Affiliate Blogging – All Out of Title Ideas?
Running a blog that generates an affiliate income for you is a tough business. It’s certainly no overnight success and requires dedication, commitment and time.
Generating an affiliate income from a blog depends upon getting the right type of traffic visiting your blog. By ‘the right type,’ we mean traffic that will become sales by clicking on your affiliate links.
In order to generate this type of traffic, you need to give the traffic a reason to be there and to keep coming back. This is where quality, frequent content comes in. But before you can even starting putting pen to paper on new articles and blog posts, you need post ideas and attention grabbing titles. Where can you go for inspiration?
News!
It’s always a good move to widen the content of your blog out to more than just you and your business. Make it industry wide and keep up to date with what’s going on in your niche. Let’s say that your blog generates revenue as an affiliate gadgets seller. You should be keeping up to date with all the gadget news and you should report the most important stuff. However, don’t just regurgitate the same old stories that your readers have already read in the news. Put your own perspective on them and your own opinions. Analyse the effect of that new story or even make predictions about what the story might mean.
Basically, you have to give your readers another dimension, something they have not read elsewhere. If you do this right, you could actually become a great resource for those looking to keep up to date with the gadget news.
Reviews
Review the products you are selling – but give an honest review. This means pointing out the good and the bad! While this might seem like questionable sales tactic, honesty makes you trustworthy. There is no such thing as perfect and anything that anyone buys will have its good points and those on which it could be improved. Why not balance the scale by comparing two of the products you sell on an affiliate basis? Either way, an honest review makes for a great blogging topic.
Invite Guest Posts
Inviting other people operating within in a similar niche is a great way of networking with people who might well become invaluable contacts.
They provide you with great, unique content and in exchange you give them a short bio and a link to their site! It’s a win-win situation. Guest posts can offer your readers a different perspective on a topic or can open their eyes to a completely different topic altogether. The occasional guest post keeps a blog fresh!
Whichever way you go about getting inspired for your blog posts, the content should be fresh and in line with the niche of your blog and of great quality. This attracts traffic – and traffic that will keep coming back!
About the author
Stacey Cavanagh is an online marketer working for Tecmark: SEO Leeds
