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There are probably better ways to incorporate affiliate links into eHow articles but as a beginner who isn't very tech savvy I'm going to rely on the Amazon.com affiliate program (called Amazon Associates) and the ClickBank program.
In many of my existing eHow articles I already had links to reference books in the resources sections below the articles. Now I'm going through and updating those links so that they still go to the same relevant reference books but now if someone actually decides to buy one (or anything else from Amazon.com) I'll get a small percentage of the sale.
As far as the ClickBank program goes unless I'm missing something it looks like all of the ClickBank affiliate products are eBooks.
This may actually fit into the eHow format well because eBooks almost always explain how to do something, which of course is the same thing that eHow articles do. It seems like many of these eBooks can serve as extended explanations for topics that are briefly described in short eHow articles.
Updating my eHow articles with affiliate links is taking longer than I'd hoped. In fact I only got through about 75% of them (I'll have to finish the rest tomorrow).
Part of the reason that it took so long is because I wanted to double check to make sure all the links worked on my eHow pages and when it came to incorporating ClickBank eBook links I wanted to make sure that the products were what I thought I they were.
The one question that I'm most unsure about is: What's an acceptable amount of affiliate links to include in the resources section below each article?
On one hand if I have more affiliate links out there it stands to reason that I'll have a better chance of someone coming across one that they like enough to actually make a purchase.
On the other hand too many links might be distracting and surprisingly less effective than a single affiliate link - which might stands out more.
More importantly I don't know what the eHow guidelines are regarding this. I suspect they frown upon an excessive amount of affiliate links because it may take away from the attention readers give to the Google Ads around articles.
The Google Ads are how I believe eHow makes money so it wouldn't be surprising for them to be against anything that minimizes their profits. With this in mind I'm going to start off very conservatively and only post at most two or three applicable affiliate links in each eHow article that seems appropriate.
As usual I can't find anything helpful helpful in the eHow "rules" about how to best handle this dilemma. Tomorrow I'll spend some more time researching the eHow rules and asking people in the eHow community about this before likely emailing the eHow staff with this question.
Although I don't expect these new affiliate links to be an overnight success I'm looking forward to seeing if I have any results tomorrow. I'm optimistic this will turn into a huge second income for my eHow income, if not immediately then hopefully over time.
I'm also very much looking forward to finally getting back to writing articles after I put affiliate links in the remaining 25% of my eHow articles.
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