hey guys it’s hogan here and i’m so excited for this video because it’s taking me literally months to put this together for you guys so in this video i’m gonna be showing you guys step by step how to build a thousand dollar per month affiliate niche website so it’s a completely free course on affiliate marketing and how to start an affiliate marketing website so the reason why i actually want to create this video is because there are already so many videos showing you guys different ideas and concepts on affiliate marketing but none of them actually show you guys how to execute on those ideas and if you really want to be successful with affiliate marketing and creating your own affiliate marketing website it’s not about the idea of it right it’s not about the concept it’s about execution so in this video i want to show you guys the behind the scenes process of creating a affiliate marketing website step by step and doing it the right way so what’s different about this video is that we’re actually gonna be creating a real live case study website with you guys and we’re gonna try and take it from zero to a thousand dollars per month so make sure you subscribe for future updates for this website now there’s a lot to cover today as i’ve actually separated this tutorial into seven different parts so part one we’re going to go through understanding and answer some common questions that people have for example what exactly is affiliate marketing what is an affiliate marketing website how it all works and how do you actually make money with it then i’ll go through things such as why you should actually start affiliate marketing go through some of the pros and the cons so you can decide whether or not it’s for you or not for you then part two is we’re going to go through finding a niche and finding the best type of products to promote to earn affiliate commissions then part three we’re going to find low competition keywords and also profitable keywords that you can actually target for your website so don’t worry if you’re not really sure what i’m talking about right now i’ll go through it in more detail later on in part four we’re going to go through website setup and design so i’m going to show you guys how to fully customize your website it doesn’t matter if you want to create like a simple blog and monetize it with affiliate links or you want to create an amazon affiliate website or like a product review website or any type of website it’s fully customizable and i’ll show you how to do that part five i’m going to go through content creation which is probably the most important part of an affiliate marketing business then part six we’re going to go through optimization so i’m going to show you guys the step-by-step process of optimizing your website so that it ranks in google right because you want to make sure your website is actually ranking in google so that you actually get people going to your website clicking on your affiliate links so i’m going to show you guys how to optimize it properly on page and off page search engine optimization and then part seven we’re going to go through some final tips and strategies to help you succeed quicker okay and i’m going to be showing you things that no one normally shows you so i’m so excited to begin so make sure you grab a pen and a piece of paper maybe get a coffee or some water or something like that we’re going to get started right now so part one understanding and questions i want to go through this part because i want everyone to fully understand exactly what it is and what it’s not right and also answer your questions because i remember you know starting affiliate marketing and not knowing exactly what it was and you know how to actually do it properly so what is affiliate marketing right so affiliate marketing is the process of promoting a product or service for a commission so think about you as being a real estate agent and you are helping the owner sell a house and if the buyer purchases the house then the owner is going to give you a commission for that sale because you’ve helped him sell the house right you’ve helped him advertise and promote the house and then you’ve sold it right so let’s say for example the house price is let’s say a million dollars and you get two percent commission so basically that’s around twenty thousand dollars so that is your commission right so affiliate marketing is essentially the same thing but online so how it actually works is that you the affiliate you can actually sign up for a affiliate program right so you can actually join the affiliate program of many products and services that you have used already so for example on amazon they have an affiliate program called the amazon associates program where you can actually join and basically can promote all the products on amazon so let’s say for example you want to promote a coffee machine to your friends or your customers or your viewers or your readers then what you do is you sign up they’ll give you a special tracking link right it’s also known as a referral link or an affiliate link and what that link does it basically adds like a cookie or like a little tag virtual tag on that link so that it basically knows you know when the customer actually purchases that that you actually referred them okay so then amazon will pay you the commission so for example if the coffee machine is 500 there is a 10 commission that means you earn 50 right so there are many ways to actually promote your links right so obviously you can promote your link on facebook you like you know send it to your friends and your families hey this is the best product ever and then you can send the link there or you could do like what a lot of influencers do on instagram you can do like click the link in my bio or use xyz for 10 off and things like that you can also email people um you can also reply and you know comment on different forms and everywhere around the internet and leave your link right but those aren’t the best ways to actually promote your affiliate links the best two ways are your website and a youtube channel okay so in this video we’re going to focus mostly on creating an affiliate website so we’re going to be focusing on that so the reason why it’s best to promote on a website or a youtube channel is because these platforms are search engines so people actually typing in google like looking for things they’re researching different products and services and trying to figure out you know is this product good or not right so there are thousands or maybe millions of products and people want to know you know is this product for them you know should they be looking at a budget option or a more expensive option they also want to learn how to solve a problem right so people also type in you know how to on youtube as well just like you found this tutorial you might have typed in how to make a website or how to start affiliate marketing or whatever it is you are looking to solve a problem okay so on these platforms people are looking for things when we’re talking about these different other platforms for example you got like facebook instagram or an email a lot of times people aren’t really looking for a review right they might just be scrolling on facebook or scrolling through the instagram feed but they’re not really in the mindset of purchasing something but let’s say when you’re creating a website and your website’s ranking on google then you know people are looking for that review right and if your review is on the first page of google they click into your website they click your link and then you’re able to earn a commission so it’s a lot more natural and the conversions are normally higher and so you’re able to earn more commissions right so you’re also able to earn a passive income because if your website is actually ranking on google then every single month there’s a consistent amount of people who are actually searching for specific products and specific product reviews or how to do certain things okay so if your website is there your website never sleeps and people are able to access your website from anywhere around the world and that’s how you actually generate a passive income okay so what i want to show you now is just a real example of how it actually works and how do you actually make money from it and how much money can you make okay so we’re going to open up google okay so what i want to do now is just show you an example of how it all works and how much commission you can expect to earn with affiliate marketing and with a website so we’re going to type in nord vpn review so nordvpn is just a vpn provider and a vpn is a virtual private network which basically just allows you to hide your ip address so that when you’re browsing the internet then no one can actually track your actions and you can also use it to unlock netflix of different countries because you can connect to a different sort of server with a different ip address for example if i’m in australia i can connect to united states and i can watch the netflix in the united states okay so i just wanted to explain uh what it was okay so generally um that’s the type of content that you need to create when you’re creating an affiliate marketing website um because people are just about to purchase right so you can’t just create any type of content it has to be content where people are just about to purchase or they’re in the process of solving a problem and then you’re recommending them a specific product okay so on the top over here is the google adwords results so basically the company will actually pay google for every click that someone makes and clicks into that website right so that is how google actually makes money and if you actually scroll down over here you can see the organic results so you can actually see a ton of different affiliate marketing websites and we’re gonna click into this one over here so let’s say for example you are reading this review and you’re reading about it and you like it so if we actually click on visit website you can see on the bottom that is an affiliate tracking link right so if someone clicks on that that’s going to basically add like a cookie onto the browser and if they purchase through that link then it’s going to track back to this website over here and the website’s owner so if someone purchases and grabs the deal what you’re going to notice is that you can see the two-year plan over here and you can see the price of 89 for the first two years and without the discount is 286 right so how much commission does this website owner actually make from a sale so what we can do is go to the nordvpn.com website or whichever company that you want to promote and you can scroll down to the very bottom and generally what they have is a section where you got the affiliate program and you can click into it so it might be called like partner program or anything like that and you can become an affiliate and then you can get a tracking link and add it onto your website so we can scroll down over here now generally a lot of websites will actually show how much commission you actually uh get paid so for the two year offer the owner actually gets 40 per new sign up okay so we’re going to get the calculator out and we’re going to calculate it so 89 times 0.4 so 40 so that’s around 35 dollars per sale okay and once they renew as well so let’s say for example um whoever purchases this plan they like it and they renew it for 286 dollars then the owner is going to get a renewal fee as well so it’s going to be 286 times 0.3 and then they get paid 85 on the renewal okay so that’s how it all works and how you actually get paid now the next question is like how much does the website actually earn so the website um it really depends on the type of content um that you actually create so let’s say for example you create a random piece of content which is not very very uh sort of targeted people aren’t looking for the product then it might be zero percent conversions and you might not be making any money at all but for this type of keyword people are just about to purchase right so we actually need to figure out how many visitors does this website actually get so you can actually use a tool called ahrefs and for this specific uh key phrase it’s actually searched around 25 000 times in the united states per month right and then the global volume is around 44k right so that doesn’t mean this website and this page over here gets you know 44 000 people on the website right that’s too much because uh that’s the amount of people who are actually searching for that key phrase but it doesn’t mean that they click into that okay so we can actually scroll down to the very bottom and we can actually find the website over here the vpn mentor and you can see the estimated traffic um monthly visits over here so it’s around 5200 okay so if we get the calculator out and we do 5200 and let’s say one out of every 100 person uh purchases right so just one percent so we can times that by 0.01 that’s around 52 purchases per month now it might even be a lot higher because they actually have um the adword position as well so as you can see um let’s go back over here they actually have their advertisement up here as well right so it can be quite high as well but the the traffic over here this is the organic search results okay so for example 52 times 35 that would be about a thousand 800 per month for that specific page only so what is really amazing is that as you can see on the actual website over here they don’t just have you know one product that they’re promoting right or one keyword that they’re targeting per page they got multiple pages like nordvpn coupons expressvpn and they’ve also got you know different other key phrases that people actually searching for as well so this website over here is probably earning you know seven figures per year because it has a lot of traffic um to the website okay so you know it’s really important to understand that you can’t really expect to achieve these results especially if you’re just starting out this is actually a very very competitive niche because the commission rates are quite high right if we’re actually talking about this product over here this is actually like a digital product or a virtual product and the profit margins for this company is going to be quite high and that’s how they actually pay such a high sort of commission rate right so not every affiliate program pays such a high commission rate right so if we look at the amazon associates affiliate program and we can click onto here to learn how much do i earn from the program you’ll actually find the commission rates over here as well so let’s say for example we’re talking about the coffee machine that’s around 4.5 percent okay and we look at the most popular coffee machines you know it might be like 200 or something like that so this one over here um let’s do some calculations so two two nine times zero point zero four five okay so that’s around ten dollars per sale so it’s not as high and you don’t get the renewal fee so it really depends on what type of product that you are promoting and it depends on the conversions as well and also the commission rates on how much you can actually earn and obviously it depends on whether or not you can actually rank your website up there and how many sort of pages that you are creating so let’s say for example this is your website what you’ll have is you’ll have separate pages for different products and different reviews and different pages for different content on your website so each page is sort of like this little uh rental property that you have right so each product that you promote might have a different commission rate and it might have also a different number of people who are searching for it as well as a different amount of visitors that come to your website so it’s sort of really just like a virtual rental property so it’s going to take you time to actually build up it’s not like a get rich quick thing at all but don’t worry i’m going to show you guys step by step how to actually do it so right now you’re probably thinking you know is this even real is it too late is it a scam and you know other people making money with affiliate marketing so i know how you guys feel because i felt the exact same when i first started with affiliate marketing right i signed up for a lot of email um email newsletters and a lot of webinars watch a lot of videos and a lot of people showed me screenshots of you know how much they’re making with affiliate marketing right so for me when i first started i actually thought that a lot of people showed me screenshots of people who are actually um like their core sales and things like that those screenshots for the course sales but i think a lot of people um legitimately make money with affiliate marketing right they just don’t show you so this is one of the affiliate programs that i’m a part of and yesterday we made around 70 right so this is very very real now i’m not saying that you guys can achieve this overnight right it’s going to take a lot of work and it’s going to take you time especially when you’re creating a website and ranking it on google right because you have to create the content and things like that but this is very very real so it also depends on the types of products that you’re promoting so this one is a digital product so the commission rates are higher so for example on you know the 28th you know we made over a hundred dollars right and this is another affiliate program where it’s uh reoccurring commissions so i made 11 sales but there has been over 39 rebuilds right so every time it rebuilds then it pays me another forty dollars okay so every single month so this is another affiliate program over here so i’ve earned over seventy eight thousand um so yeah it’s very very real so it’s not just me and also you know other websites that you have not really heard of that is making money so this website called wirecutter which is recently actually four years ago acquired by new york times for 30 million dollars so if you actually search up wirecutter and search up on wikipedia you’ll see that they were acquired by the new york times um 2016 for 30 million dollars right so if you actually go to the website you can actually see um it is primarily an affiliate marketing website so it’s a content website that does reviews on different products and they monetize with affiliates so for example over here it says wirecutter is reader supported when you buy through links on our website we may earn an affiliate commission so they actually generated over 150 million in revenue from affiliate programs so that doesn’t mean that they made 150 million otherwise they’ll be selling for like probably over a billion dollars but we do have to take into consideration the affiliate commission rate so let’s say for example 150 million so one i think that is is that too many okay that’s too many zeros let’s do that again so yep 150 and then let’s just say for example they are selling physical products so let’s say five percent that would be around 7.5 million um
from its launch which is 2011 to 2016.