hey guys so i've done a couple affiliate marketing videos over the past couple of months and they
have all done pretty well because i have dropped some gems in those videos and as a youtuber you
know i gotta give the people what they want so i'm doing another affiliate marketing video and i'm
calling this one five critical affiliate marketing tips to help you guys make more money and these
are some things that i have never shared before but before we go ahead and get into that for those
of you who don't know who i am my name is whitney bonds and i run the blog tried and true mom jobs
and i make multiple six figures every single year from affiliate marketing alone and the way
i do it is all passive you know at the end of this video i want to show you guys how i am constantly
making money from work that i have done over four years ago through affiliate marketing and i always
thought how are these people trying to teach me anything about affiliate marketing shouldn't they
be working on their own stuff if they're doing so well but now like i get it if you use it the
way that i do it works on autopilot so now that i have this all set up i need something else to do
you know that's why you see so many creators doing so many different things because once
you can get your business on autopilot you need something else to do just to challenge yourselves
and to me my new thing is youtube this is a huge challenge for me this is not my like comfort zone
or you know this doesn't come natural speaking from the camera in a room by myself talking to
people who's not i don't even know who's going to be listening to this video so this is not
my comfort zone but it's a challenge and it's is another revenue stream for me you know even though
i have a small channel i make five to six thousand dollars every single month just from youtube
and a big part of that is through affiliate marketing so i want to be sharing these
tips on affiliate marketing so it can help you whether you're a youtuber you use social media
to get traffic or however you work it or a blog like myself so you guys ready let's go now i've
mentioned this one before but i always get so many people saying thank you so much this was a huge
lifesaver that i want to mention it again in this video and make it my number one tip for you guys
and that is to not use your social security number when you are using affiliate marketing or signing
up for different affiliate programs because you're going to be making money now so you're going to
have to be paying taxes on this money that you're making so whenever you sign up for a new affiliate
program they're gonna ask you for your w-9 and that information is going to include your social
security number now if you're anything like me i do not feel comfortable giving away my social
security number so i register on the irs.gov for our ein number and it's an employer identification
number and this is a way that you're able to get around using your social security number
and use your employee identification number instead now this only works for people who are
in the us i'm sorry for those who are watching who are not a resident of the u.s i don't know
how it works for you guys but i can only speak to the what works for me and in the us now if you do
live in the us the way you go about doing this is you go to the irs.gov and then you just go to
apply for an employee id number and you have to do their office hours monday to friday 7 a.m to
10 p.m eastern standard time so you have to during that time but all you have to do is go ahead and
apply online you're going to be a sole proprietor so you're going to begin the application and they
will auto populate you your own unique employer identification number so moving forward you can
always use this number when you are applying for different affiliate programs so that is tip number
one the next question i get all the time is how do i find affiliate partners and i say use your
competition as a guide i want to show you guys something that's really cool on how to do this but
first see what affiliate products they promote and see if it makes sense for you to promote the same
product and if you don't know who your competitors are just go to google for something that you would
want to write about and see what articles or what websites pop up in the search results
go to their websites click on their home page and just browse through their blog the type of
blog articles they have written and get an idea of that and just go through them and see what
kind of products and services that they promote in those articles and i'm gonna show you guys
this really cool plugin that will automatically show you if there's an affiliate product or not
so if you google strike out nofollow it's a google chrome extension so you can just put that in there
click on the first thing right there and then you can download it i've already downloaded it so
it wouldn't have give you this function right here but mine says remove from chrome but it's
only because i've already downloaded it so you will go ahead and download this plugin and once
you do that make sure it's live i'm going to show you how it works we're going to go to my website
click on one of my articles and if you just scroll through i'm going to show you how this works
all right let's see so you see how this link right here so this is crossed out so you can easily say
this is affiliate link so this is how all these right here these are affiliate links and these
right here are just regular links so as a blogger you're still always supposed to let google know
when you're writing your articles you're supposed to mark your affiliate links as no sponsored
links and that is what this plugin recognizes all the links on the article they recognize
only the ones that have a no following and that's what that means right here so you can
easily see that that's an affiliate link this one isn't but this one is so this just gives
me an idea to say okay so this blogger they're promoting these affiliate products on their site
is this them that i want to promote on my site so this is just a quick and easy way to find out
what are some affiliate products that you could possibly use or try and sign up for for your site
does that make sense now i've also been asked how to find affiliate marketing programs
and that brings me to the sponsor of this video which is impact.com you know i use it myself and
i absolutely love them you know their brand marketplace has over a thousand major brands
that you can partner with and start making money online you can easily sign up for a free account
and you want to be a partner so i'm going to go ahead and log in really quickly so this is my
dashboard right here and you can see i've already have like 753 dollars that's going to be coming my
way so i love this program and if you were to sign up so basically you can just go to let's go to the
brands and then you can say find brands and i want to just show you really quickly how it works for
you so what you want to do is just look at the different categories they have and then just
browse through them to see what products or what services that you can promote for your channel
or your blog or social media and that's what i've done myself and that's how it works so if i just
clicked on this one and then i wanted to join just go ahead and click join right here and they will
let you know if you are accepted or denied now once you get accepted i'm going to show you really
quickly how to get your affiliate links so you go to my brands and for example door dash driver is
one of the brands that i'm with so i would just go to if i want to get my individual affiliate link
and i would go right here and then go to ads and this is once i'm accepted into this program
and this is how i get my affiliate link so what i do i just click on any one of these
and then i go to tracking link and this right here is my individual tracking link so whenever someone
clicks on this and signs up i earn a commission and you can see right here this is one of those
ugly links that i was talking about i'll go into my website and make it a better looking url and if
you want to figure out how to do that you can go to my video right here on why you should not buy
an affiliate marketing course and that will teach you how to use pretty links and how you can make
your links to look a lot better and not spammy so after this video sign up today so you can get on
your way to making money online and i'll leave my link in the description below under this video and
it's completely free and i would love if you guys would use my link so i can tell impact and they
will keep sponsoring me which will allow me to keep giving you guys this free amazing information
on affiliate marketing and other things like that so make sure you guys do that and i'm
going to keep me in here give you guys some good information to help you make more money online all
right now i want you guys to know that sometimes when you apply to an affiliate marketing program
you will get denied i've got denied plenty of time but what i want you to do from that is if you ever
get declined go back to that affiliate manager and ask them why because you need to understand
fully what it will take for you to be able to join their affiliate program so don't get discouraged
if you get denied you know use that as motivation and as a goal to do what they require so you can
get accepted now this next way is how i've been able to make money on autopilot with my blog and
that is from getting my articles to rank on google so what i do is i find out what questions people
are searching for on google so i can answer them through my blog articles so i can show up in the
search results and get traffic to my website i figured out a formula that gets my articles to
ring on the first page of google almost every single time i have so many my articles showing
up in the search results for different queries i am constantly getting traffic to my website
because people are constantly going to google for different questions all day and every day
so because i'm always getting traffic to my website i am always making money because i have
ads on my website so for people just scrolling through one of my articles and they pass an ad
that is known as an ad impression and i make money from that and i also make a lot of money through
affiliate marketing let me show you guys an example of how this all works so for example when
i was doing some keyword research trying to figure out what questions people are searching for on
google i found that they were searching for money earning apps alright so if i google money earning
x and if you go on the first page of google you will see that i am in the number three position
now remember i wrote this over four years ago and if you click right here this article is showing
all the different ways that you can make money through different apps and these are all affiliate
opportunities i have a referral link for all of these so if you just scroll through right here
let's see you'll see the strikeout no foul link is showing that this is an affiliate link and i
also have ads on this art article too so you can see right here i'm making money just from people
scrolling through and reading my article and passing these ads and if they click on one
of these links right here which remember their intention is to find a money earning app so the
odds of them doing that are very high so they're going to probably click on this link
if i'm telling them and explain how i've been able to make money through this app right here
or this one or this one so this is a quick example of how i use affiliate marketing and how i'm able
to use google as a driver to my website so i can make money so does that all make sense
you know i'm working on the course right now because i'm constantly getting calls and
questions and like saying whitney i know you do these free videos but can you just coach me still
so what i'm gonna do is actually just create a step-by-step course make sure you guys are in the
you know teach you everything that i know and how to build a six figure vlog the way that i've
been able to do it and i'm also gonna have live monthly coaching calls to help you guys you know
build your six figure blog the way that i've been able to do it so i'm working on this right
now so if you guys are interested and if you're one of the ones who've reached out to me for uh
for help make sure you guys sign up for my email list because i'm gonna let my subscribers know
first about um when i am launching the course and then the next step so make sure you guys
sign up i'm gonna leave the link in the description below so you guys can sign up
okay so who is still here let me know in the comment section to say i made it so i know that
somebody actually stick around and watch this whole entire video and make sure you subscribe
to my newsletter and make sure you sign up to impact today they are a great affiliate marketing
network that i love i'm making money from them and that's why i recommend them to you guys so make
sure to click on the link below and start making money thanks for watching guys have a great day