Affiliate Marketing For Novice

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I know you have seen the ads and articles claiming, "Be your own boss! Work from home!, Make Money Online”, etc.

You might say, "Sounds splendid, but are you going to show me know how or explain? Of course this is what this article is about

It doesn’t have to cost you a fortune for an initial investment, and you don’t have to deceive or rip people off along the way.

In this article, I will give you an explanation on how the affiliate marketing process works and to get an idea of how it all works.

Affiliate marketing is simply selling other people's products and getting a sales commission at the end.

There is a process to this, you won't get successful results just copying & pasting affiliate links

You may feel overwhelmed when you first learning about affiliate marketing process, but don't worry we’re going to end the article with an outline of what you can get started with straight away.

Let’s get started and discover what’s involved!

The Method of Affiliate Marketing

1. Pick A Niche

Firstly, pick a niche that you’re interested in that also has a lot of market demand. It is important to pick a niche that you are interested in, because this will keep you motivated in the long run. If you pick a niche that you have no interest, you may give up and lose motivation when things are slow at first.

Think of something that you like, but will also sell and have demand at the same time. Also think whether there would be many products associated with it, or much of an audience.

You can find a niche or topic with a little research. Affilorama has great affiliate marketing research tools

2. Find products to promote

Now that you have a niche all picked out, find some products related to the niche, so that you can promote.

There are websites full of these (called affiliate networks) to browse and find products

Websites like: ClickBank.com and JVZoo.com are great websites to find affiliate products

You can also do a internet search for affiliate products to sell. Their are literally hundreds of thousands affiliate products out there, so go out there ad find them!

Once you’ve got a couple that are right for you, you’ll be able to get an affiliate link for them.

3. Create A Website

Next step is you build a website related to your niche.

Now this may sound like a difficult task, but it is pretty easy these days to create a website.

With tools like WordPress, Hosting like GoDaddy.com will streamline this process and make it easy to create a quality website

I might have a future article on how to create a website, so be on the look out 🙂

4. Fill Your Website With Relevant Content

Now you must fill your website with content that is related to your niche and will be helpful for people wh are searching for info in your niche.

Place your affiliate links throughout and in the most relevant places on your website.

When someone interested in your content clicks your link, they go to a sales page for a product that they might also be interested in, and if they buy it you get a commission!

5. Blast & Promote Your Website

After picking your niche, product, create a website, fill your site with content, all that’s left to do is promote your website.

The goal is to get generate traffic, and get people to your content. This gives more potential for commissions from referred sales.

There are a lot of different marketing strategies out there, from advertising to social media, but you won’t have to worry about this part of it straight away.

The most important thing is just to get started. Let me give you an example of how this process could go.

Here Is An Example As A Reference

Topic: Numerology

Say, for example, I have an interest in numerology. I’d do some research online, and find out that there is a strong market interested in the numerology.

Step 1 - Find Products On An Affiliate Network Like ClickBank

I’d head to an affiliate network website like Clickbank, and start filtering through the products available.

You will find in the clickbank marketplace a ammount of products related to the numerology niche that you could see yourself promoting.

Step 2 - Create Your Website: Hosting, domain name, and WordPress

Next is creating your website.

Pick a domain name with keywords related to your niche

Pick a hosting package.

Next get WordPress, so you could start playing around with the look of the website.

So head over to GoDaddy to get started.

Step 3 - Fill the website with relevant content: Helpful articles about numerology

To fill your website with relevant and quality content to your niche, you can write articles about numerology, or outsource this job to someone else.

If you aren't much of a writer, go look at a website like Fiverr.com to find someone to write an article for you.
Promote your website: Social media, SEO, Paid Traffic

There are a few things you could do to promote your website in the hopes of attracting more website visitors.

Create social media profiles like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. This is a create way to get free traffic and eyes to your site.

Next is SEO and it is related to the content you added earlier.

SEO (search engine optimization) is a fancy way of saying your page will show on search engine results.