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Thanks for joining me for this video! What’s your favorite way to find good affiliate products and programs?
Good video and great tips! I was wondering should you focus more on affiliate programs related to products you can't find in a brick-and-mortar store? Following your pressure washer example, I think I would probably just drive down to Home Depot and buy the pressure washer rather than order online – unless I was getting a special deal or perhaps if it's a product not found in the store.
I look what is trending in my niche then check out questions then think of products that can be used in a blog. For example I have a dog training site and dog martingale which uses control but gentle. It is trending so I wrote a blog about how to stop your dog from pulling and included links for martingales from a vendor on CJ. One question. Is SEO negativity affected by affiliate Links? I heard months ago that Google doesn't like them. But more bloggers are using them now because it's good monetization.
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My niche is plumbing, and it is harder than I thought to find a good affiliate for this. I'm currently with Amazon, as I needed to get started somewhere. Well at lest have a link anyway. So I'll try this idea and see if it helps.
I've been writing my blog for about 18 months and want to make improvements. I haven't started affiliate marketing yet but I have been watching your videos and putting some of your advice into practice- and it's working. 🙂 I really appreciate these videos!
@Income School Hi there! I’m from Brazil, and for some time now I have been very interested in digital art and the NFT business. So I would like to ask your opinion on this niche. Is it a good one? Does it have prospect for the future? Will I be able to build up an upright website with the current competition on the theme? Thank you very much!
Finding affiliates is easy…finding affiliates that website visitors trust enough to buy from is a whole different thing.
That's why Amazon gets soooo many more clicks and thus sales.
Just made my first comission on other affiliate than Amazon! Feels really good!
Excellent tips, especially checking what your competitors are doing! Another great video! Thanks so much for the super helpful content
Thank you for the video !
I need to get back on focusing on affiliate marketing. I loosely tried it when I first started blogging but wasn’t intentional so I gave up.
Love affiliate programs but love meeting the middle man more! 🤑
Thanks Ricky. I find myself writing notes for every video Income School puts out. Great information.
Awesome Methods, I'm waiting for my traffic to reach a little high so I can try all of these methods. Thanks income school.
Thanks Rick! This information has been Thai opening. I think I'll Curry up and start researching the best affiliate programs for me.
I’m trying to get away from Amazon and do this more on my site
Hello Ricky, I've created a niche website following your method and it works really well. I have over 70000 page views in less than a year, but recently my website lost more than half of its traffic in just 1 week. I track down found that I lost all my snippets. I even lost the snippet to forum sites. My content is definitely better than theirs.
I seriously cannot figure out why this is happening. I checked online but there is no major Google update.
I would appreciate it if you can give me some advice.
I got my best affiliate by being mistaken for a burglar. I found them on the largest player in the local travel space. My website only had 8 pages at the time and an audience of 3 (love my family!). So I decided to visit the company in person. It was June 2020. No surprise, their office was closed. But I got lucky. The CEO was there checking to make sure that no one was squatting in his building during the shutdown. I must have looked suspicious hanging around the front door of an empty business. He came out to investigate. We talked for about 30 minutes and he liked my enthusiasm and how much I knew about his company. I got the affiliate connection even though that company usually only allows high-traffic websites to be affiliates.
How to make a website about a product that I don't own and I don't have the rights over the images? How can I to write a bunch o posts in that situation? That's a huge question for me. Thanks guys.
I have just started researching affiliate programs – and this video was very helpful! So, I’ll be using THIS method. Thanks!
This is really helpful – I kinda just signed up for everything I could, which wasn’t very efficient of me! I’ve set myself a new content milestone, so when I hit that I’m going to come back to this video and take action. Thank you!
These are exactly the methods I use to look for affiliate products for niches. On one of my sites, the best company was Lowes and Home Depot but both turned me down:( so I am stuck with Amazon for one of the sites. In the digital marketing spaces, there are very good and lucritive affiliate products that give you recurring income which I really love to get! I am an affiliate for Thrive Themes and I make high commisions for years now all passively and through giving out my link to clients and during webinars, etc. Since it is recurring, you only need to make the sale one time.
Been watching since 2018. Would love to win the draw and get your feedback on my site.
I've been knocking around ideas for a new site and it did not occur to me until just now that I should include the availability of affiliate products much earlier in the process. Thanks for the noggin jogging!
This is timely and pertinent for me. I definitely need to range out from Amazon- it is just a bad habit for me now. One thing I a am going to try at the suggestion of another of your videos is to add relevant affiliate programs to my blogs for other would be bloggers. For example, many people might need hosting and I could put that on unrelated sites and still might get some sales. Because if they come to my site they are open to blogs and might want a site of their own. And Income School has a nice affiliate program too.
How do you make sure a linked product is still on sale and available for purchase? What do you do when something is discontinued?
It's complicated to often check for product availability.
Thanks for the tips!
Option 3 is perfect in my view, Ricky. It looks pretty much like spying on your competitors' content on the SERP in order to write something better. Since my competition has researched and decided to go for a particular affiliate program, I will simply do a little research on these affiliates to possibly understand their WHY.
Overall, I will rather stick to what my competitors are doing (If I am able to reach a logical conclusion regarding WHY), than racking my head to find another program. I'd rather spend more time creating helpful and meaningful content that will give me a win on every side (Ezoic inclusive) than spending excessive time looking for untested affiliate programs.
You are simply the best Ricky. Thanks for sharing this.
I definitely need to figure out how to sell it better. I write comfortably but struggle to know how to "sell" without feeling like a care salesman
As a beginner, earning with affiliates sounds much more complex than with ads. This is why most beginners make 80% of their income with ads. Thanks for the great info again Ricky!
Great Info, Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ricky for this info rich post. Actually, I have been trying to getting into some of these top Affliate programs, but most are country selective. Thanks for giving me more options to tryout.
Thanks for the tips Rick! I am starting to create content for my own website, not an afilliate marketing site, but wouldn’t hurt to get some money from the products I already recomend to my clients
Wondering if your upcoming Affiliate marketing webinar will be strictly focused on blogs which I know is what Income school teaches or if it will include affiliate marketing without a blog or website?
Great info! Thanks
Thank you for the tips. I really struggle getting sales for affiliates even when I do get click throughs.
Great resources.
Thanks for sharing Ricky. 👍🏻
Still in the beginning stages but good information.
I wonder at what traffic level it mashes sense to stop writing content and start working on affiliate.
I have only done Amazon until now. I know my next site has more opportunities because there are only a few large brands.
I also find looking for products Amazon doesn't sell and use other programs (i.e. shareasale) with better commission %. Heaps better income than Amazon
Just Amazon and then one site I started because I'm an affiliate for a friend's digital SaaS product where I get 30% recurring monthly.
haha, thank you for helping me extending my thoughts 😀 most of the saws aren't available on Amazon and I was so worried about them.
I'm not there yet, but I went to the main physical companies in my niche, like Cabellas, Bass Pros, and Sportsmans Wherehouse, and just asked about affiliate programs. There are some pretty lucrative ones out there. I also went to a few manufacturers of products I liked and asked the same. There are some very nice affiliate opportunities out there once I have some true niche authority. Also, I've found that sometimes Niche authority is more important than actual website traffic to a large company or manufacturer.
Great tips – I am crappy at Affiliate Marketing however it is something I working on getting better at. Super pumped for the webinar.
Awesome tips, as always!
Can´t wait until my site gets some traffic to apply those techniques x)