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Hello, YouTube. It is Alston with another video. Today, I’m going to spend a few minutes answering the question, how to affiliate market without a website. In addition, I’m going to spend a few minutes talking about should you, the different methods that you could take, and why you should look at other options.
Before we get started, make sure that you like and subscribe. If this video or any of the other videos that I have uploaded to YouTube have provided some valuable content and that you have learned something. So let’s get started. How to affiliate market without a website. There are a number of sites that you could use to Affiliate market your products or services.
One of the best websites out there in fact, it’s a website that i’m using right now is youtube you can actually affiliate market with youtube With some pretty good success Youtube actually has two purposes you can affiliate market and if your channel goes grows large enough you could actually add Earn ad revenue as well.
Everything you need to do to affiliate market on YouTube is to provide some valuable content like I’m doing now, and then just provide the link, the affiliate link. To the product or service that you’re promoting. One thing that you’ll have to do though, is you’ll probably have to do, I would say five to 10 videos on a product or service just so that YouTube can the YouTube algorithms can go through and make sure that you are providing valuable content.
It’ll be pretty difficult to rank and to earn affiliate income if you just do one off videos on, on certain topics. It can happen if it’s a very popular topic. If the niche is exploding right now, let’s say if it was like three years ago in the selfie sticks, if you did a video on selfie sticks.
Three years ago when it was very popular, it would, you could probably rank quicker, but YouTube is one way. Another way is Quora and actually talked about this in one of my other videos, which I’ll link to in the the card above Quora basically is a question and answer slash social. social networking website where people from all over the world will ask a question and then other users will answer it.
You can definitely do affiliate marketing through Quora. You have to be careful though, because if you just put your affiliate link in after a little bit of content your post will get removed if you don’t add enough value to your post, your posts are going to get removed. So you want to make sure that you are providing lots of good value and then maybe an affiliate link here or there.
One of the great things about Quora is all of the questions are sorted by topic. So you could actually focus on one niche within Quora and just answer all the questions as they come. And as you start answering questions, as long as you have the mobile app, they’ll actually. Send questions to you and you can answer them right away Once you gain trust with the quora community people will ask you directly people will start following you And so then you may have some more leeway with providing affiliate links But you want to make sure that you are absolutely careful because you can ultimately get banned and they will delete your posts So that’s one way now you can also use different social media sites like twitter facebook any pinterest is Probably the best of the three.
The only thing that I would caution you with using like Twitter or even Facebook is the content gets uploaded and created so fast that it changes and it’s very easy for it to get missed. If you’re not using the right hashtags, if you don’t use hashtag hashtags at all, your tweets can get lost in the sea of millions of tweets that are occurring or uploading every minute.
Same with Facebook. The issue with Facebook is that you are most likely marketing towards friends and family and so there’s a very limited number of people that you can reach. Now it’s very possible that your posts could go viral and that could reach a larger number of people. But for the most part, a lot of the posts are contained to contained to friends and family.
So you want to, you can do it with social media that, that works as well. Another option is Reddit. Reddit is a form where post questions, comments, music, videos, pictures, images, anything that their hearts desire, they can post it in Reddit. And then Reddit is a lot like Quora where there are different subcategories.
They’re called subreddits where you can. Focus your time. For example, there’s a game of thrones Subreddit, there’s all sorts of different subreddits for every single category imaginable reddit’s probably one of the more difficult ones to affiliate market with just because Subreddits are more of a community.
They’re more family oriented people know you Or they know the individual members of the subreddit. There’s actual moderators of each individual subreddit Who spend a lot of time in there just making sure things aren’t boiling out of control. And so you want to make sure that you’re absolutely providing great content, valuable content first, before you even consider entering affiliate links.
So you probably want to go, you probably want to do 15 or 20 quality posts, adding content, adding value to the subreddit before you even consider adding affiliate links. You may even have to wait depending on the rules. Every subreddit has different rules. You may even have to wait until someone asks you for what you recommend.
If at that time they ask you, Hey, so what do you think about this pen? You can then provide your affiliate link. I would also just say, Hey, this is an affiliate link just so you know. So it is possible to do affiliate marketing without a website. It is challenging to do that. And I actually recommend not following this route.
I recommend getting a website. Getting some sort of website so that you have your own area. One of the biggest reasons why you need your own website is you don’t control any of these outlets. At any time, YouTube, Quora, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, any of these other, any of these other channels.
Could delete your posts. You can get flagged. You could be deleted permanently because of various reasons. That’s not unheard of for YouTube to boot you or close your channel and close your account because they don’t like how things are going. Facebook could, you can get deleted from Facebook very easily.
So you want to make sure that a, you are very careful with your links and be most importantly, you want to have your own medium out there. You want to, At least start off with something free so that you can provide your own content. You can have better or more control over what is being said on your forum.
Another issue too with YouTube, Quora, Facebook, Twitter is you don’t control the narrative. What the other users do, what they say about you, what they think about you, that is, it can be manipulated. When you own your own website, when you’re using your own website, you control the narrative. You can say what goes on, what goes off what’s prohibited.
And so you can really… Shape the image how you want it to. So what I would certainly recommend is while it is possible to do affiliate marketing without a website, you, if you are serious about it and you want passive income, you want long term income, you want to make sure that you are investing in a website.
A website essentially will pay for itself in two or three months, four or five affiliate commissions. If you think about it, a website’s probably 70 bucks a year. Web hosting or domain name, excuse me, is let’s say 15 bucks a year. So you’re looking at 85 if you decide to go with WordPress and you buy a premium domain, that’s another 60 bucks a year.
So you’re looking at for less than 150 you can have your own medium. You can have your own website where you can control the narrative, you can control the content, you can control what’s being said and what’s being done. You can provide valuable content and that content will be there forever.
You don’t have to worry about it being lost, it won’t get deleted. And you can get organic traffic, which is difficult with some of these other mediums. So for less than 150. Per year, and it’d actually only be 150 for the first year and then probably 85 every other year for that small amount You can have your own website if you become good at social media or if you become good at affiliate marketing that basically is depending on the Commission that’s one sale.
So you want to make sure that you look at buying a website as an investment And not necessarily an expense because the return on investment is going to be much more greater over a longer term than some of these other outlets that are out there So to answer the original question Yes, you can market without a website.
You can do affiliate marketing without a website should you do it? No. If you are looking to get started, it is possible to start with Quora. And I mentioned that in my other video. But again, the longterm goals should be ultimately creating a website and having all of your valuable content and then pushing the other.
Sources of traffic to your website. So you want to push people from YouTube to your website. You want to push people from Quora to your website, from Twitter to your website, because that is the, that’s the best way for long term sustainable growth. Once you get people to your website. You can promote affiliate products.
You can promote your own products. You can promote physical products. If that’s what you want to do, you can promote your services. There is so much more opportunity once you create a website and the website doesn’t have to be fancy to start with. It can just be something to drive traffic back to.
So before we let you go, make sure that you hit and subscribe if this. video or any other video has provided valuable content. Also check out some of my other videos on affiliate marketing and blogging for beginners. I’ll leave a few links in the description. One will be a link on a class or a course to get started with affiliate marketing.
The other link will be. link to the tools that I use to create content videos, blogging, and so on. So this is Alston answering the question affiliate marketing without a website. Can it be done? Thanks for watching and we will see you soon.