Being trustworthy is definitely one of the keys to success with affiliate marketing. Being trustworthy means that people value and believe in the fact you are giving your honest opinion on a recommendation, rather than just doing it for the sake of a few extra dollars.

Picture this, you stumble upon a blog which appears to do nothing but reviews of a certain industries’ products and constantly links out to them with affiliate links. How trustworthy is that site going to appear? The same goes for a recommendation on someone who isn’t doing what they say this product or service can do for you, some examples of this include:

* Someone promoting a quick method to become an A-list blogger when they only have 30 subscribers
* Someone promoting a productivity ebook when their last blog post said they are bad at organisation
* Someone promoting a hosting company that they don’t even use (there are some exceptions to this)