Affiliate Marketing

What is affiliate marketing?

 Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people's (or company's) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you may get 

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

There are a lot of different ways to track affiliates these days, but all are based on someone clicking your special tracking link.

The most common and basic type of tracking is via a cookie.

When an affiliate link is clicked, a small file called a cookie is stored on the users computer. Then they buy a product, the merchant can see that they were referred by you.

There are also more advanced methods based on the email used or IP address – but we won’t get into those here, we’ll stick to the

Here is a YouTube video to aid you better https://youtu.be/mw1s1WmUFiw

 

How Do You Become an Affiliate Marketer?

Here’s the thing, you can pick just about any product that you can buy online, and there will be an affiliate program that will pay you a finders fee for referring a sale.

However, just because you can promote anything, doesn’t mean you should. 

The most important thing to consider when selecting a product to market is, “is it relevant to your audience?”

For instance, for me to try and advertise for dumbbells on Location Rebel probably isn’t the smartest thing, because 99% of my audience could care less about them.

However, for me to promote, say, WP Engine a WordPress hosting company – makes much more sense, since almost every one of my readers either has or has considered starting a website.

Here are 7 simple steps to becoming a successful affiliate marketer:

 

1.Decide on a platform.

2.Choose your niche.

3.Find affiliate programs to join.

4.Create great content.

5.Drive traffic to your affiliate site.

6.Get clicks on your affiliate links.

7.Convert clicks to sales.

 

How Much Money Can You Make With Affiliate Marketing?

The amount you can make will vary wildly – it honestly falls somewhere between zero and millions.

Your income will be directly related to the type of offers you promote, how much traffic you get to the site, and your grasp of other online marketing skills like email marketing and SEO.

The Best Affiliate Networks in 2020

1. ShareASale
   
2. Clickbank
   
3. Cj associate (formerly commission junction)
   
4. Amazon Associates
   
5. ebay partner network(EPN)
   
6. Flexoffers
   
7. Pepperjam
   
8. Rakuten Marketing (formerly LinkShare)
9.  Expernaire