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How to start Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

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In this post, I give some background information on how to start Affiliate Marketing.  Affiliate marketing is where you promote and sell a product for a company or owner of the product for a share of the revenue generated.  Sometimes you may have an interest in the product because you

  •  have used it, and seen its value;
  •  can also sell goods you have not used;
  •  can also produce the product and market it as a creator and marketer. Or have others promote the product for you too.

 

Parties involved in Affiliate Marketing

There are several parties involved in affiliate marketing, namely;

 

The Merchant – the one that creates the product – can be a large company like Adidas; or an individual owning a small business.

 

The Network –  is the intermediary that puts together all the products and handles the affiliates and payments, like Amazon. Product owners make the product, link up with networks who then acts act as an intermediary between them, and the affiliate. (sellers)   Affiliates can have access to several products from one network.

 

Affiliates are also known as Publishers by some sites.

 

The Customer –  is the buyer.

How does Affiliate Marketing  Work?

Affiliate Marketing works with the Network giving affiliates a unique link to merge with product images on their websites and other channels.  This way, the product is advertised for visitors to see.

Affiliates are expected to make known to the consumers their participation as an affiliate for a product.  This is where disclosure is revealed. A tracking system works in the background to effect delivery and payment.

Steps to Join an Affiliate Company and Succeed as an Affiliate 

  • You need to look at reviews about the affiliate company you want to use.  Then register with them. They track the links to know what items were purchased or even viewed.
  • Make reviews of products, the right way, to enable you to make sales easily.
  • Find a medium or think through how to get your links to your chosen audience.  It could be through a blog/website or through video on a YouTube channel, to name a few.
  • Create the content and reviews about the products.
  • Go through questions people are asking on your niche (interest or product) and use keyword research to
  • Start writing answers on them through posts on your blog.
  • Get free products from producers or purchase some for the purpose.

 

In writing a product review, you establish trust with the customer.   A product review template enables the consistent and quick generation of reviews.

 

Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing

 

 

Niche affiliate marketing

With niche affiliate marketing, you can have what is known as a niche affiliate blog.   Focus is on one product or a set of products in a related category that are reviewed in blog posts.  You can replicate this method for an offline side hustle;  your creativity comes in a great deal here.  This can also be termed as building your brand.  The products you offer can be so focussed that it helps to find your site.  We can relate to this, as there are particular sites we choose to visit only because of what is offered and the way it is done.   We get our problems solved by visiting certain websites.  In the same way, setting up a niche site should solve problems for others.

 

Best affiliate Marketing Programmes

You can be an affiliate for anything from

  • Courses,
  • Hosting,
  • WordPress themes,
  • eBooks (downloadable products),
  • Physical products,
  • Software.

 

Affiliate marketing opportunities abound online, the most popular one being Amazon.   To find them, make a search in Google for say children’s’ toys (niche) + affiliate programme.   This is a very focused niche, as it is only one item related to children that have been chosen.  You can also search, based on something you’ve’ used and would like to write reviews about it for the benefit of others.

 

Affiliate marketing average income – depends on the company, product, and type of affiliate programme being used.  One product when promoted well can generate a lot of income.

 

How to create an affiliate website

Anything you have learnt about creating a website can be applied to an affiliate website.  You may just have to look round to see how others have done it for you to decide.  It may also lead you to your choice of a website theme.  Some WordPress themes are set up for product images or shops.

 

Benefits of Affiliate Marketing

The ease of entry into Affiliate Marketing is one benefit most people like about it.  You may have to set up a website with some content on it before some networks will allow you to be a publisher.

 

Affiliate marketing is considered passive income.  Once the process is set up properly, it generates earnings on its own.  This kind of online marketing requires some knowledge and training.  Like any online business, it is necessary to attract visitors to the site through SEO using keywords.  Also, study other sites to learn their strategies.  Most people fail because they give up too early and don’t take the time to put in their best efforts.

 

Wealthy Affiliate teaches affiliate marketing in four steps providing the necessary tools to help you succeed.  The steps are to

  • Find a niche;
  • Set up a website. Find a product.
  • Register with affiliate progs provided as part of the training;
  • Use keywords to write product reviews;
  • Earn.

 

Here’s what some members have to say:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visitors gain trust as they are helped by your content that offers the value they need.

You now have an idea of how to start Affiliate Marketing.  Did you enjoy this post and learn something new?  If you did, leave me a comment and please share it.

 

Jaaxy Keyword Tool Review

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Jaaxy Review

 

Jaaxy Keyword Tool
Jaaxy Keyword Tool

This review is on Jaaxy, a keyword tool that helps with the search and selection of keyword phrases.  Results on Jaaxy are derived from Google Bing and Yahoo.  Keyword search, selection, and their use are important for your site to get traffic and rank high in the search engines.  Using keyword research to target words and appropriate search phrases to use, is faster than manual brainstorming.  It is necessary to find website competition, which is the number of websites with the keywords you want to use.  Such competition figures can be derived from the monthly estimated volume of thousands of search results using Jaaxy. 

A keyword is a word or phrase typed into Google when making a search.  You may not have noticed but there is an intent behind any term typed into Google or other search engines  this has been categorised as 

  • Navigational – leads to a website. e.g Daily Graphic
  • Transactional – when trying to take an action.  e.g  short course review or purchase a short course
  • Informational – these can be in the form of a question. Sometimes navigational terms are also informational in nature.  e.g sofa bed – where information about a sofa bed is being sought.  

 

The terms you choose and use can help your post land on the first page of the search engines.  

Keywords are indispensable; as you use them at every turn namely; 

  • blog post titles, 
  • image titles
  • Inside descriptions
  • Campaign text

With this explanation of keywords, let’s now look at Jaaxy.

Review of Jaaxy keyword tool

Jaaxy is a keyword tool that is incorporated into Wealthy Affiliate Open University.  It is a tool that you can use even if you are not registered as a member or student of the school.  It is web-based so can be accessed on any device.  

 

How does Jaaxy work?

Type a search term into the search bar.  A list of related phrases is revealed.  Click on the desired ones to reveal more keywords.  More related terms are found on the far right of the tool under related terms.  Click ‘brainstorm’ for more terms.  Click on desired related results to reveal more results that you may not have thought of.

The results are searches being made by people in real-time that you can use in your posts, headings, subtitles, campaigns, as well as image titles.  This is one of the main reasons for doing keyword research.  Always make these searches and use the results in your posts.  Keywords are indispensable as brainstorming has limitations i.e one can think of just so much.

Since most people search with three or more words, most of the results reveal such phrases known as long-tail keywords.  With some of them, they are searched for  500 to 1000 times a month and can rank very quickly to the top of the search engine results pages. Practically, it has been found out that if you targeted words or phrases with less than 300 websites using that search term, and that brings about 100 clicks or traffic to a site, then it is a desirable phrase to use. Keyword research tools are used to find these figures known as quoted search results (QSR) or website competition.  The estimate of traffic is also determined.

Longer keywords are more specific that is why they are more likely to rank.  Some of these explanations are the result of several years of analysis on the workings of the search engines.  Once a phrase is very targeted, it surely gets ranked.

Jaaxy keyword results page
Jaaxy keyword results page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The results in Jaaxy are from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Amazon.  On Jaaxy can be found the following estimates, some of  which you should be focusing on:

 

Average: average number of phrases in a month

Traffic: number of visits to a website,  if found on the first page

QSR:  Quoted Search Results – (number of websites using that term)

SEO:  based on traffic and QSR.  A higher number of 100 is desirable

KQI: Keyword Quality Indicator uses colours to show if a keyword is great, normal, or poor.

 

If you need an exact match domain name, the tool searches for it and lets you know its availability.  For example, when you search for  ‘free SEO training’;  and want to set up a site with that phrase, you can name your site freeseotraining.com or .net whichever Jaaxy makes available.

 

There’s also the alphabet soup technique incorporated into the tool, where you add the letters of the alphabets one by one before or after the keyword phrase.  For example free SEO training ‘a’ and ‘a’ free SEO training.

 

Site rank in Jaaxy shows you where your site ranks in Google.  It will save you from doing this manually;  that is, you manually have to check from time to time, where your site has reached in the search results. Sometimes it will be on page 2 and later move to page 1.  Sometimes it will be nowhere near the first 10 pages but after some months will move closer to the first page.  

 

Check here for 30 free searches on Jaaxy

 

You can also use keyword tools to find out about other websites in your niche.  For example, if you are in the technology niche, you can key in the website name of another tech site you know to see metrics related to their strategy. To help you improve on yours.

 

Inside Jaaxy, you can tick particular keywords and save them for future use.  Chosen keywords can also be exported as a .txt or .csv file. This is handy as you may not need some of the keywords.  You can even delete those you don’t need right from inside Jaaxy.  

 

There’s also a provision for search history, which is self-explanatory.

 

Jaaxy also has provisions for affiliate programmes where popular affiliate programmes are listed.  You, first of all, need to register with any of the affiliate companies you are interested in.  Inside Jaaxy affiliate programmes, you find carefully selected products that you can promote.  You can additionally, make a search inside Google for your niche plus affiliate programme, to look for more.

 

Jaaxy Pricing

There are various levels of the tool, namely

  • Free 30 keyword searches for starters,
  • Pro version – manual features –  $49/m
  • Enterprise version with features fully automated. $99/m

You manually check keyword results, whereas, with the Enterprise version, the results are instantly revealed.  If you have several websites and need to make quick keyword searches then you’ll need a tool like Jaaxy Enterprise which gives search results very quickly.

I use Jaaxy Lite which is part of the premium package of all premium members of Wealthy Affiliate.  I add other free options to my keyword search especially Google auto-suggest and the free Keyword Surfer options.  The thing about SEO is to understand how it works and basically, take action using your creativity and imagination as far as it can go.  Posts do rank depending on the rarity of the search terms used.  Meaning, you may be targeting keywords with zero estimates, but that will rank rather high all the same.  

If you’d like to try Jaaxy you can do that here.  This will let you determine if it’s alright for you to upgrade.  There are training videos available when you sign up for Jaaxy. 

Choose keywords based on its relevance to your post and audience and consider the competing sites or traffic that the keywords will bring to your site