How to Set Up an Affiliate Marketing Website

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Affiliate Marketing is one way that you can make money online by promoting other peoples websites or products. When promoting someone else’s products through an affiliate program, you will join their program then you will usually get access to your own unique link, coupon code, and/or banners

Joining an affiliate program can help you monetize your existing clients further or you can research a niche with high earning potential then find the best affiliate program to join. For example: A web designer can join one of the popular web hosting affiliate programs then make a commission on each clients web hosting set up. Setting up web hosting is already necessary so you might as well make the extra money.

You can also research the most profitable niches that you understand and could promote in someway. Market Samurai keyword research software make it easy to see how mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0BS2fiGoQany Google searches a niche gets. You want to see a lot of search traffic before committing to a niche.

Google can be a way of finding affiliate programs in the niche you are going to promote. Search “Example Product Affiliate Program”. You can also search through the directories that websites commonly submit their affiliate programs to. 

You will need to make a website after choosing a niche and affiliate program. WordPress is a great platform to build your new website on. Ipage make it cheap and easy to set up your new website. The support is also easy to get a hold of by chat or phone and the set up process is easy.  Just $36 for a new domain and year hosting.

Install WordPress onto your New Ipage account. Here is a video explainer

Find a free WordPress theme or template. Follow the set up instructions for the theme, It usually easiest to add the “Demo” content then replace the demo content with  Here is a list of popular free themes in 2018

Here is a video on how to make a WordPress website

Either write your own content or hire a writer to write useful content for your new website.

Incorporate the links, banners, and coupon codes into your website. Then promote your new affiliate marketing website!