How To Start Affiliate Marketing

 

Affiliate marketing is one of the ways to make money online. It’s been for years, and still date it’s working effectively. The good thing about affiliate marketing is that you don’t need to create any product before you can make money.

You can use other people’s products that willing to pay  commision if someone purchases the product or service.

If you’re interested in learning how to start affiliate marketing, in this blog post I’m going to show you how to do it.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is promoting someone’s service or product to earn commission.

If anyone clicks on the affiliate links, you provide and purchase the product you will earn commision.

How To Start Affiliate Marketing

1. Choose a Affiliate Marketing Niche

The first thing you need to do is to find a niche you will be able to promote affiliate products, because it’s not all niches are profitable or possible to promote any affiliate product.

Best affliate niche are :

• Technology.
• Health.
• Make money online.
• Fitness niche.
• Finance niche.
• Travel niches.
• Food niche.
• Fitness.
• Blogging Niche.

Be passionate about the niche.

But before you settle for the niche, it’s very important you are passionate about it or have knowledge in it, so it will be easier to create content and engage your audience to purchase the product you’re recomming to them.

Narrow down.

After that, it’s also important to narrow down so you can be able to drive visitors to your blog. For example,

2. Research Affiliate Programs.

According to the affliate Marketing niche you have decided to go into. Do deep research to find affiliate companies or products in your niche

The reason you need to find affiliate products that’s inline with your niche is because it won’t make sense if your niche is about things concerning babies; you are promoting adult material.

In case you do not know the affiliate product to promote, check others in the same niche to see what they are promoting on their blog.

3. Join Affiliate Programs

The affiliate product that matches your niche, start signing up so that you can promote their product to earn commission.

If you are looking for affliate companies to sign up to promote to earn something in return, more importantly legitimate.

These are popular and trusted affiliate companies been for years.

• Amazon associate
• CJ affiliate (formally commission junction)
• ShareAsale

4. Build a Platform To Promote Affliate Product.

If you have found an affiliate program, create platforms to promote those affliate products so people can purchase via your link.

There are different ways you can promote affiliate products, which have been working really great for alot of people. The following are:

Website

A blog or website is one of the popular methods people use to promote affiliate products. To create a blog, you need to purchase hosting and a domain from a reliable hosting company like Bluehost, set up the necessary things that are needed to be done, and create content to promote affliate product

Social media

Social media platforms are another way you can use to promote affiliate products and make sales. To use social media for promotion, all you need is to open social media accounts.

Examples of social media platforms you can use to promote affliate product are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, e.t.c. The good thing about social media platforms is that it’s free to use it.

YouTube. 

Youtube has millions of people using it to watch videos. You can use Youtube to promote affiliate products.

So how to use Youtube channels to promote affiliate products.

Create a YouTube channel and set up the important things needed to make your channel stand out.

Create a video about the afflaite product and recommend it to those viewing the video.

They should check under the video description section to click the links you provided. If they purchase via your affliate link you will earn commision.

Newsletter.

Also, a newsletter is a good form to promote affiliate products. If you like the idea of using newsletter to promote affiliate products, go for it.

How to use newsletter letters to promote affiliate products.

Have a product to promote.

Write a compelling blog post that your readers or audience want to read; ensure the newsletter blogpost you can promote affiliate product.

There are different ways you can write blog posts. It can be either review, tips, blogspot, advice, how-to, or information content.

In the newsletter, add affiliate links to it; ensure it is placed the right way.

Disclose your promoting affliate product.

Let your audience know that you’re promoting affiliate products. You can let them know by disclosing it at the header or the middle of the newsletter content.

Ask your reader if they find the product you recommend helpful.

Ask your reader’s what their experience with the product you recommend to them to ensure that’s the product is benefiting them so to know whither you’re promoting the right product to avoid ruining your reputation.

5. Create valuable content to promote Affiliate Products

After you have finish writing the blogpost, add affiliate links to them naturally where it makes sense, but ensure that you are not over-promoting products, because if you spam, your visitor will be displeased and won’t like to further read the blogpost, which means you won’t be able to make sales to earn commission.

These are methods to promote affiliate products.

Content

Creating content is a popular method to promote affiliate products.

Do keyword research to find keywords that give you the chance to promote affiliate products. Then take time and write unique blog post for it.

Don’t recommend products that your visitors will be disappointed after using; only recommend products that will be helpful to them.

You can test the product yourself to fully understand it. Even doing this will make visitors really trust everything you recommend to them.

• Product review.
• Tutorials.
• Comparison articles.

Don’t just pasting affiliate products for people to purchase is not a good idea; you won’t rank on google first page,  displeased ho will visit will be displeased, and it will be regarded as thin content, which Google hates.

Google can penalize or remove your blog from search engines, which is something not good to experience.

6. Drive traffic to your content.

To be able to make sales (an affiliate commission), you need to drive visitors to your blogpost that’s contain affliate links to get them to purchase via your affiliate links. So to drive traffic, there are different methods you can use to promote affliate Product.

Running social media ads.

Social media is a good source to get traffic to your affiliate blogspot. These social media platforms have millions of people using them on a regular basis. Open an account on social media platforms and share your content in your page, group, comment section and so on to get traffic

Through search engines.

Search engines are a popular method to drive traffic to get people to your affiliate product; it’s free, but you’ll need to learn how to do SEO to rank  on search engines.

The downside of search engine traffic is that it’s so competitive, a lot of affiliate bloggers are working hard to rank on search engines.

Google advertisement.

Google advertising is another way you can promote affiliate products. To run ads start from $100.

Native advertising

Native advertising is also another good form to promote affiliate products. There are different  native advertisements you can use to promote affliate product, which are.

• Taboola
• Adskeeper.
• Outbrain

They charge money to promote any affiliate product that’s compliant with terms.

Note that choosing different source at a time to drive traffic to your affiliate page is not a wise idea because you can lose focus or, at the end of the day, become a big-time failure.

To find success, focus on one traffic source until you master it.

When it is good to use different sources to drive traffic is if you have a team helping you to promote your affliate blogpost in different sources.

The best place to get traffic is Google and YouTube.

Google search engines and Youtube are considered to have the highest visitors because traffic from there is free and steady.

But they are known to be very competitive due to so many blogs want to also use it to to drive traffic to make money with their affiliate blogs.

If you want to get traffic from YouTube and search engines, you need the help of keyword tools to find less competitive keywords you can easily rank for.

Running ads is also another idea blogers’s use, but the side effects of this method his that if you stop spending money on advertisements, your ads will stop meaning no traffic.

8. Track to know what is working and not.

Use analytic tools ( like Google Analytics) to check how your affiliate effort is doing, if you are making progress, or if there is something you need to fix to make sales. Also, some of these affiliate programs provide analytics to track your progress.

9. Obey legal requirements.

According to your region, know the legal requirements and disclosures in affiliate marketing.

Also, whatever methods you’re using to promote affiliate products, whether it’s via social media, blog, or YouTube channel. You should always disclose your affiliate relationships transparently to your audience.

10. Stay updated and follow what is working.

Things can change; what worked back then might not work today. Whenever any change occurs, you should always ensure you’re not left behind and implement those new strategies. You can always test new methods to promote affiliate products.

Tips

Build Trust

It is easier to find success in affiliates if your audience trusts you. Whenever you promote any affiliate products, they won’t think twice before they purchase it.

Expand income streams

Promote more than one affiliate product or service to increase your earnings. If one of the products did not make sales, the other products or services will bring in money.

Network with Other Affiliates

There are some new strategies that are working you might not be aware of or new affiliate products to promote.

To avoid being left behind, join affiliate communities or bloggers that’s focused on affiliate products to be updated.