Tips for Affiliate Marketing Success (NEW)

These tips for affiliate marketing success were passed down to me from a guru who shall remain nameless until the final paragraph of this release. The steps to follow, in sequence, to make money are as follows:

1 – Select a Niche

Other gurus will tell you to choose a subject or product that you like or that is very familiar to you. The reasoning is that you will be more comfortable writing on that subject, write better quality content, and thus develop a loyal audience. This loyal audience will now include warm prospects for buying the product you sell or promote.

STOP !

If you want to make money you should promote a product that people are buying now. Never mind what you think.

Read my article ” Affiliate Marketing Secrets – Secret # 1 ” here

I will now explain in detail, step by step, the procedure I follow.

Go to the new platform in Wealthy Affiliate ( You can join Wealthy Affiliate for free )

This new platform is called ” Affiliate Programs ” and shows what programs are available for you to join for a specific product you want to promote. I use this platform to select a niche that will make money. To select the niche this way you work your way backwards, find what products are selling now, and choose a niche from those products.

When you access this new platform within Wealthy Affiliate you will see two groups of words.

– Popular Categories

– Popular Keywords

This screen print shows these groups

As an example let’s choose ” kitchen” from the Popular Keywords group ( These keywords are constantly changing, so you may find different keywords from those shown here. Kitchen is shown today).

What you do next is go to Jaaxy, also included in the free Wealthy Affiliate Membership, and search the keyword “kitchen”.

The next screen shot shows what you will see.

Enter the word “kitchen” and search

Jaaxy shows the following data for each keyword selected.

Avg. – The average monthly searches for that keyword in Google.

Traffic – The number of clicks monthly on your website that you can expect if you get ranked on page 1 in Google.

QSR – Number of competing websites ranked in Google

KQI – Keyword Quality Indicator

SEO – Score based on traffic and competition. 1-100. The higher the number the better the keyword.

The next step is to narrow down your niche. Kitchen is obviously too broad. We want to choose a keyword that will have average monthly searches of at least 100, and a QSR as low as possible ( preferably less than 150)

We can see from the screen shot that the following keywords meet these criteria and have potential

kitchen cutlery

kitchen composter

stainless steel kitchen utensils

chopper kitchen

For this search example I will choose ” kitchen cutlery”. However, when you are doing the search you should repeat the exercise that follows also for the other 3 keywords being considered.

After selecting “kitchen cutlery” I would enter this expanded keyword again in Jaaxy. See the new screen shot below.

It shows that drilling down we can narrow our search further. At this point I would select as my keyword ” kitchen cutlery knife sets”. It meets the criteria established earlier for values of Avg., QSR and it has a very high value of SEO which indicates a good probability for the website being ranked high in Google.

Having now selected ” kitchen cutlery knife sets” I would go back to the Program Affiliate Platform and enter this keyword. As you can see on the next screen shot there is a list of sellers of kitchen cutlery knife sets.

I would then look further into promoting two of the sellers displayed.

Swiss Knife Shop

wmfCookware

I can see that both companies are part of the CJ Network. Clicking on these companies displays I can find details on their affiliate programs, their product line, and also look at their websites. See below:

 

Now I know that if I develop a website around the keyword ” kitchen cutlery knife sets ” I will be able to promote these products and have a good probability of making money. If I do not have a website already, that is geared towards kitchen products, I can build a new website around my keyword using the training and website building tools offered at Wealthy Affiliate. ( Yes, for free ! )

2 – Build a website

3 – Write content for your new website

This is a critical step. You have selected a niche and created a website. Your success is now up to you.

You must write posts or articles that engage your audience and solve their problems. In doing your research you identified several keywords related to your main subject. To achieve fast ranking in Google it is recommended that you write one or two posts weekly focusing on those keywords. Posts should be 500-1000 words each and include links to your main keyword article which should be at least 1000 words.

Your writing style should be informal to establish a personal connection with your audience. Remember to address a specific search they have made on Google. You always want to recommend a solution to a problem.

A difficulty many affiliates have is finding material to use as content to their posts. The solution is to do research. You can search for articles on your keyword that are ranked high on Google. Study what they are saying and think what additional information you could provide. Do not plagiarize, but always write in your own words what the articles are presenting but offer more to the reader. I like to do research on Google Scholar where you can find academic papers or research on any subject. You can find interesting nuggets of information that you can include in your posts. At the bottom of your article you should list the source of the information. This will add further support to your standing as an expert on the subject.

After you have published 5 or 6 articles on your website you will be ready to apply to several Affiliate Programs.

Conclusion

We have seen that there are several critical steps that must be taken to have success in Affiliate Marketing.

My Number One recommendation is that you sign up for the Free Membership at Wealthy Affiliate, which includes free membership in Jaaxy research. Wealthy Affiliate is much more than a training platform. I invite you to sign up here on my affiliate link, so that I am notified of your membership and I can reach out to you and be of further assistance.

I will be pleased to answer any questions, including how you can outsource at low cost some tasks described above, including content research and writing. Write to me at the E-Mail shown below.

Carlos

carlos@mymonetaryfreedom.com