If you have to answer the question of what is affiliate marketing in the easiest way, it means that you advertise and sell the products and services of another business. You get commission by selling like that. Affiliate marketing is performance based marketing. You don’t get a commission just by advertising. You only get a commission if you actually sell. For that, the person who will do affiliate marketing needs to try.
Affiliate marketing is widely used internationally by bloggers. The income of many bloggers is not from ads network including AdSense as it is commonly thought, but from affiliate marketing. What does a blogger need to do affiliate marketing?
Must have a website.
So, your website should have content written on things that will be of value to people. There must be people visiting the website. (For that, the website needs to be SEO optimized)
What else can you do?
However, it is not necessary to have a website. You can also advertise on your own social media channels. If you advertise in any way and get services or buy goods from that business, you will get a commission.
You need to be connected to any affiliate system.
There are web portals created exclusively for affiliates. For example, websites like CJ Affiliate. There are many businesses listed there. In those businesses, you can apply to advertise a business suitable for your website. CJ checks the website and if it meets the rules, it is allowed to become an affiliate.
The picture below is from the aunghein.com blog I advertised for a business in the CJ affiliate system. (Now I’m writing this post. It’s surprising… there is a sale. I added an ad link the other day and removed it. I got a sale that same day… I’ve added it back. You’ll notice it in the post you’re reading now. There is a Namecheap.com advertisement banner. It’s also at the bottom of the post.)
Some businesses have established their own affiliate system. If you want to affiliate with that business, you can apply directly to him. If you allow your website, you can start.
For example,
I have linked a website to Agoda. You have heard a lot about Agoda. A famous hotel booking platform. The picture shown below is the list of bookings made on Agoda through my website in the month of August. The picture below is the commission report received from the above bookings. Currently, the final amount has not been released. It is usually finalized by the end of the month. Around 20 dollars.
There is something to be said here. My website added by Agoda only gets about 250 traffic per day. The picture shown below is the traffic that entered the website in the month of August. Social traffic is about 35% and organic traffic is about 27%. Most of the social traffic is from Myanmar and most of the organic traffic is from the US. 3% comes from Google Ads. I’m doing keyword testing, so I’m running google ads.
Therefore, another affiliate is directly connected with the business and advertises its products/services. Advertising is not direct advertising, but writing a review. Either showing how to use it or doing it. I have written reviews for website services and scripts on this page. For that, I get a direct service fee, and I also get commissions for sales leads that go from me to him.
In conclusion, if you have a blog and international traffic, affiliate marketing will work for you. So, you need to use affiliate marketing for your website niche.
All in all, the most important thing for affiliate marketing is SEO. Good SEO will bring people to your website. The website that agoda added above is only 3 months old. But because SEO can be done properly, it gets traffic.
Note.
Since I often write about SEO, they ask me if I offer SEO training. Because I don’t have time to give. But I can contact you at any time. In the near future, I will be hiring a person who wants to study digital marketing to help me with the digital marketing work I am doing. However, what I have to do is to help with the social media marketing part of my client’s social media pages and the SEO, SEM, blogging, affiliated marketing, AdSense parts that I am working on.