Your Blog is One Giant Lead Magnet: Here’s How To Make $$$$ From it
Stop underutilizing your blog traffic.
This is a concept I learned from Shane Parrish, the pen behind the Farnam Street Blog.
His blog has thousands of insightful blog posts, and each has at least one or two links to a book on Amazon.
When a reader clicks a link and buys a book on Amazon, he earns a commission. The Farnam Street blog racks in 400k organic traffic each month according to Semrush.
One day I sat down to do a simple math:
If only 0.5% (2000) of that traffic buys from Amazon using links from the Farnam Street Blog, there’s no doubt that he’d be making good amounts in commission.
His blog has become a giant land magnet for selling affiliate products.
But the beauty of this, I realized, is that you don’t have to be generating this much traffic, or be an Amazon affiliate to utilize this model to make money from your blog.
After I quit SEO blogging, I relied on ads to drive traffic to my website. To make the most out of every traffic I won, I decided to try out this revenue model.
The result has so far been satisfying, and in this piece, I will be sharing what you need to know about setting up…
