One of the tools to help make sales of products is by way of blogging. You have the opportunity to provide quality content for visitors to see and provide them products that might improve their life. In a sense you are using your blog as a platform to advertise while giving useful info. When your visitors click on your ads or links and make a purchase you have earned a percentage of the sale.
The more visitors to your blog, the better your chance of your links being click on. And the more clicks the better chance of making more sales. In other words the more traffic you can generate to your blog the better your potential will be.
There are other ways to advertise but blogging is more to your advantage. There are many sites that allow you to make free blogs instead of using a paid hosted service. The search engines will many time index blogs easier than regular websites. Speaking of websites, you can use blogs to help send traffic to a website that you have.
In conclusion, if you are thinking of trying Affiliate Marketing then you need to check out making blogs. If you have been doing Affiliate Marketing for a while now and have not used blogs then get started now.