Follow These 8 Steps if you want to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Online

Are you a beginner in Affiliate marketing and want to know a step by step procedure to start making money within next few weeks? Then I am here to help you. Today I am going to share the steps which I usually follow to make money online with affiliate marketing as a beginner. If you are following all the steps then it may usually takes 4-8 weeks to show you results on your hard work and sometime just 2-3 weeks to get your first sale and then it will keep increasing as you progress.

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8 Steps For Making Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

I am following these steps from Feb 2011 & earning good money every month from affiliate marketing. You just have to work on the following 8 golden steps to start making money with affiliate marketing online. If you think, this 4-8 weeks time is very big and you want to know the secrets to start making money with affiliate marketing from day 1 then I am sorry! This post is not for you because there is no such scheme online to make quick bux from day 1 without doing proper research, giving effort & spending time. Believe me ! Making money with affiliate marketing is not very difficult but also not very easy. Easy in the sense, you cannot make money from day 1 and difficult in the sense, it will not take more than few weeks to make your first sale online, if you are doing everything right.

1. Find a Buyer Keyword.
2. Do keyword research.
3. Buy Hosting & Exact Match Domain name
4. Setup wordpress and optimize it for SEO.
5. Post Original Content
6. Submit your website to Webmaster tool
7. Start making backlinks.
8. Time to cash out.

So, these are the 8 basic steps to follow in 4 weeks and I am sure you will start seeing the results during this time period. If you are following these steps & once your website is fully launched then you don’t have to do much work. You hardly need to update it weekly or once in a month and it will keep earning money for you on autopilot.

1. Finding a Buyer Keyword
Making money online with affiliate marketing is totally dependent to the right keyword you choose. A right keyword can make you thousands of dollars every month and a bad keyword can ruin your online business. Your first aim must be to do keyword research & Find right keyword. So, How to find that Right Keyword ?? In affiliate marketing, right keywords are generally referred to keywords which are related to sell or purchase. If the keyword which you are targeting is not related to buying then why your visitors will spend money to buy anything from your website? Think about it?? You should target those keywords which are related to buying so that the people which will come to your website, will be in mood to buy those products.

Now, you may ask How to find Buyer keywords? To get more idea about buying keywords, first of all you have to know what users are buying online and to know about this you may visit popular online shopping sites and can look on their products page. Most of the sites usually display their most popular products based on week or month and that’s the main area which you can target to find buyers keyword. Make a list about top 10-20 popular keywords and perform the step 2.

2. Do keyword research?
Once you have made a list of top 20 buyer keywords then the next step is to do keyword research for all those keyword to find whether those keywords are less competitive or highly competitive. Because we have to target low competitive keywords so that we can rank easily in search engines and start making money asap. We have to target those keywords which are having maximum 70,000 GMS because the keywords under 70K are easy to rank in Google. To find the global monthly searches & competition details, you can use Google adwords free tool. But I use Micro Niche Finder tool to do all my keyword research because MNF is having many advance features which Adwords free keyword tool don’t have. Once you have got the less competitive keywords from your keyword research now you have to perform step 3.

3. Buy Hosting & Domain Name
You have to buy exact match domain name with extension .com, .net or .org based on your targeted keyword and hosting to host your websites. I will not suggest free blogs because they cannot rank number 1 in less time. If you already have web hosting then you just have to buy domain names and install wordpress in your host. If you don’t have hosting, then I will recommend HOSTGATOR web hosting because they are the best in the market in everything. You can create multiple niche websites under one account. Once you have bought domain and hosting then move to step 4.

4. Install WordPress & optimize it for SEO
Install WordPress in your hosting server. If you are buying hosting from hostgator then they provide auto install feature for wordpress i.e. with few mouse clicks you can install wordpress within 5 mins. After Installing the wordpress you need to optimize it for SEO. Once you have optimized your wordpress blog then move to step 5.

5. Write Quality Content
Once everything is setup and you are ready to publish articles on your website then keep in mind “Quality content is KING, QUEEN and everything.” If you are not writing quality content on your niche blog then you can never rank higher in Google and if you are not ranking top 5 in Google, you are leaving decent amount of money.

So always write original content with at least 400 words length. You can write 5-10 quality posts related to your keyword and publish one post everyday for 5 day. Once you have posted 5-10 quality contents then move to step 6.

6. Submit your Website to Webmaster tool
You have to submit your websites in Google, Yahoo & Bing webmaster tool so that your website get indexed asap by these search engines. Why Yahoo & Bing? These search engines will send you more traffic once your blog got some domain age, so why to leave these free traffic in future for just few minutes of work today? Once you have submitted your website then move to step 7.

7. Start making backlinks
Once you have done above 6 steps then you have to start the process of creating high PR backlinks instead of just creating backlinks. I will suggest you not to create any PR 0 Backlinks. There is no harm but to get more benefits High PR backlinks are really required. I use Backlink Profit Monster to search high PR backlinks based on my niche website. It’s a paid tool but it’s really worth thousand dollars because it simplifies the whole work and also save lots of time which you can invest in researching about any other niche.

Don’t generate lots of backlinks in one day instead do it regularly for more positive results. You can either create backlinks on daily or weekly basis but you have to stick on one way.

8. Time to cash out.
Once you have done everything right then within 4-8 weeks you will start earning with affiliate programs. You can follow this same process to create a website for adsense and then you can make money from 1 week itself if you have started a good targeted keyword in any niche.

So, above was the 8 basic but powerful steps to follow in affiliate marketing which can give you huge earning over time.

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