How to Start Affiliate Marketing Today – A Step-by-Step Guide

Want to know how to start affiliate marketing today?  Then know that by the end of this step-by-step guide you will have already taken the first few steps to making that a reality.

Affiliate Marketing is a fantastic option for making money online, it doesn’t require huge start-up costs and despite what some say, you do not need to be a technical know-it-all who knows computer coding to be able to achieve it.

In fact, you could get started with affiliate marketing today with expert help, support and training without any real technical knowledge and you will not need to spend a penny either.  Does that sound like a great deal…? 

Then read on and we will first talk about what real affiliate marketing is, how it works and then show you a simple step-by-step guide into how you could get started today… Let’s get started…

What's Real Affiliate Marketing?

The reason I always start out with these posts with clarifying what real affiliate marketing is, is because there are plenty of scams or low-quality programs out there that claim to be affiliate marketing but are really not worthwhile, or are MLM schemes or are clearly there to just rob you of your money. 

Real Affiliate Marketing is by far one of the best ways of making money online, but it is not a get-rich-quick scheme.

That is one of the first signs that it is not real affiliate marketing or is not worth getting involved with.

Affiliate Marketing is not going to make you rich overnight.  Even if you get started today, you will not see instant results.  Anyone who promises that is not your friend.

There are four key stages of affiliate marketing:

  1. Choosing a Niche
  2. Start a Blog Website
  3. Attract an Audience
  4. Make Revenue
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You will notice that the making money part is the last part and it will require a lot of your time and effort doing what I am doing now which is creating quality content to attract an audience.

Affiliate Marketing is a great passive income as you are not required to hand-hold any transactions, you do not need to keep stock.  In a sense, you are the middle person in-between the person who owns the product and the person who wants to buy the product but wants to know a little more about the product before buying.

That is your opportunity to be that person who offers an insightful post to highlight why you think that product is worthwhile buying or not and if your audience has trust in you, they will go and buy that product and you can earn a commission from that sale.

Let’s get into how affiliate marketing really works…

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

There are a few different ways affiliate marketing works.  The main two examples refer to either someone promoting products for a commission. The other refers to getting a commission when people sign up for something, or complete an action.  This is referred to as CPA Affiliate Marketing.

We’re going to focus mainly on the product/service route in this post as that is the most common route for beginners.

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The first thing you need to understand is that Affiliate Marketing is only going to grow.  More and more people are shopping online, and they are looking for help and advice with their purchasing decisions.  Where to they turn to?  Typically online reviews, and that is the opportunity for you to offer that help, in return for a commission.

Affiliate Marketing works like this.

  1. There is the Person looking for help with a particular product to help them make a purchasing decision.
  2. There is you, the affiliate marketer.
  3. And there is the owner of the product (for our example, we are going to use Amazon).

You have someone who is looking for the best gaming laptop online (it could be any niche you want; we are going to use gaming laptops for our example.

They want help finding this out and go to a search engine such as Google.

They type in: best gaming laptop

The search results come up with:

They will naturally go and visit the option at the top and read about the best gaming laptops on that page, which happens to be a blogger using affiliate marketing.

They read up on the best gaming laptops and decide that one of the options that the blogger has gone through in detail is the best option for them.

So, at this point we have a customer who is deciding on a purchase.  The affiliate marketer (you) has helped them come to a decision with that purchase with a helpful guide to what they consider the best gaming laptops for 2019 and our customer is ready to actually make a purchase.

The gaming laptop blog does not have any actual stock, but they are an affiliate with Amazon.  So, if the customer chooses to follow the link in the post to buy the Alienware m17 R2 laptop that they highly recommend.  They are taken to Amazon’s page for that laptop.

The customer has a lot of trust in Amazon, as I think most of us do and they decide to go through and purchase the laptop.

Your reward for helping that customer to that decision is a percentage of the sale price.

No, this affiliate actually has signed up with the Dell Affiliate scheme, but it works in the same way and you will find there are literally thousands of affiliate programs you could sign up with.

The laptop’s retail price is $1499.  If the affiliate program commission is 6%, that equals = $89.94 of passive income.

If you happen to help 10 people to a similar decision, that is $899.94. As you help more people, you will find your income can grow and that is just from one post that this blogger has written.

Not bad, when you do not need to be there for your reader to make the transaction.

Affiliate Programs do all the hard work of tracking this type of stuff, allowing you to crack on with the creation of high-quality content that gets you to page one of the search results.

How To Get Started with Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate Marketing is a great way of creating passive income, and the added advantage is that you could choose any subject you want.  We used Gaming Laptops in our example, but the same premise works for literally any topic you could think of:

  • technology
  • sports
  • fitness
  • health and wellness
  • losing weight
  • homeware
  • coffee
  • knitting
  • pets
  • childcare
  • new parents
  • making money online
  • gadgets
  • cbd oil 
  • art
  • etc.

There are thousands of opportunities, if you still aren’t sure what you could blog about, click here.

Affiliate Marketing does not have to be just about products, you will find a lot of services also provide an affiliate program. 

There are thousands of affiliate programs, Amazon is good for new affiliate marketers but as you progress you will soon find that there are programs with better commissions rates elsewhere. 

But Amazon is a great starting point due to the sheer number of products they offer…

Choose a Niche

All of the categories above are a good starting point, but to have a better chance when getting started, you need to focus on a specific niche within a category.  

A niche is described as a narrow or small segment of a market.  That is an important factor when it comes to breaking your blog into the search engines amongst all the competition.

The more niche you go, the better chance of getting your affiliate marketing campaigns a kick-start and appearing higher up the rankings.

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So, if you are thinking about a particular subject, try and narrow it down to as a small niche as you can.  You need to become an authority on this niche.  Once you have achieved this authority, you can then start broadening out into the larger market.

A great way to do this is to go to Amazon.  Go through their categories, and you will see they have done the hard work for you. You will see there are sub-categories and then sometimes they have dug down again to another sub-level.

It also gives you an idea of the products that you could review when you are up and running.

If you are not too sure what your niche could be, then you might find this training useful from the guys at Wealthy Affiliate.  It has helped a lot of people narrow down their niche…

Spend the next 30 minutes thinking about what your niche is going to be for your affiliate marketing business.  It is great brainstorming this and if you need any help, write your ideas in the comments section and we will help you narrow down your niche ideas.

Create a Blog Website

Once you’ve come up with your niche, now you’re ready to get started with creating your own blog website.

The first thing I will say, is don’t get worried about this.  It’s not very technical, and you don’t need to have a degree in computer coding.

It is about as difficult as creating a social media account these days.

This guide will cover off how you can have one up and running in just a few minutes…

WordPress is the most common website builder online, over 50% of the websites out there are using WordPress and they have made it even easier for people with a one-click install for building a website, and then creating content is like creating a document in Microsoft Word or any similar word processor.

In fact, with the SiteRubix WordPress Builder, there are just four steps you need to go through to have your own FREE website!

Step 1 – Choose a Domain Name

What name do you want to give your website?  Think about what name do you want to use for your website address (the one that appears in the address bar).  Ideally it needs to connect to your niche, and something that your target audience will respond well too.

Then, you can use the tool below to see if it’s available:

If you did decide to build a website using the SiteRubix tool above, then you will have been granted 1 free website, and access to the training platform called Wealthy Affiliate.  They give you ten free step-by-step lessons on how to get the best start to your affiliate marketing blog website!

You will have your own website ready to start creating awesome content, and then apply for affiliate programs to start promoting relevant products to your target audience.

Step 2: Complete Your Account with Wealthy Affiliate

To get access to your website, you just need to complete your sign up with Wealthy Affiliate.  It’s totally free with the free starter membership, and gives you access to training and support.

Once you’ve done this step, you can then move onto customising your website…

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Step 3: Customise Your Website

Once you’re inside, you will be taken to the page where you choose what you want to your website to look like.  You can always change this later on and as you build up your knowledge with the WordPress platform, but for now pick your website title, and then choose from one of the available themes.  See the steps here:

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Step 4: Click Build This Website

This is the final moment before your website is built for you.  Within a minute or two, you’ll be able to login to your new website and start affiliate marketing today!

You’ll have also gained access to some fantastic training that will help you with the necessary steps to being your affiliate marketing journey.

There are a few things like affiliate disclaimers, etc. that you may not have thought about, but they will ensure you are definitely on the right path…

At this point, we have covered off the first couple of steps in our 4 steps to affiliate marketing.  So, this is the point where you need to start on step 3 – attracting visitors to your blog.

Without traffic, there is little point signing up to affiliate programs…

Attracting an Audience

Your website will be a blank canvas, and you’re going to need to fill that canvas with a variety of different bits of content to attract an audience to come to it.

Once you have people coming to your site, then you can worry about promoting affiliate products.  People often think it is the other way round.  But there is an important factor to getting people to your site, and that is to do with the search engines.

If you have a brand new site with very little content, but loads of affiliate links – you will struggle to rank your website in the search engines.  If you don’t get your blog to the top of Google, then you won’t make any money anyway.

So, you need to focus on helping people first, then you can start to include affiliate links a little later.

If people like your content, then more people will come.  Once you have a steady stream of people, you can start to include appropriate affiliate links, and they will trust you enough to buy through them.

So, you need to build trust and how do you do that?

You build high-quality content that helps people get the answers to questions relating to your niche.

These might include:

  • how-to guides
  • blog posts about the what/why/how/who/when questions
  • solutions to problems

People need to start seeing you as an authority in the subject, that is why when we spoke about choosing a niche, it does need to be something you can offer value in.  Picking gaming laptops is great if you know what you’re talking about, and there is money in gaming laptops.  But if you haven’t got a clue, this will translate in a lack of content that helps.

So, you need to do some research into what are the questions, problems or solutions, products and other things that your target audience would be looking for within your niche.

Then you can start looking for good keywords to target with your blog posts.  A keyword is what we all use when we do a search in google, so a relevant example would be “how to start affiliate marketing today” most likely led you here.

That was the keyword, we targeted with our post, and as long as we provide a helpful guide Google likes, it will appear at the top of the search engines.

This is a strategy called SEO or Search Engine Optimisation.  You need to ensure your website and your content, etc. is optimised to be Google friendly.

However…

This is where some get it wrong, your primary focus once you’ve identified a keyword to write a blog post about is to write it with the reader in mind, not Google.

Take the time to consider that the blog post you have written, does it answer the original questions, does it offer insightful information that helps.  If it does, you’ve done a great job.

Keyword Research & Niche Research is an important aspect of starting generating ideas for writing content, and do that you will need to use a tool.

There are many on the market, but if you followed our steps above you would have gained access to 30 free searches with Jaaxy.  It’s a research tool that is included in the Wealthy Affiliate platform.

With Jaaxy, you could come up with a ton of ideas for what to write about.  If we go back to our gaming laptop niche, here are some examples from Jaaxy about that niche:

Once you have some keywords, topics and basically stuff to write about, get going with writing the best blog posts you can that help people in that niche.

Once you start getting a trickle of people coming to your site, and liking your content, then we get on with tackling finding affiliate programs for you to link your content to, and including some relevant product reviews…

Finding Affiliate Programs

We mentioned Amazon earlier, and their affiliate program (called Amazon Associates) is a solid option for a beginner, although the payout isn’t exactly the best.  But they do have the trust element when it comes to your readers.

So, we would always recommend you sign up with them, due to the number of products they have available.

Remember, when you start out you will stay highly targeted to your niche, but as you grow your audience and authority, you can expand into other areas.

If we go back to gaming laptops, you could expand into backpacks, laptop bags, accessories, portable hard drives, etc.

There are loads of them, and Amazon makes it easier to expand into these as they sell them too.

But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other opportunities with other Affiliate programs online.  Have a good look around and you will find them.  We have used the affiliate program search tool within Wealthy Affiliate.  But just a simple Google search will reveal loads, just type your niche + affiliate program into Google and there will be plenty for you to do some research on to find some good alternatives too.

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Once you have been approved for the affiliate program, then its time to get cracking with writing the posts that will lead your readers to your affiliate links… my advice is to keep them centralised within product review pages…

Writing Product Reviews

Some people don’t like writing product reviews, but they don’t have to be that tasking.  There will be those of you who think you have to have bought the product to do a review, and to a degree that does help.  But there are ways of writing objective product reviews based on research.

All you need to do is be honest with your readers, and say that your review is based on extensive research online and then write what you have found online.  This is a great guide for writing reviews

You also need to understand where your customer could be in the customer purchase lifecycle.  Are they ready to buy the product, or are they still in the browsing stage.  Understand that will help you write a series of blog posts that lead them to your product review page.

Product Reviews are typical where a customer is in the ready to buy stage, they just want a second opinion before deciding.  But a customer who is just generally looking will not be so ready.

A good mixture of helping blog posts, alongside product review pages will present a good overview to a visitor and as long as they feel they can trust you, they will follow your directions.

Once, you are doing that regularly, you will be earning money…

Ready To Make Money?

I’ll be completely honest with you at this point, you can start affiliate marketing really easily today.  Our guide has hopefully helped you with that, and the training at Wealthy Affiliate is the best starting point you could ask for.

But the point at which you will be making money will not be today.  There are plenty of scams out there that are claiming you could be rich tomorrow, and that will not happen.  It took us 6 months to earn our first few dollars, and that’s a reality of many affiliate marketers.

This isn’t about doing a weeks worth of work and seeing the profits coming in.  If you want to be successful, the first thing you need to get right is your mindset.

Are you ready to work for free?  Are you ready to put in the hours it takes to become an authority in your niche, and get trusted by the search engines (and your readers)?  It’s totally worth it in the end, but too many people fail because they walk away thinking it doesn’t work, when they were so close to seeing it come to something:

We can help you, the training can help you, and we will always be there to make sure you’re on the right path.  But as soon as you take your foot off the gas, you will find that you’ll have taken ten steps back.

That’s why the part about making money comes at the end of the process.  You need to believe this is going to come to something, as the first few weeks or even months won’t necessarily show you any signs of what’s to come.

As soon as your content ranks towards the top of the search engines, that is some success.  As soon as people start visiting your blog, thats a success.  Then, hopefully it leads to income.

There are no get-rich-quick schemes out there – those claiming they are one, are not!! 

The only way you will get rich, or at least financially free is to chase, and chase and be consistent with taking action.

How to Start Affiliate Marketing Today!!

Affiliate Marketing is fantastic, and is our top recommended business model.  There are so many examples of people earning a real income stream from it, and those that are living the life they want because of it.  But they all started at the beginning and had to put in the time to get it to that point.

That is why we offer our help for those who are serious about it.  If you’re ready to commit your time and effort into building an affiliate marketing business, and you’re ready to start your training – then we do recommend you start with a free wealthy affiliate starter membership.

Complete the free ten lessons, and start your free affiliate marketing website.  But the end of today, you could have your own affiliate marketing website up and running.  We’ll be on the inside ready to help you, alongside a community of other like-minded entrepreneurs.

If you are still in two minds, that’s totally fine. But if you have any questions that we can answer to help you, then please write them in the comments section below and we will get you an answer to help you…

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36 thoughts on “How to Start Affiliate Marketing Today – A Step-by-Step Guide”

  1. Excellent info for those who are thinking about getting into affiliate marketing. I agree that there are lots of scams out there, so it’s important to find a post such as this one to help weed out the bad from the good. There are so many niches to choose from out there which makes affiliate marketing not only sustainable but fun too. Wealthy Affiliate is one of the best online platforms and communities out there, perfect for starting out and continuing with affiliate marketing. All who are curious about affiliate marketing should check out the links, well done!

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    • Hey,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  There will always be these scams because there will always be people who are desperate to earn money quickly and they will fall into the traps.

      Avoiding these scams means accepting that there is no real quick way of earning a huge amount of money.  Earning money comes from working hard.  We always try to help people know whether they have found a scam or not.

      Picking a niche is the building block and shouldn’t be rushed into.  Taking time to fully check out the best niche for you is going to give you a better start to your business.  If you can nail on a niche that you can fully engage into and offering insightful posts and will not get bored of, then you have a good niche.

      Too many people opt for a niche because they think it is profitable, but they cannot come up with any content ideas.  What is the point, it is a waste of time.  

      Creating content about a subject you enjoy and are knowledgeable about will be more profitable for you, then the previous option.

      It is understanding these things that makes up whether you will be successful or not.  But that is why we always recommend Wealthy Affiliate.  Their training will ensure you make the right decisions at the right times to avoid things that could go wrong.

      Hands down, our top recommended product!!

      John

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  2. I am glad that you have clarified what real affiliate marketing is. Most people get into pyramid schemes thinking they are into affiliate marketing. Most of them force you to sell something yourself in order to get money.

    Your four steps are quite easy and self explanatory. I recently got into affiliate marketing and I can say your steps are straight forward. This is what newbies need to find and implement.

    I am seeing progress in my online business and I can’t wait to create a full time income doing affiliate marketing.

    Thank you for this thorough explanation.

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    • Hey Carol,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  That is the danger, if you do not do your research.  If you get hooked into MLM or a pyramid scheme, you are destined to just lose money.  The emphasis is all around recruiting.  

      It only benefits the people at the top of the pyramid.

      Affiliate Marketing is awesome!!  Wish you luck on achieving your goals.

      John

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  3. Hi, john crossley,
    Nowadays Affiliate marketing is very familiar to everyone, especially to the online incomer. There is a big range of affiliate marketing it’s too tough to know all things about it. But This article shows you how easy to memorise all this. 

    I would like to give big hands to John Crossley how easily he shows those concepts step by step it’s amazing. I would like to invite everyone to know about this article

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    • Hi Akborm,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  Thanks, we appreciate the feedback.  There might be people who know what affiliate marketing is, but what they might not know is actually how simple it is to actually do.  It is not easy, but it is simple.

      But when you break it down, you have a simple premise of helping other people who are deciding whether to make a purchase or not.

      In a nutshell it is that simple.  Yes, there is plenty of work to be able to do that.  But if you can achieve that simple goal, you will be successful…

      John

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  4. Hello John Crossley

    Good to see another article and obviously a nice one on affiliate marketing. This is like dream to me. Making own business online is a quite difficult stuff I think. Building website, selecting niche, marketing, making website visible, gathering traffics as you said earlier in this article, all are so hard to me. But you have discussed it nicely. Thanks for the discussion. Building niche website will help more to make some money online I think. You have given a proper guideline.

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    • Hey Harber,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  Anything can be difficult without the right training and support.  But we should never let these fears get in the way of us acheiving our goals.  If i had said a few years ago, not to start affiliate marketing because I did not know what it was.  I would probably still be looking for other ways to make money online.  Instead, I got started with some fantastic training that led me to a point where I am now helping others fulfil their dreams.

      With the right training and the right amount of effort put in, you can and will succeed.  I know you can succeed Harber, you just need to crack on and learn what you need to know…

      all the best

      John

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  5. Wow you have really opened my eyes up to the possibility of becoming an affiliate marketer. I work on a dead end job and would love to make some money on the side till it is enough where I can leave and live more of my life. As you said it’s not a get rick quick scheme but if I don’t start I would never be able to become any more financially stable. Instead of wasting time at night I think I will start on wealthy affiliate. I have had a little research on the training academy and think it is great and it has changed so many people’s life’s, with some hard work it can be me next 

    Thank you so much Jack x

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    • Hey Jack,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.

      You will not regret it, if you can put all of the training into action you will soon be able to start planning for the day you can give up that day job!!

      Work hard and put everything into motion and the sooner you start, the sooner you can plan for that day!

      All the best Jack!

      John

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  6. Love your post straight to the point and very clear and helpful for anyone that wants to start an online blog. What I love most of it is that you are mentioning Wealthy Affiliate and I have been a member with them for over a year now. The best platform I could have ever picked to learn how to launch a career online. I would definitely recommend it to everybody

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    • Hey Barbara,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  Thanks for backing up our recommendation.  

      Wealthy Affiliate

      provides everything someone just starting out would benefit from!

      John

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  7. Thank you for this indepth article on affiliate marketing. You outlined all the necessary components into starting a successful affiliate marketing business online. 

    Doing good research what a profitable and suitable niche one might choose is also a very important aspect. I also think any niche can be successful – there are so many people online today, that every single niche you think of can have its audience. The trick is to create valuable content and be consistent in bringing value to your audience. 

    Wealthy Affiliate is truly amazing in so many ways. Their easy to follow step-by-step training is second to none in my opinion. I have been a member there for the past year and I plan to remain a lifelong member too. The reason for this is their training is updated daily, you are always in the loop with the current trends. Also, the platform keeps being updated and gets better each and every month. On top of everything, it’s really affordable as well. I couldn’t recommend it enough. 

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    • Hey Alenka,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for writing some comments.  

      It is really important to research your niche, but I would advise not getting drawn into picking a niche just because you think it will be profitable.  You need to be able to create content about your niche, so if you have no knowledge about gaming laptops, why would you pick it because the commission rate looks more appealing??  If you cannot create any content about gaming laptops but know loads about pets.  Go with pets, as you will create more content and offer more value and earn a lot more than trying to fake it with gaming laptops….

      Wealthy Affiliate is an awesome training platform for those looking to get started with affiliate marketing and be shown the correct way to do it.  Hands down, our top recommendation…

      John

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  8. Thank you for your detailed post, and you have made the world of Affiliate Marketing look really enticing. Who doesn’t want to be able to earn a passive income? Do you have a timeframe on this on when one will start to earn an income?

    I think the most difficult thing about the whole process is choosing just one niche as there is such a variety out there, but one doesn’t want to go too broad otherwise the competition will be too stiff. On the other hand, one doesn’t want to go so narrow that you run out of things to write about for your website.

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    • Hey Michel,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  It is really difficult to put a time frame, as it would depend on how much time you put into it.  Someone who is doing it alongside a full time job might find the time frames take longer than someone who can dedicated 40 hours to it each week.  It then also depends on the amount of effort you put in.

      I like to think 6 months is a good benchmark for a normal niche website and a year for anyone wanting to tackle the MMO market.

      But if you follow the right training, these timeframes can be reduced.

      John

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  9. Thank you for this helpful article! Hey, I’m wondering: what are some good ways to narrow down into a good niche? What are some good ways to know if a niche will be profitable in the long term? And how do you keep your interest in a niche up after the first hundred posts? That seems like some really important information to know. 

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    • Hey Wendy,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  If you want help narrowing down on a niche, you can check out our guide on niches for affiliate marketing, check it out here.  We have written some good niches on how to pick a niche.

      As regards to the longevity of a niche, picking an evergreen subject is always a good shot.  For example, people are always going to be interested in keeping fit or eating healthy.  But if you picked something that is a bit of a fad, then the long term chances aren’t as good.

      Hope that helps

      John

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  10. Hi John,

    Excellent post, I loved the reading!

    I am a Wealthy Affiliate member for over five years now, and I just love it more and more every day.

    I would even say that this place is my second home. Anyway, I think that Wealthy Affiliate is the best platform online in the world, and there are good reasons for this. Nevertheless, there are many niches outside that have infinite potential, and the great thing is that anyone could build a thriving business around any of them. The problem with Affiliate marketing is that it takes time until we see results, and that could be discouraging for some people. So it’s important to be persistent in the online world if we want to succeed. 

    Hope to see you around:)

    Thank you for this useful post!

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    • Hey Daniella,

      thanks for checking out our blog and for sharing your experience with us.

      It does take time, but if you pick the right niche for yourself it becomes a very enjoyable task and then the money starts coming in and it becomes even better.

      All the best

      John

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  11. This is a resourceful article, its really educating. Making money from home has been a very interesting topic to discuss and many people are always looking out for one or two things  to do from home, affiliate marketing is actually the best and most productive online business if the right steps are taken. You’ve done a great job in this article by explaining in details how to start Affiliate marketing, this will service as guide for those aspiring to be affiliate marketers. Its a really nice post, I love it.

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    • Hey Jones,

      thanks for checking out our blog and thanks for your feedback.  We are trying to help anyone who wants to learn how to do affiliate marketing the correct way.

      All the best

      John

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  12. With thee rate at which the chances of making money online is increasing by the, there is no doubt there wouldn’t be people trooping into the affiliate market just to make some money for themselves. However most of these people do not know how to go about starting an affiliate market account. Looking at the tips you have given here, they are just same I’ll give to anyone who is willing to go into this business and make some money. Thanks for sharing.

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    • Hey Dane,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  We try to keep it simple and these tips could help anyone get online and get to the top of the search rankings, so i am glad you agree.

      thanks

      John

      Reply
  13. Hello John, you have done good justice to this explain here all about affiliate marketing. Your guide here is truly step by step. I am a member of wealthy affiliate and I joined a few months ago. Honestly,it’s been a very good ride for me since I joined in and the tools available has been a good one like jaxxy. I must say, the world of affiliate marketing has changed a whole lot and more people are beginning to learn about it. Like you have said here, it is not a get rich quick scheme. There’s work to do and there’s a guideline to follow. Great post here worth sharing. Nicely done!

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    • Hey John,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  It is becoming more well known, I hadn’t even heard of it before I got started and now I love it and help others get started.

      Amazing how it is becoming more widespread and people are noticing that you can do it, and it helps to avoid those online scams when people find legit ways to do it.

      All the best

      John

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  14. Wow, you’ve explained what real affiliate marketing is and go into great detail about it. Was it very difficult for you to choose what niche to get into? What tends to be the hardest thing about attracting visitors to your site? I really like how you explained the use of keywords. Thank you for sharing this!

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    • Hey Brian,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  It can be difficult to narrow down a search into a niche.  But I find that if you spend some time with a cup of coffee and brainstorm your ideas of what subject you want to go into, do a bit of keyword research and see what the audience is like you can usually find the perfect niche.  Some might not get the niche right the first time, I didn’t but with all I learned the first time around, by the time I got the niche I really want to target i was already storming out of the blocks.

      Thanks

      John

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  15. Thank you very much for this great post, I am always on the look out for any avenue to make legit money online and I am glad that I came across this post, You have really provided great tip and guide on how to start affiliate marketing. I already own a blog and I will follow your guidelines in getting started. 

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  16. Getting started with affiliate marketing and reaching the apex is all encompassed together in the four points you have discussed in details here. Affiliate marketing is the perfect means to stack up passive income online and what better way to do that than to adhere strictly to all of these that you have talked about here. Thanks so much for expanding thoroughly on this.  Getting to choose niche would be the perfect step to get started with affiliate marketing.  Generating traffic is the second most important because a site without traffic would ve wasted and overtime, monetizing it would make it a success. Thanks

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    • Hey Roger,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  Success can be achieved with affiliate marketing and it doesn’t have to be overcomplicated really.  that is why we can just cover 4 points and hit the target.

      All the best

      John

      Reply
  17. This is an excellent wealthy affiliate review for anyone who is interested in building their own online affiliate marketing business, You have gone into great detail, not only about what to expect from wealthy affiliate but also what affiliate marketing is all about, I am already a member of wealthy affiliate and I have to say that it is the best online affiliate marketing platform, I would recommend wealthy affiliate to anyone, personally, I started with the free membership and signed up to premium within 5 days and I have to say that I haven’t looked back, I now have my own website and online business up and running thanks to wealthy affiliate, thank you for sharing. 

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    • Hey Russ,

      thanks for sharing your experience with Wealthy Affiliate.  I am glad you are well on your way to reaching your goals with the support of the guys at Wealthy Affiliate.

      Here’s to you!!

      John

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  18. Wow! Tremendous post! I love how detailed you were in going through each step of the process, I feel like you addressed everything I need to know to truly understand the fundamentals of what affiliate marketing is and how it is able to generate a passive income. Just as importantly, you clearly identified what proper affiliate marketing is not! There are so many get rich quick schemes out there, understanding the inner workings of affiliate marketing and the level of commitment involved clearly demonstrates that this is not another fly by night money pit!

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    • Hey Michelle,

      thanks for checking out our blog.  Get-Rich-Schemes exist because people still believe they exist.  Other than the lottery, anything else takes hard work and dedication.  Once you realise there is no legit get-rich-quick schemes people start to open up to other opportunities like affiliate marketing.  It is the best way to actually build a passive income, if someone wants to actually take action and learn from experts

      thanks

      John

      Reply

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