Since then I’ve expanded my knowledge of affiliate marketing. I’ve created several niche websites and successfully promote an array of affiliate products.
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You could even come up with some forms or stencils that people can use to make building epic sandcastles a whole lot easier.
Again, the most important secret to success as an affiliate marketer is creating value. Don't approach it as a money-making business. Instead, think of yourself as a helpful encyclopedia for your audience.
Today, what I want to talk about is how to start affiliate marketing. To teach that, I have to explain what affiliate marketing is.
As opposed to websites where conversion happens on the home page. In which case you'd be catching traffic with individual blog posts and using internal links to direct users to your homepage:
It is only through this approach that you can build a following and build customer loyalty. You need to be able to make the impression that you are an expert, and that you are here to help.
If you are a retailer, you can use Refersion, a free marketplace, to publish and promote your affiliate program. Their marketplace attracts many great affiliates that are looking for new products to promote.
These products don’t necessarily need to be super high priced since you have the potential to get paid multiple times with one lead.
When you work through a network, you typically won’t know the merchant ahead of time and usually won’t build a relationship with them (your business relationship is with the network).
Where I end up going, so physical product affiliate stuff is great but it doesn’t pay that well. I mean, it pays 4%, whatever.
Depending on the terms of service supplied by each of the companies you sign up with to promote and the platforms you are promoting on, you can usually promote your links in every imaginable place.
The blog will allow you to continually add fresh content, targeting specific keywords (more on this shortly), in turn allowing you to attract more people to your site. Regularly adding new content also helps significantly with the way Google ranks sites via its algorithm.
Consider what products you already use that you could recommend to your target audience. If you’re in B2B, you could promote business courses and software apps. If your business is B2C, you could consider becoming an Amazon affiliate or promoting personal development courses.
Remember that you get a percentage of any products the customer purchases after clicking through your affiliate link. They do not have to purchase what they clicked on. So if you have someone click on a sticker book and wind up buying a camera that’s $2500, you just earned a nice commission.
Just don’t get overwhelmed. Start within your niche, apply for 10-20, and then track them with a tool like Trello or Google Sheets.
Another method you can consider is building backlinks to your site. This can boost your rankings on SERPs, while also increasing brand awareness.