I admit it. I have a funny relationship with Amazon ever since they sent my commission payment to a closed bank account when I'd specifically asked to be paid in vouchers. Their willingness to lose a customer's good will over 15 spots took me by surpise. My own preparedness to argue over this tiddly amount didn't.
I've forgiven them though a) because life's too short to hold grudges and b) because adding book recommendations to your sidebars and blog posts gives you interesting content for your readers and has the potential to make you some spare cash.
The Amazon site can be difficult to navigate though because it's so bloody enormous and having to go to the affiliate centre, log in and wade through the many options just to grab the affiliate code for one book can be offputting.
So here's a way to quickly find an Amazon affiliate text link for that book recommendation you want to include in your blog post..
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I have been one of Yaro Starak's blog mentees for a few months now and he is a great guy with a wonderful monetised blog who teaches others how to make money blogging. He certainly doesn't promise overnight success at this but he does offer fab step-by-step quality instructions (including videos and audios) to create a powerful niche blog that will make money for you.
Yaro has just today re-opened the doors to his Blog Mastermind programme and I'm happy - with his permission - to reproduce one of his articles here for you. I'm pleased to say I'm already doing most of what he suggests. What about you?
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Here are the tips...
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I admit it. I have a funny relationship with Amazon ever since they sent my commission payment to a closed bank account when I'd specifically asked to be paid in vouchers. Their willingness to lose a customer's good will over 15 spots took me by surpise. My own preparedness to argue over this tiddly amount didn't.
