Affiliate Marketing
January 15, 2019
The ultimate guide to Affiliate Marketing (What it works and how it works)
Affiliate Marketing is the best way to make money online from your blog. It allows you to add a steady stream of revenue to your blog's monetization strategy. In this affiliate marketing guide for beginners, we'll explain how Affiliate Marketing works and how to get started right away.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
By default, Affiliate Marketing is a referral setting in which an online retailer (advertiser) pays you a commission when users buy their product from your referral link.
Unlike other types of ads that pay by clicks or views, Affiliate Marketing operates on a CPA basis (cost-per-acquisition) or cost per lead (CPL) cost. In other words, you only earn a commission when someone does an action (i.e., they buy the product or sign up for a free trial).
Because there is little risk to the advertiser, affiliate programs pay much higher commissions to publishers than Google AdSense or other types of ads.
Affiliate Marketing requires a more practical approach. You need to find a product or service that you think will be useful to your users. After that, you need to add it strategically to your blog posts and other areas of your site so that users can buy the product using the referral link.
How Does Affiliate Marketing Work in Tracking?
First, you need to find a company or product you want to promote. You have to choose a product or service that you think will be relevant to your blog topic and will be useful to your audience. The product you choose will be called "MERCHANT".
Then you have to work with the company by joining their partner program. This brings you the title "Partners". Some companies also use terms colleagues, colleagues, etc.
Once you have moved on to their affiliate program (also known as affiliate program), you will receive a unique affiliate ID. You will need to use this affiliate ID in all affiliate links you add to your site to promote the product.
You can promote the product by adding detailed reviews, recommending it in your articles, displaying banner ads, sending an email newsletter, and more. All the traffic you send to the merchant's site with your unique ID will be monitored.
Once a user purchases any product from your website, you will earn a commission. Your payment is issued when your earnings reach a certain limit usually 45 - 60 days.
