Can you please help with affiliate-promoting questions with a blog website

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Can you please help with affiliate-promoting questions with a blog website? Is anyone still affiliating?

I have read several threads on here that are super helpful, however, most of them are well over a year ago. I am self-hosting a blogging website with WordPress. I want to promote my products and those of other creators here. Can I save photos of other creators’ products to promote on a blog post? Or is it sharing the link? or either? Do I need to ask permission from the creator to promote their product? I have visited several blogs that I have seen noted in general discussions on here and, they are promoting only their products. If they are promoting another creator they are promoting them as a whole “featured artist”.  As an example: If made a blog post about dino baby shower themes can I promote several creators’ items and save the photos or the links and incorporate that in my post? I feel like I am missing something with this?

I have also read quite a few threads on affiliating here. Some have said it is not worth it to go through all the hassle, has anyone still found this to be true? Could I be wasting my time trying to affiliate this way? I know of Pinterest which I have been doing to an extent.  I was thinking of a blog to tie it all together and get more traffic.

Any Insight would be super helpful.

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@Amanda3117   I’ll try to answer a few of your questions although I’m by no means an expert - I’m still trying to figure out the best way for my self.

I’m promoting other sellers products using a WordPress plugin by Mark Highton Ridley. You can see an example of how I do it at https://sanfrancisco.zone/exquisite_ghost_like_spiderweb_diy_peel_and_stick_wallpaper/. Basically I mirror each of my Zazzle listings on my own site on a separate page and below my own product item I feature either one of my own collections or other Zazzler’s listings. And I also link to other Zazzle stores throughout my site with ads in rotation and via a link page. On social media I promote my own site’s pages instead of my listings in my Zazzle store.

You will find Mark Highton Ridley’s plugin at https://niftytoolz.com/.

Good luck to you! :slightly_smiling_face:

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@MOM  Thank you so much for all of your help. I’m very new to WordPress and how to share stuff aside from simply pinning on Pinterest. This is perfect! :slightly_smiling_face: 

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Hello Amanda3117

I Hope you are well

I am facing a problem of not getting a referral earning,and almost of sales comes from pinterest platform, I don’t know the reason for that, So if you have any solution for this issue I will be thankful,
with Best Regards

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When it comes to affiliating with a blog, the rules are actually pretty simple. Yes, people are still affiliating it’s just not talked about as much because most of the older threads are from when everyone was experimenting with it. But the system still works the same way: you write a blog post, you include your referral links, and if someone buys through your link, you earn a referral.

As for promoting other creators’ products, you can use their Zazzle product images in your blog posts. Zazzle allows creators to use each other’s product preview images for promotion. You don’t need permission unless you’re using someone’s personal photos or custom mockups they made themselves. But the product images that appear on the product page, the ones created by Zazzle are meant to be shared.

You can also mix multiple creators in one themed post. If you’re writing about a “dino baby shower,” you can absolutely include invitations from one creator, décor from another, and party supplies from someone else.

As for whether affiliating is “worth it,” that depends on how you approach it. It’s not instant money, and it does take consistency. Some people say it’s not worth the hassle because they tried it briefly and didn’t see results. Others use it as part of their overall traffic strategy and do just fine. A blog can help tie everything together, especially if you’re already using Pinterest, because it gives you a place to send your traffic and a way to organize your themes.

So yes you can affiliate, you can promote other creators, you can use their product images, and you can mix multiple creators in one post. The main thing is simply writing posts that make sense for your readers and linking the products in a way that fits naturally into the topic.

And in answer to your question about whether anyone is still affiliating      yes, I am. I started promoting other creators’ products back in 2009, long before I ever added anything to my own store, and I never stopped. I’ve consistently earned from affiliate marketing over the years, and for me it’s been a steady way to supplement my income. It’s not instant, and it’s not magic, but it does work if you stick with it.