I'd like to know how much the average affiliate marketer makes. I haven't made anything from my blog. My posts helped me receive freelance writing opportunities, but I haven't made any money off of my affiliates. Help!
How much do most affiliate marketers make?
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Hi BillieJean
First I think it's important to note that, while anyone who slaps an affiliate ad on their site is technically an affiliate marketer, generally speaking the term refers primarily to those people who focus their entire site and content on selling a specific [affiliate] product, and they invest marketing dollars into doing so.
What you're more likely referring to is the average blogger who puts affiliate ads on their site, and that varies widely, so it's hard to calculate an average. The reason it varies so widely is that some bloggers understand how to do it well, and others just don't get it, so they don't make much, if anything, by doing it.
The MOST CRITICAL factor to earning anything with affiliate ads to keep the ads HIGHLY relevant to the topic of the page. Irrelevant ads = no clicks.
The SECOND MOST critical factor is to attract a lot of traffic to that page - you do this by writing GOOD, valuable, keyword-rich content that a lot of people WANT to read.
Along with that is another VERY important factor, which is to make sure you're not all over the boards when it comes to what you write about - if you're unfocused then you just confuse the search engines, who can't figure out what you're "about", and so they can't rank you well for anything.
Stay focused on a niche, write great content that people who are also interested in the same niche will find interesting, and match your ads to that content as closely as possible.
If you can do that you should see some improvement in what you earn.
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