In the previous article, I introduced to you a low investment, high return to make money online: affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing? How does an affiliate make money?
affiliate marketing in English is affiliate marketing, which is called affiliate marketing in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
There must be a novice white want to know: how to make money step by step through affiliate marketing, that is, recommend products?
Today, I will break down the 5 steps of affiliate marketing to you, and I need to emphasize one point: if you want to make money through it, you must get started in operation before you can succeed.
Without further ado, let's get down to business.
Step 1: Build a personal website
Why build a personal website?
My experience is that if you want to make money through affiliate marketing, recommending products, you don't have to build a personal website. Many domestic business affiliate projects do not require you to have a personal website.
But you have a personal website, there are three advantages:
1) Higher probability can pass the audit of the alliance project.
Although some affiliate projects (such as many domestic affiliate projects) do not require a personal website, most affiliate projects (including professional affiliate marketing platforms) require you to provide the URL of your personal website. With your own website, you will be more professional in the eyes of others and easier to pass the review of alliance projects.
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2) It's easier to get consistent traffic, which means more money.
With a personal website, it is like having a base that you fully control, others will know how to find your website, add up, and your website will have more and more visitors, more and more traffic, and more and more money.
3) You can control your content
In my own experience, you can't control what you post on some websites or apps. These platforms say delete delete, for example, I have used a certain, public number, Jane book, I have encountered the situation of articles being deleted. It's a pity that content created by oneself is forced to delete.
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Therefore, I strongly recommend that you create your own website, and make it your own website. The content of the article on their own website can still be published on other platforms at the same time, when the two are not wrong.
How to build a personal website?
Seeing here, some friends may be thinking: I don't know how to build, how to do?
Don't worry, the following is a summary of the operation of the personal website, which can be used as a reference.
- 8 steps to quickly build a personal website
- Alibaba Cloud set up WordPress website and apply for SSL installation tutorial
- Tencent Cloud build WordPress website and apply to install SSL tutorial
Step 2: Get affiliate links for products
Once the website is built, you will think, what products do you recommend?
There are many products that can be recommended, you have to analyze according to your own situation.
If you are a travel blogger, you can join airbnb, booking alliance, to the major travel websites to post, share your travel experience and feelings, while promoting their platform for hotels, flights, etc.
If you are a shopping blogger, you can join the alliance of Amazon, Jingdong, Taobao, etc.
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If you are familiar with the knowledge of Internet servers, you can join Ali Cloud, Tencent Cloud alliance plan and so on.
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You can also browse professional affiliate marketing platforms to see the many affiliate programs on the platform.
How do I get your affiliate link?
Affiliate links can be easily found in the background of the merchants you recommend products to, or in the affiliate platform you join. If you have any problems with the use of the background, just contact the customer service staff.
Step 3: Create content
This is the most important step, based on your main product, embed the links you got in step 2 in the content, and create content that helps others.
For example, if you want to recommend products such as cloud servers, you need to collect and publish news, knowledge, and technology sharing related to these products, and insert your affiliate links.
This content can be video, can also be graphic, as long as your content is recognized by others, someone through your link to buy the corresponding product, you can automatically receive commission.
Some people specialize in the promotion of alliance projects of such products as Tencent Cloud and Ali Cloud, and earn a commission of 20,000 to 100,000 yuan a month.
There is certainly a huge effort behind it and strong execution, but there is no insurmountable barrier to entry, at least from a technical level.
Step 4: Attract traffic
Do affiliate marketing to make money, the essence is the realization of traffic, this traffic can be obtained for free.
Some friends may say: my website is done, the content is published, but there is no traffic ah.
We should know: this is an era of information explosion, every day on the Internet there are countless information displayed in front of the user, you can not wait for the user to take the initiative to find your website.
No one visits the site, naturally there is no traffic, there is no commission.
Since there is no traffic, then we must actively attract traffic, that is, drainage.
Here are four sources of traffic:
1) SEO, Search engine optimization
Search engines are a very big source of traffic, such as Baidu, Sogou, 360 search, Google, Microsoft bing.
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For example, my personal website https://ailifeker.blogspot.com/ gets 10%+ of its daily traffic from search engines.
When you create content, do a good job of keyword optimization, including title, content, summary optimization, slowly, your website will have more and more traffic from search engines.
I tell you: Baidu traffic is still very large, with a large number of users, we must pay attention to it!
2) Social media
Such as wechat, QQ, Weibo, XiaoHongshu, Douyin, Pinterest Facebook TikTok Instagram.
Which social media to use depends on where your target audience is and which ones you tend to use.
For example, domestic friends like to use wechat and QQ, birds of a feather gather, people by group, you can completely send the website link to the relevant wechat group, QQ group, or synchronize the content to the wechat public number to attract traffic.
3) Community
Zhihu, CSDN, Blog Garden, Jianshu, Douban, Quora, Reddit, etc
Quora is a question-and-answer community, similar to China's Zhihu; Reddit is an online forum similar to China's Douban and Tianya, which have a large number of users and traffic in the United States.
A word of caution: When Posting content in these communities, be sure to speculate about its censorship standards and try to violate their rules as little as possible.
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4) Video sites such as YouTube Bilibili
YouTube (commonly called "YouTube" in China) is technically the second largest search engine in the world, and many people search for all kinds of information on it every day.
What you want to do is make a video about the product you want to recommend, post it on YouTube, attract users to watch the video, and direct them to your website or directly to the affiliate link for the product.
Bilibili is known as the Chinese version of Youtube, the number of users is very large, monthly active users now more than 200 million, we must pay attention to.
Step 5: Earn commission
Finally speaking of commission, here are 5 key points related to charging commission.
1) Cache duration (cookie duration)
Simply put, the customer clicks on your link in the browser, and within a few days, he completes the payment operation or some other specified operation, and you earn a commission. The commission is paid by the merchant, and the validity period is determined by the merchant in advance.
The common alliance project validity is 30 days, and there are alliance projects with longer or shorter cache validity.
2) Commission standard
The commission standard is also decided in advance by the merchant.
Some are calculated as a fixed amount, some are calculated as a percentage of the order.
For example, if you join the Amazon alliance and join the Ali Cloud alliance, the commission is calculated as a percentage of the order amount.
The ultimate money-making guide to Amazon Alliances
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Some have additional rewards: that is, some merchants issue additional rewards in the promotion activities for alliance customers.
3) Release time
Because of the possibility of order cancellation, many merchants generally issue commissions after 1 month, and the specific payment time depends on the regulations of the merchants.
4) Withdrawal amount Many alliance programs have a minimum withdrawal amount, if the minimum amount is not reached, you will have to wait until the next withdrawal time point.
5) Collection tools
The payment method depends on the affiliate program you join, the common ones are PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, check, etc.
What is Payoneer and how do I register for Payoneer? Look at this article
For example, Ali Cloud alliance project withdrawal, can only use Alipay. Shopify's proprietary affiliate program withdrawals are currently only available with PayPal.
Closing remarks
Well, the above is my summary, the novice white to do affiliate marketing affiliate marketing 5 processes.
To make money by doing affiliate marketing and recommending products, you don't need esoteric technology, the only thing you need is execution.
Do affiliate marketing threshold is low, do not need to network, do not look at people's faces, and is not limited by time and place.
Whether you live in a big city, a small county or even a rural area, as long as you have a computer and a network, you can do it. Therefore, affiliate marketing is the easiest and most reliable entry point for ordinary people to do side businesses and freelance jobs.
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In the long run, its investment is low, its output is high, and it earns passive income, which is not constrained by time and place, and it can be done for a long time and make a big net income project.
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