If you read that blog regularly, you might have noticed that I recommend using blogs to promote affiliate programs. However, after reviewing a few blogs, I wanted to clarify a few things.
First, you should choose wisely the type of blog you're using. The best option is of course to have your blog hosted on your own website, which will allow you to do whatever you want with it. If you're serious about making money online, it is actually a quite cheap investment as, with hosting sites like godaddy, you might be able to get your own blog and url for around $10 a month. The other option is to create a freely-hosted blog. While there are plenty of choices out there, from blogger to wordpress, you should however make sure you know their guidelines before starting your promotion as, for example wordpress does not allow affiliate links.
Now that you got your blog platform, let's talk about content. Too many affiliates turn their blogs into spammy-looking promotional messages. If you go that way, only promoting products, you certainly won't dupe readers who, not only will be turned off right away but will never come back to your site. What you should instead do is create a conversation to gain the trust of your readers and make them come back for more. How can you do this? Simply by writing useful posts. For example, if your blog is about employment, find out what are the most common questions regarding employment; then do your homework and answer them. How would you get to promote an affiliate program by doing this? Well, just mention a service you're promoting and that is related to what you're talking about. For example, if you blog about job search, you might include a paragraph about resume writing, where you could mention using our professional resume service.
What's great about this, is that you can blog about anything and can promote any type of affiliate program. And if you're not a good writer or are not a specialist in anything, you can still hire ghost writers to pen articles for you - you will find several sites where you can get an article written for as low as $5.