I’m brand new to affiliate marketing. I have been posting new content articles to my site daily and there have been many times in my writing I’ve thought “this is a good place for an affiliate link”. Of course, I don’t have any traffic yet. My question is, can I go back at a later date and add affiliate links to previously posted articles I’ve written? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks so much.
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Absolutately! I wouldn’t go heavy on adding affiliate links to all blog posts, but you can definitely go back later and update content with a bunch of things, and it shouldn’t hurt your rankings (depending on which platform you are trying to rank for).
My team and I will regularly will go back through older articles and update images, internal links, and even the ending (our ‘call-to-action’), to help the article be better as a whole.
Also, a good approach for affiliate links is to created dedicated articles/blog pages for the products you want to promote, and then just link to those pages from your other blog posts. The reason you’d want to do this is so that if Google crawls you site, it will see that the majority of your blog posts don’t contain a bunch of affiliate links (which can signal to Google that your content appears to be spammy). So you link to your ‘product review’ pages instead and don’t have to worry about the ‘spammy-looking’ issue, if that makes sense.
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