But before I dive into the details, you’ve to understand that writing and publishing high quality content consistently is the foundation of building a successful blog. People want to learn from experts and you’ve to strive to be one of them in your intended niche market on a consistent basis and not by fits and starts.
This is why you’ve to be an avid reader in your industry in order to be abreast of news and information of your target market. Being the “first to know” is the first criteria of becoming a successful blogger people want to listen to and follow.
With that said, let’s dive in!
Step #3: How to Find Affiliate Products to Promote and Sell
If you really want to make money online for the long haul, creating a blog that provides value in the marketplace is what will matter to you as a blogger in the first place. But if you don’t have your own digital product or service to sell immediately or digital skills to provide and get paid from your blog website, the next best option is to promote affiliate products and earn affiliate commissions when you close sales for vendors.
So, I can confidently say that affiliate marketing business is one of the best ways to monetize your blog as a beginner and earn money online without breaking a sweat.
Now, how do you get affiliate products or services to promote and sell on your own website?
The first step is to sign up with reputable affiliate networks which are related to your industry or niche market. You can then browse through their marketplaces and use keyword and/or other search parameters via the search function to find specific affiliate products to sign up for.
Some of these reliable affiliate network programs are Impact.com, Amazon.com, CJ.com, Clickbank.com, MarketHealth.com, JVZoo.com, etc.
The second option is to use Google.com or any other search engine of your choice to research affiliate programs to promote. You can use your “niche keyword” plus “affiliate programs” to find the product you can promote and sell. You can see an example of how to use keyword to find affiliate products using Google.com from the image below.
You can use different keywords to replace the word “affiliate” if you are not getting the required results e.g. associate, referral, etc.
Thirdly, you can reach out to a merchant, vendor or product creator who has no affiliate program in place on a personal level to discuss how he can create one if possible for you to sign up with. Some merchants don’t know the benefits of having affiliate program until you enlighten them about it.
Fourthly, you can follow successful bloggers in your niche market to see what type of affiliate products they promote. Heavyweight bloggers who own sundry digital products on sale still join good affiliate programs that complement their products and services and promote them to earn affiliate commissions.
You can sign up for their email newsletters and track links to products, services, software, apps, etc, which they are promoting and are affiliate links. You can then find ways to join the same affiliate network programs if possible. This is the best way to find high-paying affiliate programs to join as quickly as possible and make money on the internet.
Step #4: Conduct Keyword Research
At this level, you should tentatively have 2 to 3 complementary affiliate products you can promote even if you’ve not signed up with them yet. Your task now is to research and find profitable long tail keyword phrases to target when you write blog posts or optimize your blog for SEO (search engine optimization).
You should not forget that majority of online shoppers make use of search engines like Google.com to research information about anything before they take the decision to buy. So, if you’re able to discover these search queries which they type into search engines and write SEO articles about them, you’ll hopefully rank on the SERP (search engine results page) for increased free targeted traffic.
There are keyword research tools to quickly use to perform this task and there are free and paid keyword tools on the World Wide Web. Google Keyword Planner tool is free to use but you won’t be able to know keyword difficulty of each of the search terms. Ahrefs.com and Semrush.com are paid keyword research tools which you can use to determine if a keyword is profitable or difficult to pursue or not.
Another way you can discover keywords to write about is to go to questions and answers sites like Quora.com and go through questions people in your target niche are asking. You’ll also find answers from experts to these questions to learn from. The interesting thing here is that you’ll discover key word variants which different people type to ask questions and find specific information.
As always the case, keyword variations are usually location based because people are familiar and use different search queries. In some climes, web surfers may use “associate” while in another clime, they will use “affiliate.”
Yet, another method to find different keywords to work with is to go to AnswerThePublic.com and type your search query there in the search field and hit the return button. You’ll discover different types of questions people are asking which are related to your topic from the returned results.
Step #5: Get a Domain Name and Web Hosting
This step is the simplest of them all. What you’ve to do here is to register a domain name and get web hosting from reliable company so that you can create a blog for free. You’re going to use self-hosted WordPress to build a website. WordPress.org is built as CMS (content management system) software which makes it easy for blogger like you and I to create a blog website without knowing anything about coding, HTML or CSS.
You can sign up with HostGator web hosting because they support WordPress hosting which makes blog installation a breeze. In addition, they have excellent customer support in case you are stuck with about installing your blog on a domain name. HostGator provides unlimited disk space and bandwidth for your web hosting services in case you’ve enough files or data and avalanche of website visitors to handle.
If you’re concerned with your website security in this age of hacking, malware, etc, you should consider getting reliable website hosting that is cheap and experienced in the business at the same time.
Step #6: Install WordPress on Your Domain Name
Everything is now set to go if you’re able to purchase web hosting from HostGator or any other website hosting company that supports WordPress hosting. You can use the Softaculous app to install WordPress on your domain name by following their on-screen instructions and prompts.
If you’ve successfully installed your blog, you’ll receive a message to that effect. There is no problem if you’re not installed WordPress before or you’re not confident that you can install WordPress on your domain name. I’ve written a mini blogging guide to teach you how to install WordPress blog using Softaculous app for free. Click here to download the ebook and use it to complete the task in a minute.
In my next blogging tutorial, I’ll teach you how to optimize your blog for maximum impact when you want to rank for money keywords on the SERP. This step will make or break your online marketing campaigns if not done right. I encourage you to bookmark this website and make comments below to ignite the discussion.
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