While the information covered so far gives you the tools you need as a beginner affiliate marketer, here are some more tips that can help improve your performance. Affiliate programs love a high-performing affiliate. Small changes sometimes can make a major difference. Especially when they all start getting added together.
But before we get into that, let’s explore a bit more about the Affiliate Model of marketing. In essence, affiliate marketing lets a person promote your product or service and earn commission on every sales or conversion.
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The simple fact of the matter is that it takes time to rank on Google and other search engines, it takes time to build a following and it takes time to gain audience trust.
Learn from your mistakes and constantly improve your business. Maybe you notice that one of your affiliate products is doing really well in conversions but you have spent little effort promoting it. Or maybe a product you love is not doing that great on your site. Don’t be afraid to tweak your affiliate marketing strategy as and when you need to.
But I was determined to learn as much as possible about affiliate marketing for dummies (read: beginners!) and bloggers and take my income to the next level.
If you get to the point where you have 50k views a month, you’re able to qualify for certain ad networks (I like Mediavine) that actually pay pretty well for display ads.
It is free because the team at Clickfunnels wants all of their affiliates to be better at what they do!
Affiliate marketing can help you to drive interested consumers to your product pages. But it’s your job to make sure that they buy your product once they reach there.
Add these links seamlessly into your content. For example, if you’re writing product reviews, your content should be honest. When providing product reviews, you need to discuss the downsides and the positives of the products openly. Honesty will prevent you from coming across as biased or disingenuous by overly promoting something. It would be best if you had your audience connect with your content and your responsibility is to promote products or services that your users actually need. Credibility is a great asset as an affiliate and is something you’ll need to build up over time. In time, as a credible and established source of information, you’ll see the amount of traffic to your site, and the sales you make are more likely to increase.
Joining an affiliate marketing network is the easiest way to find products and companies to promote, but you can also search “your niche + affiliate” on search engines to find other ideas.
This one’s quite simple and easy to execute: all you need to do is to create an ebook on an interesting topic that you are sure is likely to gain traction. It could be anything, from a fun trending hashtag to something that you think will offer dedicated value to their consumers.
Now Google is already tracking traffic on your website, which allows you to figure out the strategies that work and those that don't. The next thing you need to do is connect your site with Google. Now, I know you're thinking, "haven't we already done that?" Yes, we have permitted Google to track our web traffic, but we still haven't told it where to find our blog posts so that it comes up in search results.
In other words, there are many different ways to get the actual links into the article. You don’t want to over do it and look spammy. However, if you really are providing top-notch content full of value then this shouldn’t be an issue. In most cases to provide that level of information you have to include a lot of great information. Which, of course, gives you plenty of places to put in those links.
That way even if you can’t get your article on page one for that specific topic, visitors on other pages of your website still have a chance to see those high-paying affiliate links.
As with anything passive income-related, you have to build your dream. Here’s the step-by-step process to follow.
Choose the best hosting service according to your business needs. You can check out these posts to help you decide on the best hosting service for your affiliate blog:
If you want to become an affiliate for select brands, first check the site for any mention of “affiliate programs” or “referral programs.” If most brands have these programs, they’ll have basic information about them and a form to sign up.