I was just invited to be a syndicated blogger over at ThreadWatch - one of my favorite blogs. Thanks Nick for the opportunity to blog to a bigger audience! Here’s my little corner of ThreadWatch - Linda’s Blog. I just blogged over there but want to copy it here as well for my regular readers to see.

Most affiliates just slap some Adsense ads on their blogs to try to generate revenue. Granted that’s the easy way. But if you really want to monetize your blog, high converting affiliate programs can generate better income. Darren over at ProBlogger is doing a great mini-series about affiliate links on blogs. This is the last one of the series so you can click links that go back to previous entries. The one he wrote last night is: “10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog”.

We’ve now looked at a number of popular affiliate programs for bloggers and today I’d like to finish off this series by giving a few tips that should help bloggers get the best results out of any affiliate program that they choose to run with.

One of the 10 tips Darren discusses is whether or not you should identify affiliate links as such in your blog. This is a question Nick struggled with here awhile back too. ThreadWatch: Blogs, Affiliate Links and Reputation.

My personal feeling (although I may be biased) is that if the affiliate links are well targeted, contextual to the conversation, a product that fits and that your readers may be interested in, then you don’t need to identify them. That’s providing it’s done tastefully and the whole blog isn’t full of affiliate links.

After reading Darren’s 10 steps - how do you feel about affiliate links in blogs? Do they turn you off? Do you use them in your blogs? Come talk about it at the 5 Star Forums.