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Learn affiliate marketing basics
Congratulations, you have come to the right place to learn affiliate marketing basics, without basic training in affiliate marketing you will struggle to make an income for yourself and your family.
On the other hand, and if you are willing to take the time to learn how to make money online as an affiliate marketer you can become very successful.
Many people from all walks of life have come into affiliate marketing to make an income on the internet, a lot of them had no formal training prior to starting work as an affiliate marketer.
It doesn’t matter what experience you have or what age you are when it comes to learning how to be successful at affiliate marketing, what does matter is how fast can you learn affiliate marketing basics and put into practice what you have learned.
Where do you start?
You are reading this article on your computer, phone,tablet or iPad, the next step is to find out the basics of affiliate marketing, so what are they?
- Companies are willing to pay you a commission to promote their products
- Companies will ship the product to the customer
- Companies will take payment from the customer
- Companies will offer customer service to the customer
- You can get repeat commission when the customer buys again
Sounds good so far?
Now for the hard part, where do you find customers for a product or service?, billions of people are searching online every minute of every day for a product or service, all you have to do is build a website with well researched and well written content that will attract that person to your site and give them the answer to their question.
So how do you achieve that?
Education
To achieve success at affiliate marketing or anything else in life you need to educate yourself to become an expert in your field or niche in this instance. Becoming an expert isn’t something that will happen overnight, it will take a lot of your time and effort to learn affiliate marketing basics, but you must start somewhere.
Wealthy Affiliate is a platform designed for people of all ages and abilities to get them started in the basics of affiliate marketing, the service is FREE to join, and you don’t have to give your credit card details to begin learning the basics.
What will you learn?
First and foremost you will learn what is the best niche for you to go into and become an expert in, the best advice is to use the FREE research tool inside the Wealthy Affiliate platform and look for a subject that you are comfortable with.
From there type in some keywords about that subject and you will be presented with some good ideas to help you get started. If you are stuck on any part of the process just ask the Community at Wealthy Affiliate for the answer.
Google love
Google search will be your best friend in terms of looking for information on any given subject, you will also learn how to find the love from Google, what do I mean by that?
Google loves fresh new content to show to its audience, you will learn how to write amazing content that Google will love to show to people that are searching for the answers to their questions.
I know that there is a lot more to getting Google to love your content, but rest assured when you learn this basic concept and follow the FREE Training people will flock to your site to read your wonderful helpful content.
Affiliate links
The key to making money from your website is to have engaging helpful content for your visitors so that when they click onto your page they will be engaged by what you have written, they will trust what you have written.
So for example if you recommend a particular product that they need they will click on your affiliate link to that product’s owners website hopefully purchase the product and YES you have made your first sale!!!!!
An affiliate link is usually in blue on your site, it takes the website visitor to another site where they can purchase that product and you get paid a commission for your efforts.
Building a website
To be successful at affiliate marketing you will need a solid foundation and that means an amazing website, within the Wealthy Affiliate platform you have access to Site Rubix there you will learn how to master the basics of building your own website using WordPress (it’s FREE).
It’s more than just about building a website you have at your fingertips some very useful tools that will assist you in website analysis, website management, keyword ranking and most importantly website security.
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The FREE Site Rubix platform
It is super easy to use, it is fun so building your own website will come easy to you, all you need is the motivation and willingness to get your affiliate marketing website OFF THE GROUND!
Website hosting
Your website will need to be hosted somewhere meaning it needs a place to be kept safe, within the Wealthy Affiliate platform your site will be in a very safe and secure area, it is a technical process and I won’t bore you but it’s nice to know that you don’t have to worry about that end of things.
Wealthy Affiliate use the latest technology to house millions of websites for the past nine years or so.
This allows you more time to spend learning and growing your website followers in your chosen niche.
Domains
You have two parts to your affiliate business, on the one hand you have your website and on the other you have your domain, a domain name is simply a name for your website that you want to use.
For example let’s say you want to have a site about bernese mountain dogs so you decide that you will use a name like ” learn about bernese mountain dogs” you then check to see if that name is available as a domain name.
On the Site Rubix platform simply type in www.learnaboutbernesemountaindogs.com and find out if that domain name is available, if it is available then you have to option to use it, it will be unique to you and you will use it to build your first website.
The technology within Site Rubix is quite unique with many features that will help you to build an amazing affiliate business one you learn the basics.
Community
Since I started my affiliate marketing business at Wealthy Affiliate, I have found the most wonderful Affiliate Community that anyone could wish for, it’s true you can make some good friends in the Community here.at WA.
Trust me you will need help and advice along your journey in learning the basics of affiliate and growing your website to produce an income for you and your family for years to come.
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