SEO Minded Affiliate Links
How do I make my blog more profitable?
You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t asking yourself something similar. In the age of a click being worth pennies and the RPM being a rounding error away from zero, it’s hard to know exactly how to turn a blog from a money sink into something more than (cheap) beer money at best. You can build what you want, but in the age of adblock and advertisement inoculation, the bar for what an ad is worth continues creeping lower and lower. If I relied on traditional ads for my blog, I wouldn’t consider it a side hustle; it would be a hobby.
If you want to make money off of your content, you have to have something to sell. It can be a service, a product, or even just an ideal. What do you think most streamers sell? It’s not their ability to game as much as their ability to make people want to experience it with them. I’m not charismatic or social enough to sell myself like that, and (at present) I don’t have any products or services I’m selling via this avenue, but what I can sell is content.
Affiliate links are a great way to make money when used right. They’re also a great way to damn yourself to the last page of Google when used incorrectly. You have to know how to target your content, how to optimize your content for SEO, and how to make your content branch out to be more efficient. I’m going to primarily target…
