Save money blogging with affiliate programs!

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Collin in Blogging

“Save money blogging”

Tired of paying full price for software to help grow your blog or build links? Today’s post will show you how to save money blogging using the sellers affiliate program.

In order to save money on the software you first need to sign up for the affiliate program that is offered buy the seller and then find the referral link for the product you want to buy and place it on your website. Once it is on your site then all you have to do is click on it and buy the product to get your savings. You end up paying full price for the item when you buy it but the commission for the sale is credited to you, hence you have just saved some money. If you want some more proof on this system check out my post called How To Save Up To 75% on Clickbank Products!

This is also a good way to cheaply test out new products to see if there any good. We all know there are a lot of scams in the Internet world and some of them look really good until you buy it. If you are able to buy the product through your own referral link and save some money then at least your not taking so much of a hit. Whats better, to lose 25 bucks or 50 bucks? I am sure you get my point though.

I have used this method a few times and I am kind of proud of myself to figuring it out too. I am sure lots of the pro bloggers do it as it just makes sense to keep as much of your own money in your own pocket then to hand it to someone else. This method of savings though is not talked about to much or never from what I have seen and I felt it was worth while to post about it as I have just bought some new blogging software at 50% of the sale price and saved me some cash again.

You can even use this same method to buy products from Amazon. I am going to do this exact same thing when it comes time for me to buy my Flip Video CamCorder as why should I pay full price for something right, and why should you!

If you have any tips on saving money online let us all know.

  1. Dennis Edell said on May 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Careful, this may work with CB and 1 or 2 others but there are MANY affiliate programs that will not only charge full price, but may very well ban you from their program after that.

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  2. Collin LaHay said on May 27th, 2008 at 6:34 am

    I agree with Dennis. If I am ever worried about being banned from an affiliate program, the next best way to save money is by finding someone with an affiliate link and telling them straight up that you will buy it through their link if they pay you half of the commission. That will save you 50% of whatever commission is added onto the product for a quick 5 second email.

    Collin LaHay’s last blog post..Link Building with HELP

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  3. Collin said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    You both have good points guys, thanks for your advice and ya I should of said something I guess about being careful doing it too so once again thanks for pointing out some things to watch out for.

    Though it is from a few conversations I have had with some of my affiliate program managers who have stated to me that as long as the action is completed there is no problem with the commission being paid. But if you buy 100 of the same thing then you can have a problem for sure.The best thing to do would be to ask your managers I guess.

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