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What is Affiliate Marketing?

 

                                          


Introduction:

1.What is Affiliate Marketing?

- Affiliate Marketing is a based on referral link in which one party earns a commission from marketing another company’s products on their social media accounts, blog, website or other platforms and the customer buy the products through Affiliate link then party makes a profit from each sale.

- Companies provide affiliates with a unique (short) link called an Affiliate Link. So that way, they can track affiliates performance and money based on their number of sales.

-Typically the result is a sale but some programs can reward you for traffic, leads, free trial users, click to a website, or getting downloads for an application.

2. What is scope of Affiliate Marketing?

- There’s no doubt affiliate marketing is worth it, given its growth in popularity. Statista estimates the affiliate marketing industry will reach $8.2 billion dollar by 2022 up from $5.4 billion in 2017. It’s also a low- to no-cost business since there’s no cost to join Affiliate programs, you can start making money online with an affiliate product or service without any investment.

- Affiliate Marketing also can generate good income through commission, though initially you will have to invest time creating traffic sources.

Benefits of affiliate marketing


- There are some reasons to become an affiliate marketer, it’s really good source to generate money from home.

 - These are the buyers of the product. When they make a purchase by clicking on the affiliate link, the affiliate earns a commission on the sale.

Low risk:

-  Affiliate Marketing program is free at no cost, so you don’t need money to join affiliate program, don’t have to make an investment to start.

Passive income:

- After adding the affiliate link to your website, blog or in post on social media accounts , you can earn rewards  from the sales without putting in extra effort.

No customer support:

- When customers have queries or complaints, the company will be responsible for resolving their issues not you so you don’t have to worry about the issues.

Flexible work schedule:

- Sticking to a same schedule everyday is kind of boring, you can work as an affiliate marketer on your own time, all you have to do is give some time to generate sales. Give your free time to affiliate marketing so you can grow your audience and turn them into sales.

Minimal business costs:

- You don’t need for investment or you don’t need standard business building or office to become an affiliate marketer, all you need is a mobile or  laptop and an good internet connection.

How to Start:

- It’s not too difficult to start Affiliate Marketing, it’s like running your own small business, it’s kind of easy process and you can become a successful at Affiliate Marketing.

- Use the following step-by-step guide to start your affiliate marketing business.

3. How to decide your niche?

- When it comes to choosing a niche, people got confused about what they have to choose niche. I will say your target for something you are passionate and knowledgeable about. It will help you as a trusted source of information for potential customers.

4. What is the best platforms for niches?

- To pick a platform for niches, ask yourself:

  • What platforms do you use the most?
  • Which platforms do you understand best?

- If your niche is decided and you are comfortable it will help you a lot to create high quality content. This can result in a stronger, more traffic you can turn into sales. 

5. Few example sites?

- Few sites are making good online income.

  • ConsumerSearch.com
  • GiftIdeaGeek.com
  • TheSweetHome.com
  • DogFoodAdvisor.com
  • BabyGearlLab.com
  • SmartMonkeyFitness.com

Can I do Affiliate Marketing without website?

- Yes you can do Affiliate Marketing without website, you don’t need to have a website.

- You only need traffic or audience and it may be on your social media accounts, the important is to paste the affiliate link on your post for the sales made through your post or video.

- But I would like to say if you have domain website then you can make money easily with your website. So at least try with your website to earn money, it is pretty good to have a domain website so why not website?

How to setup your affiliate website:

- Setting up your affiliate website isn’t difficult, I am going to help you to setup your website.

6. Choose domain name (According to the niche)

- Choosing domain name is a most important part of Affiliate Marketing, your domain name helps you to get organic traffic by keyword searches.

- Let’s say for example your niche is about Beauty Products so people will search about beauty products on search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo.

- So keep in mind that people are searching for beauty products so your domain name is most important of your role. So what we can choose domain name is our role model, examples are below.

  • Beauty4you.com
  • Beautyproductsreview.com
  • Beautyfor.com
  • Beautylifestyle.com
  • Beautyskin.com

- So as you see above there are keyword (Beauty) that’s what people will search and this is the product they are looking for. Your domain name must be similar to your niche then you can get organic traffic to particular Products, If you know what your audience likes, then refer the best products to them and earn more affiliate income.

- If your niche is too broad, the competition will be high and it will be much harder for your target audience to find your content.

 7. Setup your WordPress

-  WordPress users have a advantage, there are lot of excellent tools out there to help you at Affiliate Marketing.

8. Plugins

- There are many plugins on WordPress that helps you to add affiliate links to your site and then organize and manage them.

- Enable the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress. A new Affiliates menu will appear in WordPress, this is where you manage your affiliates and keep track of visits and referrals.

 9. Pages

- You must add your page in WordPress site by showing visitor who you are, you build deeper trust with potential customers. Put an about page offers visitors insight into you, your associates and your business. It adds a human touch and this can improve visitors trust in you and your product.

Sign up on affiliate networks:

- To earn revenue as an affiliate marketer, your audience needs to connect with what you're saying and providing them. The items or services you promote need to be products they genuinely need, your audience is your power.

- If you’re curious where to look for products or brands to work with, don’t worry. There are tons of affiliate marketplaces, including:

10. Generate Affiliate link

- You can easily generate affiliate link after joining a affiliate networks as I mentioned some sites above.

- Large companies often have programs they promote on their site, such as Amazon Associates or the Shopify Affiliate Program.

Content Creation:

- Content is the main part of Affiliate Marketing campaign. Your content may be on your blog, website or newsletter.

- It’s the content that sells your affiliate product as an affiliate marketer, you have to understand what types of affiliate content  you can work with and how to use them to their best advantage, will give you good income.

11. Keyword Research

- Keyword research are words and phrases people type into search engines and implement them into your website. Affiliate Marketers usually choose the most universally popular keywords.

- Keyword is really important that’s how you can get organic traffic on your site, some profitable affiliate marketing niche include health, beauty, fitness and money focus on your niche promote it, and sell it to generate income.

12. How to write affiliate content

- First of all be honest to your audience and focus on your niche products customers love. You have to write good quality content like on blog, website or it may be on your social media accounts.

- Just write with pictures about your niche products and tell them about good products and paste your affiliate link, the more time you give in affiliate marketing you make more money by each sales.

Content Promotion:

- You can do affiliate marketing on most platforms or social media accounts of your choice.

13. SEO

- Short for search engine optimization, SEO is the process of strategically adjusting your content to rank high on Google and other search engines. When your blog or website appears as one of the top search results, users are more likely to click on the link and navigate to your page.

- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps yours pages to be found by the right people, including popular searchable keywords into your website and metadata, you can increase your chances of being seen in search results and it can connects your with the right people what exactly they are looking for.

- If you added some popular keywords your keyword will rank on search engine and can get you more traffic to your blog and website then you have high chance to generate sales and can make money for you.

14. Social Media

- Social Media is so powerful nowadays it  connects advertisers with billions of people all over the world who are ready to learn and  buy their brands and products, Almost half of adult internet users search products on social networks.

15. Quora

- Quora is a great platform to demonstrate your expertise. This will make it easier to achieve success in affiliate marketing on Quora. Quora boosts your long term genuine traffic as the platform grows, so does your genuine traffic.

- You cannot use affiliate links on Quora. This is against the Quora’s policies.

- The only way you can use affiliate links on Quora, would be to link to a page or post on your own website that includes affiliate links.

16. YouTube

- Affiliate marketing is a good way to make money on YouTube. If you choose this as your main platform, you’ll need to smoothly incorporate branded products into your videos. Some YouTubers  to create videos focused around a particular product or brand. If you are working on your niche it may be great opportunity for you to make money because people will search their favorite products on your channel and turn your audience into your sales.

17. Instagram:

- Since Instagram doesn’t offer you the same ability to describe the product at length If you go this route, post Instagram photos that feature the product details and include a link with explanation in the description.

18. Email Marketing

- After you find an affiliate product you want to promote, and got accepted in their affiliate program, it’s important you start building an email list. Email marketing for affiliates is a good way to boost your affiliate referrals. E-mail marketing helps in targeting the customers and increases the sales.

- Creating and building E-mail list is an important in Affiliate Marketing step, Email list play an important role in making more affiliates sales by raising trust and building familiarity.

- Email lists are a reliable organic traffic source.

 

19. Blogging

- Blogging is one of the most effective affiliate marketing promotion methods for brands. If you’re interested in affiliate marketing as part of your blogging strategy, creating a blog is easy and free of charge. You can monetize your blog by incorporating affiliate links into your articles and it is  helpful to your readers.

-  Starting a blog can help you establish expertise in your industry and can make money with your Affiliate Marketing and also you can make more money with AdSense Ads.

Can you get rich from affiliate marketing?

- Of course yes, you can make good money through Affiliate Marketing and yes even you make money while you sleep.

How much time it will take to make money?

- First of all if you started a new business don’t hope for profit for several months but in affiliate marketing usually it takes six months to years to start making profits with affiliate marketing.

- The success depend on your ability for work to create good quality content, optimize for SEO, drive traffic and promote your affiliate products.

SLOGAN – TAKE THE LEAD TO WINNING. CONVERT YOUR TIME INTO MONEY.

Point of my View – At least you should try once and thanks me later for success.

Writer – A/One Sam Rapper

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