I came across Affiliate Marketing in April 2015 when I attended one of the seminars telling you how to make money online and get richer. The seminar was by Click Events, and it was advertised on Facebook and I clicked on the advertisement when I was reading my friend posting.
During the seminar, the speaker spoke about the “New Rich”. He told us that in the new age, you do not require to have land or money to get richer, just your new knowledge. That sound cool and excite me because I do not have land and much money with me now, therefore what he said really keep me motivated throughout the seminar.
He even mentioned there are virtual workers nowadays, whom you can outsource your tasks to them. The speaker was Andrew Koh, he informed formerly he was AIA Insurance Director before the financial crisis in 2008. I almost sign up for the course even it costs thousand dollar. But, due to my other commitment and I not able to attend the seminar date, I asked the speaker any other date available but they just want to close the deal on that day and reluctance to service me. So, I walk out from the room.
It was a blessing that I did not sign up for the course. After reaching home, I started google on the internet and researched more about Affiliate Marketing. That was during that time I discovered the best Online Affiliate Marketing Course I can try out for free at first.
So, what exactly is Affiliate marketing all about?
It is in fact promoting someone else products and services online. There are many Affiliate marketing providers and the trend is growing. Some companies in fact started to adopt this as one of their marketing strategies to grow their business.
A typical scenario is like, you create a camera lens review site and convert your expertise into review and link the review pages to Amazon product pages. If your site visitors follow the link and buy a product, you earn commission. The aim of Affiliate marketing is to promote other peoples products in exchange for a commission on the sale. This is very similar to traditional business model as a Manufacturer Representative. All you need to do, is promote and you get paid. By referring the customer to the vendor, you exchange for a referral fee.
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Recently I came across one of the articles by Neil Patel – Affiliate Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide when google about Affiliate Marketing. You may visit the article and have a read of it. It gives you a good understanding of Affiliate Marketing. For those of you wish to become an Affiliate Marketer, Neil Patel has the 4-step guide you may follow.
For those who prefer to have a glimpse of What Are The Things Involve In Affiliate Marketing? Here are the outline:
- Initial Preparation to set up your business orderly
- decide your domain and hosting
- number of characters for your domain name prefer less than 15 and use .com
- choose a managed hosting plan
- install WordPress Theme and Plugins
- SEO plugin Rank Math
- Legal Page Plugin from WP Legal Guard
- User Experience Plugins
- Image Compression Plugin
- Lazy Video Load
- Easy Table of Contents
- TablePress
- Redirect Plugins
- WP Exit Traffic Pro
- BounceBooster
- Planning your contents
- Keyword Research
- help you uncover money keywords that
- provide consistent traffic
- has low competition
- high commerciality
- help you uncover money keywords that
- decide your domain and hosting
- Content Planning
- Use The Buyers Journey
- Awareness -> Consideration -> Decision
- Has Minimum Viable Content
- 10+ Review Posts
- 10+ Round Up Posts
- 10+ Informational Posts
- 2 Listicles
- Use The Buyers Journey
- Keyword Research Guidelines
- Review Keywords
- [Product Name] Review
- e.g. SD Card Review
- [Product Name] Review
- “Best of” Keywords
- Best/Top [Product Category] In Current Year
- e.g. 10 Best microSD Card for handphone in 2017
- Long-tail Keywords
- 4 to 6 words in length
- e.g. How To Format Safely Your Memory Card
- Seed Keyword Goal
- 10 Review Keywords
- 10 Best of Keywords
- 10 Long-tail Keywords
- Review Keywords
- Writing Content Begin With An End In Mind
- know which stage of the buyer’s journey does your content address
- awareness or consideration or decision
- what you want your visitor ultimately doing after reading your content
- read another article?
- subscribe your newsletter?
- buy your affiliate offer?
- know which stage of the buyer’s journey does your content address
- Structuring Your Articles
- Introduction Paragraph
- Pain, Agitate, Solution
- Body
- Header 1
- Relevant Image
- Paragraph
- Header 2
- Relevant Image
- Paragraph
- Header 3
- Relevant Image
- Paragraph
- More Sections As Required
- Header 1
- Conclusion
- Final Thoughts On <Topic>
- Final Recommendations For <Topic>
- Your Call To Action
- Introduction Paragraph
- Keyword Usage Planning
- Focus Keyword
- In the Title of Blog Post
- Use 2~3 times throughout the article
- Use Focus Keyword Alt Text of your images
- Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Keywords
- list of keywords related to your topic
- use 6~10 of them in your content
- e.g. SanDisk SD Card Review (your focus keyword)
- Is SanDisk a reputable company
- SanDisk manufacturing capability
- SanDisk Financial Report
- Focus Keyword
- Outsourcing Article Writing If Budget Allow
- from content mills
- Ranking Articles
- iWriter
- Hirewriters
- PLR (Private Label Rights) articles
- Pro Writer Plus
- often you need to rewrite, reformat and add new keywords
- Help from AI Writer assisting you to write articles
- Jarvis
- Rytr
- WriterZen
- from content mills
- Publishing Your Content Online
- put your main keyword in meta title and meta description
- choose the right header size
- for blog post title use H1
- for main headers in your post, use H2
- H3 is for subheaders
- include images and video
- use jpg file format for fast loading and smaller file size
- have keyword inside Alt text of the images
- bold, underline or italicize on words and phrases which are important message you wish to get across
- using bullet points and numbered lists will make your content easy to digest and read
- use internal links
- you can link your informational post to roundup post and then link to review post. Thereafter, link to your bonus page to get them buy the product/service you offer
- use external links
- linking to authority sites
- can help to explain further for complicated topics
- Consider repurpose Your Content to other formats like video or audio podcast
- equipments you will require
- microphone
- e.g. Blue Yeti
- webcam
- screen recording software
- e.g. screencast-o-matic
- video creation app
- pictory
- microphone
- you need to rewrite your articles into a script
- speak in conversational tone
- at the conclusion, remember to make final recommendations
- your call to action
- like or subscribe or check the link in the description
- remember to thanks them for watching or listening
- for YouTube videos guide
- use landscape format
- upload custom thumbnail
- add SEO title
- use your main keyword in the title
- consider Emoji’s in your title
- add SEO description
- 500 words with focus keyword and LSI keywords
- add SEO tags
- add trending hashtags related to your topic in your description and title
- consider Facebook Creator Studio
- square video best for Facebook
- include call-to-action in the script
- e.g. like, share, click
- add compelling title and description
- equipments you will require