There are two ways of affliate marketing: with and without a website. A website makes your affiliate marketing easier. The below checklist is useful for you to build a successful website.
STEP 1: RESEARCH AND CHOOSE A NICHE + PRODUCTS
STEP 2: SET-UP YOUR DOMAIN AND HOSTING
STEP 1: RESEARCH AND CHOOSE A NICHE + PRODUCTS
- Find target niches and affiliate programs
- Refine to the best products and sub-niches
- Research keyword search volumes
STEP 2: SET-UP YOUR DOMAIN AND HOSTING
- Purchase a domain name
- Purchase a hosting package
- Link domain and hosting
- Install WordPress open source (CMS)
- Add a theme
- Create main pages
- Integrate the essential tools (testing, analytics and more)
- Always test your website before launching
- Produce written content (blogging)
- Blog posts and articles
- Add images
- Try multimedia content
- Infographics
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Webinars
- Optimize tags (title, meta description, tags, H tags, ALT tags)
- Use researched keywords in tags and content
- Use internal links between blog posts
- Build a strong site structure (sitemap, navigation, robot txt)
- Place affiliate links effectively
- Build high quality backlinks to your site
- Always include a Call-to-Action
- cater content to your buyers
- Target high buyer-intent keywords
- Produce sign-up form
- Produce newsletter series
- Create opt-in brise/report
- Paid traffic
- Pay per Click (PPC)
- Social media ads
- Media buying
- SEO
- Focus on top of on-page SEO
- Build high-quality backlinks
- Social media
- Post regularly
- Develop branding strategy
- Social SEO (shares)
- Inbound marketing
- Guest blogging
- Q&A sites
- Forums & communities
- Podcasting
- Webinars
- Infographics
- Videos
- News/media/PR
- Other sources