Margie Barkley: Affiliate Marketing: For Beginners

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate marketing is a way to make money online. I think that this is a great option for many reasons. My online affiliate marketing business has allowed me to live a life I never imagined possible if I had not started it in 1997.

So, let’s get you started…

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These are some questions to ask if you’re considering becoming an affiliate marketer.

How does affiliate marketing work?

Let’s now look at the benefits of affiliate marketing and how to start one.

These are the 8 steps that you need to follow in order to start an affiliate marketing company:

Choose your niche.

A niche is a specific topic. You should choose a topic that is both interesting and relevant to you. However, you can choose a topic that you don’t know much about if you have a passion for learning about it. It’s possible that you already know what topic you wish to blog about. If you aren’t sure what your topic is or if it can make money, then you will need to research niche markets.

Register your domain name.

Once you have chosen a profitable niche market, it is time to register and buy a domain name. Reputable merchants will not accept free hosting sites such as WordPress.com. Many affiliates who have free hosting sites have seen their websites shut down without notice. You must have your own domain and website if you want to be a serious affiliate marketer.

Your website/blog is created.

You will need to choose a hosting provider if you have registered your domain name with GoDaddy. WordPress is a great platform to use for your website. WordPress recommends specific hosting services. It is easy to set up a WordPress blog with any of these hosting providers. Since the beginning of the 20th century, a WordPress blog has been the most popular and easy way to build a website. WordPress is an open-source platform that keeps improving.

These are some articles that will help you build your website or blog.

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Make content for your website

Before you join any advertising networks or affiliate programs, I recommend that you write at least 10 articles. Before they approve you for their programs, good merchants will inspect your website to ensure that it is clean and contains great content.

These articles will help you learn how to create content for your blog.

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Start building a subscriber base.

Many new affiliate marketers make the biggest mistake: thinking they don’t need a list. To grow your business, you must have a list.

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Choose affiliate marketing programs

Every affiliate marketer should start monetizing their website with Google Adsense, ‘easy-to-enter’ affiliate networks like Clickbank, until they have enough traffic to justify joining larger networks such CJ Affiliate or Shareasale.

Place affiliate links on your blog

Your first articles should be about products you are interested in promoting to earn commissions. After you have joined affiliate networks, you will be able to get links from them for promoting those products. Add your affiliate links to your articles.

Promote your site

Google is your friend. Google will rank your website higher in search results if you have it structured correctly.

You can improve your chances of being recognized by Google by doing basic social media marketing such as creating a Facebook Page and a Facebook Profile, as well as a twitter account. To show how I promote my sites, the links to the previous pages go to my personal accounts.

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Cheers, sig-ros