Need help for my blog -- help appreciated!

I think you should focus on content. Don't even worry about the product, just help the customer out as much as possible!

Then go back and add the Amazon links to the content, but I wouldn't even worry about the product at first. Just let the writing process take care of itself.

Yeah definitely don't start stuffing affiliate links into your posts, Google is apparently onto that (especially for new sites) and it could hurt your rankings.

You can use the both methods in a single blog. Just create a separated menu which displayed in top or bottom menus and put your products their. Hope that helps you.

I highly recommend that you look into two specific courses which I personally have gone through and applied with success in regards to affiliate marketing.

Google Sniper by George Brown and Bring The Fresh by Kelly Felix.

In fact, combine the two together and you end up with an unstoppable strategy to really skyrocketing your affiliate marketing efforts and dominating the lesser competitive profitable niches you identify in your market research.

I personally was complete blown away by the strategies and method being BTF when I invested in this education.

Hi Lulu,

This may sound like silly advice from a guy who's become a pro blogger, and who's typing these words from Fiji....but....don't start off thinking like a pro blogger.By that, I mean do not start your blog with your eye on monetizing. Doing so saps your creativity, hurts your credibility and damages your brand.

Here's what you do: pick 10 to 20 blogs of the top people in your niche. Google them, or stop by my blog, to scan for some pro, authority bloggers, in my comments section.

Read their posts. Take notes. Study the notes. Put their notes into action. Write 500 or more words daily, whether you publish posts or not.

Don't post ads in the beginning, because few people will buy your stuff, if any. Why? You need folks to trust you, to make a sale, and only celebrities start out being trusted. No worries though, don't fret. Just write, and write, and write, for a month or so.

After about 4 weeks, when your blog becomes a cool spot to hang out, consider adding Amazon ads, and start developing your first product. Maybe an ebook? Once you become a skilled writer, who's proven that you can provide free value, through your content, to a targeted audience, then folks will buy more freely from you.

But starting off with making money in mind, well, that's why these forums are littered with struggling bloggers....hell I was one of them too, for about 3 years.

I'd add, after reading those authority blogs, post comments. Share your thoughts. After studying these posts, you'll gain knowledge, and you need to share the knowledge to impress the pros in your niche.

This is the strategy I've used to travel the world as a pro blogger for the past 40 straight months. Following this approach has helped me retire from the 9-5, to live in an awesome place like Fiji, in the South Pacific.

If you walked into a Physics class, and expect to pass the Final Exam, after 1 day of classes, you'd be nutz. Ditto, if you're starting off blogging to make money. Can't reach that finish line until you've put in the time, built your reputation and have made friends in high places.

Hope this helps.

Welcome to becoming a successful blogger. You're gonna love this ride.

Signing off from Fiji

Ryan

Focus on the content and on providing the what the visitors are really looking for and try to offer the best value you can, if you the visitors see the value, they will come back, and recommend you.

Exactly. Agreed to the last post. You want to provide good content to your readers as best you possible can. You want to follow the makings of past blogs and how they generated quality content and make big money.

If you are selling and putting up tons of ads on your site at random, you'll never succeed because people will see your goals are just to promote, promote, promote.

Give content. Build trust. And people will believe you

A top ten list is always a good option when promoting Amazon affiliate products. For instance, if your blog is about 'romance', then you could have 'top ten romantic gifts for your girlfriend." And, each recommendation could be an item you are promoting from Amazon. This is just one example and can be used for any niche.

Ryan has given excellent advice and the trust factor is paramount. There are too many blogs that are just Amazon links. Provide quality and provide solutions. Be different, be personable.

Another important point to remember after you have provided content for a month or more, is the 80/20 rule. That means out of every 5 articles only ONE has affiliate links. Don't put links in every article.

Over the last 7 years, our sites that make money are the ones we have used the 80/20 rule on. The ones we got over-zealous on with the affiliate links are not profitable.

QUOTE=THEODEAS;9468659]Ryan has given excellent advice and the trust factor is paramount. There are too many blogs that are just Amazon links. Provide quality and provide solutions. Be different, be personable.

Another important point to remember after you have provided content for a month or more, is the 80/20 rule. That means out of every 5 articles only ONE has affiliate links. Don't put links in every article.

Over the last 7 years, our sites that make money are the ones we have used the 80/20 rule on. The ones we got over-zealous on with the affiliate links are not profitable.[/QUOTE]

This makes sense as many people still expect free information online, not subsidized by advertising or promotion. And, purely free information is worth gold to the website owner if it's in depth and high quality. Some site visitors are so picky about clicking on links that look like endorsements or might be affiliate links. So use these sparingly.

respect your visitors. the only thing you must do is that. how you can respect them? by writing valuable and usable content.
after that you can see the magic many users will share your blogs on social networks