Do you wonder which affiliates other bloggers use?

It has taken me a month to read around to figure out which are the affiliates with possibilities for a steady and substrainable income for another website that I am launching. I will include some ad/referal sites.

1. Amazon.com
   This seems to be one of the most used ones, even though they not pay much. I think it is 4% then 6% if you can sell more than 6 items in a month.
   Darren Rowse wrote in is blog ProBlogger in 2007, 9 Reasons Why I AM An Amazon Affiliate, and I think many of the points still stands today.
2. Ebay
   Ebay is used by a lot of sites, you get paid for when you drive traffic to ebay that generates sales. There can be big bucks to be made here if you create a niche store.
3. Dreamhost
   Dreamhost offers $97 for each signup , then $5 for each signup under them or 10% (and then 5%) recurring, which is pretty darn good.
4. Hostgator
   Hostgator can give you up to $125 for one signup. Look at their webpage for more information. I have seen this one pop up a lot lately, I don’t know if it was that I haven’t noticed before or if people are starting to crowd it now.
5. Google Adsense
   Last but not least, Google Adsense is a very good program, you get paid per click (PPC). The payment varies, and I am not allowed to say much about it.

Hopefully you found something you didn’t use here!

Tags: adsense, affiliate, amazon, blogging, ebay, monetize

Be honest, have you ever thought about this?
Have you ever felt like you are talking to a wall or to yourself?
I guess this is how a lot of bloggers feel right now, just like I do.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit like this, and the blogging apathy can really get to me.

I was wondering how to get through this period, and I have been turning to other bloggers to see what they did in their early posts of their blog. So maybe I could learn a thing or two, and now I am sharing this with you!

Motivations
Maybe you should ask yourself about what your motivations were when you started out blogging.
The motivations can be different, but are still as valid today as the day you started, here are some examples:
“I want to make a living blogging.”
“I want to share my knowledge.”
“Wants to build a name for myself.”

People are result seekers
We are raised to believe in results, from trial and failure.
If something does not work out the way we wanted to, we are relatively quick to give up on it.

The problem with the web is that you see the effects of what you did one month ago today, or even 3 months ago.

Building Google PageRank will not happen overnight, even if your site is full of valueable quality content.

You still have the Google sandbox that your website will stay in for a long period of time before Google will start sending you real traffic.

The word of mouth also takes time, if you tell it to 10 people, you are not guaranteed that they will tell it to 20 more, and they will tell it to 40 more… Those 10 might tell it to 5 people, who tell it to 3 people – then out of those 3 maybe one tells it to 2 people where one of them loves it so much it tells it to his 200 users, which then tells it to 50 again.

It will take a long time before your site is recognized with this kind of marketing.

Motivational speech
What I am trying to say here is to keep on it, be persistant and change techniques and one day you will hit the spot with someone and when that day comes, you will not understand the days when you wanted to give up.

Try to be lucky!
I am very fond of saying ‘Try to be lucky’, and by that I don’t mean buying lucky stones or anything.
What I mean about ‘Try to be lucky’ is to be out there, at least have the possibility to become lucky!

If you are sitting at home dreaming, noone will know, if you are out there – someone might find you!

Tags: blogging, blogging for money, google, motivation, pagerank, sandbox, try to be lucky