Affiliate marketing provides infinite opportunities for generating passive income. Becoming an affiliate is no hard job, but you need to have a blog to start making money. In this article, you’ll learn how to get affiliate website ideas, choose a niche, write content, set up affiliate ads for your website and track your performance.
To join the world of affiliate marketing, you usually need to have a dedicated website. It will help introduce advertisers’ products to your audience.
Naturally, there are some requirements for affiliate websites:
But, once you have it, the job is easy. Just insert an affiliate link, maybe a couple of widgets and deliver appropriate content every now and then to hold readers’ interest and drive traffic to your advertiser.
Affiliate marketing is mutually beneficial for both advertisers and publishers. They make hundreds to thousands of dollars every month. Here are some more reasons why you should build an affiliate website:
The income potential of affiliate marketing depends on the niche.
Ready to become an affiliate? To build a great money-making website, you’ll need to tailor it to a specific advertiser and to choose one, it’s important to pick a niche and research affiliate programs. Only then you can start building a website and preparing content.
To become a successful affiliate, it’s important to find a balance between personal interests, skills and market demand. There are so many niches that seem profitable, but making a random choice won’t do good. You need to consider your own preferences so that the business would be interesting for you, and market trends to stay afloat. Below, there are some trendy niche ideas:
These are just a few suggestions, and naturally, there are more affiliate niche website ideas. After picking a niche, check potential competitors to see how much traffic, keywords they have and whether you’ll be able to fit in.
Once your preferences are clear, it’s time to choose an advertiser and join affiliate programs or networks. Programs are tied to an advertiser, while networks allow you to sign up for different campaigns at the same time, as they accumulate many offers in one interface.
One great example of affiliate networks in the travel niche is Travelpayouts. The network provides all kinds of travel products from flight tickets and accommodation to travel insurance and offers customizable promotion tools. Affiliates get up to 70% revenue share. With Travelpayouts, you can join affiliate programs of many travel “giants” such as Booking.com, Hostelworld and Kiwi.com to name a few.
If you plan on diving into another industry, here is a guide to niche-specific affiliate programs.
The domain is your website name, and to attract followers, it should be rather short, catchy and relevant. It includes two parts: the name itself, for example, Google, and a so-called top-level domain, starting with a dot, such as .com, .org, .uk and more. Domains are renewed annually, so you’ll purchase one for at least one year.
Free domains are provided by many website builders, but they are rather long and complicated. For example, if you make a website on Wix, it will have the following name: username.wixsite.com/siteaddress. But, paid subscriptions on Wix offer a free domain name of your preference, which can save you some money. On top of that, you won’t have to manually connect a new domain name and website.
Apart from website builders, there are domain registrars such as Google Domains or Hover, auctions like GoDaddy or Sedo, and more.
Today, website builders are easy-to-use, don’t require coding skills and are likely to offer hosting in one package. You can build an affiliate website with WordPress, Wix, Weebly and many more. All these platforms provide free plans with limited server capacity which might be suitable for beginners and premium options for bigger projects.
To choose a platform, consider what features you find most important for your website. For example, Wix is a drag-and-drop kind of editor. You can create any affiliate website design, while other platforms offer less room for creativity. With Medium or Blogger, you won’t have to worry about hosting, but you’ll fully depend on the platform performance. Website builders and hostings usually offer annual subscriptions, just like domain registrars.
You can choose a theme on your website builder. Themes and plugins vary according to niche and website types such as e-commerce, personal blog, etc. You can find affiliate website templates with many platforms, here are some examples. WordPress also has affiliate website themes for travel websites.
Apart from a theme, you can also use plugins to optimize your website. WordPress has a range of SEO plugins that will help increase traffic and conversions. Travelpayouts also provides a plugin for WordPress that can be useful for your website.
Once the website is set, you can start uploading content. One of the most important rules of a successful affiliate marketing campaign is to use original and niche-specific texts, images and videos.
To get niche content for free, explore dedicated resources such as Amazines and Article Sphere for articles, Pexels and Pixabay for photos, Pexels Video and Stock Footage 4 Free for video, and many more. If you have good writing skills, why not write articles on your own? In this case, you’ll need a detailed guide and a lot of special tools to automate the process such as plagiarism and grammar checkers. The third way to get niche content for free is by guest blogging. Normally, writers are eager to write for well-known brands, but even if you are just starting off, why not place a “Writers wanted” ad on your blog?
To purchase niche content, you can resort to writing agencies and freelance platforms. Writing agencies like Textbroker and WriterAccess provide access to authors only with a paid subscription and can be more expensive than freelance services, but they also deliver texts on time and guarantee quality. Freelance platforms, such as Upwork and Fiverr charge per hour or post and feature hundreds of writers in every niche. As for multimedia, there are photo banks like Shutterstock or Dreamstime where you can get unique content.
To make the most of your affiliate website, you’ll need to optimize it for search engines. Here are the key steps:
Many platforms offer all-in-one solutions, like SEMRush, Majestic SEO, SEOMoz. There are also free tools like Google Keyword Planner, SEO analysis extension for Chrome and more.
Backlinks connect your website to the world, and the more of them you have, the more likely you are to be shown on Google search results. However, spammy backlinks that come from low-quality websites can negatively influence your website promotion, while high-quality original content organically brings backlinks, as people like to share useful information. Read the guide to write articles that increase the website traffic and bring backlinks.
It is possible to calculate the average number of backlinks for your niche. Also, to appear on the first pages of Google search results, it is important to overcome competitors, and a proper analysis of their backlinks number can be the first step.
To stay on top of your affiliate marketing campaign and make informed decisions on time, set up a few analytics tools. They will allow you to check traffic volume and sources, conversion rates, areas on the blog that are popular and the ones that need improvement. One of the best tools to use is Google Analytics: it is free and provides a comprehensive analysis of your business. If you are new to Google Analytics, start by watching this video.
Apart from checking the website’s overall performance, you’ll also need to keep an eye on affiliate links. Tracking them will help you see what elements give the highest conversion rate and understand your campaign’s pros and cons.
Once the website is ready, you can join the affiliate marketing. Some advertisers manually select affiliates, while others approve applications automatically. You can start by signing up with Travelpayouts. Your account will be instantly approved, apart from a few campaigns that have stricter requirements. After joining the programs of your preference, it’s time to place affiliate tools. Travelpayouts has a wide range of customizable widgets like search forms, text links, banners and white label, that you can tune to your blog design. To top it all off, tools are available in 60 different languages.
Also, consider analyzing cases of other affiliates within your niche or even network. They might bring valuable insights into the right widget placement, content writing, campaign strategy and more.
Making an affiliate website today is easier than ever before. You just have to follow a few simple steps and then monitor your blog performance. However, the success of an affiliate marketing campaign depends on many factors: current trends, offer relevance, traffic, widgets.
To take it to the top, it’s great to join affiliate networks such as Travelpayouts. You can sign up for a few offers at once, and test which ones give you the highest conversions and payouts. Also, it is important to study affiliate website examples within your niche to analyze what works best.
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In this privacy statement we supply you detailed information related to your personal data storage, maintenance and processing.
When processing is restricted, we will store your personal data, but not further process it.
which allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services. It allows them to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without hindrance to usability.
We are not making any decisions which might produce a legal effect on you based on automated processing.
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