What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is the
process by which an affiliate (You) earns a commission for marketing another
person’s or company’s products. The affiliate simply searches for a product
they enjoy, then promotes that product and earns a piece of the profit from
each sale they make. In affiliate marketing, three factors are involved
- Merchant
- Affiliate Network
- Affiliate (You)
The affiliate means we, who will
be promoting the products of the merchant through a special affiliate link. But the important question is, how affiliate
marketing will help us. Today a lot of websites are driving free traffic every
month from Google and other search engines and making affiliate commission for
the owners of particular websites.
Almost all popular companies like amazon, zomato, swiggy, Uber, Ola etc uses affiliate marketing programs to drive customers to their website
Who can learn affiliate marketing?
Starting affiliate marketing
is not a big deal. It is not necessary to have a technical background or any
special qualifications. The only thing you need to have computer or laptop and
internet connection. This is all you need.
The best part about affiliate marketing is that we can make money from
home while sitting in our comfort zone. There is no age limit, no course fee.
The only thing you need is your willingness to learn and willingness to earn
money online.
Which affiliate network to focus on?
There are thousands of
affiliate marketing companies in the market.
So it is very confusing which one should you choose. Let’s talk about Clickbank
and the Commission Junction. This two affiliate websites are more complicated,
the reason is competition is too high, so you must have a knowledge of advanced
digital marketing in order to make money through tat affiliate websites.
For the beginners of affiliate
marketing, I’ll recommend them to start with amazon.com
or amazon.in because it is easy to use and promote their products.
Why to choose amazon Associates for affiliate program?
As you know that amazon is the
world’s biggest ecommerce website. Amazon.com is getting more than 2.5B of
monthly traffic and amazon india or amazon.in is driving more than 360M traffic
per month. Once you promote your affiliate link the cookie period is 24 hours
for amazon affiliate.
The Best part to be amazon
affiliate is are
- Whatever products customer ends up purchasing in the next 24 hours, you will get the commission for that.
- You will be get paid affiliate commission for the whole cart. So let’s say you refer someone to buy a mobile. But the person ends up buying earphones and mobile case as well. You will get the affiliate commission for whole cart value and not just for the product that you recommend.
. This is the best part of the Amazon affiliate link. Amazon has number of products to sell, so everyone who visits, ends up buying something that we have either recommended or not recommended. So many other products and not just the product you have recommend to buy.
Amazon is now one of the
biggest ecommerce website all over the world. Amazon spends millions in
advertising and now everyone knows about Amazon. So there’s a trust from the consumers from
Amazon, so the conversion rate of people buying from Amazon.com is very high. This also helps us to get more sales which
results in to making more affiliate commissions.
How to make money from affiliate marketing?
The simple answer is create a
website, write good quality of content and promote your affiliate link through that
website. Now everybody asks question
that what kind of website or blog should I make and how I can drive traffic to
them. I have articles on how to select aprofitable niche and how to drive tons of traffic to blog or website you can go through this link and read them.
There are many benefits of
starting affiliate websites. Just as I
mentioned, the competition in India is very low. So if you read our articles about Digital marketing, 7 ways to drive traffic to blog and follow them to the heart, then I can guarantee
that within few months, you will be making money. You don’t even have to work harder on your
website when your article ranks on top Google search results. It’s free organic traffic.
There are many platforms that may
come and go, but Google is not going to disappear. So we don’t have to worry that Google will go
out of fashion in a few years and our articles ranks down. People will keep on searching on Google.
There are so many others ways other
than affiliate links that can make money from your affiliate website. For example sponsorship opportunities,
sponsored links, sponsored reviews etc.
The other platforms where we
can promote our affiliate links.
- Youtube Channel
2 Youtube Channel
We can open a YouTube channel
in any niche like other YouTubers are doing, and they are also making good
affiliate revenue. You can create a
fashion-related channel and promote fashion-related products, we can create a
gaming channel and promote gaming equipment, you can also create a
technology-based YouTube channel and promote products related to niche.
But the main point to worry
about is that YouTube is getting competitive.
Already for all the popular categories like fashion, gardening, technology
etc already many YouTubers are dominating that niche. It was easier a couple of years back when the
competition was low. Now already
majority of the profitable niche has a channel dominating.
Creating a youtube channel and
run it is not that much hard. Yes, you can open a YouTube channel and you will
be able to promote it. All the thing
need is you have to be patient. You also have to show your face and you’ll also
have to invest in expensive equipment like microphone, camera, video editing
software.
Now, let’s talk about
promoting affiliate links through Instagram. As you know a couple of years ago
Instagram was not that much famous, but now it is one of the most popular
social media platform. If any other social media platform will come, it may
possible that within few years Instagram might not be able to survive. And one more thing about Instagram is getting
followers in 2021 is extremely difficult as compared to a couple of years back.
Competition on Instagram is
also growing higher because the people know that there’s money to be made. And also Instagram wants you to pay money to
get those followers which results to down the organic growth. And the worst part about Instagram is that you can add the affiliate link at the only
single point that is the bio.
So the total number of links
of the affiliate links will be less and hence the commission that you make in a
month will be less. And this is why I
don’t recommend Instagram as the only source of promoting your affiliate links.
The same thing happens to the
Facebook page or a group. The organic
reach is dead, so you will not able to promote your affiliate links. That’s why I don’t recommend to promote your
affiliate links on Instagram or YouTube or a Facebook page or a group.
The best strategy to promote
affiliate link is to start a website, promote it, and then move to the various
verticals of YouTube, facebook and Instagram.
That can give you the best results.
So what is the process of making money from affiliate marketing through
a website.
Everything is explained in
detail in this article. Here I am giving
you the 6 factors that how all of them works for affiliate marketing. giving you a general overview of how all these
works. The process will be something
like this.
- Niche Research
- How to start a pro affiliate website
- Keyword research
- Article Writing
- Sign up to amazon associates
- Rank your site to Google (SEO)
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How much many can you make from affiliate marketing?
Well this is the most
interesting part for all affiliates that how much money they can earn from
affiliate marketing. It’s so simple that it totally depends on you. How much time you are willing to invest on
your website to promote affiliate products. The more time you invest, the more
money you can making.
If you follow proper guidelines
and work harder, then you can start making money within a few months. In the
beginning, it may look complicated because you are new at this. But given a few days of implementing, you can
be the pro.
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