Affiliate Marketing For Beginners (Ultimate Guide)
Introduction to Affiliate Marketing.
Affiliate
Marketing is one of the easiest and fastest ways to make money online. In this
Ultimate Guide, I will go with you step by step to help you start today your online
business with affiliate marketing and make your first revenue Online.
To be honest with you, I don’t do 6
figures with Affiliate every month, but I do make a good recurring revenue, and
what’s more important is that it’s almost 99% passive income!
What do I mean by passive
income?
Passive income means that every month, I earn a couple of thousands of dollars without doing anything. so even if I take OFF the whole month, I will still earn almost the same number every month. Nice Haa!
In
this article, I will share with you what I do exactly and give you some tips
that may help you to start with affiliate marketing, and then I will show how
to scale and reach 5–6 figures after a year or so.
What is Affiliate
Marketing?
Simply, affiliate marketing is promoting
products and services for other people and companies and earning commission per sale.
So,
what’s nice is that you will not worry about creating and buying products, you
will just promote an existing product. this is why it’s easy to start with. and
even you can start with a 0$ budget as you will see later.
So
Affiliate marketing is a great choice for anyone who wants to start a business
online and make money without investing or even without having that much skills
online.
Let’s Start!
Simply,
affiliate marketing is based on two things:
·
Selecting the correct product to promote.
·
Promoting the product.
It’s
that simple, select a product, promote it, earn money!
Let’s
start with the first part, which is Selecting the correct product.
1. Select the correct product
to promote:
It’s very important to understand and
learn how to select the best product or service to promote because
simply, with the same effort and time you will make much
more money if you select the correct product.
Example: Let’s
say you are promoting a service that costs 200$ and your
commission is 60% per sale.
You
promoted this service and you were able to get like 50 sales each month.
Simple calculations:
50$ * (200*0.6) = 6000$ per month. Nice!
And your advertising costs (In case of
running paid Ads) are 3000$. Then
you earn 3000$ every Month.
Per Year: 3000$ * 12 month = 40000 $
Great! BUT in this case, you will need
to promote every month, pay for
advertising every month, effort and Time every month!! Yes?!
NOW, Let’s Tweak the scenario!
We selected a product at the same
price: 200$. Your commission is only 40% and not
60%.
But what is different here, is that the
product you selected gives recurring commissions, so
you will get 40% every month without promoting again and
again.
Let’s say now, you promoted this
service and you were able to get like 50 sales in a
month.
Simple calculations:
For
50 sales per month:
50$ * (200*0.4) = 4000$ /
First month
And your advertising costs are 3000$ then you earn only 1000$ for the First
Month.
But then, 4000$ for the next months without
any advertising or efforts (It’s recurring!) Did You Get It!
So the next months you will earn 4000$ without paying anything!
Per year: 1000$ + ( 4000$ * 11) = 45000 $ with
much more less effort and time!
Which scenario will you go with??
I think, Obviously, you will go with
the second (recurring commission), which will become 90% passive with the same revenue or even more!
This is a small example, of how selecting the
correct product (even with lower commission) may be critical in affiliate
marketing.
Of course, I am not saying that you should not go with 1-time commission
products! NO.
I am just showing the importance of selecting
the correct product and how it may reflect on your work!
Small
advice: select at least two products to
promote, one recurring, and the other is 1-time commission.
Top Affiliate Products
And Networks to choose from.
Ok friend, after we knew the importance
of selecting the affiliate product, the Big Question now is: “Where can I find affiliate products to start promoting?“
To
make things simple for you, I will go over more than 10 Affiliate programs and
products that you can join even if you are a total beginner. And I will show
you both recurring and single commission products and services.
Single Commission
Affiliate Products.
I
will share with you now what I think the top 5 affiliate networks that you can
start with and find different products to promote.
1. ClickBank:
probably you heard about, Clickbank is
not a product, it’s an affiliate network where you can find thousands of
products to promote.
There is only a small drawback here, that is;
it’s not available in all countries.
2. CJAffiliate: CJ is also one of the largest Affiliate Networks
available Online. I do work with CJ, and I promote some Web hosting services
like Contabo and
Other products.
3. JVZoo:
It’s also a large trusted affiliate network with thousands of Affiliate
products to start with.
4. Warrior
Plus: This Network is Great for beginners, simply because
it’s simple to join, and it’s available anywhere worldwide.
5. Envato Market: One of my best, and I already work with this network to generate a couple of hundreds of dollars each month (100% Passive)
This company provides digital products
and assets like website themes and templates, audio, video templates, source
codes, and much more.
Earnings from the first month.
OKAY!!!!!!
I
think this is enough for affiliate networks. Let’s move now to my preferred
list of recurring commission affiliate services and products.
Recurring Commission
Affiliate Products.
Here
is the best part, working with recurring commission products and earning 10X
more money per year with the same effort!
1. Clickfunnels:
The Clickfunnels affiliate program is one of the most
generous commissions for a Service As A Service (SAAS) company. They pay 40%
life-time affiliate commissions on all purchases.
They
also have something called a “sticky cookie”, which is a bonus to affiliates
because if you share your link to a customer it follows them across all of
their devices. This keeps people you refer attached to your affiliate account,
no matter where they are.
Aside
from their software, Clickfunnels also comes up with new products all the time
that you can also earn money on such as live events and training courses.
2. SEMRUSH: It’s also an awesome Service to promote with a 40% commission rate, SEMRUSH is an SEO tools company that helps anyone rank their websites and get more free organic traffic. Here is my affiliate dashboard:
3. Tube Buddy: You can earn up to 50% Recurring commission when you refer people to Tube buddy.
Tube Buddy helps
content creators, brands, and networks save time and grow their channels. So
you can market and advertise it to content creators to help them grow their
YouTube Channels.
4. Get Response: One of the Top Email
Marketing Services out there, and offers an awesome Affiliate program.
As
you can see it offers to programs, one is a single 100$ commission per sale.
and the other is 33% recurring commission every month.
What’s
nice about Get response and similar services, that it’s hard for users using
such platforms to leave it, since all their mailing lists, data, analytics will
be saved in the system, so migrating will be somehow a problem.
This
is a great thing if you think in terms of recurring commission, so when you
refer someone, its like 95% he/she will be a long term customer.
Anyway, almost all products and services have
an affiliate network, so you can check whatever product or service you want, contact
them, and ask for their affiliate program.
5. SendinBlue: one
of my best, only because it allows you to earn per signup! Yes,
it pays 5 Euros on each sign up you refer to SendinBlue.
It
is also one of the Top Email Marketing Services out there.
Promoting The Affiliate Product.
After
we learned what is affilitae programing, and the importance of choosing the
correct products to promote, and I showed you some of the best affilitae
networks and programs that you can start with. Now it’s time for the real work!
Choosing the product or the service may
take like 10 minutes or a maximum of 1-2 days. But what is essential now
is How to promote?! It’s all about Marketing.
When
it comes to marketing, we have two paths:
1.
Free Advertising.
2.
Paid Advertising.
Free Advertising.
Let’s
start with Free promotion, and see how we can promote affiliate products and
services for free.
1. SEO: Search Engine Optimization.
SEO is the best way to promote
affiliate services and products and to turn this online business into almost
99% Passive Income. why?
Before,
I say why, Let’s explain SEO in brief.
What is SEO?
SEO
or Search Engine Optimization, is simply a method, or a techinique used to rank
your websites and articles on Top of search engines like Google, Bing, and
Yahoo.
You
know, when people wants something on the internet, they search for it on search
engines, and usually people will open results from the first page only.
So your goal with SEO is to make your
website rank on the first page for certain search queries. so you can get a lot of free organic traffic to your website.
Let’s take this simple scenario, You
wrote an article on your website about an affiliate product, for example, “Top 10 Microphones for YouTubers” and you ranked
this article on the first page of Google.
Now you can imagine how much money you
will make with the amazon affiliate program promoting “Microphones affiliate
links” and getting free traffic from Google, It’s money on autopilot!
Now you may say, Ok Great! But how do
we rank our articles? in other words, what the hell is SEO!! and how
do we do it!?
Of course, Going through SEO in deep is
out of the scope of this article, but at the same time, I will try my best to
help you understand how to start and work with SEO in few lines. I will not let you go out of here missing anything!
The
Idea is Simple, we mainly have three steps to go through in the process of
ranking your articles:
1.
Know what people are searching for (Keyword
Research)
2.
Optimize your article for these keywords
(On-Page SEO)
3.
Off-Page SEO (Building Trust, Social Signals,
and Link Building…)
To Make things Simple, Let’s go with
a simple example from a blog here. If you go now to
Google and search for: “postal smtp” you
will see the following results:
So how he did this?
Firstly, he wanted to write an article (full
guide) about “setting up postal SMTP and
sending unlimited emials“. So I Simply wrote it!
but
when he started writing the article, he optimized it on certain keywords, so you
can see in the title the keywords mentioned:
Keywords like “free smtp”, “SMTP server setup”, “Postal” ,
“Guide”
This is a simple example for On-page
optimization, which is mentioning the keywords in the post title which will be
the H1 tag on your website for this article.
Then
if you read this article, you will see that I mentioned these keywords several
times in it, so Google and search engines can know that this article is about
this Topic.
You
may ask, from where I get these keywords, and How can I know the best to
choose? SIMPLE! use a keyword research tool.
You can use free keyword research tools
like H-supertools or maybe some advanced SEO tools
like SEMRUSH.
So open the H-supertools free keyword research tool and just
write the topic you want in the box, and press search. here is an example:
The
tool will automatically give you keyword search volume data and help you choose
the best keywords.
Then the last step is off-page SEO, which
is trying to get some backlinks and social signals to your website.
I hope this gives you an idea of how SEO
works and how to start with it. Let’s move now to the next strategy in promoting
affiliate links which is YouTube!
2. Promote Affiliate with YouTube.
YouTube
is one of the best sources to promote anything! not only affiliate services.
You create videos about your affiliate product and link back to it.
Now the Big Question is How
to Grow Your YouTube Channel and get more views?
In
general, there are two ways to grow your channel.
1. YouTube suggestions: where YouTube will
start suggesting your videos on the top of other popular videos.
Ex:
you pick a trending video or topic and you create a similar High-Quality Video,
and optimize the metadata (Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Tags)
My Video Suggested on Top of
other videos
2. Video SEO: which is ranking your
videos on top of YouTube search results by optimizing your title, and metadata
for a specific keyword. you can use tools like Tubebuddy, Viding, H-supertools, and others to
grow your channel.
3. Forums and Q&A Sites.
Search for forums related to your content
and help others by sharing what you know and link to your article or page where
you are promoting the offer (DON’T SPAM).
Also, don’t forget, Reddit, which is a great place
to get free traffic.
Also, Quora
Q&A,
which is one of the fastest methods to get traffic. It’s by answering questions
and linking back to your site.
5. Social Media
If you have some followers on Facebook, maybe
Facebook groups, LinkedIn, Twitter, all these helps you to get traffic, (you
can automate posting on all platforms using a social media management software,
I do use Content Studio.
Of
course, when I say social media, I don’t mean to spam groups and people, NO,
just try to build connections, give value, build trust, and then you can link
back to your pages.
6. Free Ebooks and Courses
You can also create small free ebooks and
publish on ebooks sites to get traffic or even you can publish a free course on
Udemy which has millions of students out there and link back to your site.
7. Email Marketing.
8. Email Marketing, always make sure to
build your email lists, which will be one of the top sources of traffic for
your websites by sending newsletters to your Subscribers.
Check
the video below, to see in action how I send a campaign and get 56% open rate:
Paid
Advertising.
When
It comes to paid advertising, we have several networks and places to market on
like:
·
Facebook Ads.
·
Google Ads
·
Native Ads
·
Quora Ads
Going
through all these requires a 300-page book each! So I will go over each one, in
brief, to put you in the right direction.
Promote Affiliate products with Facebook
and Google Ads
If
you are looking to promote affiliate products with Facebook or Google Ads, Keep
in mind the following:
First: Don’t run ads
directly to your affiliate link. Facebook and Google are generally not a huge
fan of affiliate links, and doing so too much could end up getting your ad
account shut down.
Instead,
you want to send them to your landing page in between the Ad and the Affiliate
product page.
Secondly: make sure that all
of your landing pages are compliant with Facebook and Google Guide Lines.
Create Your Landing Page.
Now,
what you have to do is to create your landing page. This could be a simple page
where you pre-sell whatever it is you’re promoting…whether it’s a piece of
pre-launch content or the sales page…and invite them to click through to
download it.
Or, even better, you can use this as an
opportunity to grow your list by turning these people into subscribers to YOUR list, and then
sending them onto the content or offer you are promoting.
Run your Campaign.
A
small note to consider is whenever you start your campaign, be sure to select
the correct audience and narrow down as much as you can to target specific
people. You can also use AD retargeting, which is a great weapon when running
paid Ads.
Also,
Don’t forget to start your campaign with low bids and different Ad sets to
test, and to know which is the best to scale with.
Promote Affiliate products with Native Ads.
For affiliate marketers, native ad networks
like Outbrain, Taboola, Mgid, and others are
an ideal platform, proven to bring great results.
Ads on search results (like Google) and
social media (Like Facebook) are not the same as ads on native networks. Why?
Simply
Because there’s a big difference between scrolling a social feed, searching for
something specific on Google, or browsing a favorite news site (where Native
ads are shown). With the latter, users are in “discovery mode.”
They
are primed to discover content that interests them.
Promote Affiliate products with Quora Ads.
Even though, I recommend starting
with Quora as a free source of traffic by answering
and sharing your knowledge as I explained before. But you can still run paid
ads also on Quora.
I
created a showrt video showing the power of Quora Ads, you can check it here:
I
hope this article gave you all the information that helps you with your online
business journey as an affiliate marketer.
THANKS FOR READING!!!!
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