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Affiliate marketing is more complex than a simple “Affiliates” page in your site footer. It’s a marketing channel of its own that deserves the same attention as any other. Focus on optimizing the quality of traffic your affiliates send you and the conversion rate of your landing page/offer.Carefully analyze your customer and revenue data so you can properly structure payouts, set guidelines, and measure success.Spend the time to recruit the right affiliates and provide them with everything they need to succeed during the onboarding process.Communicate with your affiliates via affiliate managers and a regular newsletter to ensure insights are shared and everyone is performing as well as they possibly can.Be aware of the methods your affiliates use most often and restrict them based on your brand/existing efforts, if necessary.Always test your landing pages and offers. Also, calculate individual affiliate conversion rates.

But that is not all. The problem your offer is solving should have a decent amount of monthly searches, so when your content ranks high enough, you’ll get all that organic traffic visiting your site and clicking your affiliate links.
The medium you choose to base your business on will very much depend on the kind of person you are and your personal preferences. You need to play to your strengths here. If you’re a writer, write. If you prefer video as a means to communicate with your audience, then that’s the way to start. A podcast is a great option if you’re a confident and engaging speaker but don’t like being on video.