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How to Make Money from your Blog in Africa through Affiliate Marketing


What is Blog?

A blog is a website that allows users to express, share, or reflect their opinions and ideas on valorous topics. Sometimes blogs allow other users who enjoy your content to comment on your content or blog post. These users are called the audience.

What is Blogging?

Blogging simply means creating content for your blog. These contents can be documentation of your personal expertise, experiences, ideas or even daily lifestyle.

With a well-targeted audience, blogging can be a lifestyle and a main source of income, not minding your demographic location. I am a blogger; I have made it a lifestyle because 90% of my monthly income comes from the internet through blogging. 

I also enjoy providing the public with quality content on how to make money online. Blogging gives you the flexibility of making full-time earnings at the comfort of your home.

If you want to learn more about blogging, click here

Personally, I recommend Affiliate marketing as the best way to monetize your blog if you are blogging from Africa. So in this post, I will discuss more on Affiliate Marketing

AFFILIATE MARKETING

Wikipedia defines Affiliate Marketing as a type of performance-based marketing I which a business reward one or more affiliate for each customer the affiliate owns marketing efforts.

Simply stated, Affiliate Marketing is an online business of earning commissions for selling products for an online business as an affiliate. Most often you get these commissions for each sale you made.


How Affiliate Marketing Works

  • First a publisher who wants to become an affiliate should join an affiliate program or platform.
  • Choose the products that you can promote or sell. For each product you wish to promote, you will get a personal affiliate link or code with which you are going to sell these products.
  • As an affiliate you have to advertise the product on your blog or website and place a gateway to purchase using your link. This is called promotion.
  • When an interested customer buys a product through your link you get a commission. 

Sometimes most product Businesses run their affiliate program on their own website with no need for a third-party affiliate platform.

Why you should Begin Affiliating?

  • It is very lucrative especially if you make good sales.
  • You do not need to create your own product.
  • You have the flexibility to sell multiple products.
  • It is a passive way of making money.
  • It is fun.

Any good affiliate marketer who puts good efforts can make more than $1000 per month. 

The key to success in Affiliate Marketing is your ability to reach many market customers and convince them to buy your product. 

Also, the commission that you get depends on the affiliate network and the type of product that you choose to sell. 

Cost per Action (CPA) or Pay Per Lead (PPL)

This is a type of Affiliate Marketing where you get customers in from a particular location to perform some set of actions. These actions are called leads. 

With CPA Marketing you can expect to make from $500 to any amount depending on your efforts and knowledge of the business. 

Content Locking

This is a type of CPA whereby a publisher blocks access to a particular content while asking his site users to perform an action before they can gain access to the restricted content. 

Actions could be to watch a short video, email submit or download an app. For each customer that performs any of these actions, the publisher gets about $1.2 to $ 50. 

This method works perfectly for download site such as game download sites, video download sites, eBook download sites and so on. 

Editors Pick

Affiliate Marketing is by far best and easiest to start method of making money online over other methods such as Adsense because you can actually get rich doing this.

Also, Content Locking and CPA Marketing which are derivatives of Affiliate Marketing make it, even more, easier to make fast money online. 


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