All about affiliate marketing and how to earn trough affiliate marketing?

 In this post, I’m going to walk you through the steps to start affiliate marketing in India.

Let’s start with the basics:

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting another company's product (or service). You find a product, promote it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.

In others, we can say by selling the others product but for that selling you get some kind of commission on that product.

Also we can say when you help another company generate sales, you get a cut!

The best part is that you don’t have to spend the time and money to create your own products, because someone else has already done the hard work. You can begin making money as an affiliate as soon as you have a place to recommend products, whether that's a website you have, a podcast, or even on social media

Some Steps To became a good affiliate marketer..

STEP 1: Choose the type of product you want to promote

select a category that interests you the most. Since you’ll be writing on this topic later, make sure you choose a topic with which you’re familiar with. The reason you need to choose one specific topic is because, it will make it easier for you to write for a specific audience. This is also called as selecting a ‘niche’.

STEP 2: Sign-up for the Amazon Affiliate Program

Once you’ve created your website, you can sign up for the affiliate program. If you’re thinking about choosing between either flipkart or amazon affiliate program, go for the one which has the higher commissions for the product category you’ve chosen.

If both has the same commission rate, go for amazon. Many affiliate marketers in India have said to have made more money in amazon than flipkart. During registration amazon will ask you to enter your website address and a few other details.

Even if you haven’t added any content to your site yet, tell them how you plan to promote products on your site and they’ll approve it.

STEP 3: Select the item you’re going to promote

If you already know the product you’re going to promote, then go ahead and search the product name in the search box provided. If you’re not sure yet, then it’s a good idea to take help from amazon and see which products are selling well.

1. Go to the amazon bestsellers page.
2. Select your category from the left side. You’ll see a list of the top selling products in that category.
3. Pick a product which you like (preferably one with a lot of positive reviews).
4. When you promote a product which is already selling well it is a lot easier to get people to buy it compared to promoting an unknown product.

STEP 5: Write content about the product

Based on the product you’ve chosen, decide on what article you want to write.There are many different types of content you can write. I’ve listed the most popular types of content for affiliate marketing below:

5 Types of Content you can Write:

1. “How to” articles & tutorials: These are the best as they add a lot of value to your readers. They also generate sales very easily if done correctly. For example, “How to get rid of pimples” article with links to products which has worked well for you.
2. Review articles: You can write about products you’ve tried personally and help people decide whether to buy the product or not.
3. Comparison articles: Compare two or more similar products. Eg. Samsung S6 vs iPhone 6s
4. Content Curation: This is where you collect & make a useful list products which are helpful to others.
5. Offer or Discount articles where you share the best deals and coupons codes of products related to your topic.So, these are the types of content you can post to promote your affiliate link.Always make sure that your visitors get a benefit out of your site.

How to Add your Affiliate Link In websites

When you’re signed into amazon associates, you’ll see a grey bar at the top of all product pages.To get your affiliate link for a product, simply click “link to this page”.Right click in the preview area and copy the link address (this is your affiliate link).Click the buy button in your article and click edit.Select link to custom URL & paste the link. Also check “open link in a new tab”.Click update & publish the article.

Now, when you click the buy button displayed on the page, it’ll take the user to your affiliate link. This allows them to buy the product on amazon.

How to check your earnings?

You can check your earnings on the amazon associate page.When someone buys something using your affiliate link it will show up on your earning report page.So, this is how you can promote products using your affiliate link.All of these steps can be used on any ecommerce site of your choice. Eg: Flipkart, Snapdeal, Jabong, etc.

I hope this post helps you kickstart your own affiliate marketing site.Once you figure out how to add value to your readers, it will be very easy to attract traffic and get sales.If you have any doubts or questions, share them in the comments below.