Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is nothing but you earn a commission for recommending products or services to the right set of customers. 

Affiliate Marketing is a type of marketing where you promote other products or services to the right customer and get a commission for the same. Affiliate Marketing is a Part of Digital marketing.

In simple words, the meaning of affiliate is ‘connect’. (Ex: School is affiliated with ……….. Board, I hope this makes clear to understand)

How to do Affiliate Marketing? Or How Affiliate Marketing work?

There are many ways to do affiliate marketing and there are various types as well but the most commonly used is via writing a Blog or writing a Review of products or services. Most of the time Affiliate Marketing works using cookies, is the common type of tracking using is via a cookie.

You might think about how to write a Blog or Review a product to promote the right customer.

You can find products and add affiliate unique links in your blog on the topic you are writing or if you are reviewing products then mention product unique affiliate links in your article. This method is a bit easy as you know about the product and your audience.

How to Start Affiliate Marketing on your blog?

Simple steps to start affiliate marketing:

1. Find a product you want to promote.
2. Search and Sign up for a product affiliate program.
3. Get a unique link to promote a product (this link allows you to track clicks of your link).
4. If anyone buys the product from your link, you get a commission.

Note: 

1. Important thing to consider when selecting a product “is this product or service is relevant to your audience?”
2. Make a list of products, you think your blog audience would benefit from.

In another scenario, if you want to promote a different product then follow below Process

1. Choose a Niche (Niche as product or industry)
2. Search and Sign up to product affiliate program.
3. Create a Website or Blog.
4. Research about products so you can create content (review).
5. Create content in the form of reviews, tutorials, or emails and use your affiliate link.
6. Optimize the page and track your rankings in Google.

Above is important to understand the general process for the beginners and there are more different away and trick available to do affiliate marketing like creating Doorway Page and etc.

Best affiliate program for beginners?

Below are some of the best affiliate programs for beginners as they don’t check your website status (as of now), you can start from day one.

1. Bluehost
2. Glorifyapp
3. Getresponse
4. Getyourguide
5. HostGator
6. Travelpayouts
7. Digistore24 (Click bank best alternative)

How do you become an Affiliate Marketer?

To become an Affiliate Marketer, you can pick any product or services that you can buy online and search for the product affiliate program that will pay you a commission or fee for the sale you do.

Note: However, just because you can promote anything, doesn’t mean you should. Ask questions and check few things before promoting an Affiliate Product.

If I decide the product to promote, I always check about a product and ask basic question to myself:

1. Do I use this product?
2. Do the majority of my audience or readers will get benefit from this product?
3. Is the buying process is easy and also do they provide service.
4. Is this program providing a decent affiliate commission rate (not always necessary) and do they give affiliate commission on time. (Checking affiliate review can help)

If I am able to answers this question then the product or services is probably appropriate and worth promoting.

I hope this article helps you to understand Affiliate Marketing as beginner.