Using Blogs For Affilate And Adsense Profits
Combined
Author: Chris Taylor

How do you set up a blog for effective affilate and Adsense
profits?

Here is the low down of how it's done and some of the in's and
outs of rss.

For this example I will use web hosting as the affilate product
we selling on the blog.

1. Rss is great for getting the robots to visit but it will not
get you visitors until

*You have quite a number of pages
*Have decent page rank…

2. Best blog platform…

> http://www.wordpress.org

3. Blog page - index page.

*A two column blog I find works the best
*The sidebar should be on the right hand of the page for SEO
purposes
*Heading for your affiliate reviews shouls be first… something
like "In-Dpeth, Top 5 Cheap Hosting Reviews". Two links
underneath, one going to reviews and the other to "why our
reviews are more relaible than other sites"

4. Reviews of your products.

4 to 10 reviews, make them long and give info of what benefits
one product has over the other and a rating for different
aspects. Do not put adsense on your reviews page.

This site does it really well - http://www.keywordworkshop.com/
and it's a blog to boot.

5. Next heading in the sidebar - "Articles"

A link going to current articles followed by a search box for
your articles. Each article page is where you Adsense sits and
here are some good tips…

*All links including Adsense, one color underlined.
*Research has shown the normal blue and darker blue get's the
best hits
*Adsense in the middle and at the end of all your articles… you
will get less click troughs with Adsense in the borders

6. Next heading "contact Me"

Blurb… A little confused with all the info, so many choices or
an aspect of one of "hosting reviews" (linked to your review
page … feel free drop me an email any time.. blah blah

Then more headings after this is you wish… "My fav top ten
hosting tips articles"… "Top 5 Domain Name Website Reviews"?
and so on.

The way I see it, is if they are customers coming for
information on a given product, service or business area, why
not stick some products up and make some more money!

If they are just interested in the articles monetize those with
Adsense.

And then if for any reason you have a bad Adsense month, the
affilate income is there as a backup.

The final tip is to keep your blogs clean so people can easily
find the information they are looking for whether that be a
product or articles. Heres one of my article directories as an
example…

> http://www.thewebtrafficco.com/adb/