Earn commission from affiliate sales

You can earn commission from products displayed on your article, after having signed up with affiliates such as Amazon or eBay. You would then link in-text or use widgets by copying and pasting HTML provided to you by the affiliate program on your blog or website. Now while you might get lucky and make a sale every now and again, you need to have a decent amount of traffic arriving to your blog to actually be able to stand a chance of referring lots of sales, which will push you into a higher commission tier, which will potentially mean more money for you.

The thing with this type of affiliate program is that not only do you need traffic, but you most certainly need to have a niche website, dedicated to a product or range of products to actually do well with it. It’s not a case of writing about your day in a personal blog type entry, and the linking to some random product. That probably won’t work, and if anything you’ll likely just end up driving people away.