Affiliate Marketing Without a Website: The Complete Guide
You don’t need a website for affiliate marketing
You’re reading this blog because you want to make money with affiliate marketing, without spending a dime on a website.
The truth is, you don’t need to own a website to make money with affiliate marketing. A niche, network, tool, social media site and you’re well off running a profitable affiliate business online.
In this blog, you’ll learn about how the exact steps needed to build and maintain a profitable affiliate marketing business. I’ll cover everything from selecting a niche, to making your first commission as an affiliate.
So wiithout any further ado, let’s get right into it :
What is Affiliate Marketing without a Website?
Affiliate Marketing is the process of making money promoting someone else’s product or service.
In this, you select someone’s product to promote, make a sale on it and get commissions on the sale you made. The commission is paid by the business or individual whose product you’ve chosen to promote.
Running a website to promote affiliate offers can be a tedious process. You’ll need to pay an upfront charge to maintain the website.
You’ll even have to create content constantly and promote it to increase your website’s authority on search engines. This may take months.
Here are 3 reasons why creating a website can be difficult for affiliate marketing.
- Low Domain Authority : A brand new website lacks authority, content and backlinks. Ranking your affiliate website on the first page of Google will take time, maybe months or years in fact.
- Lack of visitors : Since your website is new and unable to rank on Google, you’ll barely get any visitors from Google, lest conversions.
- Non-acceptance by Affiliate Networks : Your brand new website is less likely to get accepted by Affiliate Networks for promoting their products. Such Networks validate the worth of your website on the basis of content and traffic. And if they find out your website lacks both, they’ll reject your request to become their affiliate.
But let’s look at how affiliate marketing without a website actually looks today.
Affiliate Marketing without a website is when you promote someone else’s product using a platform, mostly a landing page, and leverage other channels and tools to promote the product, make a sale and grab those commissions.
Let’s begin with the most important aspect of affiliate marketing.
Choosing Your Affiliate Marketing Niche
Your affiliate income depends on the niche you choose.
You’ve got 2 choices :
- Go for a niche that’s profitable
- Go for a niche that you like talking about
So which one would you choose?
In fact, you can choose both of them. The real issue isn’t the niche, it’s the trust and connection you build with people when promoting your affiliate products.
Truth #1 : People don’t care about what you’re promoting unless it benefits them.
Truth #2 : All major Affiliate niches are saturated today. So let me take you through some “shoulder” affiliate niches to attract targeted traffic.
Let’s look at the top 5 major affiliate niches first :
- Health and Wellness
- Lifestyle
- Fitness
- Finance
- Technology
All the niches listed above are extremely competitive.
We need to focus on sub-niches, a.k.a Shoulder niches to get started with affiliate marketing.
Let’s look at an example :
Major Niche : Fitness
Shoulder niche : Gyms, Yoga, Pilates
In case you’re planning to narrow down on shoulder niches and entering micro niches, here is an example can work out with :
Example : Shoulder niche — Gym
Micro niche — gym equipment, gym shoes, gym gloves, etc.
The smaller your niche, the more targeted your traffic. And that’s a good thing.
Now that we’ve covered the niches, let’s look at platforms that’ll help you start your affiliate business from scratch.