AFFILIATE MARKETING STEPS.pdf

AFFILIATE
MARKETING
STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO
Bilikis Sambo-Olumoh

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INTRODUCTION
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Table Of Contents
Some A liate Marketing Terms 4
Some Business Payment Model 6
3 Things You Should Do Before Starting A liate
Marketing 9
Types of A liate Marketing Websites 13
Steps to Start A liate Marketing 18
How To Choose A Niche/Category 24
Make Sure To Have These Five Pages on Your A liate
Marketing Website 25
How To Find A liate Marketing Programs 31
How To Choose A liate marketing Program? 33
Steps To Choosing the Program 34
Types of Articles That You Can Create 35
Promoting Your Articles Through Social Media Platform 36
Tips You Can Use on Q & A Forum Like Quora 39

INTRODUCTION
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This easy guide will help you to understand all the concept of af liate
marketing.
Some terms you will come across when you are in the business.
It will also walk you through how to start af liate marketing.
All basic requirement things to know to be successful.
Let get started:
What is af liate marketing?
Af liate Marketing is the process of promoting other brands or individuals’
products and services and earning a commission when customers performed an
action or buy through your af liate tracking links.
For example:
If you are an af liate marketer and decided to promote products or services
from an approved brand or company.
If you are successful in promoting them, that is customers buy through your
af liate tracking links.
Then you will be able to earn a commission for each sale that you generate.
Any product, website and company names mentioned in this book are the trade
marks or copyright properties of their respective owners.

CHAPTER ONE: SOME AFFILIATE MARKETING TERMS
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A liate Marketing
: A person or company involved in wholesale
trade.
Merchant
: A person or company that pays for
advertising a product or service online, or in other ways.
Advertiser
Some Affiliate Marketing Terms

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are partnerships that pay
commissions for promoting products or services on a
website, blog, social media, or platform.
Affiliate Marketing Programs:
An affiliate network is
where merchants and affiliates get together.
Affiliate Marketing Network:
The merchant makes his/ her products and services available to the af liate to
promote through an af liate network.
The person who tries to promote
products or services of a merchant using his/her own
channel.
Affiliate or Publisher:
Using the promotional material provided by the merchant and get a
commission whenever there is an activity or sales.
It is the reward an affiliate gets
after promoting products or services, meeting their
need.
Affiliate Commission:
: Sometimes referred to as
affiliate link.
Affiliate Tracking Link
It informs the merchant whenever there are actions or sales.
It is a type of URL you get from the brand owner.

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It could be signing up for a product or service or signing up for the trial period.
Your audience doesn’t have to buy the product or service before you earn a
commission.
refer to the speci ed action of generating a lead.
Cost per lead (CPL):
means cost per thousand impressions.
Cost Per Mile (CPM):
An af liate gets paid per thousand actions.
An affiliate will get paid per order
in which they contribute.
Cost Per Order (CPO):
This is the type of payment model in
which affiliates get paid for each click on one of their
ads.
Pay Per Click (PPC):
Some Business Payment Model
A contact with the potential of becoming a
customer
Lead:
Cost Per Action or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA):
It is the type of business payment model, in which af liates get paid for
generating a speci ed lead or sale (action).
In this type of business model, you
earn when your audience takes an action.
Cost Per Click (CPC):

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Clicks divided by impressions =
CTR
Click Through Rate(CTR):
It indicates how often visitors click on your ads.
For example: if 1000 visitors visit your blog and only 100 visitors out of them
click on the ad, that means,
Your CTR 1000 divide by 100 = 10%
It is the work that an individual, business, or
organization provides to a consumer.
Service:
: Production of goods or useful things by an
individual, business, or organization to a consumer.
Product
: They are available in an electronic form
online or through download.
Digital Products
Examples: Digital templates, E-books, Software, Digital tools, and so on.
: They are services that you can deliver
online or in an electronic form offline. Eg, Online courses,
Membership sites, any services you can get online or
through electronics.
Digital Service
: They are products you feel and touch,
for examples TV, Radio, Table, chair, Hair products,
Drugs, and so on.
Physical Product

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Af liate Marketer
Af liate Network
Consumer
Advertisers or Merchants
Affiliate Marketing Involves 4 Parties To Achieve Result

CHAPTER THREE: 3 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO BEFORE STARTING AFFILIATE MARKETING
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Like:
Cooking Niches: Food Recipes, Cooking Gadgets, Kitchen Decorations, Kitchen
Utensils, Cooking Tutorials
Health and Fitness Niches: Fitness, Weight Loss, Organic,
3 Things You Should Do Before Starting
Affiliate Marketing
1. Choosing a Niche/ Topic/ Category
Choosing a niche is very important because you have to target a speci c
audience or groups of consumers.
If you think you can promote anything or everything, you are de nitely
preparing for failure.
Some af liates may think they should promote af liate programs in a different
category,
so that they can increase their commission but this is not the right approach to
af liate marketing.
You must choose a category, this will help you focus and increase your sales and
increase your commission.
There are various pro table niches you can choose from,

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Nutrition, Vegan, Health advice, Herbal, Essential oils
Money Niches: Debt Settlements, Bitcoin, Investing, Credit Card, Mortgage
Tech Niches: Web hosting, WordPress, VPN, SaaS, Gaming, Software, Tools
Home and Family Niches:
Home security and safety, Pets, Parenting, Home decoration, Home items,
Gathering, Baby product
Passions Niches: Travels, Sports, Photography, Events
Lifestyle Niches: Fashion, Beauty, Jewelry, Airlines, Luxury, Cruises, Hotel
Legal Niche
Education Niche
Those are a few niches that I can mention.
They are to give you the idea of what you can choose, there are lots of topics
you can decide on.
What is important is your interest in that topic,
and you have skills or you are willing to learn about the topic.

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Before you pick it because you will be creating lots of useful content about your
chosen topic.
You have to choose or set up platforms to promote the af liate products or
services.
It’s best to set up your own website or blog because it’s more reliable than
other platforms.
According to research, most successful af liate marketers have their own
website or blog
To promote their chosen products and services.
Another reason is that some brands or companies will not grant you the
approval to promote their product without a website or blog.
If you have your own blog, you have control over the products and services that
you will promote.
How do you promote them, and what kind of content do you write for them.
2. Your Platform to Promote Products and Services

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Most af liate brands or companies accept PayPal, Pioneer, or Stripe.
You must set up the payment method account to receive your payment from
the companies.
Depending on the country you are residing in.
3. Payment Method
You need to check the payment method and set up your own payment method
account.

CHAPTER FOUR: TYPES OF AFFILIATE MARKETING WEBSITES
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What is A liate Marketing? (Easy Guide on How to Start ) 16
The focus of this type of website is to provide details reviews of products and
services.
Many people search online for product reviews to make their decision before
buying a product or service.
Types of Affiliate Marketing Websites
Product Review Websites

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That is why the product review website gets a lot of commissions.
If you wish to create a review website, choose a category
and create a website base on that.
For example, if you want to promote computer and their accessories, you may
create a website based on that.
When people search for reviews about a type of computer and its accessories.
If they nd your reviews useful they may buy it based on your
recommendation.
you will receive a commission for it.

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It is the type of website use to lter and compare products on the speci cation,
features, usage, and pricing of the products or services.
Products or Services Comparison Websites

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A liate Marketing personal Blog
This is individual or groups of individuals creating different articles in blog
posts.
By promoting different types of products and services in their niche through
them.
You can learn how to build a blog by clicking here
Personal Website/Blog

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This type of website is for promoting different types of af liate products and
services.
By providing the audience coupon to get discounts on products and services
they buy through their af liate tracking links.
Depending on which type of website you should create?
Shopping Directories (coupon website)

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Af liate marketers are achieving good results by creating review products and
services websites or personal blogs.
Steps to Start Affiliate Marketing
1. Choose a Profitable Niche
Choose any topic of your interest eg Cooking, Tech, Health, tness, etc.

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2. Create a Website
By signing up with a reliable web hosting company and registering your
domain name.
You can read more about what factors to beware of, when signing up with web
hosting company here
Then create your website to be functioning very well.
You can design your website or blog according to the niche you have chosen.
For example, if your niche is cooking or photography, there are speci c things
you may want to display.
You can look into others that are in your niche that are successful to get
inspiration on how to design yours.
Learn how to create your website/ blog in an easy way with the guidance of the
article by clicking here
But don’t copy exactly the same thing so that you will not get penalized for
that.
3. Start Creating In- Depth Content
You need to create useful content for your audience for free to gain an audience
faster.

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You need to optimize it for search engines to get free organic traf c to your
website from Google.
Start promoting the content by joining various social media platforms to
attract visitors to your blog.
You can start to collect emails on your af liate marketing website and start
gathering loyal readers.
You can do this by providing them with valuable things in exchange for their
email.
Use to create an E-book in a simple way that will attract visitors to
download and give their email in exchange.
Designrr.io
4. Join Af liate Programs and Networks
This af liate program you want to join should have products and services
categories that you want to promote on your website.
Some af liate marketing programs you can join, just click on them to nd out
more about them.
They include:
DreamHost
Bluehost

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TubeBuddy
GreenGeeks
Cloudways
Pabbly
Sage Financials
Amazon Associates
E-Bay partner Network
BH Cosmetics
Cheap ights
Momondo
Boatbookings
Shopify
Some reliable af liate marketing networks include
1. Impact.com
2. ShareASale

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3. CJ Af liate
4. Awin
5. Rakuten Advertising
6. Pee y
7. FlexOffers
If you are just starting out, you may not get approval for some af liate program
but don’t worry I have done research and I have listed some of easy af liate
program approval that anyone can join and get the af liate links and start
promoting them. .
Click here to get them
5. Create YouTubes and TikTok Videos (Optional)
As video marketing is gaining popularity, you can take the advantage.
Start creating video content around your niche.
You can also promote your website or blog through the channels.

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7. Runs Ads ( Optional)
You can learn how to run ads to promote products and services.
There are various platforms you can use such as
Facebook, Quora, and use Google Ads too.
6. ( Optional )
You can create useful tools
A downloadable library, courses, and a membership site around your niche.
This will help you become an authority in your niche and it will also help you to
gain backlinks to your site.

CHAPTER 6: HOW TO CHOOSE A NICHE / CATEGORY
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Skill + Valuable Information+ Audience = Pro tability
How To Choose A Niche/Category
For your af liate marketing website, choose a category/ niche of your interest,
demand, have skills, or are willing to learn about.
You Can List Out The Topic of Your Interest,
Eg weight loss, Beauty, Fashion, Travel, Legal, Finance, Software, etc.
Which topic do you think you can give your all without getting bored with?
You can achieve results around any topic as long as you have the skill to
persuade people and you can give it you’re all.
There are so many af liate marketing programs available that you can promote
around any topic.
Make sure you have the skill and con dence to provide valuable information for
your audience around that niche.

CHAPTER 7: MAKE SURE TO HAVE THESE FIVE PAGES ON YOUR AFFILIATE MARKETING WEBSITE
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Make Sure To Have These Five Pages on Your
Affiliate Marketing Website
About us page
Privacy policy page
Terms and Services page
Af liate links Disclosure page
Contact us page
When you have these pages on your af liate marketing site, search engines
will understand that a real person is operating the website, not a robot sitting
behind the website.

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You should have the About us page so that visitors will know what your website
or blog is about and what to expect when visiting your website.
About us page:

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It is a legal statement that explains how a brand or company collects, handles,
processes, and respects its audience’s personal data on a website or app.
A privacy policy page:

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It is the legal agreement between a service provider and
a person who wants to use the service.
It can be a disclaimer, about the use of the website.
Terms and Services Page

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An af liate marketing disclosure for your website or blog is a statement that
informs your audience about your af liate tracking links on your content so
that they can make informed decisions.
An Affiliate Disclosure page:

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This is a page where your audience can reach out to you.
Sometimes some brands may want to reach out to you, if you have a contact us
page, they can do that.
Make sure to have all these pages on your website or blog.
Contact us page:

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Your site will also stand out in the eye of Google and other search engines.
So make sure to have at least an af liate link Disclosure page, Privacy policy
page, and About us page if not all the ve pages mentioned above.
How To Find Affiliate Marketing Programs
You can search on the browser with different queries.
To nd af liate programs, search for:
Your niche + af liate program
Type these on the browser, and different af liate programs or platforms will
show up.
For example, if your topic is about writing,
you can type best writing tools + af liate programs, tness + af liate programs
in the browser.
It will suggest some of the top af liate programs in that particular niche that
you have researched.
Some af liate platforms will not approve your website or blog if you don’t have
them.

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That is if you already know the name of the product you want to promote.
You can type the name of the products or services + af liate program.
It will suggest various af liate products or services you can promote
Try to join an af liate marketing platform
If you are in any af liate platform, you can ask questions about which are the
best af liate products or services you can promote in your niche.
To avoid Scammers You can follow some of the top successful af liate
marketers in your niche
To know the type of products or services they are promoting or suggesting to
promote.
that I have listed, with
there payment and cookie period.
You can click here to join some of the af liate program
Products or services name + af liate program

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When your audience reads your content can you in uence them to click
through your af liate tracking link?
3. What commission rate will you earn whenever there is a sale?
4. What is the cookie period of the product before it’s expires ?
How To Choose Affiliate marketing Program?
Ask These 4 Questions before Choosing The Program
1.Is the product or services you are willing to promote related to your topic or
niche?
2. Is it useful or bene cial to your audience?

CHAPTER 10 : STEPS TO CHOOSING THE PROGRAM
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Different af liate programs have different terms and conditions of payment,
date of payment, types of payment, and conditions for payment.
Do they need you to make special disclosure or not?
After you have read and you are okay with their terms and conditions, then you
can signup for af liate marketing program of your choice.
Read here for more guide on how to get approval for af liate program
Steps To Choosing the Program
1. Take a look at the products or services under the program
2. Check the commission rate that each program will offer.
3. Check the payment method from the merchant
4. Are there helpful tips for af liates? Like tutorials, and guidelines on how to
promote the products or services.
5. Read and understand their guidelines and payment.

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2. List Articles
Top 11 washing machines for 2022, 21 best weight loss products that will make
you lose weight in simple ways.
These types of articles increase commission rate because you can add af liate
tracking links of each product in your articles
3. Comparison post
In this type of article, you narrow the research down to the two best popular
products.
Write each product or service’s pros and cons, their features, and their prize,
for your audience to be able to choose the one they prefer.
4. Resource List/ Product you use or Recommend
Types of Articles That You Can Create
1. In-depth reviews of products that you wish to promote
This type of article contains the pros and cons of the products and services
you are writing about.

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1. Promoting on Facebook
You can promote your articles on the Facebook platform by creating a post and
adding relevant pictures.
Promoting Your Articles Through Social
Media Platform

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Facebook has a lot of audiences that you can reach out to and attract to your
website.
2. Promoting On Instagram
Link your website or blog in the bio.
Create posts and stories on Instagram

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You can use visual communication like Images, and infographics to promote the
products.
Then direct your audience to buy through the link in your bio.
Make sure you use relevant hashtags related to the products.
You can attract traf c to your website is by joining various platforms and
learning their rules.
Adding value to people and you can mention your website to your follower to
read more or learn more there, don’t overdo it.
Another way to generate traf c to your af liate marketing blog is using
Question and Answer Forums.
Q & A forums are types of forums where different people are asking questions
and several people answer them.
Quora and Reddit are examples of question and answer forum you can join.

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4. Make sure you write helpful answers without any links on the platforms
5. You can create a blog on Quora and link back to your af liate blog through the
articles you create on the blog on Quora.
Tips You Can Use on Q & A Forum Like Quora
1. link to your articles while answering questions on Quora
2. Don’t spam, make sure you link only when it is relevant.
3. Don’t share your articles links on every answer that you write on the
platform.

CONCLUSION
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Some of the external links in the post are “af liate links.” This
means if you click on the link and take action or buy the item, I will receive an
af liate commission directly from the vendor, but there will be no additional
charge to you.
Disclosure:
Thank you for the support!
I will appreciate your awesome comment, and please share with others.
Conclusion:
Earning through af liate marketing is very rewarding, If you can be patience,
persistence and ready to update oneself through reading.
It may be overwhelming at the beginning that is why you should follow this
easy guide to make it less dif cult for you.
If you can be patience and persist through out of your journey of af liate
marketing without giving up on the way, the reward you will get is
unimaginable.
You can earn passive income through af liate marketing, if you don’t quilt.

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