WHERE do you post affiliate links?

[KayCordingly]

I get the technical side of things, the HOW. I don’t get the WHERE to post your links. No one likes to be marketed to. If I start posting links in Facebook groups, I’ll probably get kicked out. That’s usually a big no-no. If I post too many on my newsfeed, people will get annoyed and unfollow me. It I post a bunch of links over on Twitter, chances are my account will get banned for spam. So where are you supposed to post referral links??

[CreativeLeahG]

Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, your own FB pages/group (that allow links), your own blogs, websites. 

[alissag]

For me it's Pinterest and the blog on my own website. I share images to an Instagram page as well, but you can't really share links on Instagram.

[KayCordingly]

Thank you for the responses. People have mentioned blogs a lot before, but when I tried one I didn't get any results. Someone told me that no one will want to visit a blog that just talks about products. But what else would i write about? Especially when the point of the blog is to sell products?

[Windy]

A true conundrum, right? I have seen those blogs which just post products, and you do have to wonder why anyone would visit a blog like that with any regularity.

The hard part is getting the readers. You start a blog to promote your shop. Then you learn you need to promote your blog, and are told to start a PInterest for blog promotion, but you get little traction on your Pinterest, so you need to have a Twitter or an Instagram, or a Tumblr (or all of the above) and hopefully a couple of Facebook pages, to promote your Pinterest so that hopefully people will  be driven over to read your blog....so that maybe one or two blog readers once in a while will visit your Zazzle shop and buy something. Once you get started with all this it begins to seem like a big waste of time.

Nonetheless, I  recently started a blog which tries to go a little deeper than a product showcasing blog. It  promises to find particularly good products. Rather than just posting the products, I have a theme for each post, which, by the way,  I create approximately weekly....and I explain a little bit about each of the items I have selected for that week's  theme. Along the way, I end up spelling out some of the steps Zazzle designers can take to make better more marketable work. I have no idea if I will ever get any organic traffic off of this blog but I am going to try it for about a year, because it takes a long time to find out if you are ever going to get any  readers and because I genuinely enjoy putting together and researching the posts for my blog.

[alissag]

I don't think people read blogs like they used to 10 or so years ago. I think social media kind of did away with that, but individual blog posts can show up via Google searches, and having links to your products may help them to show up in Google searches as well. I do know that some of my referral sales have come as a result of blog posts, but the vast majority of my referral sales come from Pinterest. So, I don't think a blog is necessary and probably isn't even worth the time!