7 Steps to Affiliate Marketing

There are total 7 steps to learn affiliate marketing. Let me discuss one by one... 

1. First Step To Learn Affiliate Marketing is to Find Your Niche

First thing First, Find your Niche. It could be anything but better to choose the one you are interested in or something you are passionate about. This could be your hobby or anything you ever wanted to learn about. 

2. Keyword Research

Keyword Research has a vital role in affiliate marketing.  If the keyword you choose are not related to your niche than there could be a problem for you to get a good ranking in search engines. You can use the free keyword tool from Google to find the right keywords. It is always better to select the one having less competition. With less competiton keywords, it will be easier for you to rank high in Search Engines.

3. Choose Domain Name / Hosting

The 3rd Step is to choose a domain name. But STOP, you don't just need a domain name, choose it wisely. Ideally you need to have a domain that includes a target a keyword and which should be relevant to your niche.  One of the biggest problems is people tend to fall into the trap of choosing domain names that are far too broad. Your 1st and 2nd Step will be helpful in finding the right keyword rich domain …

4. Setting up Your Website

After selecting your domain and setting up your hosting, now we need to setup your website. We will not make any static or dynamic website here but instead we will choose wordpress to start with. Wordpress blogs are easy to create and maintain. Only 3 clicks will create your wordpress blog. It will hardly take any time.

5. Writing content

This is another main step in learning affiliate marketing. The content we are going to write should be unique. Your home and other pages are ready. Now its time to start writing posts.  If you don't have any topic to write even than there is no problem. Just use Google's Keyword Tool and put your root keyword in the search and hit search button. It will give you a list of hundreds of keywords phrases. Just select the one closely related to your niche and put "How", "What" kind of words before every phrase. These can be your topics. Apply the same techniques to Article Writing.  Content writing doesn't limited to your website only. It also includes writing articles for article directories. Make a habit of writing 2 articles a day and submit the same to different article directories. The rule says "One Article, One Article Directory, One Day". That means, write one article everyday and submit it to any one article directory. In the initial stage, you can start with one article but I would suggest you to write 2 articles per day to get good exposure. Make sure you don't duplicate your contents.

6. Building Traffic

Ok, your website is ready and you are ready to build traffic to your site. Building traffic is most important because without traffic, your site is nothing. You won't be able to sell anything, you won't be able to make money from your site. There are many ways to bring traffic to your blog. 

7. Monetization

Monetizing your website, The last but, not the least. The final step will make you some money. You must be wondering why Monetization came after building traffic and why not before that. Because without traffic you won't be able to sell anything to anyone. Affiliate Marketer's earn money by monetizing blogs.

The seven steps above are just an overview and not in detail and I think you should check out the complete seven step course that I have coined.

Thanks,

Shaishav Sood