Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Make Money Using Free Blogs
March 6, 2010 by Alan
Filed under Affiliate Marketing, Make Money with a Free Blog
If you’re just starting out in affiliate marketing, you probably don’t want to invest a lot of money into your new business, and you don’t have to. Essentially, affiliate marketing is free and doesn’t require any initial cost. It’s very possible to make money with affiliate marketing through the use of free blogs.
Free blogs such Blogger.com and Wordpress.com, just to name a couple, can be used to create a web presence where you can promote various products as an affiliate.
There are, however, pros and cons to this approach that I’ll discuss below.
Pros
The obvious pro to using free blogs is that they are in fact, free. They’re also very easy to setup and use. You can be up and running and blogging within minutes. At no point will it cost you anything to maintain and keep your blog going.
Cons
The cons to this approach, though, is that you don’t fully own your blog. With free blogs, you’re at the mercy of the blog provider, in this case Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. These two sites both have strict policies about advertising and promoting affiliate products, and they can shut your blog down at any time. That’s not a good thing for you when you’re trying to make money online and build a web presence.
Also, you don’t own the domain. Your blog is a subdomain and part of the Blogger.com or Wordpress.com domain. For example: http://yourblog.blogspot.com or http://yourblog.wordpress.com. For branding purposes, this doesn’t look very professional and will raise questions in the minds of potential customers.
With that being said, it’s very possible to make money online using free blogs. However, it’s not what you’re probably thinking, and I’ll get into this at a later time.
There’s a better approach if you want to setup a main blog from which you’ll brand yourself or your business, and I’ll be talking about this in my next post.
Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com
