Affiliate Marketing For Dummies: It took me over 3 months to make my first affiliate sale!
The data in the image above is based on only US search data, and the US only takes up 4.2% of the entire world’s population. Let’s just assume the world only has 250 million people – the population in America. Your website will still be discovered by 140 people every single month! Now, let’s scale it up by 18x to the global population excluding China, and you’d have 2,520 searches per month.
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If you want to find an affiliate program, Amazon is likely to have plenty of options.
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It’s easy to become an affiliate because you don’t need to create the product, but you’ll need to come up with a lot of marketing strategy to make that program work and create a long term income for you.
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That’s because the competition is pretty high, and you have to invest a lot of time in research, creating, adding, and updating the content. Besides that, you should also promote the website (backlinks, social media ads), do a lot of testing to optimize the traffic sources, find new products to promote, etc.
In the case of promoting consumer products, like tools, books, toys and household items, the biggest affiliate network, by far, is Amazon. Their Amazon Associates affiliate program lets you promote any item that is sold on their platform.
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This is probably the most common and easier way to promote affiliate products. Most of the time, when you see a link on a website and click on it, it will lead you to an external page, and if you purchase through that link, the website owner will make a commission.
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If you’re an experienced affiliate marketer, you’ll discover more effective tactics to improve your affiliate strategy and boost your income.
Many of them failed to earn money on affiliate marketing because of the lack of research on the product before starting it. Product related to niche: The affiliate product must be related to your niche. Otherwise, you can’t able to make money from it.Is that good product: There are so many spam products are available on the internet? So, make sure that the product is good to buy.
When looking into how to start affiliate marketing, you’ll find lots of affiliate networks online that’ll let you promote stuff for a commission, but the one that we like the best is Clickbank.
All that work will be much easier if you choose a niche you genuinely enjoy working in.