So What is Affiliate Marketing and How to Do it as a Beginner?
If you have been wandering everywhere looking for a way to start your online journey but getting overwhelmed by the information out there and not been able to think straight.
Worry no more…
Because today I am gonna reveal to you a simple straightforward strategy by which you can just get a head in your online career. Just choose a Niche that resonates with you the most and just start with it right away and be consistent with whether you do. Cos believe me.. the first few months would be the must difficult… But once you break through and crack the code..it becomes easier to carry on.
Today in this blog I will discuss with you only about Affiliate Marketing. So remember these Key Segments by heart cos they are the building blocks.. So let me first give You a bird eye view of the few segments about Affiliate Marketing.
Here are they… Try to focus well as it takes effort and patience for creating a long term income source with Affiliate Marketing.
1. Selecting Your Niche or Expertise.
2. Research of Market and Competition.
3. Domain and Hosting.
4. Getting Started with WordPress.
5. Content and Keyword Research.
6. Looking Upto your competitor's content and understanding what’s working and not working.
6. Creating Your Own Content, be it text based or video based.
7. Promoting your Content across various platforms.
But fact is that most of the time people fail. They start with enthusiasm but that enthusiasm fades away after a few months. Only thing that will help You remains is the discipline to step up every day and get the work done. And If you enjoy your work then it becomes less stressful and fairly easy to keep going.
So Now lets Dig Deeper a little bit and Understand each Segment in a more detailed way.
1. Selecting Your Niche :
Well when starting online, the first thing that will pops into your mind will be ‘what to start with’ and you may be stucked here for a long time. As it is very difficult to actually come up with an idea where to start with and what niche to select from.
So.. you may have heard this before too start with what you are comfortable with or are an expert. But that’s also too broad and still confuses the kind enough leaving you hanging, what to go with.
First let’s understand what’s a Niche.
Everything, literally everything falls under 3 Broad domain Health, Wealth and Finance according to what Russel said. Under these domains comes various categories and under these categories comes the so called Niche. If you even go a level deeper then u would call it A Micro-Niche.
Just for Instance for better understanding.
If I ever choose to start with any Niche, I would simply choose its Micro-Niche where competition is slightly low. Just have a look down here to the examples here.
1. Health → Fitness → Yoga → Yoga for Household Women (If I have a little bit of experience and hobby of Yoga)
2. Wealth — ->Finance — -> Stock Market → Commodity Market (If I have been in the Finance market for a time)
3. Relationship — -> Professional Relationship Expert — -> How to keep customers happy and loyal
4. Relationship → Personal Relationship Expert → Understanding Women and their needs
5. Health → Sports → Skate Boarding — -> Learning Skateboard Tricks for fun
See.. now you have an idea how Finding Niche and their respective Micro Niche works.
Just keep in mind for choosing, that whatever niche or micro niche you choose to start with, you should have a good knowledge or u should enjoy it and it should have a good value in the market. As because the work ahead is a tedious job and if u don’t enjoy it you won’t be able to complete it.
2. Research of Market and Competition
One the major reasons why you should thoroughly do before starting your work. Once you have decided what to start with the next big thing to research its value in the market. Is the Niche that you choose have enough $$$ to put into your pocket.
Do You want to Just Work and get no money? That's ridiculous Right?
Here’s an Article to check the High CPC of Keywords. By using these Simple Methods you can also measure how much profitable your Niche would be.
Look for the competition, if there is enough competition then don’t fear it. Be happy for the competition as implies that there is enough business for you. The pie is large enough and you just need to be unique to get a bite from it.
3. Domain and Hosting
Well it’s just as necessary as breathing for your online long term success. If you have one then it’s wonderful but if not you are leaving a lot of money on the table. So grab a website as soon as possible and boost your success.
Okay.. I don’t need to explain how important it is to have a website but still I want to specify how important it is.
If ever anyone, literally anyone wants to know about anything be it chocolate cake recipe, review of new iPhone, going to a new Place, dining at restaurants, fixing my water pump or whatever query they have, the first thing they do is Google it or see it on YouTube before asking anyone else.
So.. if you want anyone to know about your stuffs you need a website to create your own online presence. So that you could be found by your potential customers, audience, people. If you don’t then..then it’s very difficult for You to come in front of them. That’s how important it is for You.
So.. what you waiting for check out these sources where you can get one for. See for yourself, compare, compile and get yourself one Website according to your needs.
4. Getting Started with WordPress.
Do You Know…???
WordPress alone is responsible for almost 70% of the websites present in the internet. Now that’s quite a number for one single platform to occupy in the internet. Once you have decided to go with Affiliate Marketing blogging and Wordpress goes on like hand in hand.
Though there are many free options to go with like, Blogger, Linkdin Article feature, Medium,etc if you want to start with no investment for blogging platform. After a certain of time when you have enough budget then you can opt for WordPress, though it also charges a bare minimum amount.
Okay.. now.. once you have decided to start with WordPress, connect your domain with WordPress. And get started with it. Get the knack the the interface as at first it has overwhelm you. And as you get comfortable with the interface start writing your very first blog and publish it.
Write atleast like 60 to 70 blogs and you are good to go. Start promoting your content over the internet at relevant places and stay driving traffic. Once you are driving enough traffic with your WordPress blogs apply for Adsense.
Here’s an Article to get started with Wordpress if you are not familiar with the platform.
So..as the case for Blog creation you have to keep in mind the content you would be creating, it would have relevant keywords inserted into you. If you don’t do keywords research properly then your blogs will not a indexed properly by Google hence it will affect your rankings.
5. Content and Keyword Research
Just think at the time of buying new stuffs, how much research do you do for them ?
You make sure that the product you are buying meets your standards and always make sure they the reviews are top notch. Keep in mind to choose those keywords with high volume and low Competition. Don’t forget to consider the CPC’s as well as it also determine how much valuable the keyword is worth.
Now that you have done you keyword research and accumulated a lot of relevant keyword for your niche, it’s time for picking the keywords out of list and inserting them inside your content where they fit.
Just keep in mind to not just shove in your keywords everywhere and try to keep the blog content to have more human like conversation. This way, your content will be accepted by the algorithm and the audience that would reading too.
6. Creating Your Own Content.
In this world of buzz, everyone is running for money and in pursuit of it they are trying everything, literally everything to gain traction to their content. So the competition is very tough and to beat it you need to have your own content that can provide value to your audience.
If you are Overwhelmed… Here’s is an Article Specifically on How to have Unlimited Content Ideas? Now, never run out of ideas.
Get frenzied and create stunning content and amaze you audience. But keep in mind every platform has its own rules and policies. So create and customise accordingly to every platform that you gonna be using.
7. Promoting Your Content across various platforms.
Now, heres the most important part after you have created you own content. Once you have your own package you wanna let everybody know about you content. No one will even look at your content no matter how valuable it is if it is not made aware to the public. This awareness among the masses that You exist is created by promotion. And you need to be very specific about how you go with promoting your content around.
So few things that you must keep in mind while executing your campaigns.
1. Have a deep understanding of your target audience.
2. Demographics of your target audience.
3. Platforms where they hang out most of the time.
4. The devices that they mainly use.
5. Their buying pattern and trends of the market they engage into.
Driving traffic is the bloodline of any business. This is an art that You need to master and this mastery will come over time.
But In short, let me tell you few ways how to gain traction
to your websites.
1. Driving traffic by a method called Traffic Bombing
2. Drive traffic from Quora by just answering few questions. Here’s how.
3. Using Pinterest for getting known among the masses.
4. Using Medium for secure more traffic.
5. Acquiring email and make your audience your own forever.