“I have done posts on my blog but they have always been product reviews. I am not sure how to go about doing one that is just for the purpose of affiliate links. “

The goal of an affiliate post is to generate traffic from search engines specific to the offer or product being featured on the page.

A parent looking for childrens Halloween costumes would type what into a search engine?

So the goal for a post would be creating a SEO rich post using these keywords and making a specific call to action to get users to click your affiliate link.

Here’s an example using Kidorable;

Keywords: Kidorable, children, Halloween costume
Post title: Kidorable as a Halloween Costume for children
Content should be about 350-500 words and include your Keywords.

i.e.
Have you ever thought ‘Wouldn’t it be great if my child could use their Halloween costume year round?’ Well I have found the answer!

Kidorable’s unique line of rain gear for children makes a great Halloween costume that not only keeps your children dry but your child gets to wear their Halloween costume all year long.

I really liked these ideas for a Kidorable Halloween costume …
Feature some of the products. Offer tips on personalizing the rain gear – include a coupon code – get creative it’s your unique content.

Be sure to also include META tags. Including keywords, title, and description.
Make sure your urls are search engine friendly

We always include a banner for our programs that is 500 by 100 which fits perfect at the end of a blog post – where it is more likely to be clicked by a reader of the post. you can grab the html code in your CJ dashboard:

To promote an affiliate program effectively you want to have a bit of a plan.
The banner would be great on any Halloween related posts. Banners in a post or article will CLICK better then sidebar items…

You could even simply create posts about Halloween in general :
Halloween craft ideas for kids
Halloween safety
My kids Halloween costumes

Think about who would click a Kidorable banner – what are they interested in? Write a post for that shopper and include the banner …

Hope that helps!

As I was visiting some of our affiliate partners websites this morning I noticed that most of our affiliate partners have listed their Twitter and Facebook profiles on their sidebars. I personally have found Twitter to be a great way to generate visitors (aka traffic) to my blogs but over and over I see established affilaite sites (with great content) not utilizing their twitter accounts as a means to generate traffic to their blogs and websites.

My Twitter Affiliate Traffic Tips:

1)  Build your followship. Ask yourself  who are the people you will find your offers and tweets interesting. Only these followers will engage (click) your tweets.  I personally use Tweet Adder to locate unique targeted tweeples to follow. Tweet adder is affordable and can help manage all aspects of your Twitter management.

2) Interact with your followers – do not JUST post out your offers and links.

3) Use a Twitter management tool such as HootSuite to manage your twitter accounts. Schedule future tweets.

As an affiliate you need to build a followship of over 4000 targeted followers before you will see a lot of benefit to your campaigns.

So put it on your to do list.

review your Twitter efforts and establish a way to build your follow-ship and manage your interaction with your followers.