First, let's understand what affiliate marketing is.
Let’s say you create a website about dogs. You really like a particular dog collar you personally use; “ABC Collar” is the brand. Out of consideration, you’d like others to know the benefits of having one, too.
ABC Collar loves that you want to share their product with your friends, and wants to reward you for it. For the purpose of demonstration, let’s say ABC collar sells for $25 and they want to reward you by sharing 15% of that sale as a commission payment.
That's $3.75 per sale.
If 3,000 of your friends buy that collar because you referred them, that’s $3,750.00 to you.
And as of this writing, I think there’s 2.3 billion friends on Facebook?
Let's continue to assume that you sell 100 collars each month. That would net you $375 a month on just that one website.
Now, multiply $375 by the amount of websites you think you can make. But to get to that point. The first thing you'll need to do is learn affiliate marketing.
Getting traffic is getting people to visit your website. You can invite people through many different channels online.
You can find people through articles you've written and shared online. Videos are another way to engage people and tempt them back to your site.
Getting back-link referrals are important. You get them from other website owners. The more popular the back-link, the more traffic.
Socializing online brings in traffic, too. So does search engine optimization. Just by using the same verbiage in your website that your audience uses online, can get traffic back to your website.
You'll learn all of these traffic methods as part of the affiliate marketing process.
Too broad of keyword use typically puts you in the company of a lot of competition. To avoid that, be specific and use long tail keywords instead (a string of 4 or more words in a row acting as one long keyword).
Doing that will help you ultra target your audience and seperate your marketing from all that noisy competition's marketing.
An example of using this approach can be seen in the "weight loss" niche. Instead of using "weight loss" as your main keyword, which is very broad and untargeted, you can be more specific, dig deeper into the niche and use the subset "weight loss after pregnancy".
So, by digging deeper into your main niche's keywords, you'll see that you can find entirely new market subsets with less competition. But that means less traffic, too.
However, long tail keyword traffic will also be easier to engage with and market to.
That's why now is the best time to learn affiliate marketing. Start practicing your keyword research. Buy a domain name and set up a website.
Think about it this way: when people buy real estate, they're buying it in the hopes that it will gain value like an investment.
Domain names and websites are virtual real estate. Once you purchase these things, you own them as property. You've claimed all rights to them for as many years as you keep paying the annual mortgage (domain name and hosting renewals in this case).
Then later on, if you decide to sell the website and domain name, you can treat them as your investment and sell for a profit.
You got it!.. I can personally coach you to success, plus introduce you to a whole network of other successful website owners, affiliate marketers and online business owners.
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