24 Quick Tips To Increase Affiliate Sales in 2024

(Our Affiliate Earning Proofs REVEALED Inside!)


Hands down, affiliate marketing is the best way to make good income from online sources. If you’re looking for a one stop guide to increase affiliate sales, this one is for you!

It also helps you make passive income online which means you make money even while you sleep.

But selling affiliate related products online is really hard. Online is heavily crowded and there’s too much of noise.

It’s almost impossible to grab someone’s attention and make them buy your affiliate products. If you are finding it difficult to increase your sales, I have a list of 24 proven tips for you.

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Over the years, we have struggled a lot, spent a lot of money on learning to increase my sales and now here we’re today making full-time income from this blog.

If you’re curious to find out our affiliate earning proofs, have a look.

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As you can see above, we earned over $394,000 just from ONE product from this blog (which is Semrush affiliate program).

Here are the links to both of them.

We also share our traffic and income reports every year.

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We earned over $160,000 from this blog in the last year and the expenses had gone over $50k a year.

As you can see from our earning reports, there’s a HUGE potential to make more money from affiliate marketing.

Quick Note: Recently I created a video on proven tips to increase affiliate sales. Watch this video to get more sales out of your affiliate marketing efforts.

That’s why we’ve written this article for you where we’re going to share few of the PROVEN methods that we use to increase your website sales. Are you curious to find them out? Let’s get started.

24 Proven Tips To Increase Affiliate Sales

1. Create a Sales Funnel to Convert Visitors into Buyers


You need to find a way to convert your website visitors into sales. For that, you need a proper sales funnel.

Observe any profitable blog that makes passive income by selling affiliate related products, you will notice one thing: they all have a sales funnel. Most beginners to internet marketing forget to create a funnel that turns normal visitors into buyers.

If you are one among them, immediately spend time on creating a funnel. Here’s how you can do it.

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Create Awareness

Any successful sales funnel starts with awareness. Make sure to give your audience a clear picture of what you are selling from your blogs. Once they know what type of products you promote/sell, it becomes easy for you to build awareness about them.

You can use your blog posts as a way to create awareness about your products. Having an email list also comes in handy if you want to educate your audience about the products you recommend.

Build A Connection

Treat your audience like your family. Don’t treat them like buyers. If you are genuinely interested in solving your audience problems through the products you promote, they will be gladly buy what you recommend! For that, you need to stay in touch with your blog readers through blog comments, social media platforms or emails.

Recommend, Don’t Force

One of the major reasons most people don’t be able to increase their affiliate related product sales is because they force! If you are going too aggressive to make someone to buy, they probably won’t do it! Instead of selling like a sales guy, recommend why they should use the products. Show them all the benefits they would be getting with the products you promote.

Make Sales

Once you have successfully nurtured your visitors into prospects in the above 3 steps, you will build a great platform to make more sales. This is the sales phase where your sales depend on how good you implemented the above 3 stages.

Rinse and repeat the same for every product you create/promote. That’s the way successful marketers make passive income each month from their blogs and websites.

2. Answer, “what’s in it for them?”

Offer Some Incentive


Focus on what you offer to your audience. If they don’t find any value in your products, they simply won’t buy.

Always ask yourself, “what’s in it for them if they buy from me?”

If you are able to answer the above question, you’re already on your way to making decent income from your efforts.

If not, here’s an incredible way to increase affiliate sales.

If you are new to affiliate marketing, make sure to offer some incentives exclusively for the people who buy from you. It can be anything from giving away your premium eBooks to designing a logo (if you’re a designer).

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Offer Free Services

It’s a great idea to offer some free services in exchange for website sales. Suppose I am promoting web hosting offers from some of leading web hosts like Hostgator and BlueHost on my blog, I could easily improve my sales by offering services like free WordPress installation, installation of certain plugins and themes or offering basic SEO services to the newly launched WordPress blogs if they happen to sign up to a web host using my affiliate link.

Also asking your friends to create a WordPress blog is a great idea to boost your sales especially if you are focusing on web hosting promotion sales like Bluehost. Create awareness in your friends and tell them how can they make money from blogs so that they would be curious to launch a website for themselves too. That way you are not only increase your sales from web hosting companies, but you are also helping your friends to use their time better to make money online.

3. Don’t promote more than 2 products at any given time


If you are a beginner, it’s a waste of time to promote more than 2 products at a time. Why? Firstly, you are still in the process of building audience. Secondly, you will confuse your readers if you promote more number of products. So stick to one or two products. Educate your blog audience about these products and you will have fair chances in making money by promoting them.

Also, you can better use your banner ads on the top of your sidebar and end of the posts if you are promoting less products.

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Right Product Selection Is The KEY

You can’t make money online just by selling every product under the sun. It’s impossible to make money from all the products, it’s a smart move if you pick a handful of products to promote. Make sure you are promoting the products that are extremely relevant to your website audience.

You can use sites like CJ to find great products to promote.


You can’t make money online just by selling every product under the sun. It’s impossible to make money from all the products, it’s a smart move if you pick a handful of products to promote. Make sure you are promoting the products that are extremely relevant to your website audience.

You can use sites like CJ to find great products to promote.

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Before discussing in detail about increasing sales, you need to make sure you are promoting the right kind of products to your audience. I have seen some health related blogs running the web hosting and themes related banners. I’m sure they are not going to get any significant sales from such actions and are just wasting their website space for the promotion of unrelated products.

So if you are blogging about how to blog and web hosting offers etc, then only you should run web hosting and domain registration related campaigns on your blog. But since there are lots of web hosts and domain name registration websites to choose from, how to make the right website selection?

You should think of promoting those products only that you are using in person and are fully satisfied with. It’s a good idea to read customer reviews about a product before start promoting it on your website. You should gain detailed knowledge about the product you are going to promote so that you can answer some of your reader’s questions related to that product.

4. Focus on increasing your conversion rates


Let us clarify you one thing: there’s no point of generating 1000 visitors a day to your websites if none of them are buying your products.

It’s a smart idea to generate even 100 visits a day and bring 3 to 5 sales from them rather than focusing on increasing your website traffic.

So clearly conversion > traffic.

First off, make sure to analyze your current website analytics and conversion data so you can easily find out whether you are in the right direction or not and you can also figure out where the bottlenecks are (so you can easily fix what’s missing in your website to increase sales).

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Here’s a proven strategy to increase your website conversion rates in 2024 and beyond.

Perform A/B Testing

A/B test your calls to action to see which one gets more visitors to click. A/B testing which is also known as split testing is a technique for increasing your website’s conversion rate.

For instance, if you had two various headlines for your landing page and you couldn’t decide which to use, you could simply perform A/B testing to see which headline works better to increase conversion (which is click through rates in this case). Here’ how it looks like;

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As you can see from the above image, Variation B got higher conversion when compared to Variation A and that’s how A/B split testing helps you decide which works better for you.

Here are few things to test for performing better A/B testing.

  • The headline as headline is the most important thing as David Ogilvy said: “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. It follows that, if you don’t sell the product in your headline, you have wasted 80% of your money.“
  • Page layout and navigation and see if you want to keep or remove your menu, sidebar, footer section etc
  • The offer (along with various discounts and call to actions)
  • You can also use a video or short or long copy to promote your products to see which form of content is working well

You can use tools like Crazy Egg to easily perform A/B split testing to check your copy, compare headlines, do split testing and more quickly and we personally use this tool which is worth every penny to increase your product sales.

If you’re looking for a free tool for A/B testing, give a try to Google Optimize where you can use your Google Analytics data to identify key segments of users to target your users.

5. Increase your sales by improving your SEO


I never saw someone increasing their product sales without the help of search traffic. The people who come from search engines are highly qualified and they are always looking for solutions to their problems. If you promote the products that solve their issues, you are highly likely to convert them into buyers. Use tools like Semrush to increase your search results.

Also spend time on spying on your competitors keywords and make sure to embed some of them into your upcoming posts to increase your organic traffic.

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Start Doing Guest Blogging

The fastest way to improve your website’s SEO is to build links and you can use guest posts to build quality links.

You can drive more products sales by being active as a guest blogger on top blogs in your niche. Through guest blogging, you will be able to win the trust of lots of potential buyers of your promoted products. It’s a good idea to write guest post about the product you want to make money from and work as an expert for them. You could also add link for product specific landing pages in your guest posts to drive more targeted traffic and search rankings to those pages.

But don’t write guest posts only for the purpose of increasing your sales. You can also use guest posts to create connections with the blog owners, over time, you could use both of your networks to increase sales (which is often called win/win approach).

Use Nofollow Tag With Affiliate Links

No doubt this point has no direct link with improving the amount of sales on your website. But to be on safer side, you should add a nofollow tag with all affiliate links on your website. This way you will not be sharing your page rank and link value with products. By adding a nofollow tag, you are just confirming, Google should not count links from your website while calculating the search engine rankings and page rank of linked page.

6. Analyze product reviews from the top sites


If you are into online marketing for a while, you already know writing product reviews help you increase your product sales. But writing just any product reviews won’t help. You should write reviews that sell.

How can you do that? Here’s a simple quick tip: go to the top blog in your niche and analyze all of their product reviews.

Study how their headlines are, the content they write and more importantly the call to actions they use on their product reviews. This helps you write persuasive product reviews for your blogs to increase your sales.

So next time when you are writing a product review on your blog, make sure to spend time on reading the reviews on top blogs in your industry.

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Doing Product Reviews To Make Money Blogging

Want to increase your website sales without doubling your time and efforts? Then write product reviews that are genuine. It doesn’t matter if you are new to blogging or not, your readers will love to buy from you if you create a rapport with your product reviews.

Don’t write reviews just for the sake of money, you have to give importance to your readers. Then and only then this strategy works and gives you plenty of opportunity to increase your sales over time.

Here’s an example of how you can write product reviews (Semrush review)

Here is a informative video we created how you can use Semrush to find profitable keywords for any niche:

You can make good amount of sales from your niche site if you are good in writing reviews around targeted products. I used to do proper reviews of different affiliate related products I’m interested in promoting on my blog. Apart from product reviews, people love searching for how to manuals, discounts, coupons and deals around the products of their interest.

So you can keep these keywords in mind while writing about a specific product on your site. If you happen to get into top 10 for reviews, discounts and coupons related keywords for products, you can increase sales number to great extent. So it’s a good idea to do proper keyword research about a product before start writing about it.

We would suggest you try implementing a SEO strategy to get your website-targeted pages into top 10 on Google and other search engines.

7. Remove distraction


The best way to increase your product sales through your website is to remove all the clutter from your website.

You don’t need any fancy elements that kills your site’s loading times and performance and make sure to also focus on cluttering any website design elements that slows down your site speed.

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Create Landing Pages And Clean Up Your Messy Sidebar

The #1 tip we’ve for you to remove distraction from your website is to create landing pages.

You can use tools like Thrive themes to easily create high converting landing pages with their drag and drop builder or you can hire someone to create unique landing pages for you.

They work really great in promoting your products as landing pages provide minimal distraction which is the reason why they are often used by all kinds of marketers worldwide.

8. Trust is the heart of online marketing


If you are into blogging, you should know one thing: “no one buys from strangers, especially online”.

People buy from people who they know and trust. Trust is the online currency.

So if you want to increase your sales, build trust. Show testimonials from real people about your website and include all the blogs logos where you have been mentioned. This gives your first time visitors to easily trust you.

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If you have nothing as such, then start working on how can you get others testimonials for your sites. And start writing guest posts for the top blogs in your industry to build credibility for your site.

Disclose Your Affiliate Links

Want to build credibility among your readers and visitors? Then disclose that you are using affiliate links on your blogs by creating a “disclosure” page on your sites.

I would suggest you to disclose which links on your website are affiliate links. Your blog readers are not going to lose anything by using your affiliate link. And if you are offering some discount coupon along with affiliate link, that will actually help your blog readers because then they will be able to save some money just because of you. This way you will be able to gain more trust in the eyes of your blog readers.

Whenever you use an affiliate link, just mention that it’s an affiliate link in the brackets so that they can understand that you are promoting products. If they really find your products useful, they will buy from you.

9. Increase your sales with paid ads


Increasing your affiliate product sales can be so much easier with social media sites. The key to using social platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc is to increase your brand exposure along with your site’s authority.

If you’re wondering about which social media platform to use for paid advertising, here’s a breakdown of user demographics for the leading social media platforms:

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Facebook: If you want to reach audience worldwide include youth, you can’t ignore Facebook as it has over billion users worldwide. Users are almost evenly split between men and women.

The largest portion which is around 25% is between the ages of 25 and 35. 18% from 35–44. 17% from 18–24 (according to Statista). That makes it a powerful marketing platform since it hits target demographics for many businesses.

Twitter: Twitter is the 2nd biggest social network after Facebook with millions of active users. Users are evenly split by gender but are likely to have slightly above average income. 40% of percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use Twitter according to Pew research. While only 27% of 30–49 year olds are on the platform.

LinkedIn: LinkedIn is mainly aimed at professionals. Among U.S. adults, 38% of those with a college degree use LinkedIn.

Users skew slightly male, at 24% of the male population vs. 19% of the female population. Unlike other social media sites, LinkedIn users tend to be older. It has more 50–64 year old users than 18–29 year old users.

Instagram: This is new player in the lot and became immensely popular among the youth. Slightly more women use the platform with 39% of U.S. women versus 30% of U.S. men. 64% of U.S. residents between the ages of 18 and 29 are on Instagram.

Here’s the importance of using paid ads to increase sales.

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10. Try different affiliate networks


We recently wrote a detailed post with over 16000 words on the best affiliate programs on the internet right now where you can find a list of over 100 affiliate programs to join as an affiliate for free.

If one particular affiliate program doesn’t seem to be working for you, try another one.

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Whether you know it or not, there’s no “one size fits all” affiliate network that gives you access to high converting affiliate related products. In fact, all affiliate programs aren’t all the same.

Also make sure to create a sense of urgency.

You never know whether your website visitors visit your site ever again or not so it’s important to make them stick to your blog and buy products from you as soon as they land on your site.

So how can you do that? By creating a sense of urgency.

Creating a sense of urgency is the quickest way to persuade your website visitors to buy products from you today, not tomorrow or next week.

11. Harness the power of content marketing


Whether you know it or not, the blog you’re reading now (i.e Bloggers Passion) is currently making $8000+ per month at an average.

Most of the blog’s income come from recommending affiliate related products and do you know the #1 reason we make decent commissions every month?

It’s content marketing.

Harness the power of content marketing to promote your products through your blog. If you can lay out a great content marketing strategy where you can both educate your audience and promote your products, you can make a lot of money by helping people.

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Here are few ways to use content to promote your products and help your website audience.

Create Content That Teaches How To Use The Products You Promote

If you really want to increase your website sales quickly, start creating articles or videos that teaches your audience about how to use those products. You can talk about tutorials, step by step usage of their features and so on.

Create Brutally Honest Product Review Posts

Successful blogging is all about building trust. Observe any successful marketer and you’ll notice that they give top priority to helping their audience instead of just selling something.

If you want to improve your affiliate earnings, make sure to start creating product reviews and be brutally honest. Make them as detailed as possible with all the pros, cons, features and so on so your audience can decide whether they are right for them or not.

Consider Creating EBooks Around Your Affiliate Related Products

Another sneaky content marketing strategy used by smart affiliate marketers is they create eBooks, checklists, workbooks and so on around the products they promote.

Do you know why? By talking more about the products they promote, they are creating curiosity among the audience to give a try to the products they are promoting. You can also give it a try if really want to take your sales to the next level.

12. Don’t hard sell, ever!


If you think you can make more sales by selling hard, you are never going to be successful in affiliate marketing. Making money by selling products is an art. You should find out ways to add value to your audience lives through the products you recommend. That’s the fastest way to grow your online business.

13. Build an Email List


Building an email list is a great to get more sales from your blog. When you have a huge list of targeted customers, you can build huge profit from them.

When sending emails to them, you should not only send promotional email to them but should also send value added emails to them. Sharing useful manuals etc. around your niche will help you gain more trust from your blog readers.

You can use GetResponse Email Marketing solutions for building your email list of targeted and potential customers.

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But remember that making money or increasing your online sales from your email list actually takes time. Because no one wants to buy your products just because you are promoting them or asking them to buy. If it would have been that easy, then everyone else is also making money from their websites, right? Email list also has huge ROI.

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Observe any successful affiliate marketer like Pat Flynn, Zac Johnson etc. they are in the business for a long time now and they know how to make their readers and visitors to buy their products. They actually don’t FORCE their visitors to buy something from them, instead they focus on creating awareness and building connections with them.

14. Make the most out of “special days”


Make sure to subscribe to the affiliate programs email lists you promote.

Why?

When they offer some exclusive bonuses and discounts, the first thing they do is they send out emails to their subscribers.

So if you subscribe to them, you will be the first one to get notified about the special discounts.

Almost every affiliate marketer spends quality time during the special days such as Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Christmas etc because most of the affiliate vendors offer huge discounts to increase their customer base.

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15. It won’t happen OVERNIGHT!


Blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. Ask any successful affiliate marketer and he will tell you making passive income online won’t happen overnight.

You have to develop few essential skills such as networking with the right guys, increasing your SEO skills, and more importantly working hard to build a tribe that helps you grow your business online.

If you are not getting any sales even if you are working hard, you might be lacking some selling skills. Or you might be not giving enough exposure to the products you promote.

There’s always a solution for every problem, so look for it and NEVER give up. You will eventually start making more sales if you are persistent.

16. Run Special Social Media Promotions


I strongly believe in one thing to make money blogging that is.. you have to invest money before you make money. See, blogging is a form of business and every business needs an investment to make money. The great thing about making money blogging is you don’t have to spend too much money.

Focus on promoting your products through social media sites. You can use Facebook ads, Stumble Upon ads etc. to increase your reach.

You can improve traffic and sales on your blog by running special social media promotions for targeted pages. I would suggest you pay special attention to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, StumbleUpon and Delicious websites. You should look at ways to get maximum shared and likes for your stories on these networks.

But never try to spam these networks. Contents should be shared with the intention to provide more value to your fans and followers on these networks.

Pro Tip: Use landing pages to increase your sales, you can then use those landing pages links to promote them on social media. Because landing pages give less distraction and less distraction means more sales and conversions from your web pages.

17. Include text ads on all relevant pages


I’ve been using few text ads across the relevant pages on my blog. And I’m doing that because I know when someone who is interested in reading my content, they will always look for further information.

That’s when if you recommend the relevant products by placing text ads, you will get more conversions. If you are not using text ads yet, start doing it now and you will notice the results in no time.

18. Visuals play a vital role


Did you know why few top blogs spend a lot of money on their visuals be it Infographics, images or the overall designs of the products they promote?

It’s because they know appealing visuals convert more!

When you write product reviews or anything related to the products you promote, make sure to spend time on crafting gorgeous looking images.

Here’s a great post on finding high resolution images for free.

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Warning: NEVER ever download from Google images as most of them are copyrighted.

19. Improve Your Blog Design to Get More Sales


“First impression is the BEST impression” when it comes to online. If you want to convert visitors into buyers, you first need to make them stick to your blog.

No matter how great your content is, if you have a messy design with a bad typography, no one likes to read and share your blog posts.

Design is the king and you should invest time and money on creating an appealing design to increase your sales.

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If you are struggling to find the best theme for your blog, I strongly recommend you to check out Elegant themes.

Bonus Tip: Your email list is your ATM machine

Have you ever heard someone making a lot of money from Internet marketing without having an email list? NEVER, right?

It’s almost impossible to boost your sales without having a list of loyal subscribers. An email list not only helps you build trust but it allows you to educate your subscribers about your products they can buy when you send sales pitches.

20. Use videos to show how your products work


Keep it brief: While creating videos to explain how your affiliate products work, keep your content brief.

Instead of creating a 1 hour long video explaining your products, you can hook your visitors by creating short and sweet videos (under 5 to 10 minutes).

You can cover only the basic elements such as “who, what, where, when, why and how” and talk about how your products work and how they can benefit your audience.

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Just make sure to provide an offer (discount or coupons) in the video description and tell your viewers how they can instant access to the products you’re promoting through your videos.

You can use the following two platforms for uploading videos;

  • YouTube and
  • Vimeo

21. Publish Income Reports


Pat Flynn started the trend of publishing income reports on his blog.

Did you know that income reports page is one of his most visited pages on his blog?

Here’s the screenshot.

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In the above screenshot, you can see Income Reports is showing up on Google SiteLinks which is amazing (it’s also because of the fact that it is one of his most popular pages that gets massive traffic).

Yes, that’s true. Do you know why they are so popular? Because people love to know how others are making money online. They love to know what strategies others are using to grow their income.

And almost every successful affiliate marketer is started posting their income reports. In fact, their income reports are helping them to find more audience and that’s how they are attracting even more sales.

Here’s the income reports section from Pat Flynn’s blog.

Income Report: Pat

See that? Pat has made a whooping sum of $1.6 million dollars in the last 12 months. That’s the power of affiliate marketing and that’s the beauty of showing income reports on your blog to grow your affiliate income.

To put it simply; your income reports can help you grow your affiliate income.

More income reports = More new audience = More affiliate income

Here are few amazing benefits of writing income reports.

  • They can help you build great rapport with your audience
  • They can inspire new people to start blogging
  • They act like social proof
  • They can help you become an authority (the more you earn the more people will start noticing your name online)
  • They add “transparency” to your blog and it can quickly build trust with new audience
  • Income reports can help you design a monthly budget (you can easily find out all your earnings along with the expenses)
  • They keep your monthly posting frequency consistent

See the amazing benefits of writing income reports on your blog? So why not give a try to publishing them on your blog? Even if you are making only a few sales, don’t hesitate to show them up and your audience will love you for your honesty.

Just make sure NOT to fake your income reports. If your audience sense that you are faking your income reports, your reputation goes in vain. It’s as simple as that.

22. Write Product Reviews as Case Studies


I personally have tried and tested this strategy and it really works well.

I first created a case study on one of my favorite SEO tools Semrush (you can find it here) and it not only started ranking well in Google for several combination of keywords but it also started generating a lot of sales.

Since then, I’m not writing product reviews but I’m giving more priority to writing product reviews as case studies.

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If you are also promoting few products from your own sites, make sure to write detailed case studies around them and share the results (and benefits).That way your audience will find it interesting to give a try to your products. You can make sales as well as you can add value to your readers.

Here are few tips you should always remember while crafting product reviews to grow your affiliate income quickly. These are also the same tips most successful affiliate marketers use to grow their sales.

  • Create videos. Yes, create videos around the products you most like and tell your audience why you are using them and how they can benefit your audience. Provide links from the video description to increase traffic and sales to your sites.
  • Focus on the product, not sales. While writing product reviews, most people brag about their products so they can make more sales. But in general, it won’t work. You need to focus on why your product is the best fit for your audience so they can buy from you.
  • Before writing any product review, make sure to use it. Either buy it or ask the product developer to give you a free copy (tell them you’re interested in writing a product review). Use it for some days, come to a conclusion and then start writing a review about it.
  • Be honest. Instead of just talking about the pros of the products, also talk about the cons about it. This honesty can impress your audience and they can come to a better conclusion whether or not to buy it after reading your review.

23. Your Blog’s Following Matters A LOT


Most of the successful affiliate marketers have a HUGE following. So it’s not a big deal for them to turn few of their fans into paying customers.

At the moment, Pat Flynn’s social media following is: 350,000 (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube).

Apart from that, his email list will be over 100,000 subscribers.

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Those are insane numbers, right? With such kind of followers, increasing your affiliate income won’t be a big deal.

So your affiliate income also depends hugely upon your following size. The more followers you have (be it on social media or email list) the more affiliate income you can make. That being said, here are two places where you should be spending more time to build your followers if you want to grow your affiliate income.

  • Social media following: Connect with the influencers on social media. Engage with them. Follow them and frequently retweet what they post. Consider offering them help before seeking help from them. Get your first 1000 social media followers on all accounts first (Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc). Then use tools like Buffer to schedule your posts in advance so you can always share great stuff with your social media followers.
  • Email list: Money is in the list. Make sure to use freebies to build your list. Once you build it, keep sending value added emails to your subscribers. Also discuss about the products you promote by using your affiliate links. The more people you have in your email list the more sales you can make.

24. Try These 3 Sneaky Ways to Boost Your Affiliate Income


Create A Resources Page

If you don’t have a resources page yet on your blog or website, make sure to create one as soon as possible. And list out all the products that you personally use and like. Use affiliate links for each of them and whenever you write new posts try to build links to them (either from your own blog posts or guest posts). That way you can get more traffic and visibility so you can get more sales.

Giveaway The Products You Promote

I have recently did a giveaway on Semrush. The reason why I did was mainly to reach more new audience and to boost my Semrush product sales. Both were happened with that giveaway. You can also do the same thing. Giveaway few of the products that you are promoting and collect emails so you can use them in the future to grow your affiliate income.

Offer Promotional Codes

Lots of the bloggers are making money just by using this one tactic. All they do is, they just give you some 10% or 40% coupon codes which you can use to get a discount on your desired products. Try the same thing on your products too. It always works like a charm.

Some Unread Ways To Improve Affiliate Revenue

The Art Of Selling


Here are few proven ways to learn the art of selling.

Focus On Benefits, Not Features

Do you think we all buy products for their features? No. We all buy for the benefits they provide us.

No one really cares about the features of a product, consider any great selling product if you want. For instance, Genesis framework is one of the widely used themes by WordPress users and it has a lot of SEO benefits, mobile friendly, faster loading times etc.

Great selling products mainly focus on benefits, not the features. Next time when you are promoting (or creating) a product, focus on how it can help your readers instead of the features it provides. This is one of the simplest ways to find the greatness of any product.

Ask yourself “who benefits” from the products you are going to promote. If you have desired target audience who is searching for ways to find solutions, and if you promote the RIGHT affiliate product that suits their needs, you can increase your sales.

Listen To Your Audience, They Will Listen To You

While it’s not only important to focus on benefits but you also need to listen to your readers and customers. After all, they are the ones who buy your stuff, it’s not possible to make more sales without their trust and help.

Ask them what they really want. Read other blogs in your industry and find out the top bloggers in your niche to analyze the products they are selling. That way you will be able to rapidly increase your customer gain, support and sales.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a small business owner or a blogger who is thinking real ways to increase affiliate product sales, it all boils down to one important thing: learn to listen.

Before selling any product on your websites, buy it first Or request the product vendor for a free copy, then  try it by yourself. Once you start using the product, you will better understand the pros and cons of it. Promote the products only if you are satisfied. That way you will be able to give strong reasons through your product reviews to increase your sales.

Asking The Right Question Is The Answer

“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

Answer these 5 questions

  1. What’s the need, why should someone buy from me?
  2. Price barrier: is it too costly?
  3. Urgency: can you close the deal within a deadline? Always give something for free for buying early.
  4. Desire: what’s the one thing that makes curious about buying from you?
  5. Trust: do you have a social proof to boost your sales?

If you can come up with a framework by answering the above questions, you can quickly sell affiliate products that bring in more income for you each and every month. So start answering the above questions to make your sales journey a cakewalk.

Stop Selling, Start Helping

Most successful affiliate marketers know one thing they help people rather than pitching hard their products to make more money. You will hardly make money by selling products without knowing your audience pulse.

There are thousands of successful affiliate marketers who are using products to make a living from online. The best example is Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income, he generates around 50,000 dollars each month by promoting very few products like bluehost. He’s the true example of how we can make more sales by building strong relationships with readers.

Help people by writing genuine product reviews, recommend the products you personally use and make their buying experience better. The more helpful you are with your products, the more sales you can make. Give your readers what they really want. Your readers are constantly looking for solutions to their problems and you can gain more sales if you find the right affiliate programs to solve their problems.

Here’s a great video by Brian Tracy on how to sell like a pro.

Increase Your Website Search Traffic

Organic traffic is the lifeblood for any profitable website that’s using products to make money. Without the help of search engines, you can’t earn money from affiliate related products. Learn to optimize your websites for certain keywords to increase your website traffic from search engines like Google.

It’s not easy to get the top results for few buyer keywords though but you can expect great flow of search traffic once you start producing great contents around them.

Quick Checklist For More Affiliate Earnings


Here’s a quick recap of some of the BEST tips from the post to increase sales in 2024 and beyond:

  • Use promos, discounts and coupon codes on the products you promote if you want to generate more sales quickly
  • Write genuine product reviews along with the pros, cons, features, pricing and so on and let your audience decide whether they are worth paying or not
  • Use paid ads if you’ve to
  • Increase your website conversions instead of focusing on increasing your traffic
  • Analyse your competitors to see how they are making more sales
  • Use content marketing strategy smartly to promote your content to generate more sales

FAQs About Increasing Affiliate Sales

1. What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a process of promoting thirty party products and in return, you will be getting paid some specific commission for each successful sale or some other relevant action.

2. What are affiliate programs?

Affiliate programs or associates programs are a kind of business model opted by different companies which facilitate people like you (affiliates) to join these programs to promote their products on your blog or some other relevant platforms to drive traffic to the merchant’s site.

And for each successful action taken by the visitor you recommended to the merchant site, you are paid some commission.

3. How to start affiliate marketing?

Starting a blog is highly recommended to start affiliate marketing as it will help you to build trust with your audience and trust-building is one of the most important aspects to turn your site visitors into paying customers.

4. What are the best affiliate programs for beginners?

ShareASale, Commission Junction, Rakuten Affiliate Network, ClickBank, JVZoo, Amazon Associates, Avangate, and Impact radius are some of the best affiliate networks for beginners.

5. How to increase affiliate sales?

Creating a sales funnel, offering incentives (promos, discounts and coupon codes), improving your SEO, writing genuine product reviews, paid ads, etc. can help you to increase your affiliate sales.

Conclusion


The only way you can increase your sales in the long run is to continuously engage with your audience. Don’t treat them as BUYERS, treat them like a friend!

Know their problems and recommend the products that solve their issues. That way you can effectively convert your blog readers into buyers. And find out if your website design stinks. Make sure to spend time and money on improving the design and speed.

Another simple yet effective tip to grow your website sales is to analyze what factors persuade YOU to buy a product from someone else? Note down all the points in a notepad and you will be amazed with the information you get.

If you have any more suggestions or thoughts to boost affiliate income, please share in them in the comments.

About Author
Anil Agarwal is the Founder of Bloggerspassion. He is a full-time blogger and SEO expert who has been helping people build profitable blogs for over a decade Now. He has been featured in Over 100 Publications including Forbes, The HuffPost, HubSpot, Shopify, Semrush, Kinsta, Bluehost, Hostinger and G2.com etc. Know more about Anil Agarwal from here.

Reader Comments (36)

  1. First off let me say, Very good article. You have really laid it down on some great points about affiliate sales. A lot of people starting out, don’t realize how much work actually goes into making sales in affiliate marketing. I mean it really is the easiest business model to make money online. However, just because it’s the easiest doesn’t mean there’s no work involved. Some beginners will make a lot of mistakes by just putting there affiliate link everywhere, which in theory you would think would work, but unfortunately they don’t take the time to pay attention to where their audience will see there link.

    Studying the data of how your target audience behavior really helps in making those sales. You gotta know these things so you have a better idea of how to approach them and turn them into buyers. Also, making a connection with your leads and gaining there trust is another major step that most affiliates fail to realize.

    But eventually they get it and that’s when the money starts pouring in.

    Reply
  2. Hello Anil Sir,
    It is not a post. It’s a novel, after all. And presenting yourself in this manner demonstrates your expertise and devotion. You made some excellent recommendations about affiliate sales, and after reading this post, I noticed several of my own faults that I had been exploiting in my blog for the past few months. Now I’ll get to work on it.
    Thank you for writing such an excellent post.

    Reply
  3. Your article design is very similar to backlinko. Could you please tell which theme you are using?
    btw, Very information and detailed article. Thanks and keep posting!

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  4. Hi Anil Sir!
    You have covered everything related to Affiliate Marketing but I have a Doubt.
    Most of the time, when I ask my affiliate manager from Networks like Vcommision regarding Paid Ads, They deny and suggest not to run Paid campaigns. Could you please clarify for me is it wrong to promote through paid ads?
    I think I could generate sales through Paid ads but They don’t allow me.
    Please reply
    I am waiting for your reply

    Reply
  5. Hi Anil,

    This is a really cool method to increase affiliate sales, I just follow all of the tips that you share on your blog and I think my affiliate sales increase without limit.

    You made great points on how one can make money from selling affiliates and scale.

    It’s not easier for any new blogger wasn’t for me too. As people want to buy things from authority sites, which makes sense. Hence, building trust and reputation are going to be vital in the process of Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is changing, as you have already mentioned now its all about recommending instead of forcing to buy the product.

    Was an awesome read Anil. Thanks, have a great day!

    Reply
  6. I haven’t started affiliate marketing but I’m just going to start, this article is very helpful for me… Now I’ll definitely visit your blog daily thanks 🙂

    Reply
  7. Dear Anil!
    What if I use paid ads like facebook or Google ads to promote our affiliate link. And what are the criteria we should follow in order to promote affiliate through Paid marketing?

    Please guide me waiting for your valuable reply.
    Thanks

    Reply
  8. Just wanted to say that I loved the design of your blogpost ????????????????
    Which Page builder are you using to create such a great design? ????
    Please let me know ????

    Reply
  9. Hi,

    I am running a Motivational Blog since more than 2 years and all these time I was simply putting my thoughts in writing and now I wish to earn something and your article on Affiliate Marketing gave me the required inputs to start and I thank you for this wonderful write-up. Thanks again.

    Reply
  10. I am starting an Amazon affiliate site. So I have many doubts in my mind about conversion. I really don’t have idea about how to.run ads in social media and target audience which can buy the products.

    Reply
  11. I started blogging in end of 2016 and made my first affiliate sale in 2017 through ShareAsale for a Grammarly premium account. Although, commission was around $20 but certainly felt so great as it happened without much effort. In fact nothing, My sidebar banner did the job at that time 🙂

    And that is when the learning process started and keep on learning the effective ways of Affiliate marketing.

    You made great points how one can make money from selling affiliates and scale.

    Its not easier for any new blogger, wasn’t for me too. As people want to buy things from authority sites, which makes sense. Hence, building trust and reputation is going to be vital in the process of Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is changing, as you have already mentioned now its all about recommending instead forcing to buy the product.

    Was an awesome read Anil. Thanks, have a great day!

    Reply
  12. Hi Anil, thanks for your tips here on affiliate marketing. I do have one product I love that I’m an affiliate for so I paid close attention here. Glad to know it’s good to not offer more than 2 on your blog or website. I see so many out there that have their sidebars filled with ad promotions. (Not good and it’s looks cheap!)
    Would you have a link in every blog post about your affiliate product? I don’t in all of mine but more and more I am able to add it in as I’m staying focused on topics surrounding it and it’s something I use on a daily basis.
    I do some as text and others as a horizontal banner at the end of my posts and sometimes in the middle of them if it makes sense. I like the placement to make sense and not be placed anywhere to appear as an ad.
    Thanks Anil!

    Reply
  13. After reading this post. I came to know I should try this steps to increase my slaes. Thanks a lot for sharing relevant post. Appreciate it.

    Reply
  14. Hey Anil

    Affiliate Marketing is great way to earn money online (Especialy from blogging) but it is also necessary that we choose right product as affiliate marketing.

    So their will be better chance to increase sales, your tips are really helpful to increase affiliate sales.

    As far as sales concern I think niche can play big role in it.

    Reply
    • That’s so true Harpeet. Choosing the right affiliate products to promote is the key to making more sales. Also try to find recurring affiliate programs to promote as they give you commissions for lifetime instead of paying you just once. Make sure to keep an eye on your competitors to see what products they are promoting to get an idea.

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      • I started my blog 9 months ago and I am very happy today that I got my first sale at the beginning of this month.
        I should apply all the above ways you mentioned here. It’s a very very useful post for me.
        But, I need your guidance Anil, I have joined Amazon Affiliate program. As you told above that I should offer promotional code.

        What is the process of this? How can I offer promotional code. What are the steps needed? I am blank on this.

        Reply
        • Glad to know that you got your first sale just within 9 months of launching your blog, most people don’t get their sales as quickly. Make sure to find and implement all the tips mentioned here to increase your affiliate sales and let me know if you’ve any more questions.

          Reply
  15. Hi Anil,

    What an amazing post. You have covered almost everything here in this post. You have left no stone unturned. Some very valuable suggestions which are worth gold. Trust I believe is very important. Once your visitors have trust in you, they wouldn’t mind acting on your advice. It is very important to be genuinely trying to help out your visitors. If your visitors gets some kind of solutions by visiting your post. They will come back for more.

    Thank you for sharing, have a great day. 🙂

    Reply
    • Hi Tarique, yes I always try to cover almost everything on any topic I publish here on my blog so you can benefit from that (including the beginners). It’s true that you need to really help people to start making money from affiliate products. Otherwise, no one’s going to bother about buying using your links.

      Reply
  16. Hi Anil,

    This is really cool methods to increase affiliate sales, I just follow all of the tips that you share on your blog and I think my affiliate sales increase without limit. I just wait for more helpful methods regarding affiliate marketing. Can you post it for me? finally thanks Anil for sharing your knowledge on this blog.

    Reply
  17. Hi Anil
    Affiliate marketing is globally used online revenue generating. selling affiliate products is hard work. In order to get a result, there are many ways. But you have provided great tips through the blog. It’s really working. This article is very easy to apply because you have provided pictures, videos, and other valuable pieces of information.

    Thank you!!

    Reply
  18. Hello Anil,

    Affiliate marketing is one of my primary ways to monetize my blog and make money from it. You have covered every points which is important to become successful in affiliate marketing. Choosing a right product is very important as it helps to generate more sales. Building trust and authority among your readers is very important otherwise nobody wants to buy stuff from a strangers. Excellent points.

    Have a Great day 🙂
    Vishwajeet

    Reply
    • Glad to know that your primary source is affiliate marketing and yes, choosing the right product to promote is the KEY here. You should also know about your target audience and their likes so you can promote the right products that match with their problems.

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  19. Hi
    Anil,
    Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to earn handsome revenue online. Yes, selling affiliate products is a hard task and there are many things to do to get better results. You have provided great tips and I am totally sure by implementing these tips it will help in increasing affiliate sales in a right way. You have well explained the whole article and it is very easy to understand.

    Thanks for sharing this informative post with us.

    Have a great day.
    Praveen Verma

    Reply
    • Hi Praveen, truly said, selling affiliate products is a hard task and there are many things to do to get better results and you’ll have to be patient. If you know how to sell online, it is easy. But if not, you’ll find it really harder to sell online.

      Reply
  20. Hi Anil Sir,

    You have covered almost everything about affiliate marketing in this article.

    But I have a doubt:

    Can we use “Paid Advertisement like Facebook Ads” to promote our “Affiliate Product Review” blog posts.

    For example: “SiteGround Hosting Review” Blog post which consists my affiliate link.

    I am waiting for your reply.

    ~Sumit Sao

    Reply
    • Sumit surely you can give a try to paid advertising options and stick to them if you are getting the desired ROI. You should be able to get more sales from paid ads if you have any exclusive discount or deal for the people who will be buying an affiliate product using your affiliate link.

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    • Yes, you can do so and it’s the most effective way to increase sales. We all know that, affiliate marketing is one of the most popular means of making some extra income online and letting people know about your products. To make affiliate marketing succeed for you, conversion is important, which is why you must engage actively with your visitors to purchase products from your affiliate links, so always track and engage with your products to increase sales.

      Reply
  21. Hi Anil,
    This is the second post I read from your blog today. As always, you gave us amazing tips to generate affiliate sale.
    Building an email list is quite tough for me.
    Let me try though.
    Thanks again for writing 🙂
    Best Regards
    ~ Shakir Hassan

    Reply

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