What are the steps involved in affiliate marketing?
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Now the first step is to find out what is your passion and how to find it.
There are a number of niches(broad niches), and sub-niches(specific niches)available and you need to select a particular niche that suits your passion or interest If you are interested in dog health which is a niche, and if you narrow it down to a sub-niche like how to remove dog’s bad breath or dog’s dental chew you need to create a landing page or sales funnel to promote your product in ad platforms otherwise you can start a blog or website to write posts, content, reviews related to the niche of your interest.
Finding the right audience is the second step in your affiliate marketing journey and a landing page for the target audience
Now you have identified a niche and you have to promote this to a target audience for example people who have pets, especially dogs want to get an answer on getting rid of the bad breath of their beloved dogs. In this way, you need to work your way to find your niche and narrow it down to a sub-niche or specific niche to promote your product. Here is an example of how to create a landing page for the above sub-niche related to dog bad breath.
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Thirdly you need to start a blog or website
Now you know your niche and related sub-niches to promote and identified your target audience then you need to start a blog or website to write content, and product reviews, that are unique, SEO-friendly plagiarism free to start building your target audience by ranking your blog or site higher on search engine results pages ( SERPs) In this way your target audience grow. You can create a blog or website for free or you use paid services that offer useful plugins.
The fourth step is to monetize your blog or site
If traffic to your blog flows from organic search or social media platforms if you promote your products on social media then you can apply for Google Adsense to monetize your blog. Once approved relevant ads start to show on your blog or site if any visitor to your blog clicks those displayed ads you earn a fraction of the advertising cost. Adsense provides all the necessary ads and you can review relevant ads and choose the ones to be displayed on your blog. You can also block ads that are not relevant as you decide so.
Registering for affiliate programs and networks to increase your revenue is the fifth step
You can register as an affiliate with companies offering affiliate programs to promote products related to your niche otherwise you can register with affiliate marketing networks like Amazon, Click Bank, Awin, ShareASale, or Digistore 24 to apply for different affiliate programs available in tons to promote those products using affiliate links on your blog or site. You can place these links at appropriate places to allow your visitors to click those links and buy something for them. Once a sale is made you earn a small commission after every 30 or 45 days payment cycle if there are no returns of products or cancellations of subscriptions or services.
The sixth step is email marketing.
Email marketing is one of the effective ways to promote your products or services as you can create sales funnels or landing pages for lead generation in your blog or site and grow a contact list to promote your products using email marketing. It is always advisable to share landing pages containing your affiliate products or services instead of directly promoting your affiliate links during email campaigns. Amazon disallows associates from promoting Amazon associates links directly if you promote their products using email marketing. You can check many email marketing services and I can recommend this one as one of the best tools for email marketing
GetResponse and you can try a free trial for 30 days
The seventh step is paid to advertise.
If you have no time to create a blog or site or contact list for email marketing but if you are able to spend some money on advertising then you can try popular ad platforms to promote your products or services without waiting for weeks or months for the growth of target audiences after creating a blog or site. By creating ad campaigns on ad platforms like Google Ads or Facebook Ads you get your target audience in no time. But if you exhaust your ad budget your traffic of the target audience stops immediately.
Track your performance Using Google Analytics is the eighth step
You need to track your performance using Google Analytics by pasting some HTML code snippets onto your blog head section or website on every page to track the results performance of your blog. This great tool is free to use and you can use it to track all your blogs or sites to analyze traffic sources and find the demographic details of your audience like age, gender, etc. to choose the right products to cater to your audience. It also tracks specific web page popularity, bounce rates, and historical data to tweak your marketing campaigns. You can also track mobile statistics, search stats, email reports, social reporting, sub-domain management, revenue tracking, and outbound links.
Conclusion
Affiliate marketing has many other steps involved but I have mentioned only the main steps that are required to get started as an affiliate marketer. If you need to know more about this please read my blog posts regarding affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing dynamics changing constantly as more and more AI, and marketing automation are involved nowadays and are going to increase in the coming days.
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