4 Steps: How To Become An Affiliate Marketer Online, A Beginner’s Guide

A lot of beginners don’t know how to become an affiliate marketer online and there is a lot of misinformation out there so with this post, I want to point out not only what to do but also not what to do so you don’t fall into any pitfalls.

Becoming an affiliate marketer is not that hard at all but being one long term is the harder part.

You see, affiliate marketing is not as easy as most people think and they get into it thinking they can make tons of money right away and that is farthest from the truth.

I have been reviewing so many product reviews in the make money online industry and it’s an eye opener what’s out there that are just pure scams and misleading people left and right.

Therefore, with this simple guide, I could show you how affiliate marketing should really be used and how you should set it up for the highest success.

Let’s now check out the following sections:

• Being An Affiliate Marketer, What Does That Mean?
• The Four Steps To Build It Right
• There’s No Substitute For Real Training

 

 

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BEING AN AFFILIATE MARKETER, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

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When you become an affiliate marketer, that means you are being an affiliate of different companies, products, or services.

If you apply to let’s say Walmart’s affiliate program, it means you could use your affiliate link they supply you with and use it to promote products that sell on Walmart.

When you promote this affiliate link and someone clicks on it to go to Walmart, you will get a commission if they end up buying something.

That’s how affiliate marketing works in a nutshell but how do you get that link in front of people?

How will you find the right people?

The process is actually more involved and you don’t just apply to just any affiliate program and start promoting affiliate links.

To run an affiliate marketing business properly, there is a structured blueprint to follow which is something I have used to build mine with and it has worked.

The blueprint comes in 4 big steps that I’ll go into next and if you want to build this business long term, this is the way to go.

 

 

THE FOUR STEPS TO BUILD IT RIGHT

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There are four steps or stages for building this affiliate marketing business and it goes something like this:

1. Pick A Niche
2. Build A Website
3. Attract Visitors to Your Website
4. Make Money

 

Now, let me go into each of these stages:

Step 1: Pick A Niche

You’ll be picking a niche or topic of your choice so you’re not just going to be all over the place, your online business should be focused on a topic.

It could be a general topic like cooking but it’s better if you could narrow that down since cooking could encompass so many different aspects.

So if you picked something like low carb, vegan cooking (sorry if this is not a thing, lol, just example here), then it’ll be better for you to serve that group of people.

A lot of people get stuck at this first stage because usually people get excited and they just want to everything but that’s really not the way to go.

Having a focused group of people to serve will be better because as a beginner it’ll be easier for you to focus in a small area than to go all over.

Picking a niche is about serving a group of people that has pain points that you could help solve.

Whether you know how to get rid of carpet stains or relief aches and pains of elders, there are so many niches you could go into.

One way to find out if one niche is better than another is by doing keyword research and I have a whole page here for you to learn about the tool I use.

Here are some more ideas for niche generation:

• Niche Ideas That Lead To Success
• Ideas Generation Webinar

These two links above go to the training platform that I have been using for the last 2 years to build my business with.

You’ll be able to a create free account to check those out but the webinar, you will only have access for 7 days and then that part will go away unless you upgrade your membership.

 

Step 2: Build A Website

Some people try to do be an affiliate marketer without a website but really, this is not good, if you are going to do this long term, you will need a website.

This is because you need an internet home for people to go to, so they can find you, and this also builds trust within your niche.

As you build your website, you don’t need anything fancy, you just need something that’s simple and clean to look at.

The more you build it the more authoritative your website is going to be and the more Google and other search engines will like your site and offer you better rankings on their search results.

The more you can provide value to your audience the more search engines recognizes this and continue to give you more visitors.

Ultimately, you’re building an asset that will be generating its own free organic traffic if you do it right.

This is how my site has tons of visitors a day, on a good day almost 2,000 visitors come here, and I don’t do a single dollar of advertising.

If you don’t know how to build a website like I have, you should get formal training here, it’s the same one I use.

They have taught me how to build mine from the ground up, the very beginning.  I have more on this below.

 

Step 3: Attracting Visitors

As I alluded above, you will be writing a lot of content as you should be using a WordPress style blog website.

In your content, you will be using keywords which are words people use to search on the internet.  You want to use those same words, so that your website could show up on search results.

This is going to be the grunt of the work it takes to attract visitors to your online business and sharpening your keyword research skills will be important here.

As this is because attracting visitors is the lifeline of your website and you should learn all about SEO so that you could earn how to rank high on the search results so you could show up on first page.

Do you notice that when you do a search, you mostly click on the first page of results?

That’s your goal is to get as many of your pages on the first page of the biggest search engine Google.

This is why I explained above that if you’re a beginner and you don’t know how to do all this stuff properly, then it’s really best to get yourself some real, comprehensive training.

 

Step 4: Making Money

This is the fun part but it doesn’t happen right away and most people will have no patience for this and quit.

As I started this post, this is one of the first things I said is that this business is not as easy as everyone thinks.

You will build a website and write content to recommend those products to your readers but getting on Google and ranking high takes time.

You also should take the time to really learn this properly if you want to earn an amount of income that is significant that you could depend on.

How much you’ll make will really depend on so many things, the niche, the products you promote, the type of affiliate programs you choose, your work ethics, your working habits, etc.

All can show you is this picture of my first two years of this website, it really shows how this business works:

 

 

Now, if you were going through my first year, would you quit at any point of those first 12 months?

I wouldn’t blame you if you did.

However, because I know how this business works, I continued on and hit the point where my website started getting that “snowball effect” and my income just skyrocketed this year.

The two years go from Sep/16 – Aug/18, and $18.2K of that 2nd year is from 2018 alone.

I’ve blogged about my income proof on that training platform I use, so you could check it out for free (click image for full story):

 

 

I have 7 essential tips here for affiliate marketer beginners if you want to check it out.