WordPress is the favorite platform of millions of website owners, bloggers and a growing number of businesses. Every day, people are buying premium WordPress themes and sites owners are making money with affiliate marketing.

For those who don’t know, affiliate marketing consists in making money by referring clients to a company or person that sells a product. You don’t need your own product or service. The only thing you have to do is just promote other people’s products or services and make affiliate revenue for every sale that you make through your personal referral link.

With ColorLabs affiliate program, you can make 35% of a referred user’s purchase, starting from the second transaction. All you have to do is sign-up for an affiliate account by filling up an application form over here. You can learn how the referral program works on my previous post.

Promoting WordPress themes is one of the most profitable niche-selling products in market at current. But as the competition is becoming harder every day there are a few things to know in order to be successful. There are a variety of ways you can attract users to ColorLabs through your referral link. This article outlines some of the best tips and tricks to earning more with the ColorLabs affiliate program.

1. Write WordPress focused posts

In order to get clicks on your affiliate links, you have to get traffic. There are billions of way to attract traffic, but in my opinion the best way is to get authority in your niche and then use your authority to promote the best products and make money. Use your blog write about on super interesting WordPress related stuff.

If you own a blog related to WordPress, you’ll attract visitors who are potentially interested by the themes you promote, because they’re already running WordPress. With each post you write to take advantage of a referral program, stick to one program. Don’t try to market two or three services at once; focus on one and give it all your attention.

If you need example on what you should blog about, there’s a bunch of really cool blogs focused to WordPress out there such as WPCandy, WPMU.org, Theme.fm, and WPLift. If you have interesting posts I’m pretty sure you can create a popular WordPress related blog.

2. Use a theme gallery

If you display a gallery of your favorite free and premium WordPress themes, you’re not advertising, you’re showcasing. You will not only able to help people to find the WordPress theme that they need, but people will also be more likely to click on your affiliate links because they provide a real value to them. It would help to spice things up if you have an open rating system for the themes in your gallery.

A good example of a premium theme gallery can be seen on WordPress Theme Gallery and WPRecipes.

3. Featuring Items

You can use your site or a social media service to feature an item, using your referral link. This could be a post, a sidebar widget, or a tweet on Twitter.

If you’re featuring an item using your own website, it’s not so different from writing a post as previously discussed. You can write some lists of themes, grouped by subject. For example, 10 professional WordPress themes to start your online business or 8 awesome WordPress themes to sell your products online. Those posts can be a very effective way to sell WordPress themes if the subject is interesting. Just stay reasonable and don’t publish 3 lists like this per week, otherwise you’ll bore your readers.

On a service like Twitter, ensure the item is of interest to the people following you and be brief, but useful and clear. You might say, “Here’s Modernizm, a cool magazine theme from ColorLabs that you might find useful for a new site — link.” Promote items via services like Twitter judiciously. People don’t like being marketed to in a social context, so present items you feel would really benefit the people who’ll be reading your message and don’t be pushy.

4. Banner Ads

Banner ads can be an effective way to refer visitors and potential sign-ups, depending on the banner used and its position on the page — as well as a variety of other factors that we won’t go into here. You can find banners for ColorLabs on our affiliate program page. On the other hand, you can also be creative and design your own banner to fit your website needs perfectly.

Remember to keep banners above the fold where they’re clearly visible, and don’t clutter the page with too many ads. You’ll make more money running one or two ads per page than if you run ten because the visitor’s focus will be drawn in too many different directions.

5. Make use of ColorLabs deals and promo program

On ColorLabs, we have a Deals Page where we host all promotional programs such as discounts and giveaways. Make sure you are monitoring this page because we update the Deals Page every week. Why don’t you check it right now and start promoting the deals?

I hope some of these tips help you in your affiliate marketing efforts. I’m sure it’s not a complete list so I would love to hear other suggestions in the comments below.

So now that you have a few basics and you’re ready to turn your WordPress site into some extra monthly income, browse the ColorLabs Themes to help create a professional site and join the ColorLabs Affiliate Program now.