What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a commission based marketing in which there are three players.
Player-1- Publisher ( Blogger, Website Owner)
Player-2- Service or Product Provider ( Amazon, BlueHost Web Hosting Provider)
Player-3- Customer
From the above list if a customer ( player-3) purchases a product or a service of of player-2 from the player-1’s website through a referral link . Then player-1 gets some commision based of service or product. Player-1 is also called affiliate or associate.
Example of Amazon’s affiliate link
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<iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-in.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=IN&source=ac&ref=tf_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=bindeshwar04-21&marketplace=amazon®ion=IN&placement=B073F3ZX53&asins=B073F3ZX53&linkId=cdf3d96326d4bc2536eaf9d6dc2f42c3&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=true&price_color=333333&title_color=0066c0&bg_color=ffffff”>
</iframe>
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This will display on your website like this
And if somebody purchases clicking on the book Amazon’s will give me some commission.
How to start affiliate marketing.
Starting affiliate marketing is very easy and it does not take long time to be approved. However, for earnings it takes lots of effort and need trust between you and your visitors.
Further, I would like to explain some points to succeed in affiliate marketing.
- Choose the affiliate products of your blog’s matching niche– It is very important to choose affiliate links of your blogs category. If you choose affiliate links different from your niche your audience. Although, it will be very difficult for you to build trust among audience for your affiliate products.
- Write tutorials- Tutorial helps audience to learn about service or a product and it also build trust between you and your audience.
- Write review of products- If you write review of the products and give your opinion. It helps audience to understand better about products or services and chances of conversion from your website or blog will be high.
Some popular affiliate programs- It is said that 1 among five companies provide affiliate programs but i will list some popular affiliate programs.
Amazon’s Affiliate – This is one of the best affiliate program on web running now. Further, Amazon is an e-commerce website so it provides variety of products and very good commissions. Affiliate program of Amazon’s can be reached from the link.
CJ Affiliate Programs- CJ ( Commission Junction ) is the network of affiliate programs. In which there are many companies for them you can run affiliate programs and can get commissions. In addition, you can reach to sign up and login page from here:sign up and login page.
Web hosting Affiliate Programs
Web hosting affiliate programs give the highest commision which is from $50 to $150. Because once a customer sign up for the hosting service customers will renew their service every year. Some affiliate programs I am going to list here.
BlueHost Affiliate Program– A web hosting service provider also officially recommended by WordPress . It gives $65 to affiliate partner when customer purchase hosting service. The affiliate program of Bluehost company you can reach from the link.
Siteguard Affiliate Program- This web hosting company also provides very lucrative commission to the affiliate and one of the popular web hosting company on the Internet.
Moreover, commission list you can see from the figure.
The sign up page can be reached from the link
Websites that successfully running affiliate programs.
- https://www.consumersearch.com/
- https://thepointsguy.com/
- https://problogger.com
- https://www.lucieslist.com/
- https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/