20 Affiliate Marketing Strategy to Increase your Income in 2021 -

Affiliate Marketing strategy to Increase your Income in 2021

We are in 2021.

Affiliate Marketing is trending topic now.

More and more companies are now focusing on online marketing strategy., especially Affiliate Marketing Model.

So, this creates opportunity for bloggers like us. These companies take service from efficient online marketer who can promote their product and generate extra sales for them.

Do you want to be a smart marketer?

Are you interested to become a successful affiliate partners for these companies and earn extra money for them?

If you know little bit about Affiliate Marketing you see that it is a performance-based model.

I am mentioning here the most popular affiliate marketing model, so that You can choose the most suitable one for your website.

CPL (Cost per lead)-You will receive commission based on lead you generate

CPA (Cost per actions)-You will receive commission based on certain action taken by visitor like -click, subscribe, like, visiting the company’s social media channel

CPI (Cost per install)-You will receive commission based on number of installations of company’s software, theme or tool

CPD (Cost per download)-You will receive commission based on number of downloads of company’s software.

Start your affiliate journey slowly and steadily, learn the tricks and grow. The Journey is very challenging as well as exciting.

I am going to share my experience and share 20 important tips which you can follow to start your affiliate marketing journey with confidence.

I will not discuss here the initial and basic part of blog creation like- registration of Niche, SEO Strategy, Key Word selection etc. in this article.

I assume that you have already completed all these formalities and looking for some practical approach to get success as an affiliate marketing professional. This article will fulfil this need.

Let us learn these Affiliate Marketing Strategy

1.Love Your Work

This is the basic foundation to get success in any field.

If you love what you do, either it is affiliate marketing or any other area, nobody can stop you to grow.

Money is secondary. If you are doing affiliate marketing only for money, then maybe you will be demotivated after few failures. Success comes after failure. It takes time. So, money should not be the only motivating factor

you should not be like an employee of conventional marketing company who just work for money but actually he hates his job. He just doing his work to get his salary on time and pay his bills. He is not ambitious.

You are different. You have to take challenge. You have to be a smart marketer who loves his job. You have to come up with new idea to promote a product and generate sales for a company.

You help company as well as yourself to earn extra money.

So, love your work. Be passionate about what you do.

It will give you energy, motivation and creativity to get success

2.Learn to be Patient

Do you want to make big amount from affiliate marketing in very first month?

Hold on guys.

For each profession there is a learning process. You have to learn the things gradually. success and money come slowly.

There is no Magic formula or software in affiliate marketing to make you rich from very first month.

The hardest part is to earn your $1. It will pave the path for $5000.

You have to take first baby step. Learn the trick and Keep on working with patience and perseverance. Understand the behaviors of your customer. Analyze the best product.

It may take few weeks or Months to teste the fruit of your hard work. But you will get success for sure.

3. Wisely Select your Product to promote

Jack of all trade is master of none.

You understand what I meant to say. You cannot be master of everything.

So, don’t jump in to promote everything. Sit down and think carefully which product is best for you to promote. Never promote a product if you have no idea about it.

If you think the product is qualitative and can be useful for your audiences, then promote it.

I will suggest take an experience of the product and get feedback and review of the product. If you think that the product is worth promoting, then go ahead.

If you tend to promote third grade product you will lose credibility.

Your website will gain authority if you promote good product. You will earn reputation and respect from your visitors.

4.Nofollow affiliate link

Make you all your blog affiliate link as nofollow.

Don’t keep them as dofollow. It will have negative impact on your website ranking

For all the dofolllow affiliate link Google will refer the website’s link juice to other website you link. This usually degrade your website ranking.

There is a popular plugin available to nofollow your affiliate link.

The plugin name is Pretty Links plugin.

5.Use short link for your affiliate Marketing

Usually, the original affiliate partner links are long.

I will suggest to shorten your affiliate link using a link shortener Plugin.

Pretty Links Plugin is a popular free tool which can shorten your complex and long link and make it a professional looking affiliate link.

This short links is very easy to track.

If you want to customize your affiliate link to next level, then you can use premium plugin.

You have to spend few dollars to use premium tools like ThirstyAffiliates .

6.Follow the Market trend

Check the current Market trend.

How?

There is a great free tool from Google called –Google trend. You can use this tool to analyze the recent trends of affiliate marketing product or service.

Let us take example of two equally good product. Like Site Ground and Host gatar. They are popular hosting provider

But Google trend can give you complete statistic with graph which is trending.

So, without any confusion you can choose the best product to promote as per market trend.

7.Avoid adding month and year in permalink

Permalinks created automatically by WordPress when you write a post in your blog.

These permalinks are long and ugly. It will also convert the exact blog title to permalink

For example, you write a blog with title-20 Affiliate Marketing strategy to Increase your Income in 2021. The permalink also will pick the same title with year 2121 in the link

For title providing year name is fine. It is good for SEO. But in permalink adding year is not good.

So, remove the year and create a short link in a professional way.

8.Learn from Experts

Develop your learning attitude.

When you learn the things, you will be able to deliver. Learn from people who are expert in affiliate marketing.

Observe them closely, how they are writing, what they are promoting, overall, how they are doing their stuff.

You can ask them to teach their secret skills and if needed don’t hesitate to pay for this. Spending few bucks to get skills from experienced people is not a bad idea.

You can also get lot of free stuff in their YouTube channel, Facebook page and Instagram account. Join their webinar sessions on affiliate marketing. Get their free or paid eBooks. Follow them everywhere.

Learn the right stuff and implement. Success will kiss you.

9.Use sidebar to promote best product.

Your best affiliate product should be instantly noticed by your visitor.

Side bar is the best place to promote your most trusted affiliate product. Create a good-looking banner or download it from official sites. Place them in your side bar.

Visitor can instantly notice it and click it. Most probably you will get a sale.

You can earn really good amount of money from these affiliate products.

10.Use Google Analytics

Install Google Analytics on your blog.

Why?

Because Google Analytic can tell you which articles are performing well. The tool suggest which blog posts are most popular so that you can promote your affiliate product in these posts.

Regularly analyze the Google analytics graph weekly basis or monthly basis to find your most popular articles. Insert your affiliate links in these post

You will see the result.

11.Work Consistently

You will taste the fruit of success if you became consistent.

Don’t demotivated by temporary failure. Failure makes you learn right things

Failure is the pillar of success.

Path of success may be difficult but not impossible. So, don’t give up at any phase of your affiliate marketing journey. Your continuous effort will give you positive result.

Never stop working.

12.Do Proper Planning

It always important to have a good planning before implementing anything.

When you select a product for promotion, think about from product owner prospective.

What would you do if you owned that offer?

I used to write down all my plan to start anything. Not specifically affiliate marketing. Documenting and implementing your plan yields good result.

You can maintain your plan like: –

What product to promote

how to promote

how many affiliate networks to join?

Which plug in to use

which keyword to use

Using the 5 Ws: What, Who, Where, When, and Why in your planning will help you big time in your affiliate marketing career.

13.Generate leads

Collecting leads is one of the most important activity for a blogger.

Whatever be your niche, you have to work on collecting your lead with utmost priority.

How you can generate lead?

Create some free eBooks or organize some free webinar, free offer and ask your visitors to register for this. These are called lead magnet.

By creating and offering lead magnet, you can ask visitor their name and e mail address.

You can use ConvertKit to collect lead for your blog. Other recommended tools are OptinMonster or ThriveLeads which can create professional looking popups for your blog.

14.Keep Tracking 404 error

Do you know about Broken Link Checker plugin?

If you don’t know or not using this plugin then you are doing a huge mistake.

Install this plug in in your blog. Once installation is complete It will scan your blog and within few hours track all the broken link in your blog.

Remove these broken links time to time. Google is not fond of broken link.

Google hates these websites which have lot of broken links and it will negatively impact your page ranking.

15.Build a strong authority in your Niche

Affiliate marketing is not easy. Few years ego it was simple.

Now a days it is complex, SEO based, competitive, and advanced but profitable.

Profitability matters.

So, stick to some specific niche or micro niche and master it. Get authority and confidence for these niches.

Work on building funnels and building asset around these niches. When your website gain authority, your visitor trusts you.

You will get good conversion.

16. Pick your best team

If you want to scale your affiliate marketing profession you have to build your team.

When you are starting, one man operation is fine. But once your website grows you need helping hand to scale handle your operation.

Many affiliate marketers now a days converting their blog in to a small-scale business.

They are hiring trained professional to build a small but efficient team to look after their affiliate marketing operation.

With a great team, you will not over be loaded with work. You will not be workaholics and can utilize your free time to enjoy with your family.

17.Bulid Targeted Visitor by using retarget pixel

Do you know what is Facebook Retarget pixel?

Retarget pixel helps to build targeted audience for your blog. If you want in future you can also run ads.

Even though you are not running any face book campaign, you need to place a retarget pixel for your blog.

It a small piece of code you need to place carefully in your blog header.

I am using it for my blogs, and it actually build lot of audience for me. Believe me it is a magic code.

18.Optimize your Blog page for better conversion.

Conversion will not come on its own.

Spending money and waiting for visitor to conversion is dull idea. You should not relay completely on the affiliate product to give you conversion once you place the affiliate link

You have to make some extra effort here. It is your job ensure that visitors not only visit your blog and clock affiliate link but also buy the product.

You have to optimize your product or blog page to provide an excellent customer experience. Optimized page helps you to gain more customers.

How you can do that?

Let me summarize below

Make sure that site load is fast

Provide enough information to help your visitor to buy the affiliate product.
Give good looking banner, high quality image of products.
Your product review and description should correctly mention all the aspect of the product. Honestly mention the strength and week ness of the product
Include the Realtime customer review and comments
Include expert opinion
Place your best affiliate product in most suitable location of your page to get immediate attention of audience.

You can take advantage of tools like Voluum. This tool has the capability to generate traffic for high -impact and optimized page.

19.Update your Blog posts regularly

Update your blog time to time.

Because product features and functionality, specification changes time to time.

This is highly recommended if you are promoting software and online tools etc. These kinds of product used to change their features frequently.

If you have provided review and product description in your blog, you have to update this with latest information.

20. Select SEO Optimized WordPress Theme

I am fond of Genesis themes, Astra themes and GeneratePress theme.

My experience tells that they are SEO friendly WordPress theme you can stick to.

They are really flexible to do customization as per your requirement.

Let me summarize the reason why you should select these theme