My Blogging Experience

I've been so busy trying to find an alternate way to make income that I actually forgot about this site that I've signed up with. Since the economy has changed, it has gotten impossible for me to get a job. So now I'm trying different types of work, namely affiliate marketing.

Right now I'm in a trial and error, and an uncertain stage as far as this activity goes. In my looking into affiliate marketing, I've found more than a fair share of programs that you can sign into. To succeed in affiliate marketing, a lot of people say that you have to find a niche and write about it and promote products based on your niche. You can use your website or your blog.

Right now I'm using blogs because I find them a little more simple to use because I'm used to them. I've read and heard from people who are experts at this task and they say on average that it takes months of dedication to start seeing some money coming in. You have to build up targeted traffic and you have to do some promoting on your site/blog.

It is also good to know that some niches sell better than others. For instance, in a time where people are losing work and are struggling trying to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables, you might want to promote job opportunities. There are money making sites that have referral programs where you can make money off of people who sign up under you and not only that, they make money off of anyone signed under them.

My niche is personal growth, I honestly don't know how well that is going to sell, but I believe in it and making money is probably not my primary reason for writing on it. With personal growth being my area of interest, I promote mostly books and maybe some DVDs.

The key thing is traffic, and getting traffic is not an easy thing to do. IT takes time to build traffic especially search engine traffic which comes from being ranked on search engines.

One good way to build traffic is to promote on social networking sites that you are signed up on. If you have a good presence on the site and you don't "troll", and you have friends and followers or other users seem to hold you in a good light, you might gain traffic from that site with little to moderate difficulty.