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How to Write Gift Guides That Rank on Google and Earn Commissions
Every year, from October to December, millions of people type some version of the same question into Google: what should I buy for my dad, my wife, my boss, my friend who has everything? Those people are not browsing. They have a deadline, a budget, and a person in mind. They want someone to make…
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7 Quick Ways to Boost Affiliate Sales on Black Friday
For affiliate marketers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest sales days of the year. Companies offer their deepest discounts, and buyers are actively looking for deals. Your job is to put the right deals in front of your readers at the right time. Here are 7 quick ways to boost your affiliate sales…
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How to Hide (Cloak) Affiliate Links in WordPress the Easy Way
Raw affiliate links are long, ugly, and hard to manage. Here is a typical one: https://www.example-network.com/r.cfm?b=346200&u=928612&m=28169&urllink= A cloaked (or branded) link turns it into something short and clean, like yourblog.com/go/product/. The easiest way to do this in WordPress is with a link management plugin. Here is why and how. Why Cloak Affiliate Links? Important: cloaking…
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21 Actionable Tips to Increase Affiliate Sales (Without Increasing Traffic)
When affiliate income stalls, the instinct is to chase more traffic. But most blogs already have enough visitors to earn more; they just do not convert them. Sending the right readers to the right page, at the moment they are ready to decide, can double sales without a single extra visitor. These are 21 tips…
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10 Best Affiliate Networks for Bloggers
Affiliate marketing is the fastest way for most new blogs to start earning, and affiliate networks are the easiest way in. A network sits between you and thousands of companies with affiliate programs: you get one account, one dashboard, one set of reports, and one payment, and the network handles tracking and makes sure merchants…
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12 Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making
Affiliate marketing looks simple: write about products, add links, earn commissions. In practice most bloggers who try it earn little, and it is rarely because of a lack of traffic. It is usually a handful of avoidable mistakes. I made several of these myself over twelve years of affiliate marketing on RoadToBlogging. Here are the…
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HostGator Affiliate Program Review: How to Make Money Promoting HostGator
What if your web host paid you instead of the other way around? My affiliate marketing journey started with HostGator. Years ago I saw a fellow blogger’s income report and was surprised he was earning from HostGator while I was paying them every month. I joined the program, made my first sale within six months,…
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How I Doubled My Affiliate Sales With Thrive Architect (6 Techniques)
I have used Thrive Architect since it was called Thrive Content Builder. After I started rebuilding my old affiliate posts with it, I noticed something: readers stayed longer, clicked more buttons, and my affiliate sales roughly doubled over the following months. The plugin was not magic. What changed was how I presented my content. Here…
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7 Types of Blog Posts That Are Proven to Boost Affiliate Sales
Every blog post has a job: serve the reader first, and then collect an email, earn a share, or make a sale. When affiliate sales are the goal, some post types do that job far better than others, because they catch readers at the moment they are deciding what to buy. If your affiliate links…

