Affiliate Marketing:for Beginners (Ultimate Guide) How to start

Affiliate Marketing:for Beginners (Ultimate Guide) How to start : Everything you need to know about it.

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 get started 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 make or earn a couple of thousands of dollars without doing anything. So, even if I take-off (not working) the whole month, I will still earn almost the same number every month. Nice, isn’t it?

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.

What’s nice is that you won’t 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 (for free without any money) 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 begin!

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, make 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.

What is the Difference? One-time Commission and Recurring Commission

Example: 

Let’s say you are promoting a service that costs 150$ and your commission is 50% per sale.

You promoted this service and you were able to get 50 sales each month.

Simple Calculations:

50 * (150*0.5) = 3750$ per month. Nice!

And your advertising costs (In case of running paid Ads) are 1500$. Then you earn 2250$ every Month.

Per Year: 2250$ * 12 month = 27000 $ 

Great! BUT in this case, you will need to promote every month, pay for advertising every month, spend effort and Time every month!

We selected a product at the same price: 150$. Your commission is only 30% and not 50%.

But what is different here, is that the product you selected gives recurring commissions, so you will get 30% every month without promoting again and again.

Let’s say now, you promoted this service and you were able to get 50 sales in a month.

Simple calculations:

For 50 sales per month:

50 * (150*0.3) = 2250$ / First month

And your advertising costs are 1500$ then you earn only 750$ for the First Month.

But then, 2250$ for the next months without any advertising or efforts (It’s recurring!). Did You Get and understand it!

So, the next months you will earn 2250$ without paying anything!

Per year: 750$ + (2250$ * 11) = 25500 $ with much less effort and time!

Which Scenario you will go with?

I think, Obviously, you will go with the second (recurring commission), which will become 90% passive with the same revenue or often 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 single or 1-time commission products! NO.

Just showing the importance of selecting the correct product and how it may reflect on your work.

Top Affiliate Products and Networks to Choose from:

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, what I think are the top 5 affiliate networks that you can start with and find different products to promote.

1. Clickbank: probably you heard about it, click bank is not a product, it’s an affiliate network where you can find thousands of products to promote.

Click bank affiliate network

The only thing negative about it, is that not available on all countries, so check first if it’s available in your country or not.

2. CJ Affiliate: CJ is one of the largest Affiliate Networks available Online. You need to sign up as a publisher and complete your profile and start promoting products and services related to your niche.

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 you with digital products and assets like website themes and templates, audio, video templates, source codes, and much more.

Recurring Commission Affiliate Products:

I’m providing here the best part, which is working with recurring commission products and earning 10-X faster, more money per year with the same effort.

1. Clickfunnels:

Clickfunnels affiliate program is one of the most generous commissions for a SAAS (Service As A Service) company. They pay 40% life-time affiliate commissions on all purchases.

Also they have something which is 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.

Beside their software, Clickfunnels also comes with new products all the time, so 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 a SEO tools company that helps anyone rank their websites and get more free organic traffic from search engines like google and bing.

3. Tube Buddy:

You can join their affiliate program and earn up to 50% Recurring commission when you refer people to Tube buddy.

Tube Buddy helps content creators, brands, companies and networks save time and effort to grow their Youtube channels. So, you can refer and advertise it to content creators to help them save time grow their YouTube Channels.

4. GET Response:

It is one of the top Email Marketing Services out there, and offers an awesome Affiliate program.

As you can see, it offers two programs, one is a single or one-time 100$ commission per sale. and the other is 33% recurring commission every month.

What’s nice about Get response and similar Email Marketing 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, it’s like 90% he or she will be a long-term customer.

Almost all products and services, anyway have an affiliate network, so you can check whatever product or service you want, then contact them, and ask for their affiliate program to start promoting and earn money.

For a full list of affiliate programs and products, Please Check This Post.

Promoting The Affiliate Product:

After we learned what is Affiliate programming, and the importance of selecting the correct products to promote, and I showed you some of the best affiliate networks and programs that you can start promoting. Now it’s time for doing the real work.

When choosing the product or the service, may take like 15 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 or ways:

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. You think why is that?

Before, I say why, Let’s explain SEO in brief.

What is SEO?

SEO or (Search Engine Optimization):

It represents the practice of optimizing and implementing strategies to a website or web page to increase its ranking and visibility online on search engines for relevant Keywords getting free traffic or what called (Organic traffic) like google, Yahoo, Bing and others search engine whenever someone search for anything which leads to more traffic and gain to:

• Information
• Products you sell
• Content you provide
• Services you have
• Or whatever your need

You know, when people want something on the internet, they search for it on search engines, and usually people will open results from the first pages only.

To read and learn all about SEO,please read this post:

What is SEO? The Best SEO Guide For Beginners

So, your goal with SEO is to make your website rank on the first page for certain search engines. So, you can get a lot of free organic traffic to your website which means more money.

Let’s take this simple scenario, you wrote an article on your website about an affiliate product, for example, “Top 10 phones 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 auto-pilot!

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 so simple, we mainly have three steps to go through in the process of ranking your website 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 of blog here. If you go now to Google and search for: “postal smtp” you will see the following results:

You will see that articles is ranking as the first result on Google after the Ad. The first two results are the postal owner’s main page.

so anyone searching for this keyword he will definitely check that website.

So how I did this?

Firstly, I wanted to write an article (full guide) about “setting up postal SMTP and sending unlimited emails“. So I Simply wrote it!

but when I started writing the article, I optimized it on a curtail 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 he 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?

SIMPLY! use a keyword research tool.

You can use free keyword research tools like H-supertool or maybe some advanced SEO tools like Semrush.

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. as an example, I link to my blog from my social profiles.

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).

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 Tube buddy, 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, please (DON’T SPAM).

Also, don’t forget,Reddit, which is a great place to get free traffic.

4.Also, Quora :

which is one of the fastest methods to get traffic. It’s by answering questions and linking back to your site.

(I really get thousands of views on Quora  every month from my answers. It works)

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, just try to build connections, give value, build trust, and then you can link back to your pages.

6. Free E-books and Courses:

You can also create small free e-books and publish on e-books sitesto 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:

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.

2.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:

1-First: Don’t run ads directly to your affiliate link. Facebook and Google are not generally 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.

2-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 which 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.

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 hope that this article gave you all the information that helps you and you need with your online business journey as an affiliate marketer.

I wish you the best.

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