If you write articles for the article markets that allow affiliate links, then you can combine your article writing and article writing income with affiliate marketing.
Try to find affiliate programs in the areas of your interest. For example, if you are interested in writing about clothing, celebrities, business, arts and entertainment, then you can join several affiliate programs in these subject areas.
When you write articles, then you can include in your website references your affiliate links.
For example, if you write about food and nutrition, there are many food and nutrition affiliate programs.
Put "food affiliate programs" in your search engine, then make a list of the food affiliate programs.
Join several. Then when you write articles on food and nutrition, you can include references to these affiliate links.
If readers click on these links and buy products then you receive affiliate commissions.
In addition, readers might be interested themselves in joining these affiliate programs and become part of your down line so that in recruiting them as subaffiliates, you receive a percentage of subaffiliate commissions.
Joining affiliate programs and/or including them in your articles, of course, does not guarantee that you'll receive affiliate commissions, nevertheless this is a potential new source of income for those writers who publish articles online.
You can also add affiliate links to articles and posts on your blog.
A sample affiliate link is Cafepress.com.
This affiliate link for example could be used in articles for those interested in starting their own publishing companies, designing their own custom T-shirts, mugs, stamps, distributing their own CDs, those interested in instant companies, e-commerce, or those interested in affiliate marketing in general. So whenever you write articles on any of these subjects, you can include your affiliate link to Cafepress.com.
Another affiliate program excellent for article writers is constant-content.
Therefore, if you are interested in affiliate marketing, research the affiliate programs that interested you and that are relevant to the types of articles that you. Include these affiliate links in your articles.