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Blogger Affiliate PagesThis is one of my favourite & easiest techniques to use for snatching Affiliate Sales from right under people’s noses. It’s particularly useful because you don’t need to worry about having your own Webhosting set up & it also takes little or no work (other than promotion).

The technique allows you to quickly create a redirect on a Blogspot page straight to your Merchant site.

Advantages of this are:

  1. Easy to Set up
  2. Set & Forget
  3. Only promoting 1 Page
  4. No need to worry about Copy

Firstly you’ll need a Blogger Account

Next you’ll need to find a product to promote. I usually choose something from Clickbank or a Ringtone offer from Azoogle. With clickbank I normally pick something that has a decent payout and a Gravity of around 50 or so, that way it’s not overly saturated but still has a bit of traffic.

Create a new Blogger Blog & name is something related to what you’re promoting: product-review.blogspot.com

Now you need to make at least one post to activate the blog, make a random post about whatever you want it doesn’t matter we won’t be showing this when we’re finished.

Now insert this Blogger Template into your template & replace the “Insert Affiliate ID Here” part with the ID of the affiliate program or product you’re promoting.

Publish the blog & visit it. The page is hosted on blogger but it redirects to the merchant site via an Iframe.

Now use something like Bookmarking Demon to promote the hell out of the page using the keywords like “Product Review” & make another :)

To give you an idea of how well this works, I made 20 about 6 weeks ago & I’ve made around $600 in sales since. Easy.

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74 Comments on "Leveraging easy Affiliate Sales from Blogger"

Mike 31. Jan 2007, 11:23 am

Your so smart. :)

Dominic 31. Jan 2007, 12:08 pm

Good stuff. I really like hearing about this sort of topic.
Do any of you blogger accounts get banned? If so, how long does it take for them to get banned?

Stuart 31. Jan 2007, 1:34 pm

None have been banned yet, all are on the one account. I’m having trouble removing the Blogger Navbar when there’s an Iframe on the page. So I guess that would reduce the risk even more.

xfiver 31. Jan 2007, 2:12 pm

Wow, that easy? Hmm interesting… Since you mentioned on using social networks as promotion, my guess is that you sold tech related products?

Stuart 31. Jan 2007, 2:35 pm

No way, Use the social networking to increase anchor text links & positioning in the serps ;) Anything else is a bonus.

Konrad 31. Jan 2007, 2:36 pm

Anyone else having the problem that Blogger complains about some invalid xml with that and any other html snippet?

Konrad 31. Jan 2007, 2:42 pm

Alright, you need to do two things:

1) Switch to the “old” template system: Under Edit HTML choose “Revert to Classic Template”

2) Use this html snippet, the posted one won’t work, even if you fix the little error (style, body, head all mixed up):

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

Konrad 31. Jan 2007, 2:44 pm

Hint: Replace etc. with the html code for it, instead of stripping it out ;)

http://nopaste.php-q.net/272383

Stuart 31. Jan 2007, 2:52 pm

Nice one Konrad, I didn’t know you could change the nav bar back to the “old style” one. Good tip :D

Konrad 31. Jan 2007, 3:13 pm

Sure, I’m glad I could give at least a tiny, tiny bit back, love the ideas you share on this blog. I’m actually trying this right now, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the results.

Stuart 31. Jan 2007, 3:57 pm

It’s all in the promotion, setting up the pages are easy. Which might lead me onto a followup post soon :)

Good luck.

Hawaii SEO 31. Jan 2007, 4:51 pm

That’s great as long as it doesn’t violate the Terms & Conditions of the affiliate program. It always pays to read the fine print. (If you expect to get paid)

Eli 31. Jan 2007, 5:19 pm

Great post stuart!
I’d definitely have to agree with this posting working like a charm. Although plenty of your accounts will get deleted, but more than enough will stick in the end.

Wallet Rehab 31. Jan 2007, 6:44 pm

I swear, this was going to be my next question! :-D

Nate W. 31. Jan 2007, 8:49 pm

Stuart, you are a genius. Thank you very much.

Sam 31. Jan 2007, 9:35 pm

That’s a very good post for someone who’s new to this game, I’ve done this before and 1 “blog” earned me more than $1000 in the first week, no ppc :D.

Konrad 01. Feb 2007, 12:36 am

Just by simply bookmarking them, or did you utilize other promotion techniques as well?

drew 01. Feb 2007, 1:19 am

Don’t forget that you should also put a few links on the blogs to some of you other sites, no need to waste all that link juice. Making the first (unseen) post on-topic for the product could also help organic searches, as the search engines will see the post.

dave 01. Feb 2007, 1:35 am

Just out of interest, in your case what sites and sales have worked best for you? Sure that will help a lot of people…

dylan 01. Feb 2007, 2:13 am

Very nice and informative post!

Im very interested in knowing exactly how you promote the “blog” and therefore also how you get traffic?

Ben Cruikshank 01. Feb 2007, 2:43 am

I had a problem with the iframe displaying improperly in firefox. In case anyone is having the same problem, it can be fixed by doing the following:

Add this to your style:

html,body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
overflow:hidden;
}

And change the height of the iframe from 100% to 99%.

Basically all this does is force the body of the page to stretch, and makes sure that the iframe isn’t larger than the body.

Hope this helps!

Ben

Stuart 01. Feb 2007, 12:44 pm

Whilst I enjoy giving away tips & tricks. I think it’s important to stay clear of exact affiliates or products. I’m not going to hand it to you on a plate & it’d also saturate the market for everyone else :)

Stuart 01. Feb 2007, 12:46 pm

For this technique I’m using Bookmarking Demon & Blogger Generator.

Blogger Generator to generate the blogs in mass & then Bookmarking Demon to get them indexed & ranked :)

Samuel 01. Feb 2007, 1:48 pm

How about putting the url of my product review rather than just sending them direct to the affiliate link?

I did a few product reviews on my blog.

mark 01. Feb 2007, 2:03 pm

do aff networks allow this kind of promotion?

Stuart 01. Feb 2007, 2:20 pm

If you think your Product review converts better than the Sales Copy go for it :)

Mike 01. Feb 2007, 4:09 pm

“Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”

Is what I get for the template link

Kevin 01. Feb 2007, 4:25 pm

Right click on the link, Choose “Save Target As”, and save it to your hard drive.

Pauly 01. Feb 2007, 5:03 pm

Would someone PLEASE explain to me the purpose of having the merchant page redirected in an iframe. I just dont see the added benefit or leverage.

Whats wrong with having hyperlinks in your review that takes the reader directly to your merchant affiliate link?

Samuel 01. Feb 2007, 5:19 pm

Redirect is better, not everyone will click on your link, even if you ask them to.

As for me I prefer to send people to my review page as it does convert better for me. My reviews are comprehensive & helps the visitor make a better decision.

Thanks Stuart, you could have turned this little idea into a report & sell it for US$47 or more but you choose to give it to us for free.

I salute you :)

P.S. Which plugin did you use to have no follow links & captcha on your comments?

Stuart 01. Feb 2007, 5:32 pm

Samuel is on the money with the reply there.

As for plugins I’m using Spam Karma 2 :)

Samuel 01. Feb 2007, 7:07 pm

Thanks Stuart!

For those of you who are reading & you totally refuse to spend a cent on this idea, here’s what you can do…..

1. Manually create the blogger accounts
2. Use onlywire.com to bookmark more than 12 sites at one time

To further enhance this method, send them to you review page, usually a blog or static page. You can add a pop over with opt-in box to grab some subscribers when others read your review.

It works inline with concept taught in Click Affiliate Project X.

Stuart 01. Feb 2007, 7:36 pm

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about a Free Bookmark Submitter Delicioso check it out if you don’t want to fork out for Bookmarking Demon.

Konrad 02. Feb 2007, 12:45 am

Thanks ;)

Did you bookmark the pages multiple times with different accounts or just once?

Samuel 02. Feb 2007, 1:54 am

I’ve tested, Stuart, Conrad & Ben’s code….. Sometimes it shows, sometimes it doesn’t, I wonder why.

Stuart, how bout putting a code that works all the time?

Meanwhile, here’s what I did:

Affiliate Product Review

It redirects to your exact page and it WON’T show affiliate-product-review.blogspot…..

Will that get my blogspot account banned?

Samuel 02. Feb 2007, 2:20 am

http://www.theultimatepublishing.com/blog/blogger-template-code.html

Here are the 3 codes:
1. Will it get me banned?
2. & 3. didn’t work all the time, what went wrong?

Stuart 02. Feb 2007, 7:19 am

Are you guys using the New or old version of Blogger? :)

Stuart 02. Feb 2007, 7:21 am

Yep, with about 5-10 accounts :) Then repeat the day after.

lollypapster 02. Feb 2007, 9:49 am

How long did it take to get your first sale after you finished a blog?

lollypapster 02. Feb 2007, 10:11 am

this tool should be useful also
http://www.bluehatseo.com/quit-quick-indexing-tool/

Stuart 02. Feb 2007, 12:35 pm

Have you made a post on the blog to activate it before changing the template? :)

Stuart 02. Feb 2007, 12:36 pm

I can’t be responsible for anyone getting accounts banned via this technique. I did specify that you open a new blogger account & not do it on an existing one.

Blogger Generator will automatically open hundreds of new accounts for you if you want.

Stuart 02. Feb 2007, 12:37 pm

5 days :)

Ben Cruikshank 02. Feb 2007, 1:53 pm

Samuel,

With the method I posted, you need to change the height of the iframe to 99%. So it would then be:

That was the only way I could get this to work in Firefox, as there is something funky with the way it displays iframes. The original code worked just fine in IE, and, strangely, in Firefox only when I would click the preview link in blogger. Still haven’t figured that one out…

Let me know if you still have trouble with it after you make the height change.

Ben

Jason Pedersen 02. Feb 2007, 4:51 pm

I’m giving it a try Stuart. We’ll see how it goes.

Samuel 03. Feb 2007, 5:21 am

Thanks!

Anyway, 2. works

lollypapster 04. Feb 2007, 6:46 am

How long does it typically take you guys to get indexed?

lollypapster 06. Feb 2007, 11:55 am

lol, damn I suck. I got 1 backlink in MSN after 3 days

Wallet Rehab 07. Feb 2007, 8:52 pm

I think google has figured out how to proactively filter these out. I can’t seem to google any of my feeder sites, even though they come up in MSN or Yahoo. Anyone else have similar experiences?

Will 16. Feb 2007, 3:59 pm

I can’t open the blogger template text file. Is there another way to download it?

lollypapster 23. Feb 2007, 7:30 am

Can we have a followup post, please

Stuart 23. Feb 2007, 8:32 am

Go into Google & use the search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ringtone&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Check out how many blogspot domains are ranking for ringtone. If they can do it, you can do it for affiliates ;)

kousmer 04. Mar 2007, 12:57 am

Stuart,
In the new version of Blogger account, I can’t figure out how to make the template as you said.

And from http://ringtone-1316218.blogspot.com/, it seems from the new version. Would you explain how he can redirect the page to the merchant site?

Jess 13. Mar 2007, 12:51 pm

Is there a benefit to using the iframe instead of just a redirect? Will the blog account get banned with a redirect?

Thanks!

Stuart 13. Mar 2007, 12:58 pm

Redirect is much more noticeable & will get pulled quicker than an Iframe :)

Jess 13. Mar 2007, 1:18 pm

A couple more questions…Do you post to 5-10 new bookmark accounts per day or do you use the same accounts everyday? I just got Bookmarking Demon today and I’m trying to understand it…Does a URL only need to be bookmarked once per account or can they be done on a daily basis?

Thanks for the help!

Vikas 18. Mar 2007, 2:34 am

Why the hell I’m thinking that all you’re trying to do is make yourself some sales of the BloggerDemon.

If you’re so good, why don’t you show us some real proof that it works.

No hard feelings, but I’m not going to pay 97$ (half of which will go to your pocket of course) just on some words.

Stuart 18. Mar 2007, 11:31 am

Then don’t buy it, I use SH-Autolink to automaticaly parse a link to anytime I write Bookmarking Demon or any other software I use as you’ll notice in this comment also.

I posted more recently that if you can’t afford to fork out for the software you can do something similar with a free service from Onlywire.

CVOS 23. Mar 2007, 8:20 pm

I’m unsure why you are posting content on blogspot blogs instead of your own site, such as this one. Building a large content repository is a key to long term traffic, and blogger sites are throwaway accounts. Are you worried about your main website being associated with spam?

Jason 02. Jun 2007, 1:36 pm

Any updates on how this is working for people? I’m creating my first site, and I”m a bit confused, do I want the navbar showing, or not??

Toni 12. Oct 2007, 6:58 am

seriously, if you want to make money from your blog, why not just buy some hosting and use wordpress or something. You lose a lot of control when you rely on a blogging service, imo.

just a thought…

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John 26. Feb 2008, 9:00 am

I get the following message every time I try to upload the template:

“Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.”

I can’t for the life of me figure it out. Any ideas???

John 28. Feb 2008, 12:18 pm

OK, so I figured out how to get the template to work, created some sites, used bookmarking demon to promote them, then… nothing. Bookmarking Demon did barely anything for me. It was only successful for about 5 out of 20-some sites. What? I paid $97 for this thing. Is it possible I’m using it wrong? I believe I’m rather computer savvy, so this shouldn’t be the case. Has anyone else had trouble with that software?

121million 14. Mar 2008, 10:38 am

Is there any way to use an iframe like this in WordPress? And can anybody post a code snippet if that’s the case? because the live plugin WordPress uses would be handy to track your hoplinks, blogs etc.

ekimswehttam 20. Apr 2008, 7:20 am

is it actually neccessary the remove the top bar portion ?

if so, tell me why ?

and why use iframes ? … i’m confused.

bookmarking demon 11. May 2008, 1:29 pm

John,

when you use bookmarking demon to get links it takes quite a while for all the links to get counted. Also, sometimes you get a ton of successful submissions sometimes you don’t. The point is that, if you have 100 domains that need promoting you HAVE to have a tool like BMD to help automate the process. Otherwise it’s impossible to promote all of your sites. BMD kicks ass all the way. The scuttle runs are gravy and you just have to be sure to hide your links on the legit runs. IT works really well.

Stuart, never been here before but I was actually quite surprised to see a MMO blog with some real info on it! Nice tips…got to see what else is on here.

BTW, I just picked up blogger generator cuz it seemed so damn cool. I know there’s got to be a way to make use of it…I’m glad to see you mentioined it here. Now at least I have an idea of what to do with it.

wilsonyeoh 05. Sep 2008, 10:57 am

I’m wondering if we could maximize the power of blogger.com by creating a Clickbank product review site that compares certain products in table format. The site has to be static and should look like other product review website instead of a blog. Is this feasible as I can’t seem to find any blogspot that has this type of review format?

RevenueRank Affilliate Marketing 14. Apr 2009, 11:44 am

This technic is very easy to apply and start making a fast money if you promoting it seriously. However, if you put too many affiliate program in one page the conversion rate will become zero. Unless you have very targeted topics or content in your page.

Julie 11. Jun 2009, 1:27 am

I am trying to apply your method but I can’t keep your blogger template to
download at all, I have right clicked and saved as but blogger gives me this
code: Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
Any suggestions?

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