Be an affiliate blogger and make money while blogging

One way to earn money by blogging is by becoming an affiliate. If you spend hours on the internet blogging, why not be an affiliate blogger and get money out of it. The concept is simple. You, as the affiliate blogger would blog as always and in addition promote a publisher's product that is related to what your blogging about. It's not like one of those MLM programs or quick-rich schemes where you have to pull out your own money and sell it out again. NO. The best thing about it is that IT'S FREE! Isn't that the best way to make money online? Plus, you don't even have to write a long sales pitch for it. That part is already done by the publisher himself.

So what do you have to do to be an affiliate?

1. Register yourself as an affiliate with the publisher. There are a lot of affiliate programs out there. Pick one that is related to your blog. Malaysian publishers usually have their own affiliate programs that you can join. But most blogger, especially from the United States put their products on Clickbank which is the largest affiliate program in the world.
2. You would be given an affiliate ID which is a link that you can put on your blog. 
3. Put this link on your blog for your readers and you're done. After that, all you have to do is wait for someone to click on it and buy.

If someone is interested in the product, the link will take him or her to the publisher's sales page and buy it from there. Once a sale is made, the publisher would track back the sale and find that it came from your blog. So, that how you get paid. Simple right?

However, the toughest part of all this is getting your readers to click on YOUR link which has YOUR ID on it. You won't get paid if they buy it from another source. Affiliate blogging is very popular so you will have a lot of competition out there. But if you know how to do it right, I believe it wouldn't be a problem for you. So it's worth a try. :)