Ultimate Guide for Creating Affiliate Marketing Blog
You can create an affiliate marketing blog with no specific experience required.
Want to improve your chances of success?
Here’s the deal -
Stick to the content, and I will provide you “Quick Tips” that will come in handy for your affiliate marketing blogs.
With trusted affiliate programs, you can make your money through affiliate marketing.
You could monetize your blog by placing affiliate marketing links in your blog post.
As a beginner, this may sound challenging for you –
As I mentioned above, “Quick Tips” will help you in the journey of your affiliate marketing blog.
Moreover, with your marketing knowledge and writing skills, you could start earning money through affiliate marketing blogs.
You can check — Ultimate Guide to create affiliate marketing blog as given below –
1. Identify Your Niche
You need to identify the area of your interest. Something that you love doing or reading the specific subject, and it could be anything.
And, why should you identify your niche?
You see, blogging is passion, and if you love something, you will do it without being stressed.
Also, you will earn money from it, and you can do it at any time and anywhere.
Moreover, your selected niche will become the driving force that will help you in being an expert.
Now, narrow down your niche, and you need to research your sub-niche.
The research will consist of competitors as well as affiliate programs in your sub-niche.
The affiliate programs should be from a trusted source so that you could get long-term benefits.
Try to select a niche where the competition is low compared to other blogs and good affiliate programs are available in the market.
Quick Tips –
You could expand your niche if they relate to each other, like traveling, hiking, wellness, and nutrition.
2. Target Audience
Once you have selected your niche, now it’s time for the selection of your target audience.
So, how can you select your target audience?
There are two ways for selecting your target audience, and they are –
Affiliate Programs –
If you select the affiliate programs, you need to follow the brands of those affiliate programs on social media.
Also, check all those social media posts of the brands.
Identify their audience and the type of content — the audience is interacting and engaging better.
Quick Tips –
If you see a high following of Brand’s social media pages -
Instagram — The targeted audience is between 18 to 25
Facebook — The targeted audience is between 25 to 45
Competitors -
It would help if you researched your competitors in your niche.
Quick Tips –
Research those competitors on Google and identify their social media pages.
You will get an idea as to how they are interacting with their customers.
The types of content created by them where they are getting higher engagement should be the better way you make the content.
3. Register Your Domain Name
You need to carefully think of your Domain name as it will be the name that your readers will notice about your website.
Do you know how you could easily select your Domain Name?
The answer is simple –
Your Domain name should reflect your service.
It should be simple, precise, and easy to pronounce.
Easy words stay in readers’ minds and come back to your website for reading your blogs.
Moreover, word of mouth becomes easier.
You can even optimize your Domain Name for Voice Search that is becoming popular.
Quick Tips –
Write down the top three Domain names that you find suitable for your affiliate blog.
You can now either ask your friends or family’s thoughts.
Moreover, you can use polls on LinkedIn from your connections about your proper Domain names.
4. Selecting Blogging Platform
For writing an affiliate marketing blog, you need a blogging platform, and there are several different platforms, and the famous one is below –
WordPress –
WordPress is better if you are the type of person who loves experimenting and seeking something for the long run.
It provides numerous features with SEO-friendly permalinks, customized URLs, mobile responsiveness themes, etc.
Moreover, it provides various plugins to support your website, such as boosting speed, clearing cache, optimizing images, etc.
Quick Tips –
With the help of some WordPress tutorials, you can create your website.
Even if you are stuck somewhere, there are many tips available all over the Internet.
Wix -
Wix is totally for beginners who do not love experimenting with things as Wix provides the drag and drop feature of the website.
Also, the features are limited if compared to WordPress.
Moreover, Wix is expensive in the long run.
5. Selection of Web Hosting
It would help if you had Web Hosting for starting your affiliate marketing blog.
Web Hosting can broadcast your affiliate marketing blog website all over the internet.
Web hosting provides your website — a space on a web server, so it can save the files of your website, which compromise code and images, etc.
There are numerous web hosting providers; the famous ones are below –
Quick Tips –
If you are from India, Hostinger will be better for you.
Also, Hostinger is cheap, and the integrations are way too easy.
You can directly connect with WordPress and start blogging.
Moreover, you can view some tutorials on YouTube, and you are all ready for it!!
6. Finding of Affiliate Programs
It would help if you found affiliate programs related to your niche.
Your relevant audience would be interested in your affiliate links suggested by you in your affiliate marketing blog.
Also, you must select the trusted source of affiliate program which will benefit you and your relevant audience.
Quick Tips –
You can use Click Bank and Digistore24 as affiliate programs.
Moreover, it would be difficult for you to register with Click Bank if you are from India.
So, with the use of a VPN, you could register yourself for Click Bank.
7. Content Creation
Do you want that your affiliate website should succeed?
Then you must create high content, and your affiliate link should flow naturally with the content.
Also, make content that should solve the problem of your readers.
If you are going to provide the reviews, you must purchase the product, test it and give your thoughts accordingly.
This way, you are helping the readers and converting them for your affiliate marketing.
Moreover, you must be honest with your audience and provide valuable information.
Thus, the more your readers read your post — the more they will go through affiliate links.
Quick Tips –
Use Anchor Text.
Also, try to put either one or two affiliate links in your content.
With the help of Bold font, make your affiliate link noticeable.
8. Work on Search Engine Optimization
Want to attract relevant traffic to your affiliate marketing blog?
Then it would help if you started using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) keywords to attract relevant traffic to your website.
Also, by using SEO, you could generate organic traffic and increase your earnings from affiliate programs.
You will require tools for the keyword research, and they are below –
Paid Ones –
Free Ones –
Quick Tips –
You can use Ubersuggest and LSI graph.
Moreover, once your website is set up, with the help of Google Search Console — you can check keywords that your target audience is using to find you.
9. Drive Relevant Traffic
You can attract your target audience through two ways and are explained below –
Organic Traffic –
As mentioned above, you can attract organic traffic by using SEO.
Also, by optimizing SEO on your website pages, your web page can rank higher in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
If you can rank for a specific target keyword, you can attract passive traffic consistently.
Paid Traffic –
You have to pay for traffic that visits your website by doing PPC (pay-per-click) ads.
Once you start paying for ads, the traffic starts coming to your website.
On the other hand, once you stop paying for ads, the traffic jams.
Moreover, paid traffic could work better when you have high-paying affiliate programs.
But if you beginner, then you must avoid using the paid traffic for your affiliate marketing blogs.
10. Build Your Email List
You need to build your email list of your readers either by providing an E-book or checklist.
When you offer something valuable to your readers, they will only sign up for your email list.
Once you have the email list of your readers, you can send them new content emails or affiliate email promotions.
Conclusion
If you apply those steps, then you can make your affiliate marketing website.
Also, do not expect that miracle will happen overnight, as it takes time.
As a beginner, set your goal for the first affiliate sale.
Later on, start focusing on new goals like your website growth and generate a decent income from your website.
Any questions? Feel free to let me know in the comments.