Affiliate Marketing Monday – Content Creates Sales

Last week we changed gears on the Affiliate Marketing Monday series and started to focus on the affiliate side of things.  I went into a little bit about blogging and having great content in order to bring advertisers in and to get readers.  Today, I am going to focus completely on content, content, content.  Content is what is going to make you your money.  Bottom line is this, if your content sucks, so will your affiliate marketing results.

You have all heard the phrase, “content is king.”  There is a reason that people say this every single day of their lives, because it’s true!  Content is kind for several reasons.  First one being, your readers.  If you don’t have anything that they want to read, why will they continue to come back to your site?  Not only coming back, but how will you get them there in the first place?  You won’t be able to if you’re not blogging about useful information to them.  The content on your site is more important than the design of your site.  Trust me, design is important, but that’s just how important your content is.

Other then your reader base, your content is what is going to help you show up in search engines.  Most of your readers aren’t going to find you by going directly to your site, so you’re going to need the help of the search engines.  Good content will allow you to optimize your site to a point where people will find you when they Google a subject or topic that you blog about and this is ultimately how you make money.  The more people that visit your blog, the larger chance you have to get clicks and in the end, sales.

This entry of the series is going to be short because this subject is very simple, content, content, content, and content.
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