What is affiliate marketing?

What is affiliate marketing?

Do you know bloggers earn from $10 to $1 million per month from affiliate marketing but what is affiliate marketing? How to earn from affiliate marketing?  Let me explain it to you in the easiest way. Affiliate marketing is promoting other people’s product or services and earning a commission from it. Product can be of any type software, tool, clothes, books, courses or anything else.

When you join an affiliate program you earn small commission every time someone clicks on your referral link and buy a product. All you need is to generate traffic …traffic and lots of traffic.

How do bloggers get affiliate?

Companies, who create software or provide any other services have an affiliate program (or website) where you have to sign up, select a product and place a referral link in your content now every time company make sale through your referral link you earn a commission.

How do I get affiliate links?

There are two ways to get affiliate links, company websites or through affiliate websites. Some websites are mentioned here

Amazon Associates

Shopify Affiliate Program

eBay partner

Share A Sale Affiliate

Click Bank

How do bloggers use affiliate links?

When you sign up for affiliate program they will provide you a link. Each link has a unique ID so the company can track traffic coming from your blog. You can add this link to your new or pre-existing post. Just copy and paste the link inside HTML code of your post.

You can show your link as a text:

<a href=”link”> TEXT HERE </a>

You can embed your link inside an image:

<a href=”link”><img src=”image.jpg”></a>

Paste the code and save and publish your post.

Do I have to pay for affiliate marketing?

A wide range of affiliate programs are FREE to join because in real you are the one promoting and convincing others to buy their product or service. You don’t have to create stock or ship any product you just have to promote and earn commission.

How much you earn from affiliate marketing depends upon how much traffic you have on your blog. What do you think about affiliate marketing and how much you earn from affiliate marketing let me know in the comment section to motivate the entire writing community.