission out of it. That link will also help your reader get exactly what they want if they are really in need of knowing more about healthy diet.

Let’s say you have another post and you have the phrase "aerobic exercise". You can link this keyword to a good aerobic exercise tutorial video and if your readers buy the video from that very link you’ll be the one getting paid again.

Getting paid commissions out of the keywords that lead to affiliate links is not a small deal. Can you imagine how much impact will that be making to your overall blog income?

Grand, in fact! If you have not tried affiliate marketing yet, give it a shot! You’ll experience a significant positive turning point in your blogging career.

A single affiliate program can be a real eye-opener that can give you benefits like:

- You’ll get paid for your OLD blog posts as well

If you have a keyword linked to an affiliate program then it is going to stay there. That means you will be the one to earn commissions out of it, even if someone reads that post after say, 5 months or 8 months. The truth is you’ll get paid for your old blog posts as well.

- Your blog income don’t have to rely on traffic or your subscriber base

Ad spaces and programs like text link ads rely heavily on what kind of traffic you are receiving, how much rss subscribers you have, what’s the google page rank of your blog etc… The sad fact is that you don’t get paid what you really deserve from such services.

But with affiliate programs that’s not the case. If you promote good affiliate program which is what your blog reader exactly want then you can earn handsome amount of money from few visitors only.

- You can earn passive income as well

All your blog posts that laid idle can have keywords that you can link as affiliate links; this can earn you passive commissions for life. No matter from where and when visitors lands on your blog post. You’ll get paid when they follow the affiliate link from your blog.

There’s a great deal of earnings you can do with affiliate programs and if you’re wondering why your blog incomes are not satisfactory enough then Affiliate Program can be the missing puzzle in your blog monetization methods.