A Patriot is an Affiliate! (How to place Affiliate Ads)

A true patriot will always affiliate themselves with causes they feel are relevant to the growth of themselves and others.

In this post we will discuss how to find affiliate programs (it will only cost your time) & how to link them from your blog. First you must have your blog set up (click "blog set up" to see what Google has to say on the matter). Next you will want to choose an affiliate program to use (there are many, but these are the most popular).

• Adsense
• Clickbank
• Comission Junction
• Linkshare
• Paydotcom.com

For this lesson we will be doing a Paydotcom.com affiliate advertisement in a blogger blog (there is plenty of source material on how to sign up for these programs & how to determine which will be the best one for you to place on your blogs).

1. Login to Paydotcom.com & click the widget button:
   
2. This will open the widgets window, read their 3 steps. You will be able to watch a useful instructional video on the process of adding widgets to your blog. If you wish to skip this video, you will scroll down and choose a category. If you have a ClickBank account (in a similar niche), you will want to click to check box that allow you to display both ClickBank & PayDotCom.com ads.
   
   Again you should have already done your niche market research for the affiliate programs so you know what you want to market with this blog.
   
3. Now scroll down and select the template you would like.
   
4. Now scroll down to the bottom of the page. You will want to highlight the code in the text box, then copy it (you can do this by pressing Ctrl+C or by right clicking the highlighted text and selecting copy).
   
   
5. Now go to www.blogger.com & login. Then you will choose the blog you want to place the widget into. To do this you will want to click View Blog on the blog topic you want to add the widget to.
   
   
6. Next click the Customize link in the upper right corner of the window.
   
   
7. Next click the link Add a Gadget (if you are using the general template this will be on the right side of the screen).
   
   
8. Scroll through the list until you see HTML/JavaScript and click the Plus Button
   
   
9. Now you will use a title that will remind you of what this is & you will paste the code you copied from PayDotCom.com into the add text box. Then click the SAVE button.
   
10. Now click the View Blog link to see the Affiliate Link on your Blog!

Remember that this only places an affiliate link on your Blog, you will still need to market your blog to drive traffic to it. If you don't market the blog, you will not have visitors who can click the links on the side of your blog. Go ahead and click the links on the side of this blogif you like what you see in the affiliate links!