Make Money with Affiliate Programs

There is an increasing number of writers who are making money writing for themselves rather than for clients. I believe that doing both is the ideal. Writing for clients keeps our skills honed and growing because clients require a variety of services and we have to be adaptable. Getting paid for our services also ensures regularity of income, whereas making money from affiliate programs can take time and be influenced by factors outside our control. How many people confident in their Adsense earnings experienced a dramatic decrease in their income because Google changed its policies? Although Adsense is often not thought of as an affiliate program, it really is when you think about it. Other affiliate programs can seem to be going well and fail, still owing their members money.

So, it's wise to keep writing for money while building a business with multiple passive income streams. The big question is, what affiliate programs should we become involved in? Writing software, e-books and writing courses are all relevant to writers and can slot very well into niche writing websites or blogs. Specialist writers, however, might receive more benefit from affiliate programs relating to their subject of choice. For example, specialists in internet marketing will find a number of excellent affiliate programs appropriate to their expertise, which would be easy to recommend naturally in their writing.

When researching affiliate programs with a view to joining a select few, carefully evaluate their strength and reliability. How long have they been running? Who owns them? Is there any solid evidence of affiliates profiting from them? Choose two or three initially and carefully monitor their success over time. If after three months an affiliate program is not profitable, replace it. Your goal, after all, is profit.

Writers are in a marvelous position to use their skills to create content that not only sells their services, but refers people to affiliate programs and is relevant to Google Adsense. Once we have put the foundations in place, our job is to keep generating content and to attract traffic to our site.