Blogging Tips For Beginners / (3 Essential Steps Before Starting Online Marketing)
Are you a blogging beginner looking for tips on how to start making money online, and thinking about what steps you would need to take to get started with affiliate marketing?
You’ve come to the right place!
Affiliate marketing is an incredibly powerful way to make money from your blog but it’s not as simple as just signing up.
To ensure success, there are some essential steps that every blogger needs to know about.
Read on for our top blogging tips!
Starting affiliate marketing without them would be like driving around in circles and expecting to find your destination.
3 Essential Steps to Take Before Starting Your Affiliate Marketing Journey
There are three vital steps to know and think about before you even attempt to start your online journey into learning how to do affiliate marketing.
Now you may be thinking “Matt what are you going on about”, but read this article very carefully if you want to make money and become successful in the world of affiliate marketing.
I jumped in years ago and nobody taught me this stuff, I have had to learn it all myself, but now that I have come full circle and shown people how to do affiliate marketing, I want to make your life easier and get you off to the best possible start.
These 3 steps are like placing 1000 pieces of gold bars in your hands and saying that’s yours for free…enjoy the good life.
Get them right and the money will come rolling into you one day, with the right amount of hard work and persistence.
What are the 3 essential steps to think about starting right now?
Three essential steps
- Find your niche
- Find the offers
- Find your traffic methods
WOW is that it?
Sounds simple right, that is where you are wrong, these are some of the toughest things you will think about. Especially trying to find your niche.
If you get them right the rest of your learning and the online journey is made so much easier.
Why do I say this, because you will know where you are going.
Your clear path and direction are set out for you.
You will not be driving around in circles because you will know exactly where you are heading.
Think of these golden rules as a three-legged chair, if one of the legs goes missing the chair will fall over, but get all three golden rules right and the chair will stand forever,
So let’s dive into these nuggets of golden information
Then your online affiliate marketing journey can begin.
If you are not prepared to think about these things you are wasting your time and it will cost you a lot of money along the way, and you probably need to think about a different way to try and make money.
I speak from experience working online for years here.
Unlock Your Potential: Discover Your Niche and Reach New Heights!
Step 1: Finding Your Niche!
This is the first and crucial part of your journey; without it, you will never get started.
So what is a niche?
And why is it so important?
A niche put simply is a subject, a topic you are going to build your affiliate marketing world around.
Everything you do online after that will be based on this subject.
Some examples: making money, health, and fitness, relationships, and technology the list is endless.
In a niche, the subject that you choose can be about anything you like, but if you want to make money from it then, then this is a different story because it needs to be something other people are also interested in.
This is key to your success as it is no good talking about flying fish on mars if no one cares or wants to read about it:)
Talk to anyone who does affiliate marketing and they will say this is probably the hardest thing to find.
Let’s take making money as an example of a niche. It is a great niche to get into but you need to remember that it is very competitive, there are hundreds of thousands of people doing exactly what you want to do.
Unless you find a sub-niche within this subject you probably won’t make any significant money with this niche.
How to use free traffic methods to make money could be your sub-niche as an example.
So how do you choose the right niche?
A good way to start is to think about something you are passionate about, your hobby or interest.
That way while you are learning you will have something to write about, that you love and have an interest in.
If you are still not sure that method will work then do this:
Go onto amazon and click on all categories.
It will bring up thousands of different subjects.. home, furniture, clothes, sports, etc.
Any one of those could be used.
If you then click on one like health and beauty, it will then bring up sub-categories under that heading like men’s grooming, click on that again and it will bring up shavers, men’s gift sets, and shower gel.
You get the point.
All of these could be niches that are less competitive.
So you see there are literally hundreds of thousands of niches you could choose to work with.
So how can you choose one that will work for you?
Try using my not-so-secret weapon.
Keyword research!
Finding out how many times people are searching for that exact thing on google, bing, and yahoo, is a great place to start.
With the best keyword research tool, I know that I can find millions of low-competition keywords with high search volumes.
I can now use those low-competition keywords in my chosen niche to my advantage to send my blogs to the first page of Google rankings.
I hear you say “matt, you are experienced but how can I do that”?
You use a keyword research tool that does all the work for you and you trust your judgment from there, pick wisely and work hard at your chosen niche.
Just like I and thousands of others did.
If you are looking for hot niche keywords try to find them try them here.
Find the Offers That Best Suit Your Needs
Step 2: Find The Offers
Once you know your niche then this becomes easy.
The key to this is choosing offers that relate to the niche that you chose in golden rule 1(your niche)
There are thousands of affiliate marketing programs online that you can join for free.
You simply sign up and once accepted they give you a unique link that you can place all over your website or on the internet.
Within these affiliate programs, you will find thousands of offers and products to promote and you can receive anything from 8% to 75% commissions if someone purchases through one of your links.
Let’s say you are designing your website and niche around the best six-pack abs for example.
Then find products and offers related to that.
It’s no good talking about low gas energy bills because this will make no sense at all to your readers.
With a bit of will and the right training, this is the easy part.
So let’s recap you have decided on your niche and you have gone about finding some offers which you think will fit your niche.
Great you are almost there but how do people find your wonderful website and offers?
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Work Out How To Drive Traffic To Your Website!
Step 3: Find your traffic methods
How are you going to get people onto your website and offer?
There are many different ways online.
That is why I say to find your niche first because then you will know the exact target audience you will try and attract to your offers and website.
An example would be – your niche is the best six-pack abs, so try to find people looking for people who want to get fit and are interested in how to get six-pack abs.
Will you use free or paid traffic methods?
Free methods take a lot longer to achieve but it doesn’t cost you money so it depends on your budget.
I use free traffic for this website via search engine optimizer (SEO) and using keywords.
I also use all the big social media sites like Facebook and Twitter etc.
If you have a bigger budget and can afford to place adverts on Google, Facebook, etc you can achieve things faster but be warned this can get expensive, especially if you are just starting out and have a limited budget.
This is why most people start out using the free methods and take their time.
Ideally, you want to get to a point where you are using both the free and paid methods to ramp up visitors to your website.
It is vital you think about how you are going to drive traffic to your website and that is why it is in my golden rules.
I don’t expect you to know how to get them right as soon as you start, but the point I am trying to get across is to take some time and think about your direction, then make a plan and have a direction of where you want to go.
These steps I have given you are an excellent starting point for you to move forward with when you start Affiliate Marketing online.
My story, the mistakes, and why I am bringing this to your attention.
I dived into affiliate marketing after being convinced by an article on the internet that I would make millions.
I started with my passion for football without having a clue just went for it.
No thought was involved.
I tried and tried but with no real gains and after 1 year I just stopped doing it.
No money and very little traffic coming in.
I felt like a failure.
It was time to rethink what did I do wrong.
How could I not make it work after working so hard for a full year?
After months of research, the information in this article is what I found out.
So I started again with this website and a different approach to working online
I started with a plan for my niche showing those who want to learn how to blog and use affiliate marketing to make money online.
I quickly found some offers related to my niche (look for them on my website:)
Now I drive traffic daily to my website for anyone interested in learning this affiliate marketing stuff.
Take my advice and go and think about your niche, do some research, and then find a place that will teach you everything you need to know about how to do affiliate marketing the right way.
I hope you found some real value in this article.
Understand that making money online is not as easy as it sounds.
You will need these steps plus a willingness to work hard if you are serious about changing your life and going for the laptop lifestyle.
Do you agree with these three vital steps when starting your journey into online marketing?
If you can’t decide on a niche or are still not sure what a niche is then ask me in the comments box below
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