How To Create An Affiliate Marketing Website

Affiliate Marketing Website

Since you want to build your own Affiliate Marketing website, I'll assume you already know what affiliate marketing is all about. If you don't know yet or you only know a little, please click here and read my article about affiliate marketing and how you can take full advantage of the opportunities it presents.

Below Are My Guides On How To Setup A Successful Affiliate Marketing Website

Step 1. Choose A Niche 

Choosing a niche is the most important part of the website building process. There are hundreds of thousands of products for sale. You could try to entice people to buy all of them. But in general, it’s best to focus your work on a single niche. Choose a niche that you're passionate about and you know can sell easily and make a good profit. Finding a balance between your passion and profit is the key because when money starts flowing your passion will increase over time. 

Here Are Some Of The Niches That Make The Most Money

There are many blogging niches, however. Here are a few more profitable spaces:

• Health, wellness, and fitness
• Relationships & Dating
• Wealth (Make Money Online)
• Technology, gaming
• Travel
• Pet care
• Fashion and beauty
• Internet Marketing
• Self Improvement
• Personal Finance
• Pets
• Parenting

These are huge affiliate marketing niches with plenty of products — they have thousands of people searching daily for problems and solutions. Choose one that interests you the most. 

You must make a stronger connection with your audience. The average visitor doesn’t make a product recommendation unless they feel the person recommending it to them truly understands all the nook and cranny of what they want.

When your affiliate site is niched down far enough, you can get more specific and helpful in your articles, building trust with your audience.

The more specific you can get, the better — up to a certain point. Be strategic about the topic you build an affiliate marketing website around.

Ultimately the easiest niche for you to create content for comes down to what you know best. If all your research points you towards starting a blog on cryptocurrency, but you’re terrible with money and numbers, you’re better off leaning into what you know.

Step 2. Find an Affiliate Program Best Suited to You

Completing step 1 gives you an ideal product. Now it’s time to find the ideal partner for your affiliate work.

There are generally two different ways to find affiliates — through one-off affiliate programs and affiliate networks.

When you work with one particular brand, you usually do so through their affiliate program. Each affiliate program may have different terms and payouts.

When you’re first starting, you’ll need to seek out brands you want to work with to see if they offer any affiliate programs. For example, if your website is in the travel niche, you may want to become an affiliate for a budget flight website.

In contrast, affiliate networks connect you with various merchants, giving you a wide range of products to choose from.

There are plenty of affiliate programs out there, including Amazon Associates, Share a Sale, and eBay Partner Network to name a few. 

It’s important to consider affiliate commission rates when selecting your affiliates. Not all affiliates or product categories are the same.

You can also reach out to manufacturers directly to create an affiliate relationship; just hop into Google and search for their brand name along with the term “affiliate marketing program.”

Step 3. Create your affiliate website.

You don’t need to go overboard on your first affiliate marketing website when it comes to appearance. That means you don’t have to know how to code to build an affiliate marketing website that works for you. It’s especially easy if you use a website builder like Wix, Squarespace, and WordPress.

Once your website is set up, plugins can help add and track your affiliate links. A common type of plugin for affiliate marketers is a link cloaking plugin.

Affiliate links can be long strings of numbers, which may cause users to distrust the link. Link cloaking plugins like Pretty Links allow you to first direct to a page under your URL then the external affiliate.

That means links look more trustworthy and help balance the internal and external links on each page. That, in turn, helps you rank higher in search engines.

Step 4. Hosting An Affiliate Marketing Website

The domain name will be the name of your website; for best results, choose one that represents the niche you’re targeting, but don’t overthink it.

Don’t worry about exact match keyword domains because it’s not that important anymore, and they probably won’t be available. You can use a tool like Instant Domain Search to determine if an address you want is available for purchase.

Then you will need to find web hosting. While your domain name is like the call number for a library book, the hosting is like the bookshelf the book sits on. It’s where all the files and data are stored related to your website.

If that seems like a lot of steps, Bluehost offers both all in one place, along with an effortless website builder, so you can get your website set up in minutes.

Finally, an autoresponder — you’ll use this to capture emails, send emails, and sell your affiliate products through email marketing.

Step 5. Create your content.

Blogs and websites are at the heart of affiliate marketing. In each blog post or website page, you highlight the features and benefits of the products your customers should buy. Each post also contains links to those products.

Start by creating a robust content calendar. Affiliate marketing blogs cover:

• Product reviews: What makes one product stand out from the others? Why would you buy it, and why should others do the same?

• Tutorials: How do customers set up or use these products?

• Recipes: If you’re working with foods, how would someone incorporate a product into a meal?

• News: How could your product solve a pressing issue that’s dominating headlines? Or how does your product fit into current industry trends?

Take time when crafting your content. Affiliate marketers with sites rich in engaging, relevant content tend to get more visitors and more engaged readers. The number of visitors your website receives and how long visitors spend on your website determine whether search engines see your site as something of value which in turn determines your search engine rankings.

Another one of the most powerful ways to add extra affiliate income to your blog or website is by promoting an affiliate product to your mailing list once people sign up.

If you’re going to promote your affiliate products through email, you have to write your first five emails to get started.

• Email one: The Welcome Email. This email will welcome your subscribers and provide them with a link to the report.

• Email Two: Useful tip and remind them to get your free report again.

• Email Three: Another helpful tip, but this time end the email telling them you have an exciting announcement tomorrow (one that will benefit them greatly).

• Email Four: Tell them about the product you’re promoting. Explain the benefits and how they will improve their life. If the product owner has a free webinar, report, or trial, use this in your email text.

• Email Five: Yes, another helpful tip related to the product, and a nudge at the end to remind them about the product.

Set the emails to go out in the following time frame:

• Email One — Immediately
• Second Email — Next Day
• Third Email — Two Days Later
• Email Four — Next Day
• Final Email — Two Days later

You can add to the number of emails over time with more helpful information and promote other products, but for now, stick to five.

Services like Constant Contact allow you to create follow-up emails that go out to every subscriber once they sign up to your list. You can create one or 100 emails all at once and then never need to touch them again.

Step 6. Disclose your affiliation.

The Federal Trade Commission has strict rules concerning affiliate marketing. Write up your content without disclosing your financial relationship, and you could get in deep trouble with your blog or website for affiliate marketing.

Each post you write should explain that you get a reward for each click, purchase, or both. Put that statement up high in your blog, so even casual skimmers will see it.

Step 8. Get Traffic To Your Contents

If a website gets no visitors, does it really exist? Unfortunately, plenty of companies has this problem. If you want to succeed in affiliate marketing, make sure people know about the content you’re creating and entice them to come to your site or blog to view it. You need to drive traffic to increase your affiliate income. Use the below methods:

Guest post on high-traffic websites: Create fantastic articles and publish on popular blogs; you can link back to your website in the bio. 

Get free media coverage: Using the free HARO tool you can subscribe to a three times a day email list where reporters reach out to you to get stories for their article. Some may be looking for influencers in a specific niche other may be looking for product recommendations. Either way, if you’ve got that retargeting ad running, that free traffic back to your website could result in some sales. Instead of adding a link to your homepage ‘websitenamehere.com’ send it to a product collection or a specific product to create a more targeted focus. You can still add your brand’s name as the name for the hyperlink.

Add content regularly: Look for low competition keywords, and write articles focusing on the keyword. Aim to write at least one article each week and also write a review for the product.

Social Media: Share your article links on all your social media sites.

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There it is friends. All the tips you need to create an affiliate marketing website.

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