Learn Affiliate Marketing to Make Money

Learn Affiliate Marketing from scratch, probably one of the most efficient ways to make money online for professional bloggers, if you can set your affiliate program rightly, here are some tips for setting up Successful affiliate marketing website step by step.

Things to learn:
  • What is affiliate marketing
  • How to get merchants
  • Best affiliate programs to start with..

Affiliate marketing is a term used when you promote and sell other's product through your own digital marketing channel, means you earn based on your marketing performance, and you get commission each time you provide visitor or customer to your affiliate partner.

How to set Affiliate Marketing website or blog

To become an affiliate marketer, you must have a good website, if you still don't have any website; learn how to build a website first.

Instead of website if you have a blog then also you can start affiliate marketing, in case you don't have a blog , learn how to create a free blog, then make sure your blog looks professional.

Note, you can do affiliate marketing even without a website or blog, but that may not be successful affiliate marketing techniques, and involve some immediate risky cost.

Things to know about Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is actually old way of building business, in earlier days people used to refer a business / product / service, the way it's actually done nowadays called Affiliate marketing.

You have to refer some merchant's product to visitor of your blog or website, and when they visit or buy the product you earn commission from merchant.

So, to be successful in Affiliate Marketing, you must have good number of visitor on your blog or website. Basically you have to increase traffic on your blog or website.

affiliate marketing generates high income
Can I do Affiliate Marketing without a Website or Blog ?

Yes, you can do that using email marketing or promoting through some app, but that will involve some cost every time you want to sell or promote merchant products.

You may have few more queries about Affiliate Marketing and how you can earn money from affiliate marketing , so here I am sharing some more information that would be useful for you.

Where do I get merchants (the seller, the brand) for affiliate program?

There are many merchants product company who provide affiliate program, but you need to find affiliate program that match with your content type.

Best way to find affiliate program for your site, just search in Google "[product type] affiliate program", replace [product type] with type of product you need for your content.

Is affiliate program same as Adsense?
Conceptually Yes, they are almost same in nature, but affiliate program gives much higher income than Adsense and works differently.

It gives you certain amount for each person you send to merchant’s website; who buy their products, some program pay per action and some merchant will pay per sale.

There is no money for displaying the product, it pays based on action, so you must put their link where visitors may click.

Do i need money to join an affiliate program?

As a affiliate marketer, you don't have to pay anything to Merchant to join any Affiliate Program.

Now if you are promoting them in your blog, then there is no cost, apart from your time invested.
If you are promoting on your website, then also there is some cost of your website hosting , domain etc.
But, if you are trying to get quick result and doing PPC, email marketing then that will be direct cost (this is not recommended)

Okay, Now I understand Affiliate Marketing, But where do I get affiliate marketing websites?

You can easily find many merchants for your type of business, just Google it, Here are few affiliate marketing websites that may help you mapping your website or blog content to right affiliate program

Affiliate Marketing Programs

  1. SEMRush

    SEMRush is one of the top affiliate program providers, it has various learning tips of online marketing resources and SEO tools for online business, and you can learn how to grow your online business using this tool.

    The tool also provide various PDF eBook for learning like

    This is one of the most important online marketing tools, you must know about! they provide recurring income for all their resources you promote as affiliate marketer.

  2. Bluehost Affiliate Program

    Bluehost is popular hosting provider, if you are web designer or digital marketing consultant, you can refer Bluehost to your client and earn money, your commission will be transferred to your PayPal account, they provide very easy affiliate partnership program to start with!

  3. ShareASale

    ShareASale is another big affiliate marketing network based in Chicago, IL USA, they have thousands of affiliate merchants from different categories , as a affiliate marketing partner, you can choose the right category and reputed affiliate programs.

  4. Amazon Associates

    Amazon is very popular and reputed ecommerce platform that sell everything, so you can select Amazon as Affiliate Marketing venture .

    This affiliate platform offers up to 12% on any qualifying product sale from your link.

  5. Shopify Affiliate Program

    Shopify is one of the top eCommerce platform used by bloggers and online retailers, so this can a very good affiliate partner for any blogger.

    Shopify is mainly an ecommerce development company, may be little expensive compare to other ecommerce development providers.

  6. Rakuten Marketing Affiliates

    Rakuten provide affiliate program from most of their vendors (they have more than 2,500 stores associated with them), you can apply for any vendor that match your product or service type, once your application is accepted by vendor, you get affiliate id embedded link at your Rakuten affiliate control panel.

  7. eBay Partners

    Ebay provider affiliate partner program to sell their products, it has wide range of products to choose from, if you are quick at selling things through your network or links you can make good money, but if auction takes more than 10 days, you will not earn any money, even if you send qualified leads. So, read their affiliate terms carefully before applying.

  8. Long Tail Pro

    Long-tail is a very useful keyword research tool that is used by many marketers. As we know every single business is competing hard to rank in search engine, Long Tail Pro is a brilliant product for them, so it would not be tough earning commissions by promoting this fantastic.

  9. ConvertKit

    ConvertKit is one of the best email marketing software available in market; the tool has many brilliant features that any email marketer will be ready to use for their marketing, so you should add ConvertKit in your list to promote.

  10. SpyFu

    SpyFu is another SEO tool that helps knowing competitor keywords, this spying tool that can be beneficial for your audience.

    The tool has many important features like Competitor analysis, Keyword research, Backlink checker, Domain comparison etc. so, you can promote this tool and earn commission.

  11. ThemeForest

    Themeforest is a large marketplace for theme, all web designers love to explore huge collection of ready to use templates, so you can recommend this to people if you have any web designing, seo or marketing related content in your blog. Themeforest is part of Envato Market and they pay 30% on every sale.

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