Brief Summary
This video provides a comprehensive guide on building a profitable affiliate marketing website using WordPress and Elementor. It covers everything from choosing hosting and domain names to setting up themes, plugins, and creating high-quality blog posts optimized for search engines. The video also emphasizes the importance of building relationships with other websites to gain backlinks and increase website authority.
- Learn how to build a website from scratch using free tools.
- Discover a personal affiliate marketing strategy that has generated over $100,000 per month.
- Understand the importance of transactional content and high-commission products for affiliate marketing success.
- Get practical tips on keyword research, blog post creation, and SEO optimization using Rank Math and ChatGPT.
- Learn how to build relationships with other websites to gain backlinks and increase website authority.
Intro
This video is a comprehensive guide to building a profitable affiliate marketing website. The creator, Simon, shares his experience and knowledge gained over 5 years in affiliate marketing, where he consistently makes over $100,000 per month in profit. He emphasizes that affiliate marketing is a long-term game, but with dedication and focus, it can be a highly rewarding business model. The video will cover building a website using WordPress and Elementor, as well as revealing the creator's personal affiliate marketing strategy for scaling to six figures.
Getting Hosting & Domain
The video recommends using WordPress for building an affiliate marketing website due to its popularity and access to SEO tools. The only cost involved is hosting, which is essentially renting space on a server to store website content. Hostinger is recommended as a reliable, fast, and affordable hosting provider, offering plans starting at $2 per month. The video suggests choosing the WordPress Starter option for additional features like unlimited bandwidth and a free domain, which comes down to $3 per month. The video provides a special link in the description for accessing the best prices and a discount code for an additional 10% off. The video then guides viewers through the process of signing up for Hostinger, choosing a domain name, and claiming the free domain.
Wordpress Setup
The video explains how to install WordPress on Hostinger and set up a WordPress account. It emphasizes the importance of cleaning up the WordPress dashboard by deleting unnecessary plugins and themes. The video then guides viewers through basic settings like changing the site title, permalink structure, and disabling the comment section. It also shows how to access the WordPress dashboard at any time using the domain name and "/wp-admin" in the URL.
Theme
The video recommends using the OceanWP theme for building a blogging website, which is essentially the same as an affiliate marketing website. It guides viewers through the process of installing and activating the theme, as well as deleting the default theme. The video also emphasizes the importance of enabling auto-updates for the theme to ensure it's always up-to-date.
Plugins
The video explains the purpose of plugins and how they can enhance website functionality. It recommends installing Elementor, a visual page builder that allows for drag-and-drop website creation, and Ocean Extra, an extension for the OceanWP theme that provides additional design options. The video also guides viewers through enabling auto-updates for all plugins to ensure they are always up-to-date.
Affiliate Marketing Sitemap
The video provides an overview of the website structure for an affiliate marketing site, highlighting the importance of the homepage and blog page. It explains that the homepage should be simple and clean, featuring a logo, navigation links, and a newsletter signup section. The blog page should display an overview of all blog posts with categories and a sidebar containing information about the website, a newsletter signup section, social media links, and recent posts. The video also explains the difference between pages and posts in WordPress, emphasizing that posts are the primary content that will rank in Google and drive traffic to the website.
Home Page
The video guides viewers through the process of creating the homepage using Elementor. It shows how to set up global colors and fonts for the website, ensuring consistency across all pages. The video then demonstrates how to create the hero section of the homepage, including adding text, an email signup section, and an image with a gradient background. It also explains how to remove backgrounds from images using Canva or remove.bg.
Blog Page
The video explains how to create the blog page using the WordPress customizer. It shows how to change the layout, hide the page title, and adjust the font size and style. The video then guides viewers through creating the sidebar for the blog page, including adding a search bar, an About Me section, a newsletter signup section, recent posts, and social media links.
Post Page
The video explains how to customize the blog post page using the WordPress customizer. It shows how to adjust the metadata, change the author's display name, and add a sidebar. The video also emphasizes the importance of using a consistent sidebar across all pages, including the blog post page.
About Page
The video guides viewers through creating a simple About page using Elementor. It shows how to add a title, text, and an image. The video also demonstrates how to use ChatGPT to generate personalized text for the About section, providing a basic structure that can be customized.
Contact Page
The video explains how to create a Contact page using Elementor and WP Forms. It guides viewers through the process of creating a simple contact form using WP Forms and then integrating it into the Contact page. The video also shows how to customize the form's appearance using Qi Add-ons for Elementor.
Header & Footer
The video explains how to create a header and footer for the website using the WordPress customizer. It shows how to create a main menu, add pages to the menu, and customize the menu's appearance. The video also guides viewers through adding a logo to the header and footer, as well as creating a separate logo for the mobile version. The video then explains how to create policy pages like Privacy Policy and Terms of Service and link them to the footer menu.
Policies
The video explains how to create policy pages like Privacy Policy and Terms of Service using Elementor. It provides a basic template for both pages that can be customized with specific website information. The video also recommends using Termly.io for generating personalized policy pages based on individual website needs.
Mobile Optimization
The video emphasizes the importance of mobile optimization for websites. It guides viewers through the process of adjusting the layout and content size for tablet and mobile phone screens using Elementor's responsive mode. The video also shows how to customize the header for mobile devices using the WordPress customizer, including adding a separate logo and adjusting the menu appearance.
Email Marketing
The video explains how to connect a website to an email marketing provider, using MailChimp as an example. It guides viewers through the process of creating an API key in MailChimp and then connecting it to the WordPress website using the OceanWP plugin. The video also provides a link to a complete MailChimp tutorial for further guidance.
Security
The video recommends installing the Wordfence security plugin to protect the website. It guides viewers through the process of installing and activating the plugin, as well as obtaining a free license. The video also emphasizes the importance of enabling auto-updates for all plugins, including Wordfence.
Affiliate Marketing Strategy
The video delves into the creator's personal affiliate marketing strategy, emphasizing the importance of transactional content and high-commission products. It explains that the goal of affiliate marketing is to drive traffic to blog posts, encourage clicks on affiliate links, and ultimately lead to product purchases. The video highlights the importance of focusing on keywords with traffic volume, low competition, and revenue potential. It also recommends promoting digital products over physical products due to higher commission rates.
Rank Math Setup
The video explains how to set up Rank Math, a free SEO plugin for WordPress. It guides viewers through the process of installing and activating the plugin, connecting the website to Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and setting up a sitemap.
Topic Research
The video recommends using ChatGPT to generate topic ideas for blog posts. It provides examples of prompts that can be used to get sub-niche ideas and identify products with lucrative affiliate programs.
Keyword Research
The video recommends using Semrush for keyword research. It guides viewers through the process of using the Keyword Magic tool to identify keywords with traffic volume, low competition, and revenue potential. The video also explains how to analyze the search results for a specific keyword to assess the competition and determine the likelihood of ranking for that keyword.
Creating Blog Posts
The video guides viewers through the process of creating an optimized blog post using ChatGPT as a writing assistant. It provides a template for a comparison blog post and explains how to use ChatGPT to generate content for each section of the post. The video also emphasizes the importance of using the Rank Math checklist to ensure the blog post is properly optimized for SEO.
Growing Website
The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of consistently publishing high-quality blog posts and building relationships with other websites to gain backlinks. It explains that backlinks are crucial for increasing website authority and improving search engine rankings. The video encourages viewers to reach out to other websites in their niche and offer to write guest posts in exchange for backlinks.
