How to Make Affiliate Money Podcasting

If you are looking to make money podcasting, using affiliates the best and quickest way to do it. Unlike other methods of making money from your podcast, it can pay off even with a small audience. It’s a shame that more podcasters don’t go this route as it’s a great way to monetize your podcast and still provide value to your listeners.

What Is An Affiliate?

Here’s how an affiliate system works: you recommend a product, your listener goes and buys the product, you earn a commission on the sale. Almost all the big websites offer affiliate programs. Two of the biggest and most popular are eBay and Amazon.

How Do You Create An Affiliate Link For Podcasts?

When you sign up with an affiliate, they will give you plenty of ways to build affiliate links. But there is a big drawback with these links for podcasters: they tend to be very long and complicated. If you were to read out one of these links in your podcast it would take 10 minutes, be very dull and no one would bother making a note of it.

There are two ways to get round this. First, you could include the link in the blog post that goes along with your podcast. The problem with this is that most people won’t bother searching out your post - they’re much more likely just to Google the name of the product and you won’t get a commission.

A better way, is to create a simple url that you can read out and people will be able to remember and have that redirect to your affiliate link. You can do this with a 301 redirect. This will allow you to read out a simple, memorable url (such as, “Mysite dot com forward-slash product.”) which will then redirect to your affiliate link.

Using affiliates is a great way to make money podcasting and it is well worth giving it a try.