Make sure you read this content till the end because I will be sharing with you a lot of secrets that I’ve learned of doing affiliate marketing for over several  years. Well who am I to even teach you affiliate marketing, right? I’m a blogger and content writer .And now comes the big question, what is affiliate marketing? In affiliate marketing, three parties are involved .There’s a merchant or an affiliate network ,let’s consider it to be Amazon .Then there will be you, as an affiliate. Where you will be promoting the products of the merchant through a special affiliate link .So when someone purchases a product through your affiliate link, you get a commission ,that is, you make money.

 Now in blog , I’ll show you step-by-step on how to sign up to the affiliate network, how to generate your links, how to promote these links to thousands of people for free and then make money from your links .Almost all popular companies use affiliate marketing to drive customers. Be it Amazon, Flipkart , Ola, Uber, Swiggy, FoodPanda, Zomato- almost all popular companies are doing it.

How affiliate marketing will help you?

But the important question is, how affiliate marketing will help you. Well the biggest benefit is definitely online earning on autopilot. Today my websites are driving free traffic every month from Google and making me affiliate commission. So now let’s talk about who can learn affiliate marketing. You don’t need any special qualifications, you don’t need any technical background. All you need is one laptop, or a computer, and an internet connection. This is all you need. The best part about affiliate marketing is that you are making money from the comfort of your home. There is no age limit, no massive course fee, only your willingness to learn, and your willingness to earn money online.

There are thousands of affiliate networks in the market. I myself use 20+ affiliate networks to make money for my affiliate websites. So which one should you choose? While there are more complicated ones like Clickbank and the Commission Junction, where you need the knowledge of advanced digitalmarketing in order to make money.This is because the competition is just way to high.

For beginners, who are just starting out, the one I recommend is Amazon Associate .It’s easy to run and promote and now I’ll be showing you why you should be focusing only on Amazon.in. Amazon is the world’s biggest ecommerce website. Amazon.com is driving more than 2.5B visitors per month. Amazon India or Amazon.in is driving more than 360M people per month. The best part is that every experienced affiliate marketer is only targeting Amazon.com in the US market. But there’s usually zero competition in Amazon India. So making money from an Indian Amazon associate account is a hundred times easier than promoting in Amazon.com on the US market.

How get Benefits ?

 Apart from this, there is many other reasons why you should join the Amazon affiliate network. Once you promote your Amazon affiliate link the cookie period is for 24 hours. So whatever the customer ends up purchasing in the next 24 hours, you will be getting the commission for that.

The second good point is that you will be getting paid the affiliate commission for the entire cart. So let’s say you refer someone to buy at-shirt. But the person ends up buying a jeans, a cap and the t-shirt as well. You will be getting the affiliate commission for the entire cart value and not just the product that you recommend. This is the best part about the Amazon affiliate link. And since Amazon has so much data and optimization, majority of the people end up buying so many other products and not just the product you recommend. You can see in the image on the screen that majority of the products that I sold are not the products that I was promoting but the other products that people purchased when I referred them and I still got the commission.

The third benefit is the Amazon brand. Amazon is now one of the biggest ecommerce website in India. They spend millions in advertising and now everyone knows about Amazon. So there’s a trust from the consumers from Amazon, so the conversion rate of people buying from Amazon is very high. This also helps in getting more sales and hence, making more affiliate commissions.

How can you make money from affiliate marketing?

So now let’s talk about how can you make money from affiliate marketing. The easy answer is create a website and scale it. You don’t even have to work on your website when your article ranks on Google search results. It’s free traffic, month on month. Unlike other platforms that come and go, Google is not going anywhere. So you don’t have to worry that Google will go out of fashion in a few months. People will keep on searching on Google. There are many others ways apart from affiliate links that you can make money from your affiliate website. You get sponsorship opportunities, branches will start emailing you. you’ll also be making money from sponsored links .

So let’s start with opening a YouTube channel. Yes, you can open a YouTube channel in any niche. Like many other YouTubers are doing, and they are also making good affiliate revenue. You can create a fashion-related channel and promote fashion-related products. You can also create a technology-based YouTube channel and promote just like Technical Gurujiis doing, but the main point to stress is that YouTube is getting competitive. Already for all the popular categories, be it fashion, be it gardening, be it technology ,already YouTubers are dominating that niche. It was easier a couple of years back when the competition was low, and also be cause of the Reliance Jio wave. Now already majority of the profitable niche has a channel dominating. Now, I’m not saying that you won’t be able to do it. Yes, you can open a YouTube channel and you will be able to scale it. But it is extremely difficult. It will be difficult to scale, you’ll have to be patient. You also have to show your face and you’ll also have to invest in expensive equipment.

Now, let’s talk about promoting affiliate links through Instagram. One thing that I should mention is that every social media platform comes and goes. So Instagram might not be able to survive in a couple of years. Also getting followers in 2019 is extremely difficult compared to a couple of years back. Every social media platforms is going with the pay-to-play mode. Like the case of Facebook, earlier the organic reach was very high. So let’s say you have 10,000 page likes, if you post a new post, you’ll be able to reach that 10,000 people. But now Facebook wants you to pay money in order to reach the people who even like your page. Now the competition on Instagram is also growing because the people know that there’s money to be made. And also Instagram wants you to pay money to get those followers. So the organic growth is down. And the worst part about Instagram is that there is only one place where you can add the affiliate link that is the bio. So the number of links of the affiliate links will be far less and hence the oral commission that you make in a month will be much lower. And this is why I don’t recommend Instagram as the only source of promoting your affiliate links.

The same goes for a Facebook page or a group. The organic reach is dead, so you won’t be able to promote your affiliate links in a profitable manner. So I don’t recommend either going into Instagram or YouTube or a Facebook page or a group…rather the smart strategy is to go into allow competition area and dominate it before it gets too competitive. Also, once your affiliate sites start getting traffic, you can move to these verticals either YouTube channel or Instagram account

The best strategy is to first start a website,scale it, and then move to the various verticals of YouTube and Instagram. This has given me the best results. So what is the process of making money from affiliate marketing through a website.

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