If you want to know more about how to create, market and sell your own products successfully and make sure that you’re creating the right product for your audience, I really recommend the Six Figure Blogger course from Create & Go. This is an advanced course, which delves deep into cover copywriting, sales funnels, email marketing, and more. (It does not cover the basics of traffic or writing content, so if your main goal is to drive traffic, this isn’t for you.)

So, what about affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is my favorite way of making money online, and it’s the same story for many other bloggers. Essentially, affiliate marketing means that you’re promoting other people’s products, and whenever someone buys a product through your links, you make a commission.

Affiliate marketing is how I first started to bring in consistent money blogging, and currently, about 80% (or $8,000+) of my income comes directly from affiliate marketing. Even bigger bloggers like Michelle from Making Sense Of Cents, who makes $100,000+ /mo from her blog, brings in a good chunk of her income through affiliate marketing:

Related: How To Become A Millionaire With Blogging: Michelle’s Amazing Story

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If you are just starting out with affiliate marketing, I really recommend signing up to Amazon Affiliates. Amazon Affiliates is the reason that I was able to take my blog full-time. Before getting started with Amazon, I was making money here and there with sponsorships, but it was never consistent – it was always a few hundred here, a few hundred there.

As soon as I started taking affiliate marketing seriously and paid more attention to promoting products on Amazon, my income started to increase slightly. In a few months, I was able to take my blog from earning $69 per month to over $1,000. Nowadays, Amazon brings me up to $2,000 passively every month.