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How to make money with a blog or channel about affiliate marketing

Turn content about affiliate marketing, media buying or iGaming into income: topics that rank, how to monetise them honestly and which programs fit.

Updated on 30 Oct 2026

People who write or make videos about affiliate marketing have an advantage: their audience buys tools. Trackers, hosting, spy tools, software for running networks. Every one of those has an affiliate program, and many pay recurring commissions.

Topics that bring the right readers

  • How-to guides: setting up postbacks, choosing a tracker, launching a first campaign.
  • Comparisons: tool A vs tool B, with real prices and the trade-offs.
  • Case studies: a campaign from start to finish, with costs and results (the honest kind, including losses).
  • Industry explainers: CPA vs revshare, EPC, negative carryover.

Readers who search these topics are often about to choose a tool, which is exactly when a recommendation helps them.

How to monetise without losing trust

  1. Recommend what you use. Your audience will notice if you switch recommendations whenever a better commission appears.
  2. Disclose commissions on every page with affiliate links.
  3. Show the downsides. A comparison that admits where your pick is weaker is more convincing, and ranks better.
  4. Prefer recurring commissions for tools: one reader who becomes a long-term customer can pay you for months. See recurring commissions.
  5. Use free tools as content. Calculators and templates earn links and visits. You can link readers to ready-made ones like the postback URL builder or the EPC calculator.

What it takes

A blog needs months of consistent publishing before search traffic grows. A channel or newsletter grows faster if you already have a following in affiliate communities. In both cases, income follows trust, not the other way round.

Track your own results

Use sub IDs in your links (for example sub1=post-name) so you know which articles or videos produce sign-ups, and put your effort there. See tracking links.

Programs that fit this audience

Trackers, hosting, ad networks and software for networks and advertisers. If your readers run or plan to run affiliate programs or networks, the RastroAff partner program pays 25% of every payment for 12 months per referred customer, and you see every click and sign-up in your own panel.