Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. If you search on Google you will find an unlimited number of articles. Youtube is also full of videos where so many creators talk about various methods of affiliate marketing.
Some people try to scam others who are new to this field, but that does not mean affiliate marketing is a scam. It is one of the most legit ways to make money on the internet.
Affiliate marketing is the method of earning a commission by promoting other people’s products.
Keep these things in mind before putting your time and effort into this income stream
1. Affiliate programs are always free to join. So, if anyone tells you that you need to give some amount to join any program then beware it’s not affiliate marketing and the person might be a scammer.
(Most of the scammers use Facebook to scam people who have just started their online journey. Especially stay away from those unknown people who just send you a friend request and as soon as you accept the request they will send you a DM like “ Hey, What are you doing online these days?” or “ would you like to earn at least $25 to $100 per day?”
Don’t answer them or better don’t even accept their request in the first instance. They are just running a chain method where they will ask you for your money and once you give it to them then you have to repeat the same process to recover your money.
There is no product just a useless method of hunting naive people. And these scammers called it affiliate marketing but believe me it is not.
2. Affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-quick scheme, You have to put your time and energy to make it work. It may fetch quick money if you go with paid methods, but you have to keep a lot of patience in the organic method.
3. You need content to promote affiliate products, it may be a blog post, a video, infographics, or social media posts. But you must create your own content.
So a quick recap — Don’t give money to join any affiliate network or affiliate programs, Don’t expect to make a huge amount of money within a short time span, stay away from scammers and produce your own content that can give value to others.
Now in this post, I am going to give you a precise method of making money by using a niche website
Affiliate marketing with a niche website
There are only 5 steps you need to follow
1. Choose a product — You can choose any affiliate products within a niche that you are comfortable with. But always try to go for a product that you use yourself and it will be better if that product gives recurring commission, in that way you will be able to create a consistent income per month.
In my case I promote Groovefunnels and if you are interested in software or internet marketing you can choose to promote it too. You will be able to earn up to a 40% recurring commission.
A Suggestion — Sign up for a free Groove account right now even if you don’t need it because even with the free account you will get GrooveSell and 3 Groovepages for free, you can use the Groovepages to build your niche website.
Right now Groove is one of the best CRM platforms in the world that combines 17 of the most popular digital marketing tools.
2. Pick Keywords — It is important to do proper keyword research before writing an article. How could you rank for some keyword if no one is searching for it?
You need to make a list of three types of keywords
a. Primary Keyword
b. Secondary Keyword
c. LSI keyword
For primary and secondary keywords you can simply use Google Keyword Planner or if you can afford a paid tool then go for SEMRUSH it is one of the best keyword research tools.
To find LSI keywords you can use the Keyword Magic Tool.
3. Write Content — Now using all these keywords write a useful article that will capture the audience’s attention and provide them some value.
Again if you don’t have money and have enough time then write it yourself.
If you don’t have time or afford to pay some money, you can choose a freelance SEO content writer from Fiverr or WriterAccess.
Or you can use any AI writing assistant software (If you use it then try to modify it a little, don’t just copy-paste the result).
4. Build your website — This part is very important. First, decide what are you going to do with it? are you going to promote a single product with a single one-page website?
If that’s the case then the free GroovePages will be enough for you just buy a domain name and connect it with GroovePages, put the content with proper on-page SEO, and publish it.
But if you are going to start a blog or you want to write several articles to promote multiple products then build your site with WordPress.
In that case, you need to buy a domain from a site like Domain.com or Namecheap (recommended) and then buy hosting from Bluehost or GreenGeeks.
Again if you don’t know how to install WordPress either you can put some time to learn it from the internet or you can hire a freelancer from Fiverr to do it for you.
5. Promote — This is the last step and also the most important step.
There are two ways again
a. Paid Method — Run Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Native Ads, Solo Ads
b. Organic method- Use all social media & learn SEO.
*Youtube — Make videos and put the link in the description.
*Facebook — Create a Page and promote the Content.
*Instagram — Put the link in Bio.
*Pinterest — Create Pin and put the link.
Use the other platforms also.
So, if you use this method, you will be able to generate an income stream through affiliate marketing.
