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Business Entrepreneurship Affiliate Marketing

Learn how to Build High Quality Affiliate Websites

Learn affiliate marketing. Watch over my shoulder as I build a real, high quality affiliate site from scratch.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (1,651 ratings)
9,697 students
Created by Andrew Williams
Last updated 6/2020
English
English [Auto], Polish [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Build high quality affiliate sites with confidence
  • Understand how affiliate marketing works
  • Use a variety of methods to show web site visitors affiliate products
  • Earn a passive income by referring visitors to merchant websites.

Requirements

  • Students do not need any prior knowledge, but familiarity with Wordpress would be an advantage (though not essential)

Description

Do you have a website already?  Maybe you want to build one?  Did you know that you can monetize a website with affiliate programs?  Affiliate marketing is something anyone can do.

I've been building affiliate websites for more than a decade, and earning a decent income from those sites.  The great thing about affiliate websites is that if you build them correctly, they'll mature over time and reward you month after month, year after year in passive income.  However, if you build them incorrectly, you will simply be wasting your time.  In the last few years, Google have tightened the noose around webmasters out to make a quick buck by gaming the system.  This course was created to show you how I build successful affiliate websites now, in 2019 and beyond.  I'll take you from the very beginning and show you, over-my-shoulder, how I:

  • Decide on a niche for my website.

  • Find affiliate products in that niche to promote on my websites.

  • Choose a catchy, brandable domain name.

  • Buy the domain through a registrar, and set it up to work with a web host.

  • Install Wordpress.

  • Setup a gmail address and create a "Gravatar".

  • Setup Wordpress.

  • Install a Wordpress theme.

  • Install a few essential plugins.

  • Create an author bio for your web pages.

  • Setup Google Analytics and Search Console so you have the data you need to make your site successful.

  • Add a simple homepage to get you started.

  • Create Mindmaps to plan and outline all of the main topics you want to cover on your website.

  • Add important pages like Contact, Terms and Privacy.

  • Create a sitemap and submit it to Google so they always know when you have new content on your site that needs indexing.

  • Set up Yoast SEO plugin so your site is search engine ready.

  • Setup Facebook and Twitter accounts, and get all new posts automatically syndicated to these platforms.

  • Decide on categories for posts.

  • Write content that the search engines will reward you for.

  • Automate internal site linking, and why it is important.

  • Create an affiliate product page and why this works better than affiliate products on all pages of your website.

  • Create an affiliate product promotion that is always visible to a website visitor.

  • Add social sharing buttons to the site.

  • Add related posts to the end of each post, automatically.

  • How to use Feedly and RSS feeds to get content ideas.

  • How to setup a blog for shorter posts, and how to create these blog posts using Feedly and Youtube.

This course covers everything you need to know to help you create a high quality affiliate website that you'll be proud of.  With Google cracking down on poor quality affiliate sites, a lot of webmasters have given up creating this type of site.  However, affiliate sites remain one of the best forms of setup and forget "passive income".

With this course, you will have the exact system I personally use to keep Google happy as I continue to build this type of site. 


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone that wants to learn how to build a successful website
  • This course is for anyone that wants to learn how to use affiliate programs to earn a passive income
  • This course is not for anyone that is simply looking for a get-rich quick scheme.

Featured review

Mike McLean
Mike McLean
86 courses
15 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Most enjoyable learning experience, well paced and nicely thorough. Andy knows his stuff and how to share it, so I'm feeling good for buying this top value education towards making money as an affiliate marketer.

Course content

8 sections • 59 lectures • 7h 1m total length

  • Preview08:45
  • Preview05:24
  • About the site built in this course
    00:38

  • Options for Monetizing a Website
    12:20
  • Important News About Niche Choice
    02:13
  • Finding an Affiliate Program for my Niche
    12:58
  • Deciding on my Main Product
    11:11
  • Choosing a Domain Name
    09:16
  • Domain Extensions?
    00:59
  • Buying the domain. linking to Web Host & installing Wordpress
    08:25

  • Gmail & Gravatar
    07:04
  • A Run Through of the Wordpress Settings
    07:28
  • Installing the theme
    05:32
  • Installing a few plugins
    03:49
  • Setting up Author Bio
    04:03
  • Preview04:43
  • BONUS: Setting up Analytics
    08:25
  • BONUS: Setting up Google Search Console
    05:14

  • The Content Editor Used in This Course
    00:30
  • A Quick Homepage Holding Page
    06:27
  • Web Content Mindmap
    06:59
  • Researching & Mindmapping Content Ideas
    09:53
  • Adding a Contact Page
    02:14
  • Adding "Legal Pages"
    07:05
  • Setting "Legal" pages to noindex, noarchive
    04:23
  • The Sitemap (& Search)
    06:29
  • Submitting Sitemap to Google Search Console
    02:13
  • Yoast SEO - A run-though of the settings
    19:37

  • Setting up a Facebook page
    03:26
  • Setting up a Twitter account
    04:45
  • Setting up an IFTTT Account
    01:23
  • Setting up automated posting to Facebook
    03:19
  • Setting up automated posting to Twitter
    03:13
  • A Return to Facebook and Twitter
    03:08

  • Website Post Categories
    04:27
  • Writing Content from Scratch
    13:07
  • Posting the Content to the Site
    10:14
  • Automated Internal Linking
    07:14
  • C.I.Backlinks - What happens when you add a new post?
    06:29
  • Let's Tweak the Theme
    17:29
  • Creating an Affiliate Product Page
    15:34
  • Affiliate Disclosure
    19:18
  • Adding a Sticky Sidebar Widget
    06:40
  • Add Social Share Buttons
    04:48
  • Switching the Sidebar from Left to Right
    02:40
  • Related Posts / Further Reading
    09:25
  • Homepage Navigation
    13:55

  • Introduction - Using Feedly & RSS to find important topics
    05:28
  • Finding RSS feeds in your niche
    05:37
  • Setting up Feedly & Adding Feeds
    06:37
  • Google News as a source for Feedly
    03:24
  • Monitoring the Feeds and writing blog posts
    08:54
  • Using Youtube for Blog Posts
    11:18
  • Adding a Top Menu
    07:31
  • Scheduling Posts for Automatic Publishing
    10:45
  • Using Tags Effectively
    13:23
  • What's Next?
    00:44

  • Jump Links (Classic Editor)
    10:21
  • Bonus Lecture
    02:30

Instructor

Andrew Williams
Wordpress, SEO & Self-Publishing Expert, teacher and author
Andrew Williams
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 24,248 Reviews
  • 113,736 Students
  • 29 Courses

I have written and published a number of books that are available on Amazon, including best selling books on Wordpress ("Wordpress for Beginners 2020") and search engine optimization ("SEO 2020").  I also run a website called ezSEONews, where I teach my visitors and newsletter subscribers a number of skills required for running a successful website.

         As an ex-schoolteacher, I hope I can make complicated topics simple to understand.  I certainly enjoy trying! 

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