Affiliate Marketing For Beginners in 2025 (Full Course)

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• 0:00 | So, I’ve made over $5 million with affiliate marketing. Now, some programs have made me over a million dollars, and
• 0:05 | some programs I’ve sent thousands of clicks to and made nothing. Now, this is not typical, but in this video, I want
• 0:11 | to cover what actually works today for someone starting from zero. This includes how to start your affiliate
• 0:16 | content strategy, joining and getting approved into programs, adding your links, getting paid, and scaling across
• 0:22 | blogs, social media, and YouTube with the goal of getting to 10K a month. And before we dive in, if you want my 10K AI
• 0:28 | income launch plan, walks you through the exact step of picking your niche and building a content plan with AI, the
• 0:33 | link is in the description. So, let’s get into it. So, I personally have been in hundreds of different affiliate
• 0:38 | programs over the years. I’ve made over $5 million with it. Some programs work great, some don’t. Some content works,
• 0:44 | some doesn’t. So, I wanted to show you just a quick overview here of all the clicks I’ve sent different brands and
• 0:49 | partner stack. This is one affiliate network. So you can see Thinkific, I’ve sent 97,000 clicks and made $1.1
• 0:55 | million. That is not typical by any means, but I want to show you something interesting. So like for example, I sent
• 1:00 | 21,000 clicks to Learn Worlds and made 191,000. That’s really good, right? But
• 1:06 | then other brands like Printify, I sent 1,800 clicks to and I made $3. So
• 1:13 | there’s a wide range. What is actually working? What isn’t? What do we look for in good affiliate programs? We’ll cover that in a second. And then this is my
• 1:20 | impact dashboard over the last just 30 days showing you I’ve kind of consolidated it down to really only focusing on like one affiliate program
• 1:28 | in here. So Blue Host is in here, right? So I have,00 clicks, made $13,000 in the
• 1:34 | last 30 days. You can see there’s not many clicks for other brands. So really, when you’re joining affiliate networks,
• 1:40 | finding affiliate programs, we’re starting with a content first strategy, figuring out a niche that you can
• 1:46 | dominate, finding the programs, joining them, adding your links, and monetizing. So, let’s get into it. So, how do we
• 1:51 | pick a profitable niche is probably the most common question I get. Well, we need high ticket products where you can make $50 to $500 per commission, not
• 1:59 | like $3 a commission. We want evergreen demand. So things like fitness, finance, hobbies, software, things that people
• 2:05 | are buying consistently over the course of time, which is most niches. And then content depth. So we need our niche to
• 2:11 | be able to have, you know, we need to be able to publish like 50 plus pieces of content and spread it out over a lot of
• 2:16 | different product categories in order to make money. So you don’t want to be too broad like I’m in health or wellness. We
• 2:22 | want to be a little bit more specific, but we don’t want to go too narrow either. So how do you find affiliate
• 2:28 | programs? Well, like I’m saying, we want to choose a niche first and then fill in like the top three affiliate programs
• 2:35 | that we’re interested in joining. But if we want to find some, there’s affiliate networks and there’s affiliate programs
• 2:41 | themselves. So affiliate programs are either inside of a network like a marketplace or they’re on their own with
• 2:47 | their own software. For example, I was showing you partner stack and you can see different partnerships like for
• 2:52 | example Manyhat here earn 30 to 50% uh recurring commissions. So, every time
• 2:58 | someone becomes a customer, you get paid every month as long as they are a customer for the first 12 months. So, it
• 3:03 | says this. I’m actually in this one. So, uh let’s say Snapchat for business. You just click apply. So, you can see them
• 3:09 | and you can apply. Same thing in Impact. If you go to discover, find brands,
• 3:14 | it’ll show you all the different ones that are out there. So, you can do it by different categories. You can see lots of different stuff. World of Tanks, earn
• 3:21 | up to $12 per new player. So, it has, you know, every affiliate network looks a little bit different, but you’ll see
• 3:27 | there’s buttons to apply, there’s how much you make, there’s contact information and all of that. And sometimes affiliate programs are just
• 3:33 | within their own software. So, some brands, like this is machine.ai, I’m an affiliate for them. You can see there’s
• 3:38 | commissions or stuff. Usually, when it’s in its own software, that’s like there’s a dashboard, there’s where you get your links, there’s your reporting, like how
• 3:46 | many people you’ve brought in, your stats, and then there’s like how you’re getting paid PayPal. It’s really that simple. any affiliate program. All you
• 3:52 | need is your affiliate link, the reports of what you made, and a PayPal payout method. So, I’m going to show you real
• 3:58 | quick a uh chat GPT prompt that can help you find programs. But first, just remember a few things. Don’t spread
• 4:04 | yourself too thin. You don’t need to be in 50 programs. You can find two to three best converters in your niche.
• 4:09 | Because like I was showing you, the interesting thing is if I go back to this, what is what are we looking for in
• 4:16 | a good affiliate program? Well, one, we want good commission rates. We want to actually make money, right? We don’t want to make 2% like Amazon or something
• 4:22 | like that. We want to make fair amount of money for the sale. But the biggest factor that we can’t really see when
• 4:28 | you’re joining is the conversion rate of the brand. So remember with affiliate marketing, we’re sending a click whether
• 4:33 | it’s from a blog post, a YouTube video, a short video. We’re sending a click to this brand and it’s on them to convert
• 4:41 | it. We have no control over their conversion rates. So we could send a,000 clicks. If they’re if their conversion rates suck, we’re not going to make any
• 4:48 | money. So, as we can see from this, we want brands that convert well, which is usually the uh mid-pric point most
• 4:54 | popular brands in the niche. For example, if you’re promoting golf clubs, although you might make more money
• 5:00 | theoretically on a $5,000 set of clubs making 10%, that’s 500 bucks, the
• 5:06 | conversion rate on that could be astronomically lower than that $1,000
• 5:11 | mid-tier well-known reput reputable brand that makes you 10% on a thousand,
• 5:17 | you’re making a h 100red. But the conversion rate is the hidden factor of affiliate marketing. And it’s really
• 5:22 | hard to know until you actually can see the data, right, before you, you know,
• 5:28 | actually get clicks. So, just know like popular brands in any niche are the best converters. So, here are some tips for
• 5:33 | getting approved. First, you don’t have to join the affiliate program right away. If you have no traffic yet, you have no website, you have no YouTube
• 5:39 | channel, then you can wait a little bit until you join these programs. You don’t want to wait too long, but you don’t need to do it right away. And the second
• 5:46 | thing is when you think about it, like if I go to impact and I go back to home,
• 5:52 | it’ll show me like I have a bunch of programs that have they have 159 invitations. So people have sent me all
• 6:00 | these different invitations to join the affiliate program. It’s the same thing when you apply to an affiliate program
• 6:05 | within a network. There’s an affiliate manager on the other side that is a human being doing their job and they’re
• 6:10 | going to manually review every single affiliate. So, as an affiliate, you’re a publisher. The main job of the affiliate
• 6:17 | manager, which I was one for a couple years, so I saw both sides of this. I was managing 4,000 affiliates for a
• 6:24 | software company. And the main job of the affiliate manager is also just to look out for scams and spam. So, there’s
• 6:30 | a lot of scammers out there that will like join affiliate programs, use bots, and just like send clicks and like for
• 6:36 | demos and trials and try to make money like that. So if you’re a new site or
• 6:42 | you know a new website, new YouTube channel, you can join. I would just say you might get rejected on the first pass
• 6:49 | if you just are applying. But what you do then is you email the affiliate manager directly. So a lot of the
• 6:54 | networks and programs have the affiliate manager’s information or you just go to LinkedIn and find them. Email them and
• 7:00 | what you say is, “Hey, I just applied to your affiliate program in Impact. I saw that I was rejected. I just want to let
• 7:06 | you know like I’m a new site YouTube channel, but I’m really focusing on scaling my content and I really want to
• 7:12 | promote you in all of these different articles, videos about the product category. Uh please, you know, let
• 7:19 | approve me if you can. Thanks. And that will usually work most of the time because they’re just trying to find, you
• 7:25 | know, if they want more affiliates, it’s their job. They see you don’t have traffic yet, but you know it’s coming,
• 7:31 | you can actually get approved. So that’s kind of a struggle that a lot of people face. So one thing is this affiliate
• 7:36 | marketing program finder. Very simple little prompt. You can just put it in put your niche here. And I’m going to say like camping. So look for high you
• 7:44 | know 10 affiliate programs to join. Provide the URL format. I can copy and paste links to join all of that with the
• 7:50 | brands with the highest commission rate. It’s going to think longer for a better answer. I’m going to skip it just in the interest of making this video not
• 7:56 | boring. So So it’ll give you some ideas. is it’ll give you the name of the brand like back country, the commission rate,
• 8:03 | the cookie duration, which cookie duration is how long after the click will you get credited for the sale.
• 8:08 | Another reason Amazon sucks is because it’s a 24-hour cookie duration or sometimes when you just leave Amazon the
• 8:14 | cookie goes away unless they add a product to the cart, then it can maintain for a little bit longer. But
• 8:19 | you’ll see cookie duration is usually 30 to 90 days. I don’t let that affect my,
• 8:25 | you know, thinking too much on it. I’m mainly looking at the commission rate, but it’ll give you the links to join here as well. So, you can kind of start
• 8:31 | brainstorming different niches that way. So, what I like to do though is instead
• 8:36 | of just finding a bunch of programs and joining and then trying to figure out how to make money, I do it the reverse
• 8:41 | way. So, I find the content first, the niche that I can dominate, and then I look for the affiliate programs. And
• 8:47 | there’s really two ways to do this. If you’re doing blogging or you’re doing YouTube. So, with blogging, you can use something like hrefs. And you can see,
• 8:54 | all right, I’m going to put in the word best, which signifies a buyer intent. Buyer intent is really important. And
• 9:00 | search intent is ba basically how affiliate marketing works. You can get random clicks. But if people are
• 9:06 | searching for the actual product and the product category, they’re looking for the best piece of software, the best
• 9:12 | fishing equipment, whatever it is, they’re much more likely to buy. Way more likely to buy. So this
• 9:17 | transactional content is going to be the bulk of your affiliate content. But what I can do is kind of get an idea for the
• 9:23 | niche and the competition. So I’m going to say something like best software. If I put that into hrefs, I can see and I
• 9:29 | go to the matching terms tool. This is keyword difficulty. So I can start to see how difficult it is. This is a near
• 9:35 | a number from 0 to 100 based on how tough it is to rank. So for in this instance, I’m going zoom in a little
• 9:40 | bit. A lot of this is really hard. You can see red is not good. Green is better, but HR software, that’s not
• 9:46 | going to be easy either. So you kind of get a gauge for how difficult the niche is overall. So like maybe best medical
• 9:52 | spa software is easier, right, than best remote desktop software or best SEO
• 9:58 | software. So you have to kind of think about riding the wave, getting on to new trends, new things, new products. What
• 10:05 | happens with affiliate marketing is people create content about a topic. A product launches SEO software was
• 10:11 | created decade or two ago. So once it is, people create blog posts, YouTube
• 10:16 | videos, all of it talking about it. The longer that happens, the more competitive it gets and sometimes it
• 10:22 | doesn’t make sense to try to jump in 10 years too late. So timing is a crucial component of affiliate marketing that
• 10:28 | not a lot of people talk about, but there’s going to be opportunities in software. We just have to look for it.
• 10:33 | So from if we drop the Whoops. If we drop the uh keyword difficulty and we
• 10:39 | only show things that are easier, then it’ll give us a different set of results. So, we’re kind to see like
• 10:44 | warehouse management, SEO rank tracking. So, we can start to see that there are,
• 10:50 | you know, still 4,800 software keywords that aren’t as competitive. I’d probably
• 10:55 | avoid software today unless I was doing it on YouTube. YouTube would be great for software. Blogging in Google might
• 11:01 | be too difficult. Hobby niches are really good when it comes to affiliate marketing uh for blogging. So, for
• 11:07 | example, if I do best kayak or best, you know, I’ll do kayak. Best kayak. You can
• 11:14 | see I’ll even remove this and just show all the results. You’ll see pretty much all of the keyword difficulty scores are
• 11:21 | under 10. So, best inflatable kayak search volume monthly, 4,000 searches a
• 11:27 | month, best kayak, best fishing kayak, fish finder, paddle. You’ll see there’s 5,900 keywords that are pretty much all
• 11:34 | affiliate keywords. So, these would each be one individual article per keyword.
• 11:40 | Some of them have a little bit of overlap. For example, um there might be best kayak and best kayak for beginners
• 11:47 | while the same sites are ranking because it’s kind of the same thing. But if it’s best fishing kayak, that’ll be its own
• 11:53 | thing. So, if I look that up, the difficulties one, I can see the traffic potential 10,000, best entrylevel fish
• 12:00 | kayaks, bending branches.com. We can look at the top 10 ranking sites here
• 12:05 | and we can see the domain rating. So there’s 51. This is a number from 0 to
• 12:10 | 100 based on how difficult it is or how much authority the site has. So obviously YouTube 99, but this is good
• 12:18 | to see that there’s not a ton. There’s two YouTube videos, but there’s this fishoff.com
• 12:23 | very good domain domain rating of 19. That’s pretty much a new site. like that’s no link building, just kind of
• 12:29 | getting some natural links and random stuff over the course of time. And then yeah, 51 still relatively lower DR. So
• 12:37 | it’s good to see you can see how competitive is this niche. Well, if you look at who’s ranking on the first page of Google, if it’s all DR 90 plus media
• 12:46 | sites, then that’s it’s out. You don’t want to do it. So you kind of validate that information. Another way to look at
• 12:52 | it is um so you can look at that. You can see. All right. So, you get a gauge. You kind of just look at these keyword
• 12:58 | difficulty numbers. You might find something kind of in the middle like fitness. So, like fitness trackers are
• 13:04 | very somewhat competitive. Fitness apps, but you have to kind of think what is the search intent behind it. Usually in
• 13:11 | a niche, it’s not going to be best fitness everything. The words are like treadmill, elliptical, bench press, like
• 13:17 | all kinds of different stuff. So, you might have to go a little bit deeper. Be like best bench press, best grip for it,
• 13:23 | best angle. See, these are more sometimes you’ll get informational content in here too. So, best angle for an incline bench press is what angle
• 13:31 | should it be at? It’s not an affiliate article, but something like best bench
• 13:36 | press for home gym is. So, this one says keyword difficulty of seven. If we look at it though, it’s a little bit more
• 13:42 | competitive than that. So, there’s Reddit number one. Garage Gym Reviews is a high authority. Garage uh gym
• 13:51 | basically fitness site 71 Amazon YouTube there is a good thick sporting good showing it. But then garage gym lab is
• 13:58 | only at 37. They’re still on the first page and they’re still getting thousand visits a month to this article. So even
• 14:04 | low domain authority sites can still work. You just have to choose the right niche. You have to choose the right content strategy. That’s the thing about
• 14:10 | affiliate marketing. It’s easy to join affiliate programs and add links in. The hard part is actually getting traffic
• 14:16 | which requires a deeper understanding of the content strategy to get there. Another way to do it is I have this AI
• 14:22 | affiliate marketing prompt I like and we can drop this guy in the chat GPT and
• 14:27 | this will kind of give me an SEO affiliate strategy. So it’ll ask me give me one subniche you’d like to focus on.
• 14:33 | For example, ultralite can’t think of baby strollers, home espress. So not like the whole niche but maybe a
• 14:38 | subniche. So I’m going to say like I’ve got a one-year-old. So, I’m going to say baby safety products. Okay. And then
• 14:45 | it’ll give me 20 uh affiliate article ideas with the target keyword. So,
• 14:51 | things like baby stairgates, corner protectors, edge protectors, and then what I can do is I can take this and be
• 14:58 | like best outlet covers. What’s the ail? It’s probably like 10 bucks, right? So, I wouldn’t want to necessarily do that
• 15:03 | one, but I could find something maybe a little bit more like the stairgate stairs. Best baby gate stairs. And then
• 15:10 | I can take a lot of these ideas and be like, hm, is there enough content I can create? Could I create 50 affiliate
• 15:15 | articles in this category for this site? Could I do it? If so, is there enough money to be made? I mean, there’s so
• 15:20 | many baby products out there. So, that would be a good niche if you can start dominating that. So, you can take this
• 15:26 | and then if you wanted to validate it, you can use Hrefs. I think it’s, you know, before I would say just go with
• 15:32 | use HRES. Then I was like, we’ll just use AI, right? HRES is expensive, but Hrefs has a $29 a month plan now. So,
• 15:39 | you could just sign up for a month, do all your keyword research, and then cancel if you wanted to. But the $29 a
• 15:45 | month plan is um makes it a lot more accessible. So, you can validate it and then be like, “All right, my content
• 15:51 | strategy includes 20 or 50 articles and we’ll go from there.” Now, if we’re
• 15:57 | doing YouTube for affiliate marketing, you can use a different tool, the exact same strategy. You go to Vid IQ, you go
• 16:04 | to the discover keywords because affiliate content is keyword driven.
• 16:09 | It’s not as much about getting recommended in the YouTube homepage. While that really does help a lot, it is
• 16:14 | a keyword- driven strategy. So, we go to find keywords and then I put in something like best plus another product
• 16:21 | category. So, I put in like best protein. go to the matching terms and then we can see all the different video
• 16:26 | ideas and it gives us a competition score the search volume and the overall quality of this is specific to the
• 16:33 | channel like is this a good opportunity should I go for it or not so we can see like there’s so many different potential
• 16:39 | video topics too this is all YouTube search volume and I would say like I would start with probably I don’t know
• 16:46 | why whey protein under 2,000 would be a search like 220 bucks maybe I don’t know
• 16:52 | you can see or I could do best uh fishing and see matching terms. Best
• 16:57 | fishing spot, best fishing, what’s the highest searched? So, we’re going to go by search volume and rank it that way.
• 17:04 | Best fishing kayak under 700 bucks. Best lure for fishing. So, you can start getting some ideas this way. So, you can
• 17:11 | kind of see in general. Uh, another one that can do which we’ll get into the different types of affiliate content.
• 17:17 | What about like AI tutorial? This is what I would probably get into would be like look at all these different AI
• 17:23 | tools with low competition you could talk about on YouTube. Hicksfield AI, Sunno AI, Google AI, Midjourney, AI
• 17:29 | agents, invido, all kinds of different stuff. So, uh this is another thing you
• 17:35 | kind of start with the keyword strategy. See, is it competitive? Can I actually
• 17:40 | rank videos, rank blog posts in it? Can I create 20 plus pieces of content for
• 17:46 | it? Can I make enough money from it? Is the commission at least $100 every time
• 17:51 | I make it or at least recurring through software where I can earn it over time? So, these are all factors before you
• 17:57 | even think about joining affiliate programs is the content strategy comes first. So, if we can develop a plan,
• 18:03 | then it’s like what do we actually do, right? How do we start creating this content in the first place? Well,
• 18:09 | affiliate marketing has shifted a little bit. It used to be just 100% Google dominated. Just Google was the number
• 18:14 | one driver. Now there’s other things like YouTube is becoming huge for affiliate marketing as is Tik Tok. So
• 18:22 | Tik Tok shop as well. So blogs are still the hub where we kind of add affiliate links, keep everything together, but
• 18:28 | YouTube can be a faster starting point for affiliate sales. You publish a video, you can get views faster than
• 18:34 | publishing a blog post and waiting. So YouTube works in more competitive niches. If you’re trying to get into
• 18:40 | finance, software, um maybe relationships, health, things that are really competitive on Google, you have a
• 18:47 | much faster chance just doing it on YouTube, making easy videos like this where you’re just talking talking about
• 18:53 | products. Um the difference is when it comes to YouTube, you do have to show the
• 18:58 | product. So, if you’re getting into like photography gear or video equipment, then you have to actually show it on YouTube. Whereas with a website and a
• 19:05 | blog, you just have to have pictures that you take. um or stock photos, right, of the actual product. You don’t
• 19:12 | have to go on a super deep dive. So, an article about the best drones can just
• 19:18 | have a picture and it features, you know, pricing button, text, features,
• 19:24 | pricing button, whereas a video is going to be a whole different thing where you’re actually going to be showing it, showing footage, all of that. So,
• 19:30 | YouTube can be a little bit more involved if you choose the wrong niche. Niches that are the easiest on YouTube
• 19:36 | are going to be software because you can just do a quick tutorial showing it on your computer. Uh credit cards, business
• 19:42 | stuff like that, which actually can make a lot more money over time. So, if it’s a really competitive niche, also think
• 19:48 | about YouTube. If it’s a hobby niche that’s easier, blogging can do it. So, but we want to cover basically blogging,
• 19:55 | YouTube, and what people are doing on social media in general. So, I’ll show you first my blog. So, there’s two
• 20:02 | there’s different types of affiliate content. So one is the list post to me is the number one driver of affiliate
• 20:08 | revenue. Best XYZ products, tools, this is the one that drives the most sales in my opinion. Tutorials teaching also can
• 20:16 | do it. So when you think about a niche like you have to you’re basically a teacher. When you’re an affiliate
• 20:21 | marketer, you are a teacher because you’re teaching how to do stuff in the niche and the products you need to do it. You can’t golf without golf clubs.
• 20:28 | You can’t fish without fishing gear and a boat. Maybe you can’t build a shed
• 20:33 | without power tools. So you everything that you’re teaching and doing requires products. So those are the two types of
• 20:39 | content you create. How to do the stuff and the products you need to do it. So in a tutorial I’ll show you I’ll show
• 20:45 | you these two. So a tutorial on my site and then a list post on my site. So here’s one on how to start a blog. So
• 20:51 | this is how to start a blog easy guide for beginners. So you’ll notice um I talk about it’s a simple introduction.
• 20:58 | Who I am, what I’ve done. and I taught over 6,000 students. If you don’t have that, obviously you’re going to just put in a simple introduction. It gets into
• 21:05 | the steps. Now, step one of starting a blog is to get it online. So, I have
• 21:12 | this set up to make affiliate commissions through this for Blue Host. So, best platform to start your blog by
• 21:17 | far is WordPress and the best is Bluehost. They have a fall promotion going on. You can get started for this
• 21:22 | price. Here’s a link. So, when you’re doing how-to guides, you can see like it’s like once you click this link, I
• 21:28 | show the exact step by step to sign up. So, the next step is to select the plan. Go here. The next step is to do all of
• 21:35 | these different things on the checkout page. Check out, you’re good to go. Then I get into the actual other parts of the
• 21:42 | strategy of starting the blog. So, when it’s a how-to guide, anything that you’re writing is a number of steps.
• 21:48 | Everything is lists. So, even though this isn’t a list post, how to start a blog is a series of steps. So, 1 2 3 4
• 21:54 | 5. Step one, you need the product to get started. That’s usually how a how-to
• 22:01 | affiliate marketing post does. You’ll see it too, like if you’re doing one like how to build a shed. Number one,
• 22:07 | gather the essential tools. Here are the exact tools you need. You can’t do things usually without products to do
• 22:14 | them. So, when you’re doing a how-to guide, make the affiliate links just a
• 22:19 | simple part of the tutorial. So it’s like once you click this link, you just make it a part of the process that has
• 22:25 | to be done in order to continue on. Now when it comes to list post, that’s something completely different. So this
• 22:30 | is best CRM software of 2024. This one got ultra competitive. You see, I didn’t
• 22:36 | even update the title, but it’s still making some money um for me through CPC
• 22:42 | affiliate marketing. So kind of like some cost perclick program deals. But you’ll see this is a introduction. I
• 22:49 | have this five column block across the top that has the different ones because a lot of a lot of uh sites do this to
• 22:56 | get more clicks. So if you can see the brands above the fold when you land on a page and you can actually see the links,
• 23:02 | you’re more likely to get affiliate link clicks if they’re right away. So what you do is you got to format it the right
• 23:07 | way. It’s a blog post. It’s all about the onpage formatting. So you see that the the title includes the target
• 23:14 | keyword. So this is the target keyword, best CRM software. We add search intent trigger words such as a odd number which
• 23:21 | actually works better than even numbers. The year and then an outdated year and then this is what I call extra trigger
• 23:27 | words. So just something extra to get people to click. Um you’ll see that the keyword and variations of it are in the
• 23:35 | introduction a few times and then you get to the first H2 heading. So the title is an H1 heading. There’s only one
• 23:41 | H1 heading. That is the title. H2s then should be what is it in the form of a question answering it in a simple way
• 23:48 | and then what is the plus the target keyword in the form of a question. This is the secret to ranking on Google and
• 23:56 | also in LLMs and stuff like that is this H2 is the driver. So this H2 question
• 24:02 | using the target keyword right here is really important. Then we have a little bit of paragraph text. And then we get
• 24:08 | into the actual list items answering the main question of what the entire article is about. Number one, Salesforce, this
• 24:16 | is an H3. So H2 is the question with the keyword. H3 is the actual list item
• 24:24 | here. And then you want to differentiate. You want to differentiate every single product. You’re basically
• 24:29 | covering your bases when it comes to affiliate marketing. It’s like, all right, if we land on an article about any product category, I want to feel
• 24:36 | like it’s not missing anything. So, I need things that are best for beginners, advanced, intermediate, whatever the category is. You want to kind of cover
• 24:42 | your bases, assuming that anyone from a beginner to advanced person, any gender,
• 24:49 | age, group is reading this article. So, you’re kind of broadly making sure that you give the best recommendations for
• 24:56 | each type of person. So, I’m saying this is best enterprise. I have my own take and block section with a button. I never
• 25:03 | had this at the beginning. You can ignore that. You can just go down to list to this. Um, this is paragraph text with an
• 25:10 | affiliate link here. And then you have different things. So like for software, there’s key features. There’s user
• 25:15 | experience for me. There’s pricing, what I like and dislike, and then any updates they had, and a button. Now, the
• 25:21 | different kind of factors that you might include can be different based on the product. For example, if it’s a pair of
• 25:27 | shoes, it’s going to be comfort, you know, price, style, all of those things.
• 25:32 | If it’s a boat, it’ll be weight, length, how many people can sit in it, right? Uh
• 25:38 | capacity, all the features. So, the product dictates the features that people are interested in. So, for
• 25:45 | software, it’s that. But you’ll see that basically, and this is the
• 25:50 | uh little thing that was added by another company. You can compare quotes here. This was added later, but you’ll
• 25:56 | see that then number two in the list, this is an H3 heading, and it just goes down the list, and it’s the exact same
• 26:01 | format. features, user experience, pricing. So, it’s more an N3 all the way down. All the way down. There’s 17 of
• 26:08 | them and then I have an FAQ, some other information, and all of that. So, it’s quite long.
• 26:17 | Doesn’t start that way. You start with like three or five or seven and you just update it over time. I want to quickly
• 26:22 | show you some ways that affiliate marketing has shifted. So, I was ranking for best online course platforms for
• 26:28 | basically four years in a row, like the number one result on Google. I don’t rank for it anymore on Google. A bunch
• 26:34 | of software companies and big media sites kind of continued to increase and mine went down. So, it’s basically
• 26:40 | that’s what happened. A lot of really competitive categories, they got way more competitive, which is why I think
• 26:45 | if you’re doing hobby stuff, it’s a lot easier in blogging. But anyways, so this one, best online course platforms, you
• 26:51 | can see it doesn’t have the things across the top. It just goes right into what are the best. There’s no what is
• 26:56 | it? There’s no columns. It just goes right into it. So, this one stopped ranking. But what I did is you might
• 27:02 | know like, okay, I talk about blogging. I talk about content. I also created my YouTube channel like four years ago. So,
• 27:08 | I’ve been doing YouTube and affiliate marketing there for like four years now. So, what we can see is while the site
• 27:14 | doesn’t it doesn’t rank as much on Google, it’s ranking on YouTube. So, it’s been number one for a while. It’s
• 27:21 | actually number three now. I see. But if I search best online course platforms, here it is right here. So, this one’s
• 27:26 | getting about 150 views a day, just kind of still getting leads and sales and
• 27:31 | doing all kinds of stuff, making money that way. It was also in the featured AI overview for like two weeks in a row.
• 27:38 | Just the first Google result AI overview video was right there. So, there’s ways where you go different strategies. And
• 27:45 | in a YouTube video, the strategy is really simple. you just add affiliate links into the description and add an
• 27:51 | affiliate disclosure. Of course, you always want to disclose that uh you have affiliate links. Same is true of an
• 27:56 | article if you see it like it’s usually somewhere up near the top. But basically, affiliate marketing on
• 28:02 | YouTube is very simple. You just add it into the description. And you know, if I do something like best mattresses for
• 28:11 | back pain, you know, you search something best with the product category, you can see. All right, let’s
• 28:16 | see. There’s a bunch of different ones. sleep doctor. Boom. I’ll click this. Are there affiliate links here? Yes. So, he
• 28:22 | has click the links below for the latest discounts on mattresses for back pain. So, again, if it’s multiple things in a
• 28:28 | list, he has 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven affiliate links in this video. And again, oh, it’s
• 28:35 | very painful to get up like that with your back pain. I’m getting older, you know. I just turned 38, so I I I
• 28:40 | understand the pain. I’m not there yet, but soon enough I will be there. searching for videos like this, finding
• 28:47 | this beautiful memory foam and clicking on these links. So people do buy through YouTube. So with that, you create a
• 28:54 | video, you say, “Make sure to click my special affiliate link. You’ll get it’s it’s all about like the call to action.
• 28:59 | You get 30% off. Make sure to click below blah blah blah.” And you always want to disclose. So you’ll see, do they
• 29:07 | disclose it here? No, they don’t disclose their affiliate links. they should, but uh a lot of the times people
• 29:14 | don’t. So anyways, uh that’s where affiliate links are. So you can have an entire affiliate YouTube channel with
• 29:20 | just tons of different best product categories linking underneath here. Another new strategy, too, is just like
• 29:26 | Instagram and Tik Tok. Tik Tok shops is its own thing, linking specifically to Tik Tok shop. But I like this guy. He’s
• 29:31 | got 10 million followers on Instagram and he has all kinds of funny videos where he he shows a product and it’s
• 29:38 | it’s like if you’re doing shorts a lot of what people are doing in short videos and when I say shorts I’m talking Tik Tok, Instagram reels and YouTube shorts
• 29:44 | because you can use the same video across all three. What they’re doing is kind of a wide range of Amazon products
• 29:51 | covering all kinds of different stuff. So for example, it’s almost, you know, getting close to Halloween. So he has a
• 29:57 | certain video format where he talks about the product, he shows it real quick, he uses it, and then he says if
• 30:03 | it’s good or not, trash or gold. So his gold list is here and then he has a website right here. So you can see he’s
• 30:09 | got a lot of followers here also on TikTok. So you can see like how he makes a video. It’s pretty funny. He shows a
• 30:14 | product and then it’s amazing product by the way. He needs it now. Unbox the epic
• 30:22 | unboxing. Pull up his head where you wind it up. All right. right now.
• 30:27 | And then does he love it or not? The ultimate question. Oh my god, he’s whining the hell off.
• 30:33 | Duped again in debt to $15. So that one clearly he didn’t like. But what he does there is you add when
• 30:39 | you’re doing it on shorts, you talk about the product. You then in your bio you add your link where everything is.
• 30:45 | So this isn’t like an SEO driven blog or website. This is just a s simple site
• 30:50 | that people can get to where he’s posting all his videos here and he says get yours here. He actually does it not
• 30:56 | through affiliate marketing, but he’s like selling it on a product page on his own site. But the same concept applies.
• 31:01 | You on short form video, you’re basically recommending a product in a quick short video saying if you like it
• 31:08 | or not, and then your website is the link in your bio and that’s going to all your reviews and then people can click
• 31:14 | your affiliate links that way. So overall, it’s a really simple concept. We just need enough content to create
• 31:19 | enough clicks to make enough money. So it is all a numbers game. So, I want to show you some examples of the numbers
• 31:24 | game and why it’s really important when you’re getting started to think about this. So, think about an Amazon product
• 31:29 | like a wireless keyboard under 50 bucks. That’s your blog post. Well, that could get 2,000 visitors a month. Let’s say
• 31:36 | 20% of people click through your affiliate link. That’s what I’ve seen. Typically, if someone lands on a blog
• 31:41 | post, about 20% of them will click on an affiliate link. Just click a link to get to the product page. Of them, maybe 2%
• 31:49 | will convert. So in this example, that’s eight sales. The average order is $40.
• 31:55 | Commission R’s 4%. You’re making a $160 per sale. You’re making $12.80 a month.
• 32:02 | So for 2,000 visitors, you’re only making about $12.80 a month. That’s
• 32:08 | pretty much worse than like that’s like Google AdSense level. It doesn’t really make sense to do that. So we want not
• 32:13 | Amazon, not a lowpric product just to get some clicks. That that math doesn’t
• 32:19 | work. What about insane math? So, in the same law, you could have 5,000 visitors a month to something like the best gold
• 32:25 | IRA companies. So, gold individual retirement accounts, people signing up for huge retirement accounts, 20%
• 32:32 | clicking through on the affiliate links. Now, the uh actual conversion rate here is going to be closer to 0.1% because
• 32:38 | they have to get on the phone with somebody and transfer money and, you know, actually buy something a lot higher. But one IRA sign up at 100K. Now
• 32:46 | all of a sudden you’re making an 8% commission on 100 grand, which is pretty high. That’s $8,000 just from one sale.
• 32:53 | And I’ll actually show you I’ve done that. So you can see this is Augusta Precious Metals Gold IRA company. I’ve
• 32:58 | sent them clicks. I’ve got 230 leads. Of those leads, it turned into 2 million of trades, which I made a $200,000
• 33:05 | here. So $5,000 per lead. And this froze cuz I was trying to show you the old
• 33:11 | data, but it’s just freezing. Next, let’s talk about recurring. So, this could be something like best webinar
• 33:16 | platform. So, let’s say you get 3,000 visitors a month, 20% click-through rate, 600 clicks, 2% conversion rate to
• 33:24 | sale, uh 12 tri uh paid customers a month, $30 a month you make. So,
• 33:30 | recurring stacks up over time. So, month one, it’s only 360, but by month six,
• 33:36 | you could be at 2,000. By month 12, you could be at 4,000. So, that’s some of the ones that are still making me over $20,000 a month from old blog posts that
• 33:43 | still aren’t even ranking anymore as well. It’s just old recurring affiliate
• 33:48 | commissions. So, people will eventually churn out of that over the course of time. So, I kind of feed it more with
• 33:54 | YouTube. Other posts keep it going. But recurring is really good because it does
• 33:59 | stack over of up over time. I would probably do it through YouTube, not blogging because software is
• 34:04 | competitive. So, ultimately, affiliate marketing is a numbers game. It’s not just posting a few things, hoping and
• 34:10 | praying that it works. It’s creating a consistent content strategy across either a blog, a YouTube channel, or
• 34:16 | short form video, and monetizing it the right way with the right affiliate programs that make you enough money and
• 34:22 | getting enough traffic and views on it. So, ultimately, what I would do is I would start small. Pick two to three affiliate programs in your niche. Create
• 34:29 | content around those products. You can use a tool like Thirsty Affiliates to manage your links. It just tracks and
• 34:35 | organizes everything in one place. Add links naturally in your content. Always not spammy and always disclose that
• 34:42 | they’re affiliate links and there double down on what is working. So that’s kind of how I would start it really. It’s a
• 34:48 | big brainstorm. It’s coming up with your content plan first, finding the affiliate programs and then feeling, you
• 34:54 | know, feeling good about it. So if you have any questions on that, if you’re stuck on what niche to choose, just comment down below. I’ll do my best to
• 34:59 | kind of guide you on some advice there. Hope this video was useful on affiliate marketing. Please like the video,
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