How to Do Affiliate Marketing in 5 Steps

There are a lot of different methods from doing affiliate marketing, ranging from creating blogs, writing articles, utilizing Pay Per Click (PPC), using the new web 2.0 technology, and the list goes on. So which is the right method you should be focusing on?

Here are 5 steps you have to know to do affiliate marketing:

1. Focus and discover every aspect about your product (niche)

a) Find an appropriate affiliate product related to your niche.
b) Do research for top 5 highly demanded questions on your niche and find the answers.
c) Investigate for good keywords to use


2. Open an account with the following helpful websites.

a) Article sites: EzineArticles, articlepro, ideamarketer, goarticles
b) Free Blog: blogger, wordpress
c) Web 2.0 sites: squidoo, hubpages
d) Related forums: Search related forums


3. Create content

a) For articles, generate at least 1 article a day and submit them. Remember to put in your blog url within the author BIO box.
b) For blogs, 2~3 posts a day with quality content and put in your affiliate links here.
c) For Web 2.0 sites, create either the lenses, or the hubs, on relevant topics and linking them back to your blog containing the affiliate links
d) For forums, go to your profile and set your signature with a link that goes back to your blog.

4. Generate Traffic

a) Create a account with these social media tools such as "facebook, twitter, myspace"
b) Use bookmark services such as "onlywire"
c) post videos about your niche on youtube.
d) Be hyperactive in the forums.


5. Go over the cycle for another interested niche.

Continue doing this and you will start to see the results within a month, you will start to make your first affiliate commission on the internet.