What is affiliate marketing and how to earn money

By Oscar, Last updated on March 03, 2023

Create valuable content that generates affiliate revenue. Promote your affiliate products in the content.

Table of Contents

1. What is Affiliate marketing?
2. Advantages of Affiliate Marketing
3. There are several kinds of professional websites for affiliate marketing.
   • Coupon website.
   • Compare shopping website
   • Product review website
4. Where can I find affiliate marketing products?

What is Affiliate marketing?

Let's look at what Affiliate Marketing is.

Affiliate marketing uses "recommendation links" to promote other people's products on your website, and "Recommendation Links" directly link to the other people's product pages.

It is not the same as advertising on a website. The advertiser will pay you a small fee for the advertisement on your website whether the visitors click on the ad or not.

Advantages of Affiliate Marketing

In the Internet community, affiliate marketing is one of the more common and successful business models, which mainly includes the following advantages:

1. You don't have to produce your goods.
2. Lower upfront cost.
3. The risk is low, and there is no need to have your own stock.
4. There is no need to deal with shipping and after-sales issues.
5. Making money or not is not limited by time and place.

There are several kinds of professional websites for affiliate marketing.

Coupon website.

This kind of website collects the discount information from merchants, finds the merchants with more significant discounts, and then encourages users to visit their website to buy the goods of these merchants. You can get 30% to 50% affiliate revenue from each sale.

Compare shopping website

Price comparison sites generally show visitors the different prices of the same product from various online stores.

Such websites generally include product reviews submitted by users, and there will be a lot of product reviews.

When web users visit price comparison sites, click the link and then visit the retailer's website, the comparison sites earn a commission.

Such sites can also make money by selling advertising space.

Product review website

Product review sites integrate the real feelings of users after using or testing products.

Owners of such sites can also enrich the content of their sites by inviting users who have previously used specific products to add comments to their sites.

After visitors browse the product reviews and click on the recommendation link to complete the transaction, the owner can earn a commission.

Where can I find affiliate marketing products?

1. Amazon Associates
2. ShareASale
3. Awin
4. CJ Affiliate by Conversant
5. Rakuten Affiliate Network

You can also use Google to find the company, using the keywords "affiliate program" and the company name.