Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I could receive payment. When I started my own blog over 6 years ago I had no idea how I was going to monetize it. I just knew I wanted to write about the things that I loved. A year into my blogging I found out about this thing called affiliate marketing. It turns out affiliate marketing helps bloggers get paid to write about the things they love! Don’t know what affiliate marketing is? I basically think of affiliate marketing as word of…