How A Blogger Mom Turns To Affiliate Marketing To Make Money To Reduce Credit Card Debts

How A Blogger Mom Turns To Affiliate Marketing To Make Money To Reduce Credit Card Debts July 31, 2008

Posted by Vedis in : Make Money With Affiliate Marketing , trackback

I am a blogger mom who managed to reduce credit card debts from $20,321 to $12,916 starting April 2007.

To speed up paying off my credit card debts, I started trying out affiliate marketing a few months ago to make more money online.

Prior to plunging into affiliate business, I was one of the many blogger moms who was happily bidding or grabbing paid reviews to write to make fast money. The easy money generated from paid posts did help in paying down some of credit card debt.

I am sure most busy blogger moms will agree that getting paid to blog about products or services is the easiest and fastest way to earn money online. Many stay-at-home, single or work-at-home mothers are able to earn a decent income by blogging for many blog advertising networks.

But after all my paid post blogs were smacked by Google and given PR0, I decided to stop relying on paid blog posts to generate income. Depending solely on paid posts is like putting all my eggs in one basket and this is definitely dangerous.

Thinking of not being able to write any paid reviews when I am sick lying on my bed for a few days is really scaring too. It means no income flowing into my bank account! No work, no money.

That’s why I want multiple income streams to provide me ceaseless passive income. And affiliate programs fit the bills.

My initial efforts on affiliate programs didn’t earn as much money as I am earning now, but I was very quickly seeing some sales coming in and commissions rolling in my account. Seeing some sales and commissions does give me encouragement and motivation to keep going with affiliate marketing.

Joining Amazon, ClickBank, Commission Junction and PepperjamNetwork affiliate programs is free.

Not needing to stock my own goods or merchandise saves me time, money and hassle. I simply sell other people’s products, goods or services and in return, receive commissions by doing so.

The best part about affiliate marketing is that, once I get my affiliate business going, it really can continue to operate on “auto-pilot,” producing passive income for me even when I am not actively working on maintaining and growing my affiliate business income.

For the time being I am using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to drive traffic to my affiliate business. It still is the most effective way to get traffic directly from the free search engine listings to my multiple niche blogs.

People who go to search engines such as Google and Yahoo to search for something in particular are already predisposed to purchase the products. Working on SEO to rank highly for keywords in a particular niche helps in getting highly qualified people to my niche affiliate blogs without even spending any money.

Earning extra money with Amazon, ClickBank, Commission Junction and PepperjamNetwork affiliate programs is not as difficult as you think. But you must be prepared to work diligently and persistently on finding niches, setting up niche blogs, learning SEO and other marketing strategies, and promoting affiliate products.

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