How to Make Money with Website Affiliate Marketing for Success

Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of website affiliate marketing and learn how to make serious money? In this post, I share valuable tips and tricks to help you make the most of your affiliate marketing journey. Explore how to choose the perfect niche, find the right affiliate programs, and create a website that attracts and engages your audience. How to Make Money with Website Affiliate Marketing…

1. Find a Niche with a Popular Marketplace

Tip: To see if your niche has products and services in demand and is a popular marketplace do the following:

Check out Google Trends to see what’s trending in your niche.
Look at Amazon’s best sellers, the ones with lots of reviews and sales.
See what your competition is promoting. They won’t promote products that aren’t profitable.
Check the affiliate networks you join for the best-performing products/services.

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2. Start a Website (and don’t pay commission)

WordPress is a popular website/blog software that you can install on your choice of web host. You can add eCommerce functions, design it as a website, a blog, or both, and truly make it your own.

With WordPress, you won’t be charged commissions or monthly charges depending on the money you earn. You’ll only pay for yearly hosting fees. I use WordPress and it’s hosted as part of my Wealthy Affiliate membership.

3. Types of Affiliate Programs

There are thousands of affiliate products for you to choose from which depends on your chosen niche. For example, if your niche is Yoga for Moms, then you could promote yoga mats, yoga workout gear, and yoga tours to Bali.

Direct affiliate marketing: This is when you sign up directly with a merchant or brand to promote their products or services. For example, Amazon.

Affiliate network marketing: This is when you sign up with an affiliate network, which acts as a middleman between you and the merchants. For example, Flexoffers, Travelpayouts, CJ, Clickbank, and Shareasale.

4. Find Affiliate Programs Relevant to your Niche

Tip: Find products and services that have a long cookie time and a good commission. It’s even better to look for recurring commissions. These are usually found in the software and online training niche. You earn a commission for the whole time your referral stays a paying member of the service.

Top Paying Affiliate Programs on Flexoffers

5. Solve Problems

Think about the problems people have in this niche, and how your content and the affiliate products solve these problems and help your audience.

Tip: This should be your number one goal and the money-making is secondary. Otherwise, you’ll come across as greedy and your audience won’t trust you. Provide valuable information that people will love! Then they’ll trust your product recommendations and buy.

6. Keyword Research

Do your keyword research and use targeted keywords in your content to attract relevant traffic.

For the Rose Gardening niche, a common problem for gardeners is poor soil.

Tip: Do Google searches for your niche and look at ‘People also Ask’ for blog post ideas.

So, for Rose Gardening in ‘people also ask’ I see:

‘What is the best rose bush for sandy soil?’
‘How do you make soil acidic for roses?’

So you can create helpful posts about how to grow roses in sandy soil, how to grow roses in clay soil, etc.

I check these keywords on Jaaxy and make sure the wording is a good search term and low-competition. You can also use The Hoth Keyword Planner which is free.

7. Buyer Intent

Choose affiliate products that specifically help solve your audience’s problems.

Focus on buyer intent. This is what your audience is thinking when they’re searching the internet. Are they looking for a glasshouse for tomatoes, do they want to buy a pair of gardening boots? By targeting buyer intent keywords, you can attract visitors who are ready to make a purchase and increase your chances of earning a commission.

For example, for rose gardening, you’re helping them with their poor soil so you can recommend compost, mulch, and fertilizers to improve the soil.

Other affiliate products for this gardening niche are garden kneeling pads, garden tools, glasshouses, plants, and gloves. Amazon is a good place to start with these products.

Examples of Buyer Intent Keywords for Gardening

Buy garden gates online
Buy garden trowels online
Purchase planters online

8. SEO

Make sure you follow best practice with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to get your website on page 1 of Google Search for your keywords.

Tip: For example, link internally from your blog posts to your product reviews. Within your posts use H1, H2, and H3 headings. Fill in the alt-tags for your photos. Include your keywords, title, meta tag, and meta description in your post.

I use Yoast which is a plug-in for WordPress to make sure I follow SEO best practice for each post.

9. Time to Promote

Don’t sit and wait for people to find your website. You’ve worked hard, so promote it to the world.

Tip: Drive traffic to your content using paid and unpaid marketing. For example, utilize social media like Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram. Make YouTube videos and shorts. Create Tik Tok videos. Pay for ads on social media, Bing, and Google. Answer questions on Quora and forums in your chosen niche.

For paid ads be aware that on social media people aren’t actively shopping, they’re browsing. I have more luck with Facebook ads encouraging visitors to sign up for my e-mail newsletter.

10. Build your Database

Having a subscriber list gives you control over your audience and helps you establish a long-term relationship with them, fostering trust and loyalty. Your newsletter subscribers are more active participants and potential buyers.

You know they’re interested in your niche and products so you can directly reach out to them with relevant content, offers, and recommendations.

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Here’s how the whole cookie process works. To promote affiliate products you’re given affiliate codes that are specific to you, from the network or merchant.

You place this code as a link within the content on your website. Let’s use the yoga workout gear as an example. If a visitor clicks on your link to yoga pants they’ll arrive on the merchant’s website.

A tracking code (called a cookie) is placed on their computer. Ideally, you want to choose merchants with long cookie times. Let’s say the cookie time is 30 days.

Then if your visitor doesn’t buy straight away but revisits the merchant in 10 days and buys trainers and a yoga mat you receive the commission (thank you cookie!)

Let’s say your commission on sales is 10%. Then a sale of $150 yoga pants is $15 for you. That’s not a lot but as you create more content you get more visitors and more sales. If you have 3,000 visitors per month and you sell 50 yoga pants, that’s $750.00 per month on one product alone.

So, your goal is to create content consistently and often (every day is good) and promote it like crazy!

The Key to Success: Low Competition and Profitable Niches

It’s important to hone in on a sub-niche within a larger niche. For example, yoga for moms is the sub-niche of yoga. Rose gardening is the sub-niche of gardening. Solo adventure travel in South East Asia is a sub-niche of travel.

If you focus on a sub-niche, you’re zooming in on a particular slice of your audience. You target their specific issues and problems and solve them. You provide valuable information and create a loyal audience. Which also boosts your conversion rates since they trust your advice. Over time Google trusts you too.

Competition tends to be less fierce in sub-niches, and it’s easier to establish a strong presence and gain traction. So you’re more likely to make money with website affiliate marketing.

So let’s look at sub-niche ideas that are popular and lower competition…

Pet Niche

The pet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, with high demand for new and innovative pet products. There is also less competition in this niche than in some other niches, such as fashion or electronics.

Sub-niche ideas

Grooming Supplies
Collar and Leashes
Dog Beds
Cat Beds
Scratching Posts
Dog Toys
Cat Toys

Home and Garden Niche

Home and garden products are another popular niche with low competition. There are many different types of home and garden products that you can promote, such as furniture, appliances, tools, and gardening supplies.

Sub-niche ideas

Hydroponics
Organic Gardening
Garden Lighting
Planter Boxes
Growing Cacti
Vertical Gardening

Health and Wellness

The health and wellness industry is proliferating, with a high demand for products that can help people improve their health and well-being. This is a great niche if you’re passionate about health and fitness.

Sub-niche ideas

Healthy Smoothies
Vegan Recipes
Meal Delivery Services
Aromatherapy
Natural Remedies
Pilates
Fitness for older ages

Education

The education industry is also a great niche with demand for all types of educational products, from online courses to textbooks. If you have a passion for learning, this could be a niche for you to pursue. You may also see recurring commissions in this niche.

Sub-niche ideas

Personal Development
Homeschooling
Professional Development
Arts and Crafts (ceramics, glasswork, paper art, jewelry making, photography, AI art)
Language Learning

Software

Software is a popular product category with low competition. These products can also have recurring commissions and long cookie times. There are many different types of software that you can promote, such as productivity software, gaming software, and security software.

Sub-niche ideas

Tip: Check out Capterra and see what software is popular by looking at their Software Categories.

AI
Cyber Security
E-mail Marketing Software
Team Communication

High Power Rank Affiliate Programs on ShareASale

Wrapping Up – How to Make Money with Website Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a fun way to make money online but it takes time to build a successful affiliate marketing business.

When choosing your niche and products to promote, it’s important to consider your interests and expertise. As well as the demand for the product in your target market. Remember to…