A personal example is a post I just did about two competing golf technologies Game Golf and Arccos Golf. They both do variations of the same thing, but no one had played as many rounds with both systems as I had. So I created a definitive post which has sent a lot of traffic, and a few sales, my way over the last couple weeks.
If you’ve looked through Niche Pursuits you’ve seen a lot of bolded text links immediately followed by a button. There are affiliate sites that do very well that don’t use any buttons at all. On one particularly profitable article on my site the only monetization on the page is a bullet point list of product names – each one connected to an affiliate link.

Affiliate marketing isn’t popular because it’s easy or fun, but because it works. Every 4 out of 5 businesses across the globe have used some form of affiliate marketing at some point or another because it also carries a relatively low amount of risk for advertisers. However, developing an affiliate marketing program for your business can take a significant amount of time, effort, and knowledge, so you should learn as much as possible about this approach before developing a plan.
In other words, hundreds of thousands of people search for make-up products every month, looking to buy – and that’s where you come in to guide them and recommend top products that they can use.