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It’s been exactly a week since I began promoting a specific affiliate product (The Six Figure Freelancer e-book) through ClickBank. I’d promoted one or two affiliates quite some time ago, but never with reviews or much attention drawn to them, so this is my first “real” attempt at affiliate marketing as an income stream for my sites.

I set a goal of ten affiliate sales for The Six Figure Freelancer during my first month. It’s not much for most people, but it would be enough to convince me to look into additional products to promote on my various sites. As of now, I have four sales, so the goal is looking pretty good. The first two sales came over the first two days of promoting the e-book, and the second two sales came on December 1st.

Here’s what I’ve done to promote the product so far (which pays $23.25 per sale):

• I added a text link to the top of my writing forums.
• I added an image ad to the sidebar of my freelance writing blog (the e-book is specifically targeting freelance writers).
• I wrote a review and published it to my freelance writing blog.
• I created a Squidoo lens (where I first posted the review actually) on Six Figure Freelancing - I added plenty of useful information there for freelance writers wanting to earn more, and didn’t just use it to advertise the product.
• I added a text link to my business blog in a sidebar above the fold (as a part of my plan to replace private advertisers with affiliate ads to prepare for a major theme overhaul where I won’t have room for as many private ads).
• I’ve included the affiliate link on this blog in my updates.
• I’ve included a text link referral in my email newsletter template that goes out with each newsletter from my freelance writing blog.

I think that was it so far. It really didn’t take very long to do, and has so far earned me over $90 (not much, but also not bad considering those earnings will likely continue for at least a little while with no more than two hours’ work).

As for what I can do to improve that, the biggest would be to work on increasing traffic to that blog. It’s not a high traffic blog by any means. I do need to start targeting a few keywords better for SEO, and I need to get myself posting a bit more frequently there again. Traffic was at its best when I posted daily, and ideally I’d like to get to the point of posting there twice a day.

If I do move on and promote another product, I’d likely find something for my book marketing blog next. I may even decide to do that sooner than the one-month mark, but I haven’t decided on anything yet.

So that’s the one-week update. So far I do have to say I’m happy with the results given the amount of time and energy put in.

EDIT: As of December 5th, I’ve made my fifth affiliate sale of this product, and have hit half of my monthly goal (ten sales) in just over a week. So as of now, it’s looking pretty likely that I’ll be expanding on my affiliate promotions in the new year with additional products and on additional sites and blogs.

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