At Pro Blogging Advise .Com, we help bloggers to find the right path on the road of the blogging world. So that they can get real results and success instead of just spinning their wheels in the net.
We believe that one way to be a creative blogger is not ignoring easy opportunities to get paid for your efforts.
After all, you work too hard on your blog not to get compensated, right?
It’s what we teach, and it’s what we practice.
So let’s talk about affiliate links.
How Affiliate Links Work
Sometimes when we recommend a service or product, we’ll link to the company’s website using what’s known as an affiliate or referral link.
If you end up buying a product that you found via our link, we “The Publisher” get a commission from the vendor as a “Small return of a publishers effort which you can consider as thanksgiving idea”.
Sometimes that commission is just a few or spit amount of dollar; sometimes it’s a little more.
Sometimes it’s a one-time commission; sometimes it’s a recurring commission — so if you sign up for a monthly or yearly subscription service we might get a slice of that fee.
But here’s the important thing — that referral doesn’t cost you a single penny. The entire commission comes out of the merchant’s pocket, not yours.
One more thing, we’ll never recommend a product simply because it pays us a commission!
We’ll only recommend such kind of a product that we’ve personally used or that come highly recommended by trusted reviewers.
After all, if we only recommend products we’re using ourselves right now, we’d be doing you a disservice, because there are tools that are a great fit when you’re starting, but not when your blog is bigger. Make sense?
So that you can easily tell when we’re using an affiliate link, we’ll put (affiliate link) after it.
For instance, this is what an affiliate link to our recommended domain registrar Namecheap looks like:
Recommended Domain Registrar
Namecheap – (It’s an affiliate link)
Now it’s possible that we didn’t mark some links in older posts as clearly as this, so the safest thing to assume is that any time we link to a third-party product, we might get a small commission.
Thanks for your time in reading this affiliate disclosure.
Have a good day!