Do you want to earn from your blog or e-commerce? One solution could be creating an affiliate site!
Affiliate sites are discussed when, either through links or other strategies that we will see below, you manage to earn a percentage when the user purchases a product after clicking on your site's link.
This happens because you are defined as an affiliate, meaning part of an affiliate program.
There are really many, and for example one of the most important is Amazon (we will also look at this).
The statistics on this type of site are ruthless: only 15% of affiliates earn more than 1000 euros a year!
We want to earn more, and to do this we must understand how to create an effective and profitable affiliate site!
How to create an affiliate site: factors for success
The first things to keep in mind, much like with any website, are:
- Choosing a high-performance hosting;
- Strategic domain name selection
Once you have chosen the hosting for your site and selected the domain name (carefully considered based on the market segment you wish to target, avoiding the typical flea market), you will need a technical strategy: which platform to choose and which theme to use.
Before discussing technical factors, let's focus for a moment on a fundamental aspect: which niche to choose for your affiliate site!
Niche selection and earning forecasts in an affiliate site
This aspect is crucial.
Make a real mathematical and statistical forecast. If there are X visits per month on a certain topic and you get 10% on clicks of a link, calculate how many users you could reach and how many of them might click on the link, thus obtaining the actual earnings.
Let's understand better:
For instance, let's say the main keyword you've chosen has a total of 20,000 searches in a month, and you think you can capture about 10% of those through content marketing and sponsored posts (social campaigns), that's roughly 1,000 visits in a month; at this point, you need to figure out how many of these users will click on the affiliate link, and then how many of them will actually convert on the affiliate platform you've chosen.
In short, from the 1,000 monthly users we come down to about 250 users who click (25% would really be an excellent result) and obviously not all of them purchase (usually only 10%) so, from the 250 we arrive at about 25 users.
Now let's calculate the earning percentage on the affiliated products purchased by the user, which on average leads to about 15 euros per item. The calculation brings us to 375 euros, without having done anything at all! you have effectively created a real passive income!
In theory, this is the case, as there are many factors that can unfortunately lower the percentages.
We now delve into the heart of the tutorial by explaining how to choose a niche for creating an affiliate site.
You can choose between:
- Macro niche: you'll have free rein to start a blog, promote videos on YouTube, create partnerships with other affiliates or even promote yourself on social media. In short, once you've chosen your sector you just need to come up with your own business plan to attract users and get them to click. Aim for clean and sophisticated SEO that will bring organic traffic.
- Micro niche: here we're talking about an extremely rare topic or product that only a very small segment of users may appreciate.
Difference between affiliate marketing and an affiliate site
An affiliate site (affiliate site) allows you to earn from user purchases resulting from the traffic of the same site (you only take a percentage relative to the total of the product purchased), while affiliate marketing is the method by which you receive money, namely the marketing strategies that the merchant (who actually sells the product) adopts to make your earning possible (i.e., the percentage they owe you, the system through which you joined their affiliate program, etc...).
Insert affiliate links.
On your site, you will need to insert specific links provided by the affiliate platform itself.
A good strategy could be to place these links in your blog.
If a user searches for a query on the web, you should provide an answer through your articles.
These should be seo friendly, meaning optimized to appear in that search, but most importantly they must truly be useful to someone who searched for this query.
Let's make a simple example:
You are creating an affiliate site for gardening.
You noticed that "how to cut the grass" is a very popular search and you made a post explaining all the techniques and secrets to cutting the grass.
Here, strategically, you can insert a link where you will put the best model of lawn mower currently on the market, which will lead out of your site to the product page on Amazon for example.
This particular link, if clicked, once the sale is finalized, will earn you a commission.
Therefore, encourage the interested reader to click, thus increasing your earning potential.
Choosing an affiliate program and affiliate links
We have seen it, the affiliate program is that marketing technique that allows a merchant to sell their products through external sites, such as yours, thereby giving you a percentage of the sale.
The affiliate link is the link that the merchant gives you for the product you have chosen to sell.
It's a somewhat special link that allows for tracking so that if a user makes a purchase through that link, the sales percentage will be immediately credited to you.
Here are the most popular affiliate programs:
- Amazon Affiliate Program: one of the safest affiliate programs in the world, but not necessarily the most profitable, percentages vary depending on the sector but can reach up to 10-15%.
- Awin: a comprehensive service that allows you to earn very high commissions. It's a global network so, like Amazon, you're in safe hands;
- Tradedoubler: another global network system that guarantees high commissions, excellent support, and advises you on how to earn more through statistics and analysis.
Now let's see how to create the actual website.
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The new Italian digital marketing platform will allow you to do everything we've discussed, directly through its interface.
Framework360 can not only assist you in creating and configuring your website, through which you can leverage your affiliate links (for example by creating a blog and uploading content), but at the same time it has an affiliate program that allows freelancers and web agencies to intercept clients while earning a commission.
You just need to register for the affiliate program, and from there, through the affiliate platform, you can generate a product link that you intend to offer to the customer looking for the service (for example, a restaurateur who needs to create his own webpage).
By clicking on the link, if the customer purchases a subscription, you will earn 20% commission on that purchase, thereby generating an income that will be immediately withdrawable from the platform.
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