If you're new to affiliate marketing and you're wondering what the best ways to get started are
stick around for this video because that's what we're going to cover.
Hi everyone, I hope you're all having a great day so far
if you're new here, my name is Greg and I'd like to talk about online entrepreneurship
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In today's video I'm going to give you a quick and concise overview of the best ways to get started in affiliate marketing
and at the end of the video I'll even throw in how I personally find the affiliate offers that I promote.
So without further ado, let's get started
Alright, so right off the bat,
there are two main ways that you can do affiliate marketing.
One is going to be with your own website and two is going to be on YouTube
So first, let's dig into your own website
So if you've never built a website before this will still work for you and I'll explain why
but the purpose here is to build a website around a specific topic
or niche and then the way that you get your traffic is by showing up in Google
So on your website you will answer popular questions in that niche or in that topic
So when someone goes on to Google and they're searching for an answer about a question in that topic
Your website will show up in those Google results
This is how you will funnel the bulk of your traffic to your website
and although building your own website and showing up in Google Sounds really daunting,
it's really not that hard to do.
So the way that this kind of works in a nutshell is before you do anything
you look into the topics or the niches and
you want to find one that has a high monthly search volume with low competition
So what this means is a lot of people are going on Google every month
and searching for these things
but there are not a lot of other websites showing up in those search results
So if you start providing those answers on your website, you will show up in the Google rankings
So once you've researched the category or the niche, then you start building your website
Now this is a very important step that goes one of two directions
You can either use WordPress to build your website
or you can use Wix to build your website.
Now there are other website builders that you can definitely use
but these are the two that I definitely recommend using and I've used both of them
Now the difference between the two is WordPress is a little bit harder to build a website
but it's cheaper each month.
Wix is extremely easy to build a website,
So if you have no experience, that's the one that I suggest
However, it's a little bit more pricey per month
Now with that being said I've made a specific tutorial for WordPress
and a specific tutorial for Wix that I'll link down in the description
that I'll walk you through every step of creating the affiliate marketing website
And then once you've made your website
There's only one step left and that's creating the actual articles that are going to go on your website.
So in a nutshell You're just answering common questions in that niche or topic
with a few paragraphs and the beauty of this and the way that it works is
while you're writing that answer you can recommend affiliate products or
affiliate services that help give that person the solution
So when you put this whole equation together,
people will be searching on Google for an answer in a specific niche,
your website will show up,
they'll read your article, get their solution and you might have a product or a service that you can refer them to
to help with their solution
that is seriously the extent of a niche affiliate marketing website
and again if you want a tutorial on how to make the affiliate marketing website with WordPress or Wix
those links will be down in the description
Now, moving on to number two and that is using YouTube for affiliate marketing.
Now the reason that I recommend YouTube is because it's a search engine just like Google
Now I understand that not everyone prefers to be on camera and if that's the case
then I definitely recommend starting out with a niche affiliate marketing website
and that way it's all just text and you can type it out at your own convenience
and comfortably at home, and you don't have to be on camera.
However, if you are comfortable being on camera,
you can follow the same process that we did for our niche affiliate marketing website,
but with YouTube videos.
So what this looks like in action is answering those same common questions that people have
but in video format and then you put your affiliate links down in the description
and the best part of both of these
is that both Google for your affiliate marketing website and
and YouTube for your videos get so much traffic each month
that you don't need to start with an existing following
Alright, so now that we've talked about the two best ways to get started in affiliate marketing
Now I want to share with you how I personally find the affiliate offers that I promote.
So this website is called smartpassiveincome.com
and it's Pat Flynn's blog
And this is where I personally find the affiliate offers that I promote
So if you come to smartpassiveincome.com and you click this little graph in the top right corner,
it brings you to his income report
So in previous years Pat Flynn posted an income report of how much he was earning per month
and from which affiliate offers
So if you click on any of these
I know they are a little outdated but still it'll serve its purpose for what we need it for.
So if we click on any of these
and if we scroll down pretty much to the bottom of the page
It'll bring you to his income breakdown
and then this is what we want to be looking for.
So along the left side are the affiliate offers that he was promoting
and then one line over you can see how much he made that month
from that specific affiliate offer.
So this is the resource that I use,
you can click right onto these websites and you can see there are affiliate program
and you can see if any of these products are something that you have used previously
or something that you could research heavily to recommend to other people.
So this is where I recommend finding affiliate offers remember that's smartpassiveincome.com
Alright, that's it for this one I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
If you have any questions at all, let me know down in the comments
and I'll see you guys in the next one