Affiliate Marketing Website

Affiliate Marketing Website

 What exactly is affiliate marketing?  

 What is an affiliate marketing website how it all?

Works and how do you actually make money with it then I’ll go through things such as why you should actually start affiliate marketing go through some of the pros and the cons so you can decide  whether  or not it's for you or not for you then  part two is we're going to go through finding a   niche and finding the best type of products to  promote to earn affiliate commissions then part  

three we're going to find low competition keywords  and also profitable keywords that you can actually   target for your website so don't worry if you're  not really sure what I’m talking about right now  

I’ll go through it in more detail later on in part four we're going to go through website   setup and design so I’m going to show you guys  how to fully customize your website it doesn't   matter if you want to create like a simple blog  and monetize it with affiliate links or you want   to create an amazon affiliate website or like  a product review website or any type of website  

it's   fully customizable and I’ll show you how to  do that part five I’m going to go through content  

creation   which is probably the most important  part of an affiliate marketing business then part  

six we're going to go through optimization so I’m  going to show you guys the step-by-step process of   optimizing your website so that it ranks in google  right because you want to make sure your website  is actually ranking in google so that you actually  get people going to your website clicking on

 on page and off page  

 your  affiliate links so I’m going to show you guys  how to optimize it properly on page and off page   search engine optimization and then part seven  we're going to go through some final tips and  strategies to help you succeed quicker okay and  I’m going to be showing you things that no one  normally shows you so I’m so excited to begin  so make sure you grab a pen and a piece of paper  maybe get a coffee or some water or something  like that we're going to get started right now  so part one understanding and questions 

I want to  go through this part because I want everyone to  fully understand exactly what it is and what it's  not right and also answer your questions because I  remember you know starting affiliate marketing and  not knowing exactly what it was and you know how  to actually do it properly so what is affiliate  marketing right so affiliate marketing is the  process of promoting a product or service for  a commission so think about you as being a real  estate agent and you are helping the owner sell  a house and if the buyer purchases the house then  the owner is going to give you a commission for  that sale because you've helped him sell the house  right you've helped him advertise and promote  the house and then you've sold it right so let's  say for example the house price is let's say a  million dollars and you get two percent commission  so basically that's around twenty thousand dollars  so that is your commission right so affiliate  marketing is essentially the same thing but online  so how it actually works is that you the affiliate  you can actually sign up

affiliate  program

for  affiliate  program  right so you can actually join the affiliate  program of many products and services that  you have used already so for example on amazon  they have an affiliate program called the amazon  associates program where you can actually join and  basically can promote all the products on amazon  so let's say for example you want to promote a  coffee machine to your friends or your customers  or your viewers or your readers then what you do  is you sign up they'll give you a special tracking  link right it's also known as a referral link  or an affiliate link and what that link does it  basically adds like a cookie or like a little tag  virtual tag on that link so that it basically  knows you know when the customer actually  purchases that that you actually referred them  okay so then amazon will pay you the commission  so for example if the coffee machine is 500  there is a 10 commission that means you earn 50  right so there are many ways to actually promote  your links right so obviously you can promote your  link on Facebook you like you know send it to your  friends and your families hey this is the best  product ever and then you can send the link there  or you could do like what a lot of influencers do  on Instagram you can do like click the link in my  bio or use xyz for 10 off and things like that

 you  can also email people um you can also reply and  you know comment on different forms and everywhere  around the internet and leave your link right but  those aren't the best ways to actually promote  your affiliate links the best two ways are your  website and a YouTube channel okay platforms are search engines so people actually  typing in google like looking for things they're  researching different products and services and  trying to figure out you know is this product  good or not right so there are thousands or maybe  millions of products and people want to know you  know is this product for them you know should they  be looking at a budget option or a more expensive  option they also want to learn how to solve a  problem right so people also type in you know  how to on YouTube as well just like you found  this tutorial you might have typed in how to make  a website or how to start affiliate marketing or  whatever it is you are looking to solve a problem  okay so on these platforms people are looking for  things when we're talking about these different  other platforms for example you got like Facebook  Instagram or an email a lot of times people aren't  really looking for a review right they might just  be scrolling on Facebook or scrolling through the

Facebook  Instagram or an email   

Instagram feed but they're not really in the  mindset of purchasing something but let's say  when you're creating a website and your website's  ranking on google then you know people are looking  for that review right and if your review is on the  first page of google they click into your website  they click your link and then you're able to  earn a commission so it's a lot more natural  and the conversions are normally higher and so  you're able to earn more commissions right so  you're also able to earn a passive income because  if your website is actually ranking on google  then every single month there's a consistent  amount of people who are actually searching for  specific products and specific product reviews or  how to do certain things okay so if your website  is there your website never sleeps and people are  able to access your website from anywhere around  the world and that's how you actually generate a  passive income okay so what I want to show you now is just a real example of how it actually works  and how do you actually make money from it and  how much money can you make okay so we're going  to open up google okay so what I want to do now  is just show you an example of how it all works  and how much commission you can expect to earn  with affiliate marketing and with a website so  we're going to type in nard vpn review so nordvpn  is just a vpn provider and a vpn is a virtual  private network which basically just allows you to  hide your ip address so that when you're browsing  the internet then no one can actually track your  actions and you can also use it to unlock netflix  of different countries because you can connect  to a different sort of server with a different  ip address for example if I'm in australia

  

I can connect to united states and i can  watch the netflix in the united states  okay so i just wanted to explain uh what it was  okay so generally um that's the type of content  that you need to create when you're creating an  affiliate marketing website um because people  are just about to purchase right so you can't  just create any type of content it has to be  content where people are just about to purchase  or they're in the process of solving a problem  and then you're recommending them a specific  product okay so on the top over here is the  google adwords results so basically the company  will actually pay google for every click that  someone makes and clicks into that website right  so that is how google actually makes money and  if you actually scroll down over here you can  see the organic results so you can actually see  a ton of different affiliate marketing websites  and we're gonna click into this one over here so  let's say for example you are reading this review  and you're reading about it and you like it so if  we actually click on visit website you can see  on the bottom that is an affiliate tracking link  right so if someone clicks on that that's going  to basically add like a cookie onto the browser  

and if they purchase through that link  then it's going to track back to this  website over here and the website's owner  so if someone purchases and grabs the dealwhat you're going to notice is that you  can see the two-year plan over here and  you can see the price of 89 for the first  two years and without the discount is 286  right so how much commission does this website  owner actually make from a sale so what we can  do is go to the nordvpn.com website or whichever  company that you want to promote and you can  scroll down to the very bottom and generally what  they have is a section where you got the affiliate  program and you can click into it so it might be  called like partner program or anything like that  and you can become an affiliate and then you can  get a tracking link and add it onto your website  so we can scroll down over here now generally  a lot of websites will actually show how much  commission you actually uh get paid so for  the two year offer the owner actually gets 40  per new sign up okay so we're going to get the  calculator out and we're going to calculate it  so 89 times 0.4 so 40 so that's around 35 dollars  per sale okay and once they renew as well so let's  say for example um whoever purchases this plan  they like it and they renew it for 286 dollars

  

then the owner is going to get a renewal fee as  well so it's going to be 286 times 0.3 and then   they get paid 85 on the renewal okay so that's how  it all works and how you actually get paid now the  next question is like how much does the website  actually earn so the website um it really depends  on the type of content um that you actually create  so let's say for example you create a random piece  of content which is not very very uh sort of  targeted people aren't looking for the product  then it might be zero percent conversions  and you might not be making any money at all  but for this type of keyword people are just  about to purchase right so we actually need  to figure out how many visitors does this website  actually get so you can actually use a tool called  Aahrefs and for this specific uh key phrase it's  actually searched around 25 000 times in the  united states per month right and then the global  volume is around 44k right so that doesn't mean  this website and this page over here gets you know  44 000 people on the website right that's too much  because uh that's the amount of people who are  actually searching for that key phrase but it  doesn't mean that they click into that okay so  we can actually scroll down to the very bottom  and we can actually find the website over here the  vpn mentor and you can see the estimated traffic  um monthly visits over here so it's around 5200  okay so if we get the calculator out and we do  

5200 and let's say one out of every 100 person uh purchases right so just one percent so we can  times that by 0.01 that's around 52 purchases per  month now it might even be a lot higher because  they actually have um the award position as  well so as you can see um let's go back over here  they actually have their advertisement up here  as well right so it can be quite high as well but  the the traffic over here this is the organic  search results okay so for example 52 times 35  that would be about a thousand 800 per month for  that specific page only so what is really amazing  is that as you can see on the actual website over  here they don't just have you know one product  that they're promoting right or one keyword that  they're targeting per page they got multiple  pages like nordvpn coupons expressvpn and  they've also got you know different other  key phrases that people actually searching  for as well so this website over here is  probably earning you know seven figures per year  because it has a lot of traffic um to the website  okay so you know it's really important to  understand that you can't really expect to achieve  these results especially if you're just starting  out this is actually a very very competitive niche  because the commission rates are quite high right  if we're actually talking about this product over  here this is actually like a digital product  or a virtual product and the profit margins  for this company is going to be quite high and  that's 

how they actually pay such a high sort  of commission rate right so not every affiliate  program pays such a high commission rate right  so if we look at the amazon associates affiliate  program and we can click onto here to learn  how much do i earn from the program you'll  actually find the commission rates over here  as well so let's say for example we're talking  about the coffee machine that's around 4.5 percent  okay and we look at the most popular coffee  machines you know it might be like 200 or  something like that so this one over here um let's  do some calculations so two two nine times zero  point zero four five okay so that's around ten  dollars per sale so it's not as high and you  don't get the renewal fee so it really depends  on what type of product that you are promoting  and it depends on the conversions as well and  also the commission rates on how much you can  actually earn and obviously it depends on whether  or not you can actually rank your website up there  and how many sort of pages that you are creating  so let's say for example

this is your website  what you'll have is you'll have separate pages  for different products and different reviews  and different pages for different content on your  website so each page is sort of like this little  uh rental property that you have right so each  product that you promote might have a different  commission rate and it might have also a different  number of people who are searching for it as well  as a different amount of visitors that come to  your website so it's sort of really just like a  virtual rental property so it's going to take you  time to actually build up it's not like a get rich  quick thing at all but don't worry i'm going to  show you guys step by step how to actually do it  so right now you're probably thinking you know is  this even real is it too late is it a scam and you  know other people making money with affiliate  marketing so i know how you guys feel because  

i felt the exact same when i first started with  affiliate marketing right i signed up for a lot  of email um email newsletters and a lot of  webinars watch a lot of videos and a lot of  people showed me screenshots of you know how much  they're making with affiliate marketing right so  for me when i first started i actually thought  that a lot of people showed me screenshots of  people who are actually um like their core sales  and things like that those screenshots for the  course sales but i think a lot of people um  legitimately make money with affiliate marketing  right they just don't show you so this is one  of the affiliate programs that i'm a part of  and yesterday we made around 70 right so this  is very very real now i'm not saying that you  guys can achieve this overnight right it's going  to take a lot of work and it's going to take you  time especially when you're creating a website  and ranking it on google right because you have  to create the content and things like that but  this is very very real so it also depends on the  types of products that you're promoting so this  one is a digital product so the commission rates  are higher so for example on you know the 28th  you know we made over a hundred dollars right  and this is another affiliate program where it's  uh reoccurring commissions so i made 11 sales but  there has been over 39 rebuilds right  so every time it rebuilds then it pays  me another forty dollars okay so every single  month so this is another affiliate program over  here so i've earned over seventy eight thousand  um so yeah it's very very real so it's not just me  and also you know other websites that you have  not really heard of that is making money so  this website called wirecutter

 

which is recently  actually four years ago acquired by new york times  for 30 million dollars so if you actually  search up wirecutter and search up on wikipedia  you'll see that they were acquired by the  new york times um 2016 for 30 million dollars  right so if you actually go to the website  you can actually see um it is primarily an  affiliate marketing website so it's a content  website that does reviews on different products  and they monetize with affiliates so for example  over here it says wirecutter is reader supported  when you buy through links on our website we may  earn an affiliate commission so they actually  generated over 150 million in revenue from  affiliate programs so that doesn't mean that  they made 150 million otherwise they'll be selling  for like probably over a billion dollars but we do  have to take into consideration the affiliate  commission rate so let's say for example 150  million so one i think that is is that too many  okay that's too many zeros let's do that againso yep 150 and then let's just say for example  they are selling physical products so let's say  five percent that would be around 7.5 million um  from its launch which is 2011 to 2016. so if we  divide that by five okay that should be over 1.5  million or maybe even more than that uh 2 million  

per year in revenue okay so affiliate marketing is  very very real um there are a ton of websites that  use affiliate marketing as a way to monetize their  content and youtubers also do the same as well  so sam over here is a travel and aviation youtuber  right and he's also promoting uh vpns because vpns  are quite popular since you know it's sort of  like a product that everyone probably needs  and as you can see here it's over four hundred  thousand views so you can bet that he's generated  you know thousands and thousand dollars from  promoting you know the vpn so affiliate marketing  is very real and this leads me to the pros and  cons which i want to talk about so you can fully  understand exactly you know the positives

 and  also the negatives of affiliate marketing okay  so let's discuss some of the pros of an affiliate  marketing website and affiliate marketing business  so number one you're able to earn passive income  so the reason why i actually got started with  affiliate marketing was because you know my dad  actually owns a restaurant in melbourne australia  and basically every single day he would be working  every day you know and i'll just be at home taking  care of my brother and my sister and we barely  ever went on any holidays and things like that

  so I was always you know searching up how to make  money online and how could i actually make money  while I was on holiday so i didn't have to spend  you know time just working all the time and I  couldn't you know travel and things like that you  know so that was one of the biggest reasons why I  actually got started with affiliate marketing  so you're able to earn passive income because  if your website is actually ranking on google it  means that it's there like right it's there 24 7.  anyone's able to access that anywhere around the  world and every single day there is a consistent  amount of people who are actually searching for  your website and what you have to offer so for  example if you're creating a coffee machine review  or like nordvpn review or like you know different  product reviews there's a consistent amount of  people who are searching for that every single  month and if they click it and they purchase  it and that's how you make passive income  and you've also got unlimited potential so this  doesn't have any limit to how much you can earn

  so I remember working as a waiter at my dad's  restaurant and I would get paid like 13 to 15  per hour and I would work like 10 hours a day and  basically like the whole day will be gone because  the rest of the day I'll just like be used to  showering resting and eating and just sleeping  right but the rest of the day the other 10 hours  is just gone and I couldn't really earn more  than that so if I earn you know 15 times 10 150  per day and that was a ceiling that was a limit  but with affiliate marketing there is no limit it  depends on how hard you actually work right the  more content that you produce the more you're able  to make and you're also able to work from anywhere  in the world so you know for me i started to make  you know over ten thousand dollars per month from  

affiliate marketing in 2000 and end of 2016 and  2017 so I was actually able to travel and work  at the same time now i don't really recommend it  if you're just starting out um because when you're  traveling and working it's not as productive but  you can do it okay so number four it's also very  low capital and low overheads so if you were to  start like a brick and mortar business or even  an e-commerce business you know at least you'll  need five ten thousand dollars to start an online  business where you have your own goods and you're  selling that right but with affiliate marketing  you can start from as little as 100 and also  number five it's also very high profit margins  so for example if you're promoting a product you  don't have to sort of um you know order the goods  like let's say for example if you're starting  e-commerce you have to order the goods you don't  really have to hire anyone and you're also able to  earn a us dollar so for example i'm in australia  

i'm able to let's say i earn ten thousand  dollars then it would be like you know times 1.35  the conversion rate to australian dollars so it'd  be like 13 000 or more okay so that is really  really awesome especially if you're living in a  country where it's like a lower cost of living  that means you can save a lot of money and yeah  it's just really really awesome

 so number six you  get to be really really independent and creative  uh what i mean by that is that if you are working  at a company and things like that you know it's  very very uh like you have to follow procedures

  and you have to do you know what the boss tells  you to do but with your own affiliate marketing  business you can create any type of content  and you can be really creative with it as well  so you can just fully express yourself um  number seven you don't need any special skills  or certifications

 you don't need any special  certificate for affiliate marketing you can  join any affiliate program as long as you have  a website or like a a following um most likely  they'll actually accept you now if you don't have  a website and don't have any type of you know sort  of presence online some affiliate programs might  not let you join so that's

 why creating a website  is really important so number eight you don't  have to deal with any shipping or customer support  so i do think you do have to let's say for  example if you have a website if people uh  you know comment on your website and things like  that you do have to reply um but there is no like  consistent sort of customer support that you have  to do right the company will actually do that um  you don't also need to show your face um you know  you don't have to be a celebrity if you don't want  to you can also use the skills that you learn  from affiliate marketing and creating a website  to any other business that you 

want to pursue  later so i think this is a really big one because  a lot of people sort of want to do different  things later on and you can always use the  skills that you learn here later on okay so i've  gone through some of the pros and the benefits of  actually starting an affiliate marketing business  and an affiliate marketing website now I want to  go through the cons and sort of the negative side  of affiliate marketing because i think it's really  important to understand and that way you're able  to succeed a lot faster and also have continued  success as well because then you actually know  what to do sort of after right so number one with  an affiliate marketing business it's gonna take  you time to achieve results right so if you're

  just starting out fresh then probably you would  expect you know to get results after the six month  mark because you do have to actually take time  to actually create the content and you do have  to rank your website and there's quite a lot of  things that you have to do um in between right  so a lot of people think that okay i can make  money really quickly i can make money tomorrow  and you know live this fancy lifestyle and things  like that but to be honest you know because i'm  not selling you any course like there 

you can't  really achieve that so quickly it's like if you're  starting like tennis or if you're starting a new  sport right you can't really win the competition  so quickly there's a lot of different steps that  you have to take like let's say for example you  have to learn um with tennis you have to learn  how to serve you have to learn your forehand  your backhand you have to learn strategy you  have to keep fit it's basically the same thing  when you're starting your own affiliate marketing  business right so the people

 who are showing you  how you can actually make money in seven days and  things like that when they make videos about that  most of the time it's for people to actually click  into that video and watch that video um those  people actually have experience already right so  it's different when you have a following already  and when you actually have experience already with  business and things like that but if you're just  starting fresh like let's say for example

you are  just learning about online business you're only 18  and you're getting started it's going to take you  time to actually build up your skills and actually  you know make money right so sometimes you  can actually earn money quicker but sometimes  `you won't be able to actually sustain that  right so what you want to do is you want to  create really great content and that's going to  take you work and time so you have to understand  that affiliate marketing is sort of like your  own virtual rental property and obviously it  does take you time to build that up so number  three commissions and terms can change overnight  so a few months ago amazon

actually changed the  terms so the commission rate was like cut in half  or severely reduced so it's really important to  understand that when you're joining an affiliate  program the the company can actually change the  terms overnight right so that's why you want to be  very selective with the types of products and  types of affiliate programs that you sign up with  and also once you become successful with it you  should start promoting more products as well to  sort of mitigate that risk okay so number four  there's quite a lot of competition because there's 

 a low barrier of entry so to actually start  affiliate marketing it's free pretty much right so  that's going to create a lot of competition but  to be honest there's no reason why you can't be  the best okay there's absolutely no reason why  you can't compete um there's a lot of different  products out there and there are a lot of  different new products which are coming out  as well okay so it's definitely not too late and  you can definitely be the best number five you  don't have control of the product or service  so what i mean by that is let's say if you're  promoting a product maybe this year it might be  great right but then next year the product might  not be as good anymore

 so it has changed right  so you don't have control of how the company uh  like the management of the company and the types  of different um improvements the company makes  as well so that is a big con i guess so that's why  you have to choose the right company to promote  um don't just promote any type of company  and you also have to understand that when  you are promoting something you are not really  building up a customer base for your business  so over time after you know after when you  made some money with affiliate marketing  then you're gonna start thinking about other  revenue streams

 as well like when you're just  starting out you shouldn't really focus on  too many different revenue streams because  that's going to overwhelm you and that's going  to take away from your focus on creating content  and things like that but over time once you have  more experience you can create your own product  you can do a lot of other things and make money  online okay so once you have a website and things  like that there's so many opportunities that you  can you know explore so number six you do have to  maintain your content so it's not like okay i just  create a piece of content and i leave it up there  and that's it you know you have to update  your content just like you have to update  or maintain a house okay so number seven it's very  easy to get distracted so when i first started  with affiliate marketing and online business you  know

 I was just very very unself-disciplined and  you know get distracted really really easily um  because you are your own boss like you controlling  everything you control your own schedule and if  your friend asks you to go out then you can go out  and you know you're not doing your work anymore so  you do have to police yourself and you do have to  make sure that you actually do the work and you  have to set schedules for yourself and you have  to do all those things by yourself right because  you don't have a boss looking over your shoulder  there's no pressure for you anymore so it's very  very important to understand that so with that  said i still think affiliate marketing is still  really really amazing especially

 if you're just  starting out with online business and you want  to make a passive income online so what we're  going to do is we'll get straight into this video  and we're going to talk about how to find a niche  and finding different products that you can  promote and also looking for lower competition  keywords that you can actually target  for your website and things like that  so part two we're going to look at finding a  niche and finding products to promote so how we're  going to approach it is that we need to find the  general idea of the niche that we want to get into  then we can find the products and then

 we can  find the low competition and profitable keywords  to target for our website's content so it's really  important to understand that you don't need to  pick the perfect niche because a lot of times your  first one might not be the one right but what we  need is just a starting point and a direction of  our niche so that we can find the right products  and things like that because when we're actually  creating an affiliate marketing website right we  just need to change the content if we ever need  to change something right let's say for example  if you want to start a restaurant as a business  and then two weeks downline you want to change  it to hairdresser it's completely different i  mean that one you need to pick the right one from  the get-go but with affiliate marketing website  it's just about the content and you can delete  the content you can start a new website

 it doesn't  really matter okay so basically when we're talking  about finding a niche just think of the person or  the specific group of people that you want to help  so i know that you guys want to make an affiliate  marketing website and make affiliate commissions  and and make a passive income but it's not really  what you should be thinking that you are creating  right so all you're creating is just a helpful  resource a helpful website to help other people 

 so you want to help other people make a purchasing  decision you want to help them save time and  also save money and you also want to help them  solve a problem so a lot of beginners actually  think that okay you need to become a better  affiliate marketer to to make more affiliate  commissions right so what we're actually  doing is we're actually creating content so  then we actually use

 affiliate marketing as a  way to monetize and make money from our content  so basically what you need to do is you need to  get better at creating helpful content so the  better the content the more affiliate commissions  that you can make so a lot of people think okay  to make more commissions you need to be better at  marketing better at selling better at promoting  better at creating funnels and email opt-ins and  learn some kind of secret technique with affiliate  marketing there's no secret technique so what you  need to do is you need to become a better content  creator so you have to make sure you remember that  it's really really really important so when you  want to find a niche what you need to do is you  need to start brainstorming some different ideas  so you can actually use a app called miller  note so it's free to actually sign up  and then you can use that to organize your  thoughts or you could just use a piece of  paper and what you want to do is you want to  start off with things that you're interested in  and skills that you currently have and then you  want to look at you know what current problems you  are having and maybe problems that you've had in  the past you know write that all