How To Add Affiliate Links To Blogger

Would you like to earn some extra income writing? One way to monetize your blog is through affiliate marketing. This is a business model where you sell products on your website or blog. To make money using affiliate marketing, you need to learn how to add and use affiliate links. These links have a unique ID number that allows the affiliate program to track where the link traffic is coming from. This wikiHow teaches you how to add affiliate links to your blog.

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Sign up for an affiliate program. Affiliate links are provided through an affiliate program. There are lots of affiliate programs on the internet. They each have a different method of signing up and cater to different sized blogs. You can sign up for more than one program. Once you successfully sign up, they will provide you with an affiliate link with a unique identifier.
- Some popular affiliate marketing programs include; LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction, ShareASale, and NeverBlue.^[1]
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Sign in to your blog. Go to your blog host or web host and log in to your account.
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Click blog post or start a new post. If you want to add an affiliate link to an existing page, click the page you want to add an affiliate link to. To start a new post, click the button to start a new post.
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Click HTML . Most text editors on blog sites have a button you can click to edit the blog page in HTML format.
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Copy the affiliate link or code. Go to the website of your affiliate marketing program and find the link to the products you want to sell. It will most likely be in HTML code format. Highlight the code and copy it by pressing Ctrl+C on PC, or ⌘ Command+C on Mac. The website may have a button you can click to copy the link.
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Paste the affiliate link in the blog text. Some affiliate websites may provide code to embed the code the link as an image or video. In these case, copy and paste the entire code within the text of your page by pressing Ctrl+V on PC, or ⌘ Command+V on Mac. If you are only provided a link with no images, you can embed the link within your own text by highlighting the text, and then click the "Link" in the editor. Paste the link in the "URL" line and save the link.
- To manually place an affiliate link within text, use the following code. <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank">Type the link text here</a>
- To manually place an affiliate link with a picture, use the following code <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank"><img src="Paste image URL here"</img></a>
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Save the page or post. After you finish placing the URL and writing a blog post, click "Save" to save the page.

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Sign up for an affiliate program. Affiliate links are provided through an affiliate program. There are lots of affiliate programs on the internet. They each have a different method of signing up and cater to different sized blogs. You can sign up for more than one program. Once you successfully sign up, they will provide you with an affiliate link with a unique identifier.
- Some popular affiliate marketing programs include; LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction, ShareASale, and NeverBlue.
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Log into WordPress. If you installed WordPress on a server, you go to your website URL followed by "/wp-admin". For example, https://www.myblog.com/wp-admin. Log in with your email and password. Log in with your email address and password. Otherwise, go to https://www.wordpress.com and log in with your email address and password.
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Click Appearances . It's in the sidebar to the left in the WordPress dashboard. This displays a pop-out menu.
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Click Widgets . It's in the "Appearances" pop-out menu.
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Click and drag Custom HTML . It's in the list of widgets. Click and drag the "Custom HTML" widget to the location you want to place the widget.
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Copy the affiliate link or code. Go to the website of your affiliate marketing program and find the link to the products you want to sell. It will most likely be in HTML code format. Highlight the code and copy it by pressing Ctrl+C on PC, or ⌘ Command+C on Mac. The website may have a button for you to click to copy the code.
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Paste the link or code in the "Text" box. The text box is the large box in the "Custom HTML" widget. You can paste the code by press Ctrl+V on PC, or ⌘ Command+V on Mac.
- There are plenty of plug-ins for adding affiliate links to WordPress too. Some Affiliate Marketing Programs, such as Amazon Associates, have their own WordPress plug-in for adding affiliate links to WordPress.
- To manually place an affiliate link within text, use the following code. <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank">Type the link text here</a>
- To manually place an affiliate link with a picture, use the following code <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank"><img src="Paste image URL here"</img></a>
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Click Save . It's the blue button at the bottom of the Widget. This places a widget on all your WordPress posts.^[2]
- To preview your blog and make sure the affiliate link is displaying properly, click your site name at the top and click "Visit site".

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Sign up for an affiliate program. Affiliate links are provided through an affiliate program. There are lots of affiliate programs on the internet. They each have a different method of signing up and cater to different sized blogs. You can sign up for more than one program. Once you successfully sign up, they will provide you with an affiliate link with a unique identifier.
- Some popular affiliate marketing programs include; LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction, ShareASale, and NeverBlue.
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Go to https://www.blogger.com/ in a web browser. You can use any web browser on PC or Mac.
- If you haven't already signed in, click "Sign In" in the upper-right corner, and sign in with the email and password associated with your account.
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Click Layout . It's in the sidebar to the right.
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Click Add a Gadget . It's the blue text at the top of location boxes. You can add an affiliate link as a cross-column, right-sidebar, or footer.
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Click HTML . It's next to the yellow icon with the "</>" symbols.
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Copy the affiliate link or code. Go to the website of your affiliate marketing program and find the link to the products you want to sell. It will most likely be in HTML code format. Highlight the code and copy it by pressing Ctrl+C on PC, or ⌘ Command+C on Mac.
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Paste the affiliate link in the "Content" box. The content box is in the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" window on Blogger.com by pressing Ctrl+V on PC, or ⌘ Command+V on Mac.
- To manually place an affiliate link within text, use the following code. <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank">Type the link text here</a>
- To manually place an affiliate link with a picture, use the following code <a href="Paste affiliate link here" target="_blank"><img src="Paste image URL here"</img></a>
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Click Save . It's the orange button below the "Content" box in the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" window.
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Click Save arrangement . It's the orange button in the upper-right corner of the Layout menu. This saves the layout with affiliate code in an HTML/JavaScript gadget. Click "Preview" to make sure the link is displaying properly.^[3]

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How does affiliate marketing work?

Emilia Gardner

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Affiliate marketers make money by placing their links out in the internet. When a person clicks on the link and goes to the website and makes a purchase, the affiliate marketer gets a percentage of the sale. That sale percentage is something the company tells the marketer in advance. Amazon, for example, has a chart in their affiliate center which explains their payout structure. You can market products that have a one-time commission (like physical products), or products that do monthly recurring payments (MRR), generally software.