Affiliate Blogs: What Makes A Good Affiliate Blog?

This is a ques­tion that i have been try­ing to con­sider for quite some­time now. I have read many blogs, some i have enjoyed, some i have learned to love, oth­ers i have hated, but over­all i have learned a lot! It takes a cer­tain type of per­son to be able to cre­ate enough inter­est to keep read­ers over a long period of time, prob­a­bly mainly due to the amount of choice available.

When con­sid­er­ing blogs dis­cussing affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing you would be excused for think­ing that they must all be sim­i­lar, how­ever this could not be fur­ther from the truth. True they are all dis­cussing, in one way or another, the same topic, but Affil­i­ate Mar­ket­ing is a wide and var­ied sub­ject and can­not be summed up by one per­son. I am happy to link to other affil­i­ate blogs on con­di­tion they com­pli­ment my writ­ing. It is ideal for instance if they dis­cuss tech­niques that i do not per­son­ally use, or if their approach towards their read­ers is dif­fer­ent to my own. I like to intro­duce my read­ers to alter­na­tive affil­i­ate blogs, this is but one rea­son that my read­ers may keep return­ing to read what i have got to say.

I per­son­ally believe that many affil­i­ate blogs do not offer too much in the way of edu­ca­tion and instead con­cen­trate on dis­cus­sion — this is nor­mally writ­ten for those already quite suc­cess­ful in their own right as affil­i­ate mar­keters! I have recently become quite a fan of such blogs but am aware that even a year ago i may not have fully under­stood what was being discussed.

With Demons Lounge i have attempted to cre­ate a blog for those seek­ing infor­ma­tion that may not have quite dis­cov­ered where they should be head­ing with affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing, for those with some knowl­edge but maybe with­out a full under­stand­ing of the core con­cepts and prac­tices that are required to be suc­cess­ful. If i attempted a high brow affil­i­ate blog i fear i may fall flat on my face as i am still learn­ing, i learn some­thing new every­day and when that stops i’m sure my inter­est in such con­cepts will also.

So what makes a good affil­i­ate blog?

The truth is i still don’t know! I think as long as peo­ple blog about stuff that inter­ests them it will inter­est oth­ers. I have in the past been guilty of writ­ing for the sake of writ­ing and some of my older posts make me cringe, but i have decided not to delete these as it is who i was at the time of writing.

I may not know what makes a good affil­i­ate blog but i sure know what makes a bad one. An affil­i­ate blog should be about your expe­ri­ences, results & recomen­da­tions and not a purely money mak­ing exer­cise. You should be thought­ful about what you write (some­thing i have not always adhered too) and i promise to in the future.

Please check out my “Great IM Blogs” sec­tion on the side­bar and read some other inter­est­ing blogs. Please also feel free to bring my atten­tion to Affil­i­ate Blogs that i may not have read — as long as you enjoy them!