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.
So if we divide that by five okay that should be over 1.5
million or maybe even more than that uh 2 million per year in revenue okay so affiliate marketing is
very very real um there are a ton of websites that use affiliate marketing as a way to monetize their
content and youtubers also do the same as well so sam over here is a travel and aviation youtuber
right and he's also promoting uh vpns because vpns are quite popular since you know it's sort of
like a product that everyone probably needs and as you can see here it's over four hundred
thousand views so you can bet that he's generated you know thousands and thousand dollars from
promoting you know the vpn so affiliate marketing is very real and this leads me to the pros and
cons which i want to talk about so you can fully understand exactly you know the positives and
also the negatives of affiliate marketing okay so let's discuss some of the pros of an affiliate
marketing website and affiliate marketing business so number one you're able to earn passive income
so the reason why i actually got started with affiliate marketing was because you know my dad
actually owns a restaurant in melbourne australia and basically every single day he would be working
every day you know and i'll just be at home taking care of my brother and my sister and we barely
ever went on any holidays and things like that so i was always you know searching up how to make
money online and how could i actually make money while i was on holiday so i didn't have to spend
you know time just working all the time and i couldn't you know travel and things like that you
know so that was one of the biggest reasons why i actually got started with affiliate marketing
so you're able to earn passive income because if your website is actually ranking on google it
means that it's there like right it's there 24 7. anyone's able to access that anywhere around the
world and every single day there is a consistent amount of people who are actually searching for
your website and what you have to offer so for example if you're creating a coffee machine review
or like nordvpn review or like you know different product reviews there's a consistent amount of
people who are searching for that every single month and if they click it and they purchase
it and that's how you make passive income and you've also got unlimited potential so this
doesn't have any limit to how much you can earn so i remember working as a waiter at my dad's
restaurant and i would get paid like 13 to 15 per hour and i would work like 10 hours a day and
basically like the whole day will be gone because the rest of the day i'll just like be used to
showering resting and eating and just sleeping right but the rest of the day the other 10 hours
is just gone and i couldn't really earn more than that so if i earn you know 15 times 10 150
per day and that was a ceiling that was a limit but with affiliate marketing there is no limit it
depends on how hard you actually work right the more content that you produce the more you're able
to make and you're also able to work from anywhere in the world so you know for me i started to make
you know over ten thousand dollars per month from affiliate marketing in 2000 and end of 2016 and
2017 so i was actually able to travel and work at the same time now i don't really recommend it
if you're just starting out um because when you're traveling and working it's not as productive but
you can do it okay so number four it's also very low capital and low overheads so if you were to
start like a brick and mortar business or even an e-commerce business you know at least you'll
need five ten thousand dollars to start an online business where you have your own goods and you're
selling that right but with affiliate marketing you can start from as little as 100 and also
number five it's also very high profit margins so for example if you're promoting a product you
don't have to sort of um you know order the goods like let's say for example if you're starting
e-commerce you have to order the goods you don't really have to hire anyone and you're also able to
earn a us dollar so for example i'm in australia i'm able to let's say i earn ten thousand
dollars then it would be like you know times 1.35 the conversion rate to australian dollars so it'd
be like 13 000 or more okay so that is really really awesome especially if you're living in a
country where it's like a lower cost of living that means you can save a lot of money and yeah
it's just really really awesome so number six you get to be really really independent and creative
uh what i mean by that is that if you are working at a company and things like that you know it's
very very uh like you have to follow procedures and you have to do you know what the boss tells
you to do but with your own affiliate marketing business you can create any type of content
and you can be really creative with it as well so you can just fully express yourself um
number seven you don't need any special skills or certifications you don't need any special
certificate for affiliate marketing you can join any affiliate program as long as you have
a website or like a a following um most likely they'll actually accept you now if you don't have
a website and don't have any type of you know sort of presence online some affiliate programs might
not let you join so that's why creating a website is really important so number eight you don't
have to deal with any shipping or customer support so i do think you do have to let's say for
example if you have a website if people uh you know comment on your website and things like
that you do have to reply um but there is no like consistent sort of customer support that you have
to do right the company will actually do that um you don't also need to show your face um you know
you don't have to be a celebrity if you don't want to you can also use the skills that you learn
from affiliate marketing and creating a website to any other business that you want to pursue
later so i think this is a really big one because a lot of people sort of want to do different
things later on and you can always use the skills that you learn here later on okay so i've
gone through some of the pros and the benefits of actually starting an affiliate marketing business
and an affiliate marketing website now i want to go through the cons and sort of the negative side
of affiliate marketing because i think it's really important to understand and that way you're able
to succeed a lot faster and also have continued success as well because then you actually know
what to do sort of after right so number one with an affiliate marketing business it's gonna take
you time to achieve results right so if you're just starting out fresh then probably you would
expect you know to get results after the six month mark because you do have to actually take time
to actually create the content and you do have to rank your website and there's quite a lot of
things that you have to do um in between right so a lot of people think that okay i can make
money really quickly i can make money tomorrow and you know live this fancy lifestyle and things
like that but to be honest you know because i'm not selling you any course like there you can't
really achieve that so quickly it's like if you're starting like tennis or if you're starting a new
sport right you can't really win the competition so quickly there's a lot of different steps that
you have to take like let's say for example you have to learn um with tennis you have to learn
how to serve you have to learn your forehand your backhand you have to learn strategy you
have to keep fit it's basically the same thing when you're starting your own affiliate marketing
business right so the people who are showing you how you can actually make money in seven days and
things like that when they make videos about that most of the time it's for people to actually click
into that video and watch that video um those people actually have experience already right so
it's different when you have a following already and when you actually have experience already with
business and things like that but if you're just starting fresh like let's say for example you are
just learning about online business you're only 18 and you're getting started it's going to take you
time to actually build up your skills and actually you know make money right so sometimes you
can actually earn money quicker but sometimes you won't be able to actually sustain that
right so what you want to do is you want to create really great content and that's going to
take you work and time so you have to understand that affiliate marketing is sort of like your
own virtual rental property and obviously it does take you time to build that up so number
three commissions and terms can change overnight so a few months ago amazon actually changed the
terms so the commission rate was like cut in half or severely reduced so it's really important to
understand that when you're joining an affiliate program the the company can actually change the
terms overnight right so that's why you want to be very selective with the types of products and
types of affiliate programs that you sign up with and also once you become successful with it you
should start promoting more products as well to sort of mitigate that risk okay so number four
there's quite a lot of competition because there's a low barrier of entry so to actually start
affiliate marketing it's free pretty much right so that's going to create a lot of competition but
to be honest there's no reason why you can't be the best okay there's absolutely no reason why
you can't compete um there's a lot of different products out there and there are a lot of
different new products which are coming out as well okay so it's definitely not too late and
you can definitely be the best number five you don't have control of the product or service
so what i mean by that is let's say if you're promoting a product maybe this year it might be
great right but then next year the product might not be as good anymore so it has changed right
so you don't have control of how the company uh like the management of the company and the types
of different um improvements the company makes as well so that is a big con i guess so that's why
you have to choose the right company to promote um don't just promote any type of company
and you also have to understand that when you are promoting something you are not really
building up a customer base for your business so over time after you know after when you
made some money with affiliate marketing then you're gonna start thinking about other
revenue streams as well like when you're just starting out you shouldn't really focus on
too many different revenue streams because that's going to overwhelm you and that's going
to take away from your focus on creating content and things like that but over time once you have
more experience you can create your own product you can do a lot of other things and make money
online okay so once you have a website and things like that there's so many opportunities that you
can you know explore so number six you do have to maintain your content so it's not like okay i just
create a piece of content and i leave it up there and that's it you know you have to update
your content just like you have to update or maintain a house okay so number seven it's very
easy to get distracted so when i first started with affiliate marketing and online business you
know i was just very very unself-disciplined and you know get distracted really really easily um
because you are your own boss like you controlling everything you control your own schedule and if
your friend asks you to go out then you can go out and you know you're not doing your work anymore so
you do have to police yourself and you do have to make sure that you actually do the work and you
have to set schedules for yourself and you have to do all those things by yourself right because
you don't have a boss looking over your shoulder there's no pressure for you anymore so it's very
very important to understand that so with that said i still think affiliate marketing is still
really really amazing especially if you're just starting out with online business and you want
to make a passive income online so what we're going to do is we'll get straight into this video
and we're going to talk about how to find a niche and finding different products that you can
promote and also looking for lower competition keywords that you can actually target
for your website and things like that so part two we're going to look at finding a
niche and finding products to promote so how we're going to approach it is that we need to find the
general idea of the niche that we want to get into then we can find the products and then we can
find the low competition and profitable keywords to target for our website's content so it's really
important to understand that you don't need to pick the perfect niche because a lot of times your
first one might not be the one right but what we need is just a starting point and a direction of
our niche so that we can find the right products and things like that because when we're actually
creating an affiliate marketing website right we just need to change the content if we ever need
to change something right let's say for example if you want to start a restaurant as a business
and then two weeks downline you want to change it to hairdresser it's completely different i
mean that one you need to pick the right one from the get-go but with affiliate marketing website
it's just about the content and you can delete the content you can start a new website it doesn't
really matter okay so basically when we're talking about finding a niche just think of the person or
the specific group of people that you want to help so i know that you guys want to make an affiliate
marketing website and make affiliate commissions and and make a passive income but it's not really
what you should be thinking that you are creating right so all you're creating is just a helpful
resource a helpful website to help other people so you want to help other people make a purchasing
decision you want to help them save time and also save money and you also want to help them
solve a problem so a lot of beginners actually think that okay you need to become a better
affiliate marketer to to make more affiliate commissions right so what we're actually
doing is we're actually creating content so then we actually use affiliate marketing as a
way to monetize and make money from our content so basically what you need to do is you need to
get better at creating helpful content so the better the content the more affiliate commissions
that you can make so a lot of people think okay to make more commissions you need to be better at
marketing better at selling better at promoting better at creating funnels and email opt-ins and
learn some kind of secret technique with affiliate marketing there's no secret technique so what you
need to do is you need to become a better content creator so you have to make sure you remember that
it's really really really important so when you want to find a niche what you need to do is you
need to start brainstorming some different ideas so you can actually use a app called miller
note so it's free to actually sign up and then you can use that to organize your
thoughts or you could just use a piece of paper and what you want to do is you want to
start off with things that you're interested in and skills that you currently have and then you
want to look at you know what current problems you are having and maybe problems that you've had in
the past you know write that all down and then you want to look at okay what videos am i watching you
know what blogs am i reading things that you're researching write that all down because it's
really important to try to figure out which one to actually go with right so let's say for
example my personal skills and interest are in youtube affiliate marketing i'm not really that
skillful in investing but i'm very very interested in it i have some skills in recording videos and
editing videos and also i'm interested and i have some skills in regarding restaurants because
my dad owns a restaurant and things like that and some problems that i had in the past is i had
trouble finding a point of sale machine for my dad earlier this year and more recently like another
problem that i had was trying to find the right investing platform to use because a lot of people
on youtube are promoting like weeble and robin hood but i'm in australia and i think those apps
aren't available in australia so i went with etoro right so write down all your problems and things
that you are researching as well so i know that sometimes you know you might not find that you
are passionate or interested about anything right so the thing is like if you're really
really young then it's going to develop over time so don't worry about it just pick something that
you are a little bit interested in and then that can develop over time and then once you actually
try it then you can actually know whether you like it or not right it's like trying different uh
food for the first time like if you've never had like japanese food um then you don't know if it's
good or not right you have to try different food and then after a period of time once you've tried
uh different cuisines then you actually know okay which one you like and which one you don't like
so another idea that i have is that you know find something that you have a little bit of interest
in and then be passionate about creating the best solution possible be passionate about creating
the best website the best helpful resource that you can be passionate about helping other people
uh solve a problem better than other people so choose one and go with it don't overthink it so
basically from you know my interests and skills and my current problems then we've developed some
website ideas right so i want to create a website uh that is based around helping other people
start and grow and earn money on youtube okay second idea is helping uh people especially
people in australia how to start and learn about investing right so this is sort of like a quite
a big niche so i did want to narrow it down to australia because otherwise there's too many
different countries to cover and i wouldn't have too much knowledge about the different apps
for all countries right so i just wanted to create a very specific one just for australian people
so you can create one specific for your country as well because i know that investing is like a
very very big niche and also a very profitable one because it's talking about money you do want
to sort of narrow your niche down sometimes and another website idea is you know i will create a
website based around helping restaurant owners and small cafe owners simplify their business and
to become more profitable okay so these ideas these website ideas are based on sort of my own
experience and my own interest and my own skills but i want to discuss some some different ones
as well so that maybe can spark um some different ideas for you guys so let's say for example um
you have maybe back pain or something like that then maybe you could create a website about back
pain and then maybe you could give some tips about how to improve that back pain and then you can
recommend different products such as different uh chairs or different uh beds um different massage
equipment or whatever it is right or maybe you're interested in pets or dogs then you could create
a helpful resource to help dog owners find the right uh dog food or it could be um you know any
equipment or leashes or anything like that that helps the dog owner to become more successful
with taking care of their dog and things like that another idea is that maybe you could create
like a website that helps people uh find love or something like that and then you could help them
find the right sort of dating website there's so many different ideas and i've actually created
a list to help you guys get started as well so you can just pick one and then what you need
to do after that you just need to ask yourself okay what products and services does this person
need to succeed right so let's say for example um what products and services does a youtuber need to
succeed right so number one they'll probably need courses whether that be like a filming and editing
course a course about money how to make money on youtube um maybe different equipment for example
like different camera different uh microphones audio equipment editing software youtube
optimization software or different equipment such as like desks chairs lamps anything like that
um if we're talking about like a website about helping australians start investing then i could
promote things such as you know trading apps like platforms like weeble robin hood etoro investing
courses or any type of investing software if we're talking about the restaurant owners you
know what products do they need well they need maybe point of sale machines different accounting
software different training and courses or maybe equipment such as like kitchen equipment and
things like that okay so you have to ask yourself what products and services do they need to become
successful just jot that down and then next what we're going to do is we're going to get some ideas
from different affiliate marketing websites so what you can actually do is open up google and
let's say for example we're creating a website for uh youtubers right so then what you can start
off with is type in like best microphones for youtubers or you could do like uh best point
of sale restaurants for small restaurants or best trading apps for australia because when you
actually search for these phrases you're going to see a lot of different affiliate marketing
websites and from there you can draw inspiration okay so just open up google and what you can type
in is for example you can type in best microphone for youtubers or if we were building a website for
the point of sale machine website then we'll type in best point of sale for restaurants or we could
do best trading apps in australia right so what we want to do is just research the different websites
and just get some inspiration and look at how they're promoting their products and what they're
promoting and how they're structuring the website to give us some inspiration for the website
that we're going to be building later so for example we just click into it and we just
open a few in new tabs and look through each one and see which one sort of we relate to most
okay because then that way we can just get a lot of inspiration and see exactly what works and
what doesn't right so you can look through the website and you can see what they're promoting
and how they're promoting you know what type of content are they creating so you can write that
down or you can use miller note and add it into um like a note thing like that okay so for example
we just copy the url and we can just paste it in like that okay and we can look over here
sometimes we can look on the resources so generally if they have like a resources
or recommended section on their website that is probably what is working
for them right those are the most highly uh purchased products on their
website and so you can have a look over here and see what they're promoting see if there's any
product that you align with so for example maybe you have used it before you have seen other
people use it before um it's something that you are personally interested in so then you'll
just write that down on your piece of paper or a miller note so we're going to look through and
just copy all these websites and put it into here let's copy this one copy paste that in and then we can look
through again so the recommendations so over here tubebuddy so because i researched
this already um this product aligns with me right because i actually use it for youtube already so
this might be a product that might interest me so then i could just make sure i copy down the url
over here paste it in and maybe i could write down okay tubebuddy okay so that's one product that i
can start off with right so if you want to look through a little bit further into the product
so you can click into here and then what we could do is we can go to company and we can look
for affiliate program and generally sometimes the affiliate program is going to be on the
bottom on the footer section it might be like the partner program and you can look into it
and see if you can join and also you can see um what the commission rates are so for this
specific product the commission rate is up to 50 percent reoccurring all right so we can go to
look at pricing and see how much their plans are okay so as you can see we can see that the plans
are nine dollars a month 19 and 49 a month right so let's say for example you are able to get let's
say um maybe 10 okay 10 people and okay 10 people times let's say the average price would be
29 okay 290 dollars okay then we do times 0.5 okay so 145 dollars a month reoccurring so if you
are able to get like 10 people per month then over time that's gonna really really add up so this
is basically like an app that you add on to your youtube and people need to pay a monthly fee onto
it and also this is sort of like a software as a service product a digital product um so that the
commission rates are quite high and you also get a reoccurring commission so i do want to discuss
a little bit about digital and also physical products one time and also reoccurring products so
you guys can get an idea of what type of products that you guys want to promote so as i mentioned
before there are two different types of products right you've got digital products and you've also
got physical products so digital products are like software uh courses even digital servers example
fiverr which is sort of like an online marketplace where you sell um like there's a lot of
freelancers offering different types of services these generally offer a higher commission rate
from like 30 to 100 percent and generally um these ones you don't need to make as many sales right
if you're promoting these products so on the other hand we've got physical products which is like
products on amazon walmart and there's different individual brands as well generally these
are lower commission rates one to ten percent so you have to generate a higher amount of sales
so basically you'll need more people visiting your website um to actually make more sales right so
personally you know i prefer digital products but i think if you really like you know maybe like
headphones or if you really like microphones if you really like certain physical products and you
feel like okay you want to purchase the product and try it out and give it like an honest review
then i think that might be the way to go right so if you don't really know what to pick i would
personally go with digital mainly because i think that you can make a lot more commissions
quicker and you can actually just test out the the service online right a lot of them a lot of
times you can actually get a lot of free trials or you can actually sign up you know with the
physical product if you really want to do well then you would need the product right
and do an honest and real review for it okay so unless you really really like it and
you do a lot of research on it then obviously you don't really need to purchase the product but
i do recommend it if you really want to stand out and with digital products you can get the free
trial and you get a higher commission rate and you can just do everything on the computer especially
if you want to find images to add on your blog you can just screenshot it and things like that
i mean that's just my personal preference you don't really have to choose either one okay but
you do have to know that there's two types okay and that's gonna really determine how much money
you're gonna make per month and things like that as well you can also do both of them at the same
time so for my website i'm probably going to be promoting the majority of it is probably going to
be digital products and then i'll have a separate section where i do a few physical products because
i'm not going to you know have a website talking about microphones only right like i only will
review the things that i've used personally from my own youtube channel and then i'll look
through you know all the different microphones and different things that i bought from a youtube
channel and then i can promote that as well so you've also got one time versus reoccurring
commissions so one time you just get paid once so for example if you promote a coffee machine
for three hundred dollars you only get paid 15 one time right you don't get paid anymore so with
recurring commissions you get paid every time the customer is charged so this is normally on sort
of software as a service products digital products uh which have sort of like a monthly fee right
so let's say for example when we're talking about the nordvpn so they actually get a renewal
of i think 286 dollars if i remember correctly and they get paid 30 of that right so every time
they need to renew then you get paid as well so as the amount of people that you sign up your
sort of reoccurring commissions actually grow so i think that is really really awesome because
that's going to give you a more stable income especially if you're building an affiliate
marketing business where you don't really have much reoccurring income coming in so yeah so
that's something to think about obviously you can promote two types um and you can promote digital
and physical it doesn't really matter but i think you guys should be aware of that now if we
look at the tubebuddy over here okay so as we said before um if we actually make you know
uh 10 sales per per month right 10 sales per month that is going to be 290 dollars per month
and then 50 commission rate that's around 145 but that's going to build up and stack over time
so i actually did some more research and as you can see this is the tubebuddy affiliate program
on the tubebuddy uh channel and he's interviewing roberto blake which is another youtuber he also
has a blog as well as a youtube channel and over the last four years he's generated over two
hundred and eleven thousand dollars from affiliate commissions and he's earning around six to seven
k probably even more now probably eight to nine k per month reoccurring from the tubebuddy affiliate
program okay so that's what i mean by trying to to research more about the products so sort of um see
which one relates to you the best and then also try to find other people who are successful with
it as well right because it's important that that you sort of believe you know that it is possible
and then from that you're able to actually take action and then from action you're able to succeed
so i also did a little bit more research so if you actually look at uh we did a i think vid iq
versus tubebuddy okay so these are actually two different products right two different products
and here if we actually look at this one over here this website over here so it's like a very very
simple website and from his blog i mean it's very very simple blog he's earned over i think yeah
he's making around probably four hundred dollars five hundred dollars per month from tubebuddy
commissions and things like that as well so for me i think that's pretty good right so then that
might be a product that i might consider promoting right so try to do more more research and if you
do more research like if you type in like true body review and i'll also check the website on the
top over here so food ranger he's actually like a youtube uh food youtube channel that i watch
quite often and what i notice is that he has a review over here about the the tubebuddy so as you
can see like you know he's only promoting a few different things right he's promoting tubebuddy
and you know vpns for china both of these are very very good affiliate programs where you get paid a
high commission rate so i guarantee you know he's making thousands of dollars from this blog post
alone okay so that's how you know youtubers how uh people who create websites support their channels
and things like that so then the next step is once you actually have you know different products
different website ideas then what we need to do is we need to have a look at it a little bit more in
depth so we need to figure out you know how much visitors are these websites getting and also
um you know find out different keyword ideas that we can actually target and different products
okay so before we get into the practical side of keyword research i do want to help you guys
understand you know why we need to do keyword research and why we need to use a tool such as
ahrefs to help us with it okay so imagine the ocean as google right and then imagine you as
the fisherman on the top of here your website okay and imagine uh the fish as your visitors to
your website okay so if you don't do any keyword research like a lot of people actually um you
know built the website and then they realized okay i need to get traffic to my website and then
they realize okay you need to do seo and then they create content and you randomly create content
so what's going to happen is that you're not going to be able to catch anything right you're
going to be catching the wrong type of things okay so that is why we need to do keyword research
and we also need to find out where we can actually fish because not every area is good for us right
for example if we go over here where all the big boys are fishing then there is fish there but then
again there's a lot of fishermen there already and they have the latest tools latest equipment the
latest uh resources to catch the fish right so you're not going to be able to compete you're not
going to be able to catch anything so what we're going to do is we want to use the tools such as
ahrefs to scan the entire ocean because there are literally millions of fish but we just need to
find the right area okay so that's why we need to find the right keywords to target and basically
i'm going to help you guys do that right now so for ahrefs you can just go to ahrefs.com and
that's going to take you to this page over here and what i recommend is just starting the seven
day trial for seven dollars now there are some other free alternatives such as ubersuggest and
i think semrush also has a free trial but i found ahrefs to be sort of the most accurate and it
provides a lot of different information which is going to help you to find the right keywords
so that's what i highly recommend and i'm just going to sign into my accounts over here okay and
sign in so when we're actually looking at keyword research we have to uh really look at the type of
website that we want to create right because every single website has a different way to monetize
a different way to make money so for example if you're creating like a local business website like
a local carpet cleaning business then you want to target keywords that a customer would actually
search for for example carpet cleaning services in melbourne or in your specific location now
for affiliate marketing websites specifically our main monetization strategy is through affiliate
commissions right so you get paid a commission if someone clicks a link and purchases so what
we want to do is we want to look for key phrases and keywords that people type in into google and
search for where they're just about to purchase the product right so some of the top keywords that
i recommend is things such as best or like top comparisons reviews alternatives and also helpful
guides and also helpful answers as well right so for example it could be like best cameras right
or it could be like best cameras for youtubers and we could even add like a modifier for example
best cameras for youtubers in 2021 or 2022 right so those keywords people are looking for
sort of like a list of the top cameras that they can purchase and if they like what they see
they're going to click the link and purchase then you're going to make the commission right or you
could even do comparisons right comparisons are also really good because people have narrowed
down to two different products right they've researched you know product a and also researched
product b and now they want to compare okay which one is better which one should they get for
their specific needs and purposes okay so for comparisons it's normally like product versus
product like that so vs like that so those are the things that we can actually search for in the
keywords explorer um in a second now you can also do like product plus reviews like which
is really really common um as well as product plus alternatives uh which is also really good
as well because sometimes people might want to look for different alternatives because that
product or that uh the product features or the price might not be you know something they're
looking for right helpful answers is also going to be really good mainly because not because sort
of uh they are high converting but also because they often help us build backlinks to our website
and that's going to increase our ranking for the other keywords that we want to rank for right
because when we're actually building a website uh we need to do keyword research and we need to
do like on page search engine optimization then we also need to do off-page optimization which is
basically building uh backlinks to our website so for those of you who are not really sure what that
means is sort of like a backlink is when people are linking to you okay so for example this is
a blog post right so over here this is a link to the logo crisp website right so basically the
more backlinks that you get from a website to your website then google is sort of going to rank your
website higher so when you're creating let's say review content and comparison content not as many
people are going to link to your website right it's just not as easy to link to right because
when you're actually creating sort of helpful guides such as like how to do certain things then
it's more likely a website is going to link to you as a resource and that's going to help you sort of
build authority on your website and trust for your website and that's going to help you increase
your rankings for your review or affiliate keyword terms okay so there are a few ways to
actually do our keyword research and i'm just going to focus on two uh two ways to actually get
you guys started so you can click on site explorer and this is going to be the first way where we
just use our competitors url right just copy our competitors url which we have done research before
and we can just paste it into here okay and this tool is basically going to scan the entire website
and look at all the pages and the different keywords that the website is actually ranking for
okay so if we actually go over here scroll down to organic search click on organic keywords and here
we can see all the keywords the website is ranking for and which page uh is ranking for that keyword
and the amount of traffic so how many visitors the the website is getting okay so for example
this is going to be for the united states only um we're going to focus on that okay and
then over here it's going to be keyword the keyword difficulty so how difficult is it to
rank uh your website for the term right so this is going to give you a good sort of indicator of
how difficult it is so you can look through the difficulty and you can also sort the difficulty
as well so what you're going to notice is um basically going to have like two urls which
are the same right but they're going to have different keywords which are also ranking
as well so what we do want to do is sort of group them together right so what we can do
is actually just go to top pages over here and what it's going to do is basically
going to group the page urls together and also show the rankings for that specific
page right because sometimes when you create content let's say for example you're creating
content for q a questions for youtube vlogging other keywords might start ranking as well because
sometimes people type in different things but they actually mean the same thing so for example
someone types in you know q a questions and someone types in q and a questions right but they
both mean the same thing so that's why this url is ranking for these keywords okay so what you can do
is you can look through the different pages okay uh we can also set the difficulty so when we first
start out creating a website i generally recommend you know people targeting pages which are lower in
difficulty because the most important thing when you're starting is to actually get your first sale
to get some results first and once you actually do get results then you guys can make your first sale
you have confidence you guys can take more action and then you guys get more and more results right
just like if you were to play tennis you want to start out first of all playing you know with with
your partner and then play you know with your team and then play locally and then play state
level and then national level then international right you don't want to jump straight into a
national international level because you're just going to get dominated and you're going to not
have fun right so it's really important to look for something which is sort of achievable
for what you currently have at the moment so for example um you know this is not too bad
like q a questions so sometimes sometimes you're going to find keywords which are not sort of the
keywords which i discussed earlier on which is like review keywords the comparison keywords and
things like that but still these keywords might be beneficial to your website as well because
if someone is looking for uh q a questions um to ask for youtube videos then that type of
person is probably going to be interested in camera equipment as well so you can still create
content around that area and direct them to your different camera reviews or different tools that
a youtuber needs right so this keyword might be a great opportunity for us to actually explore as
well so what we can do is just copy it i mean we can actually export it as well but let's just say
for example we don't want to export it we can just copy that keyword and we can just create like a
simple keyword list or different keyword groups where we can actually create content around so
for example q a questions what i'll do is probably click over here and copy these keywords over here
copy them onto here as well okay and then when i'm actually creating the content for for this
website then i can include some of these keywords in in the content because what google does is
google is going to scan your entire website and how they determine your ranking is that they
they sort of scan your content right they scan the words uh within your content and then they rank
you accordingly okay so that is just one of the factors obviously there's quite a lot of different
factors but i don't really want to you know go too in depth otherwise it's going to be
confusing for you guys um but generally we can copy the keywords and we can include the keywords
within our content okay so copy that and copy all the keywords into miller note so for example
we've got that and then maybe we could have um this one over here so best cheap vlogging
camera we could copy that and then we can look over here and then we can look at these keywords
and copy these keywords and this could be like a separate page that we can create as well okay
so yeah so you want to look through everything and they've got the search volume over here so
in terms of the search volume i think sometimes it really depends on the products that you're
promoting right so let's say for example um if you get like a search volume of like a hundred i
mean if you're promoting something and the product cost you know a hundred dollars and you only get
two percent commission right that means you only get two dollars per sale so if it's getting um you
know 100 visits per month for that keyword then you make maybe like one sale per month two dollars
is not really worth your time too much right but if you are promoting something that is a little
bit more um let's say expensive and there's only 100 in search volume per month then it still might
be worth it like for example if you're promoting like a course and it's only getting 100 searches
per month but if you make one sale i mean you make um you know 500 in commissions that that should be
enough right so it really depends and you have to use your your own judgment here depending on uh
like the products and things like that as well so here you can look through all the different
types of keywords that this website is ranking for um and you know make sure you put in all
your keywords that you want to create content for and write down any notes like that so i
don't want to go through too in depth here um what is important is that you guys get started
okay so another way to actually um look at it is go to keyword explorer and remember when we looked
at the sort of different uh products that we could promote so you should have some ideas of what
products that you can promote right so let's say for example uh i'm gonna promote tubebuddy okay so
tubebuddy and i'm gonna do tubebuddy review okay and click on search and this is going to give
you the keyword difficulty and the overview of the keyword this is the volume for united
states the 300 this is the global volume okay and we can scroll down over here okay and these
are some of the keyword ideas so you would copy the keywords right into your own um notes section
over here so for example let's say tubebuddy review and then we can go over here uh let's
see okay so we're gonna try and include some of these keywords uh for example tubebuddy
pro maybe okay so these are some other things that people are searching for as well so
it might be like stuff that you want to include within your content as well okay so
we can go over here okay so tubebuddy chrome copy that paste that into here we're going
to scroll down and we're going to look at the websites that are ranking in the top 10.
So
generally you want to look at the domain rating so besides the keyword difficulty score over here
we also want to look at the domain rating right so the domain rating is the strength of the website's
backlink profile compared to others um on a point of 100 out of a hundred okay so if you look at
the top 10 results we're going to notice is that a domain rating of 30 i mean that's pretty decent
so this website is actually ranking number one okay and you've also noticed that this one over
here it's a website ranking and the domain rating is 25 so that is quite low and that means that we
still have a chance to rank in the top 10 which is important okay so we can also click on show more
so we can scroll down further look at the top 20 you know is there any other sort of websites which
are still have a low domain rating so that's going to give us a chance to to rate uh to rank on
the search engines now if everyone is like you know ranking like a domain rating of like 70
for example if you do like let's say nordvpn so nordvpn review and type that in
and we can scroll down and look at the the results over here what you're going to notice
is the domain rating is going to be um very very high so as you can see the average is probably
i'd say you know 80 you know 80 or 85 um domain rating and you also want to look at the backlinks
to the website so as you can see a lot of them have like thousands of backlinks or hundreds of
backlinks and the difficulty is quite hard over here as well so that is probably not a good one to
actually start off with so let's just do tubebuddy oops review and we can scroll down okay so then
what you want to do is you also want to look at the backlink profile how many backlinks are
pointing to the website the if you actually notice that okay some of these websites don't really have
many backlinks then that's also an opportunity as well okay which is good so as you can see
like not too many backlinks uh which is good so this one over here the food rangers website so
it has a lot of backlinks so what i notice is that um they have a lot of backlinks from i think
uh youtube videos their own youtube videos so then what we could do is we can actually click
into it okay and then you want to also look at the content like the content on on the website like
can you realistically beat the content because um if you want to rank on google the the real way
to rank on google is to have better content than other people because the the point of google is to
actually provide sort of the best search results and the best uh information for people who are
actually using the search engines so what they want to provide is the best information for the
user so what you want to do is you want to create better content than your competitors right so
i've actually read you know this stuff i mean it's decent but it still can be beaten um especially
maybe not this one but like a lot of the other ones which are ranking over here i've researched
them and you know they're not that in-depth and they don't go into that many details so i still
think that there's still a massive opportunity here especially if you look at this one like
some of the you know some of the content there is not that um in depth and not that great if you
actually really really read it right yes you know it is quite long but if you actually read it
like the content is not you know the best like if you actually look at um if you do like nord
vpn review if you look at the content of nordvpn review like the content is very very in-depth and
very very thorough right it goes into very very uh detail and it shows a lot of different
images a lot of screenshots and stuff like that um so if you compare that to tubebuddy i mean
there's still a lot of opportunity there to take advantage of that okay so summing up the things
that we have to consider is the number one is searches intent so people who are just about
to purchase or in the process of purchasing because we're an affiliate marketing website those
are the keywords that we sort of want to focus in on right then number two is the keyword difficulty
so you can explore the keyword difficulty score um try and keep it low okay so don't try and
target something that's medium or hard yet um you can but obviously expect that it's going
to take you longer a lot more resources and a lot more time so i think that's what you can
actually focus on once you actually build some momentum with your website and things like that
then number two you can look at the sort of low domain rating so you want to make sure that you
check you know all the websites who are ranking in top 10 so if you actually see websites with
the lower sort of domain rating within the top 10 top 20 which is around like 30 or maybe below that
then that's gonna mean that there's a good chance that you can you know create a new website and
rank there with a lot better content and maybe a lot more backlinks to your website right then
you'll also want to look at the backlinks the number of backlinks to the website as well and
see if there's any opportunity there right so if you see that okay all these websites over here
have you know a ton of backlinks like over 100 you know thousands of backlink then it's going to
be quite hard for you to to get into that keyword right because the competitors are quite strong
so you also want to look at um the content so you click into the the actual top 10 results and look
at the content and actually read the content don't be scared you know of the content and how long it
looks sometimes a lot of the content is very very generic right it's not based on like real
world experience and it doesn't provide any you know original unique insight because a lot
of content is actually like that okay so if you actually explore it look at it properly and see
if you guys can actually create better content if you if you really believe that you can then i
still think that's a good chance that uh you can actually target that keyword and create content
around that so for example we were talking about the helpful guides and answers right so you can
also target the keywords such as not just reviews and comparisons but you can also do like let's say
for example you want to create a website around helping youtubers get more views and how to get
them you know make more money from youtube then you can also target keywords such as like how
to rank on youtube or how to get more views on youtube and then within those uh articles you
can actually recommend them products as well right you can recommend them the tubebuddy or you
can recommend them like this specific mic because in the content you could be like hey you need
good audio or you need good video uh you got to use this they go to use you've got to use that
right you can still do it that way as well so you're not just limited to you know this type
of content like review and comparisons and best type of content as well okay so you can also try
different things as well for example you're gonna provide answers for questions that people ask
for example you know what microphone is joe rogan using or what microphone is you know xyz celebrity
using for their youtube channel and then you could create content around that to show them proof that
you know joe rogan is using this microphone and uh this is how you set it up what you need and the
cost and things like that as well right there's so many um different keyword ideas you have to
sort of use your own you know intuition and after a while of creating content and things like
that you'll sort of get an idea of how to rank on google and different keywords and things like
that okay so i don't want to go through too much keyword research because that's going to make
this video super super long i'll try and cover that maybe in like future videos but the most
important thing is to find maybe like three to five different keywords that you can start
working on right away you can also export the the data as well you can add it to your list and
things like that um yeah so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna start creating our website okay
so i'm super excited to actually show you guys how to create your website step by step we've covered
sort of like the theory and the keyword research and everything like that now we're gonna do some
of the practical steps of setting up your website so to create a website we're going to be doing
in just four simple steps so the first step is to get your domain name which is basically your
website address for example yourname.com your affiliatewebsite.com and hosting is basically
like a server where your website is stored so for example it stores your content your images
so that people can access your website all around the world 24 7 365 days a year then we're
going to be installing wordpress so wordpress is a free content management system and that
basically allows you to create your website without any coding or any technical knowledge
right so you don't have to learn coding don't worry about that we're going to be using a drag
and drop builder to fully customize your website then i'll show you guys how to build your website
so if you're wondering why we're using wordpress instead of other website platforms for example wix
and also squarespace is if you actually search up wix review and we can click into some of the top
results over here so if we click into this result over here what you're going to notice it's an
affiliate marketing website as well reviewing the wix builder and platform and things like that
so they're actually using wordpress and what we could do is right click and view page source
and we notice that they have wp content over here which means it's wordpress so for their own
affiliate website where they're recommending wix um they're using wordpress as well so generally
wordpress is best for an affiliate marketing website this is not to say that wix is
you know bad or anything like that but for this specific purpose and this specific
tutorial that's what i highly recommend it's what i personally use as well so same thing with
squarespace if you look at this website over here okay so it might seem like okay that's really
good and you can use squarespace they have a website builder as well you can also build an
affiliate marketing website with squarespace but wordpress is just a lot more customizable and
has a lot more features for building an affiliate website so you can actually see by viewing page
source over here and if you scroll down you're going to notice they use wordpress as well so you
can see wp-content and they're using plugins and things like that okay so what we're going to do
is we're going to get our domain hosting and store wordpress and we can do that all at the same place
so you can either click on the link down below or you can open up your browser and type in h o s t
i n g dot com forward slash h o g a n hogan chua and click on enter now that is my affiliate link
so basically if you do purchase through that then i'll get a referral commission for that and
that just basically helps support my channel so you don't get charged any extra and in some cases
you're going to be able to get a discount as well so sometimes the discount might change over here
and the page might change what we want to look for here is we want to look for hosting so click
on hosting up here okay that's going to click on the drop down and we want to get shared website
hosting okay so in the past i've also recommended siteground as well which is a really great web
host and platform to create your wordpress website as well so if you do want to use siteground then
i'll leave a link down in the description below and also a video to show you guys how to install
wordpress there but siteground has recently changed their terms so it might not be available
for all countries now so i want everyone to be able to follow my tutorials and hosting has some
really really great affordable plans um to get everyone started as well so as you can see here 99
cents um us dollar if you get the four year plan so it's super super affordable and i've also done
a review on hosting as well on my channel and they performed really really well in terms of speed
and also uptime and also customer support so over here i've got three different plans that you can
choose from so i do want to go through each one and which one you should actually pick for your
affiliate marketing website so the first thing is that if you pick either of these three then
it's going to be completely fine to create any type of website including your affiliate marketing
website because all three plans you can install wordpress just fine so the main difference between
the single shared and these two plans is going to be the number of websites it can host so basically
with a single shared hosting it can only host one website for example your affiliate website.com and
then that's it okay with the premium shared and business shared you can host up to 100 websites
on the plan so you can have like your website your clients website your friend's website hosted under
sort of one account and that way you can actually save some money but this doesn't mean that you
can create a hundred websites for free right you still have to purchase the domain name which
is like the website address and normally that's around 10 per year okay but it can host up to 100
different websites now if you choose this one it doesn't mean that you're stuck with it forever you
can always upgrade to the premium shed and also business shared as you grow your business and
things like that so besides the number of websites you can host generally with the premium shared
and business shared accounts your website will load a little bit faster than the single shared
hosting plan because hosting actually allocates a little bit more resources to these plans over
here with the premium shared you do get the free domain included and some extra resources
over here which you can actually check out so personally i actually recommend the business plan
mainly because it has everything that you need already including the daily backups the free cdn
the free domain and everything like that so you don't really have to worry anymore and if you
actually compare it to other web hosting plans on the internet it's going to be quite affordable
if you actually compare it as well okay so over here what we're going to do is just going to
click on add to cart now obviously you can get these ones if you want to that's completely up to
you we're going to click on add to cart over here and over here you can select the plan so i
generally recommend 12 months or more that way you're able to lock in the discount because
as you can see here once the initial discount is over then the plan renews at a higher rate right
so if you choose this one then it's going to renew at a cheaper rate as well so that's something to
consider so i'm going to just select 12 months for this tutorial now over here you just need to
put in your email address so for example if you're logged in already you can just connect it with
google okay so we're just going to connect that okay so i'm going to log into my google account and then we're going to scroll back down so you
can pay by credit card or paypal or even bitcoin so i'm just going to select paypal
and we're going to scroll down here you can also enter in a coupon code so
generally that is the amount that you're going to pay then you can enter the coupon code hogan chua
so hey ogan chua and that's going to save you some money as well so it's probably going to save you
a little bit more if you get the 48 month plan as well so once you've actually checked everything
then we can click on submit secure payments and then click on paypal checkout i'm going to log
in and just pay that okay so once the payment has gone through then you should reach this page
over here so we can just click on start now and over here if you have selected the plan where
you can get the free domain then we can claim the free domain if you don't have um that then you
can click on buyer domain and you can purchase the domain now if you have registered in like godaddy
or namecheap then you need to select this option where you need to connect the domain with the
hosting and hosting account all right so i'm just going to select this one over here and we're going
to select our domain name so this is your website address so i'm creating a case study website so
i'll probably reveal my you know domain later but for now i'm just going to create and use sort
of like a demo uh website so affiliate tutorial and 91 and then we're going to select probably a
com domain okay and we're going to click on search so when you're choosing a domain name um normally
it's good to actually get a com extension because normally that's a little bit more trustworthy um
if you don't know what to pick for your domain name generally don't pick a domain name which is
like product specific or like a year specific like 2021 reviews or whatever it is don't pick that
one because then you know when it's 2022 then you have to change your domain name and you don't
want to do that right so try to pick a domain name where it's a little bit more generic and
maybe it doesn't you know include a product name you can also go with your name as well which is
also a good idea once you actually done that then you can click continue so we're going to click
on build a new website okay and we're going to install wordpress so click on select and over
here we want to create a wordpress account so we're going to put in our password so this is our
login credentials for wordpress so make sure you remember that your password click on continue and
i'm just going to save that to my browser so over here you've got a bunch of different templates
but we're not going to be using a template so i'll be showing you guys how to set it up step by
step so click on skip so over here you can select your website location so this is your website
server location so generally this is important if you're building a local website you want to
choose a server location closest to your audience so i'm just going to go with north america for
this one and click on select and then finish setup okay so i'm just going to enter in just some
basic information over here and click on next step and yeah i'm just going to fill in my contact
details and then we are going to finish the registration so over here we can click on manage
wordpress and that's going to take us to our login sort of area for wordpress and if we click over
here it's going to take us to the hostinger panel area so this is where you actually control
your domains and hosting and whatever you need for your website over here is where uh
you've logged into wordpress okay so generally um if you want to log in again so i'm just gonna
log out so i want to show you guys how to log in so this is your wordpress login page now to arrive
at this page again what we need to do is let's say for example if we go to our homepage this is what
it currently looks like so we do need to edit it but if you want to log in to wordpress you need
to type in forward slash wp admin and then enter so it's always going to be your website name dot
com forward slash wp admin and that's going to take you to the wordpress login page and what
i recommend is just bookmarking it so once you bookmark it then just enter in your email
address and the password is set in before and then click on login okay so this is going
to be logged in to your wordpress dashboard area so we're going to click over here okay to the
dashboard area over here and what we want to do is we want to install the ssl certificate so as
you can see it says not secure now you want to have and make sure that your website has a lock
icon like that so that means it's secure okay so i'm just going to click on home over here and then
i'm going to try and click on setup okay for the ssl certificate and we're going to install on our
new domain over here install ssl now if you have any trouble you can contact the live chat support
and they'll get back to you okay if you have any trouble installing ssl certificate and then we
can just click on close and if we go over here let's refresh the page we're going to take like
a few seconds and that might actually log you out when you try to refresh the page because now
it is uh https enabled all right so you're going to log in again and now you have the lock icon um
all set up so before i actually get started with setting up wordpress you do have to also verify
your email address that's hosting is going to send you you have to verify your domain um so you need
to click on the link in the email they sent you so just verify that and verify that then once
that is done should be good to go so if you go back over here and click on domains on the top
something that you might want to do is that you can click on the domain over here right and we
can scroll down now this is something that you might want to get so who is privacy this is going
to add an extra layer of sort of privacy with your information so for example if you actually sign up
with their domain so sometimes people can actually look up your domain informations which is going
to show your email address and also name now if you want to protect that information you can
pay an extra five dollars a year to actually protect that okay so i might personally get
that as well it's just basically there to stop people from emailing you because a lot of
people will actually email you like different uh marketing offers because i know that you're
starting a new business um and things like that okay so we're going to set that up and i
think that should be pretty much good to go let's go back over here okay so that should be
good to go your whois privacy is added and also your domain has been verified so let's go back to
our dashboard and show you guys how to set it up so what i want to do now is i want to show
you guys around the wordpress dashboard uh sort of clean everything up a little bit
because when you're actually building a website with wordpress sometimes it can get a little bit
complicated uh once you start adding some plugins once you start doing some things so what i want to
do is show you guys how to use it and how to clear some stuff so that everything is nice and simple
so that you guys can focus on what matters most alright so here is the dashboard area so once you
actually log in then this is what you'll see right so on the front end this is what you're going to
see on the front end now this is the 2021 theme so this is the default theme so we'll
change it later on so don't worry about that and over here we can actually clear
these things we can dismiss it over here we can minimize it like that or we can click on
screen options and we can remove everything okay so once you add a few plugins it's going to start
sort of getting quite complicated so that's why i want to clear everything up because we don't
really need it okay then the next step is we need to go to settings and go to permalinks so this is
really important for search engine optimization we want to change the permalink settings to
post name okay so set it to this one over here so that the title of your post or the title
of your page is going to be included in the url right so you don't want it to be like a random
number or you don't want it to be something like that okay you want a clear and clean url structure
for your website so we're going to click on save the next thing is we can go to post so
we can delete this one and just trash it let's go to trash and we can delete that
permanently and then go to pages and we can also delete the sample page just delete that and
i'm also gonna just trash that one as well okay okay so that is done so next we're gonna click
on plugins so with plugins plugins add extra functionality to your wordpress website just like
if you have apps on your phone for example like social media apps or you know any productivity
apps and things like that plugins are the same but for wordpress websites so what i generally
like to do is i like to deactivate everything first because sometimes plugins can cause
conflicts with your wordpress website um especially with older plugins and plugins
that you haven't updated and things like that so if you are using plugins and you're not really
actually actively using it for your wordpress website what i do recommend is deactivating and
deleting them because sometimes it can cause issues especially security issues and then cause
your website to be hacked and things like that so right now i'm just gonna deactivate it um
all the plugins okay so you can you guys can actually delete the ones that you know don't
use and things like that now if you have like a caching plugin for example lightspeed cache or wp
fastest case or sg optimizer and things like that um you know when you're building
a website sometimes you might be making changes right now if the changes don't
reflect on your website then what you probably need to do is try to clear the cache right once
you clear the cache a cache is sort of like temporary storage right once you clear it then
it should actually update so generally when you have a caching plug-in they'll have a a sort of
thing on the top over here okay so when you click over here you can purge the cache and delete
everything okay so i'm just going to delete it deactivate it for now because when i'm building
my website i generally like to deactivate it so if you guys want to start you know wordpress
from scratch and you want to reset everything especially if you have an existing wordpress
website and you know everything is just not working properly and things like that then you
can actually download a plugin called wp reset so you can click on add new and search for this
plugin and once you activate it it will actually allow you to reset wordpress back to the you
know default settings that you had when in the very very beginning so we can open the tools
over here and you can see what it deletes so it actually deletes like your comments your pages
and your post so if you do want to reset it then what you want to do is copy your content onto
like a word document and things like that and you can type in reset here and reset the website
okay you can also create a snapshot as well so that is the basics now what we want to do is we
want to go and install a theme okay so to install a theme we can hover over appearance and click
on themes so the current theme that we're using is the 2021 theme so this is the default sort
of wordpress theme right so it sort of adds the appearance for your website so if we click on add
new over here then what you're going to notice is thousands of different themes so a lot of
these themes are free themes and you do have to upgrade later on to sort of enjoy a lot of these
different features so what i've done is actually partnered up with themify to share with you guys
their most popular theme the themify ultra theme so this is a really really awesome theme because
it allows you to control every aspect of your wordpress website so a lot of people might be
using other themes i think that is fine as well so really depends on your personal preference but
personally this is what i use for my website and i like it because it has everything that you need
right you can literally take control of the header the footer section you can change a lot of the
things without learning how to code so what i've done is i've included the download link in the
description below in the youtube description so you can download that onto your computer and it's
going to look something like this over here okay demofi ultra dot zip and then you can go back
over here go back over here and upload theme choose file and look for themifyultra.zip and open
and install now so sometimes it might actually come in like a folder because i think if you're
using like safari or something like that it might automatically unzip into a folder like that and
you don't want to upload the folder so you want to right click and you want to compress it back
into the zip file okay before you upload it so let's go back over here and once that is
uploaded then we can actually activate it so you want to make sure you upload it as
themes so a lot of people actually upload it as a plugin and that's not going to work
all right because the sort of theme and the drag and drop builder is included in the theme
itself right so everything in a whole package so if in the future you need to update your theme
you can go to hoganshua.com forward slash update and you can watch this video to show
you guys how to update your theme um in your wordpress dashboard area okay so i'll
include the download links over here um and you can download it and you can update your themes as
well as the plugins that you might need as well okay so once that is done we're going to click
on activate now if you do have any issues then you can email me at support hogantour.com or you
can drop a comment in the youtube comments area so here are the skins and demos so generally i just
stick with the default one so i'm going to click on close on the top okay and let's just close that
so if we actually refresh our page now it's going to change the look of our website okay if you
hover over here and turn on the builder it's going to show builder is not available on this page so
a lot of people don't actually follow my videos and a lot of people have this problem where
they say the builder is not available now this is because we haven't created our pages yet
so this is actually not a page right so we have to go and create our pages right now so if you
hover on the top over here we can click on page right or you can click on post so let's click on
page first and what we need to do is create our home page right so we're going to add in a page
now if we actually click on the three dots over here it might actually look like this okay so i
don't like this layout i like to have it like this okay so you can click on the three dots and
you can deselect the full screen mode okay so title it's going to be home and click on
publish and publish again okay that's going to take us to this url over here we can click at
click that to view the page so this is going to display as your website dot com forward slash
home so what we want to do is we want to make sure that this home page is just going to be our
sort of default uh url okay so if we click over here we want it to be just like that okay so
to do that we have to go back to the dashboard and settings i believe and then go to reading and
then set your homepage display to a static page and select home okay once you've selected that
then we can click on save and that's done okay so settings reading and then go to a static page
set it to home and then save changes so if we go back over here and if we click on the home
page then it's just gonna be our url.com okay so the next thing what we're going to do is add in
some more pages so we can go back to our dashboard you can also add in pages like that or you can go
back to dashboard and navigate to pages over here and you can control everything from here as well
so let's click and add new so let's just add in a few more pages so you can add as many pages as
you want so i'm going to add an about page and let's publish that let's add a new one so let's
add maybe a blog page okay and publish publish that and then we're going to add maybe like an
affiliate disclaimer page so click on page again okay and publish and publish that again so that
should be done so let's go back to our home page all right so we've got our pages listed over
here so what we want to do is we want to change the menu okay so i'm going to show you guys
how to arrange the menu the top navigation menu and also how to add in pages on the
bottom if you do want to do that as well so let's go and arrange our menu and we can do
that by going to customize and then we can click on back and then let's click on menus let's click
on create new menu so this one's going to be top nav for top navigation and for the menu location
we want to set it to the main nav which is the top over here okay if you want to add a menu
for the footer we need to click on footer navigation so let's click that there click on
next now what you're going to notice is that it has three dots over here and that is actually
the mobile menu so what you can do is actually go and click on the top over here and try to
zoom out if you browse a little bit and that should display okay so we need to add in the items
first so let's add an item let's add in our blog page and maybe our about page like that and then
we can just rearrange it by dragging and dropping okay so let's click on publish and then that's
going to display so what if you want to create like a drop down menu so a drop down menu is like
if you hover over here it's going to drop down so we can do that by just indenting it so click
it and drag it and sort of put it below the about okay so that's gonna be like a let's publish
that and if we actually refresh that let's just open that in a new tab to show you what that
looks like okay so when you hover over that it's gonna drop down like that okay so you don't have
to do that now but i just wanted to show you guys how to actually do that so let's go over there
and then we want to select automatically add new pages to the menu so when you create a new
page it's going to automatically add it to the menu so you can rearrange it and it you
can delete it anytime that you guys want okay let's publish that and let's go back over here
and we can create a new menu so it could be like a footer menu and then we can select footer
navigation and click on next and then we can add item and then we can add affiliate disclaimer or
whichever page that you want to put on the bottom click on publish and then that's going to add
your page like that okay so let's click on close once that is finished okay so the next step is i
want to show you guys how to change this and how to delete this home title and also this section
over here so if we click on turn on builder then it should turn on the builder and we can start
editing our page but this title over here is in our way as well as this sidebar so i'll show you
guys how to customize that let's click on close okay so let's go back over to dashboard and
then let's go to themify ultra themify settings okay so this is where you can actually control
your layout of your themify website okay so let's go to the default layouts and let's go to
default page layout all right so for the default page layout what we want to do is we want to
remove the title and remove the sidebar on here so let's go there let's go and hide it and let's
change the sidebar to no sidebar and then save it and then if we refresh it then that's going to
delete okay so that's also going to change the layouts of the header and footer so what we want
to do is let's go to theme settings over here let's go to theme appearance so let's make sure
we have this one selected and let's click on save and then let's refresh that okay so that
if that doesn't change then it might be the cache so what i want to do is actually go over
here to the let's go to themifybuilder okay go to tools and i'm going to regenerate the css files
okay so hopefully that is going to all right so that's pretty much good to go so summarizing how i
fixed it is i went back to themify settings uh the themify builder and then you can go to tools okay
and then regenerate the css files sometimes you might need to delete the cache as well and things
like that and i also deleted the browser caching as well and then it should be pretty much good to
go so sometimes you might you know encounter these issues whenever you're building like a wordpress
website or um you know any type of website you're gonna encounter issues so this is one of the
most common issues so i did want to include it in the video so that you guys can sort of
solve it for yourself so let's go back over here um let's go to theme settings okay and what i want
to do is i want to exclude the tagline okay and let's just exclude that over there and you can
play around with the different settings um the basic display settings for your footer as well
uh you can update that so let's go and save it and then let's go over here let's
refresh it and that's gonna disappear okay so i might just hide the search bar as well
as this one over here okay so let's go over here let's hide the footer logo and i'm also
going to go down to where is it okay for the text okay and i'm gonna hide for the text
too and then click on save and then refresh it and then that is pretty much good to go right so
you can also change the footer design the layout as well this is the default one so i want to
change it to the footer block let's click on save now hopefully this one's going to save okay so
that is pretty much good to go so what we can do now is click on customize on the top over here now
if you don't see the bar then what i do recommend is refreshing the page then you should be able to
see it and then what you want to do is navigate to theme of our options it should automatically
redirect you here and then click on site logo and tagline site logo and then here you can change
the site title so i'm just going to name it logo so i just want to keep everything as simple as
possible now if you do want to add in a logo image you can select this tab over here and i've also
got a video where i show you guys how to make a free logo and fab icon using canva so canva is a
really awesome tool um i'll show you exactly how to use it and create a logo as well as your fab
icon which is the little icon on the top over here so let's go over here and you can also just
you know choose a font and just use that as your logo because you don't really need to
worry too much about your logo at this time what you do want to focus on is your content so
just keep it nice and simple for now you can also change the site tagline so we can change it to
like for example ultimate resource for youtube creators so this should be like basically you
know telling people what your site is about and you know who it is for who is it helping
and things like that so for me i'm creating a website that's going to help youtube creators you
know make money online and also you know get more subscribers and views so i'm just calling an
ultimate resource for youtube creators for now so i probably will change it later on but i
think that is pretty good for now so we're going to minimize it and click on publish so
to add your fab icon you can click on back and then we can click on site identity click
on that and select site icon select files and then we're going to upload the picture okay so
this one over here a png so so once that is done click on select and then that should be publish
and that should be done right so it should be five one twelve by five one twelve and you can follow
this video too and i'll show you guys how to make the fav icon and things like that okay
so once that is done then we can close it and then you should have your fav icon on the top
and you can see the title as well as the site tag line has changed so let's go ahead and show you
guys how to use the builder so you can turn on the builder now if you don't see this builder icon
like it might say it's not available on this page now that's because you haven't followed the video
uh make sure you skip back a little bit and i'll leave the timestamp in the description where i
show you guys how to add in pages and set your home page and things like that so over here is
your panel area where you have all the different modules which you can add and drop in so we can
also click it and we can move it like that or you can drag it on the left as well so i prefer
on the left so what we want to do is we want to create like a hero image hero image section
um for your website so what we can do is hover over here okay so this is the row okay so let's
add the styling and add in a background so then we're going to add an image right so for your
background image we're going to click on plus upload files select files and then here i'm going
to upload a hero image so i'm going to try and upload maybe this one okay and click on open and
this is the size of our image so it's around 1900 by 1200 pixels approximately and it's less than
500 kilobytes so you generally want to keep it you know around 500 kilobytes or less um otherwise
your website is going to load slowly because that's gonna uh the image size is really big all
right so generally keep it around 500 and insert file image like that and then here for your
background image we can set it to full cover okay and then what we want to do is we want to
make sure that goes all the way across so hover over the row again and then hover over the gear
icon and let's do that again and for the row width select full width right that's going to adjust
it so the row is going to go all the way across right so the next thing that we can do is
we can click on done all right now if you want to hover over here you can actually see
some purple and what we can do is actually add spacing or padding to that okay so we're going
to drag it and let's just try and do maybe 150 for now okay so we can adjust it later
on okay hover over here and you can see that purple highlight again so drag it and drop
it down to around 150 so try and keep it even like that okay that should be good all right
now let's add in a text module so over here drag in a text so i'm just going to call it maybe
ultimate creators resource so you sort of want to just tell you know people what this website
is about let's change it to heading one okay so when you're actually using heading ones and
heading twos and things like that try to keep it only uh one heading one per page right so this
is for search engine purposes you don't want to have multiple heading ones for your page because
google is going to use that as a sort of on-page seo ranking factor okay so only use one heading
one and the rest can be like heading two or three or four or anything that you guys want okay so
once you have that then we can also align the text into the middle so to do that we can click on
styling tab over here and then for the font we can just click on text align to the middle and then
we can also change the color like that's all right and then we could also go to the tab over here
general and then click on heading heading 1 and then we can set the font size here specifically
for heading one okay so i'll show you guys how to set it universally later on we can change
it to any size so i'm going to change it to 5 em maybe that's a little bit too big so let's just
change to maybe four yeah four is okay for now okay and then click on done so the next thing that
i want to do is make sure that text sort of pops a little bit and for that we can actually click on
it again let's click over here let's go to font and let's try and add some text shadow okay so i'm
going to add one one and maybe blur set it to five and then take shadow let's set that to
black i might drop the opacity down to 0.5 okay so that's going to make sure that text pops
out a little bit by adding a text shadow you can also hover over here styling and then go to row
overlay and then we can change this to black right and then drop the opacity down to like 10
okay so it's gonna make the image a little bit darker and that just uh sort of enhances the text
in the middle a little bit right so once you're done click on done and then that is done so i
forgot to actually mention uh where to get your images from now if you don't have images of your
own you can go to your website called unsplash.com and you can find really nice images here for
your website so you can search for like creator or creating or something like that um
they've got a ton of really nice images like this one over here uh this one over here you
want to try and look for an image which is like uh horizontal rather than a vertical right because we
need the we need it for our hero image and we want to make sure that when we put text over it then
the text still looks good okay so you want to make sure you pick the right image that's really really
important because otherwise it won't be visible okay so you can find images over here you can also
use adobe stock dot com i think and you can search for images over here now this is paid but i think
the quality of images is really good and probably a lot more unique as well okay so you can use that
and when you actually download the image you can click into the image and we can download it for
free generally you want to click on the drop down and you can download it as a medium size okay
otherwise if you download it as the original it's going to be too too large and the file size
is going to be too big okay let's go over here and what we could do is we can also drag in another
text module okay so this is like a sub headline um i'm not sure what i want to put in here
yet so i might just do like sub headline subheading okay and let's just click on save
and what we could do is hover over here again click on styling and we can go to font and
we can align everything into the middle like that and we can also change the color so
basically when we do that it's going to adjust everything within the row okay so if we change
the font size over here to maybe i think 20 i think that should be okay let's click on save
and we can click on this um text module over here styling and click on margin and we're gonna minus
the margin so minus 10 okay that's going to move it up so what margin does is it's basically
i'm going to adjust the spacing outside the blue box right let's say do let's say we do minus
20 it's going to do that right so the padding is if we click on that it's going to adjust
the spacing within that blue box right so if we do let's say we do a hundred okay so that's
going to adjust the spacing within that blue box right like that that's the padding so let's just
delete that the margin over here okay let's do 100 so it's going to adjust the spacing outside that
blue box so we just want it a little bit so like a little bit closer like that and save and then the
next thing that i want to do is add in a button okay so drag it below there and then we can change
the button text so we could do like start here so i don't have anything to link at the moment
so generally what i do is i link it to maybe like a start now page or maybe my blog page i
might do that so we can right click over here copy link address okay okay so just paste in
your url into that just like that and you can link them to any page later on i just want to
show you guys how to use it you can also change the shape of the button to this one okay so
that one might look good or maybe this one let's just change it a little bit um the button
is quite large we can also change the color black one we can change it to red you know it
really depends on your color scheme so i'll show you guys how i choose the color scheme in
a second so let's just click on transparent for now and let's go to styling button link background
okay so this is where you can actually change the color like that and you can change it to any color
that you want right so for me when i pick my color scheme i generally just do it on miller note right
so i choose the colors beforehand before i sort of build my website i sort of take inspiration from
other websites and what you can do is you can download a chrome extension it's called i think
full screen capture and you can capture um like entire pages and you can get a lot of inspiration
when you're building your website later okay and if you don't know which color to choose
you can go to adobe adobe color just google it and then we can go over here and then we can
go to extract theme so you can find an image on unsplash right so search for an image that
you like and for example let's go landscape and let's say you like this image over
here we can download it onto our computer or you like maybe this one over here
or this one we can go back over here to adobe and we can drop that image in
over here and that's going to create a nice sort of color scheme right you can also change the
different moods as well like that which i think is really really nice and then what you could do is
just copy the color code and you can put it into miller note and then that way when you actually
build your website you can use the same colors throughout your entire website and that just
ensures everything is professional so that's how professionals actually design and you know
edit the colors uh for their website that's why it looks so good um so yeah so that's what i
highly recommend and then also choosing some neutral colors as well which you can use for
your website so generally use these colors when you don't know which color to actually use so
let's go back over here so let's just say for example i like i've picked this color scheme over
here okay so this orange i really like this orange and this is going to be like my accent color
so i picked like a green sort of color scheme and then i'm going to use this orange um sparingly
on my website so maybe i can use it on my button so let's click over here styling and just paste
that in like that's and then we can click on hover and then i go to over here let's just paste this
one in as well copy come back and paste that in and that's looking great right so i might change
the size of that button a little bit so let's just it's too big i think um 16 i think that looks okay
okay so i might edit it later but let's just keep it nice and simple for now save it and close it
all right so that is a very very simple uh layout so what you're going to notice is a gap over
here and it's not going to stretch across so what we need to do is go to edit page and
then what we're going to do is make sure that stretches all the way across uh to the left
and that space on the top is actually gone so let's scroll down to the themify custom panel
okay click on the drop down and that's going to appear and then for the content width you want to
select full width so it goes all the way across okay and update so let's click on view
page you can click on view page over here or click on permalink and that's
going to take you to that page as well all right so that is looking great so before we
get started to add content onto our website and also display that content i do want to show you
guys some essential things which is for example your affiliate disclaimer which i recommend
adding in so you can just simply turn on the builder and add in your text module and drop
in your affiliate disclosure so for example it could be like some of these links on this website
are affiliate links this means if you purchase through those links we may receive a commission so
this doesn't incur any cost to you in some cases you may receive a discount so these commissions
help support the content for our website so you could have something like that for your
affiliate disclosure so this is like a ftc requirement and you can also add it onto your blog
post as well which i recommend and i'll show you guys how to do that later so you can simply just
add that in and then you should be good to go then you can create like a simple about page right
so about page is going to build some trust with your audience so you can tell them you know what
this website is about who does it intend to help why do you create it and where to actually find
you okay so then next you might want to display some social media icons down here so we're going
to go back to our dashboard section and i'll show you how to quickly add that in so themify ultra
themify settings and then we can go to social links and here is where you can just paste your
profile urls right so for example twitter so i'm just going to paste that in to show you quickly
how that works you can also change the color but i just like to keep it as default facebook we're
going to copy that and let's paste that in here and then youtube as well so you can copy your
your youtube channel over here and let's say if you have instagram okay i'm just gonna paste
that in let's just change this to instagram like that's and then insert icon
and then i'm gonna click on font awesome and then i'm gonna try and type
in insta grab okay so this one over here and then that should be added in okay so
you can also add in additional ones as well then we can click on save and now before we
actually exit out of here we need to actually display it so we need to go to appearance and
widgets so let's go to appearance and widgets and then what we need to do is look for theme
of five social links over here so can drop this widget onto any widget over here so we're going to
drop it on the footer social widget section okay and then we're going to open link in a new window
okay so generally i like to open links in a new window if it's an external link a link that is
not on your website okay because you want people to stick on your website you don't want them to
you know leave so we're going to click on save and you can add it to your sidebar
section later as well for your blog but i'm just going to leave it as is
okay so let's go back to our homepage and then you should have your social links
like that and that's looking pretty good okay so another thing i want to show you is if
you click on about if we turn on the builder okay so if we go to the widgets over here we
can drop it below so we can select themify social widgets as well like that and that should
display as well okay so i'm going to open link in a new tab and for the color i'm going to
click on styling and then we're going to see i think that should be a link so we're going to
change the link color to maybe like a dark gray something like yeah i think that should be fine
maybe the same color so yeah same color as a text sort of thing okay that looks pretty good let's
click on done okay so you can do that as well you can also go to blocks so these are sort of
pre-created blocks which you can drag and drop in um to help you with the layout design of your
website as well so i do have a full tutorial on showing you guys step by step of how to actually
create the website and how to use the builder and all the different functions on
it because for this video i just wanted to focus mostly on actually
getting you guys results let's go to the uh let's go layouts over here load layout and
you can also load different layouts as well which have been designed so for example if you want to
load this about a layout then you can do that as well okay and then all you need to do is click
into the modules and edit the text and change images as well as the colors then you should be
good to go so let's click on close let's say that let's close this over here next thing that is
really important and really crucial to understand is that we want to make sure that our website
is always mobile responsive so if we resize the screen just by dragging it in you're going to see
that image is not looking that great right and the text is not looking that great it should be a
lot more responsive than that okay so to make it more responsive we can turn on the builder
and what we can do is we can set the styling for the mobile devices only or tablet devices or
tablet landscape so right now we're on the desktop version so we can click on mobile alright and
what we can do is we can either display that image on the top or on the bottom so to do that we can
hover over the row and we can set it to this one over here okay so to change it like that or we
could try and put it below that so we can do something like this okay right to left and that's
going to display like that so i think that is perfect right now um obviously your image is not
going to be that big on mobile because right now it's displaying quite large but that is fine then
what we could do is make sure that on tablet it's looking great as well so we could do the same
thing or we could also change it to something different as well so for example what we could do
is let's say for example we for tablet landscape okay maybe we don't want to have this
image display at all so you can hover over here and click on visibility and then
we can hide it for specific devices as well okay so you can also do something like for
example we can also duplicate it like this and then what we could do is click visibility
for this one and we can hide it from mobile and what we could do for this one is we can
click on visibility display it for mobile only and then go to image and we can ultimately
sort of change that image if we want to so for example we could do like let's go ahead and upload
another image so maybe this one over here open so let's go and insert file url okay so what it's
going to do is click on done let's click on mobile and then okay so that should click on that one
let's go to visibility so on mobile it should hide okay let's click on done save it and close it
okay so now if we uh resize the screen like that then that's going to edit and change the image
for mobile devices only okay so that's really important to know because sometimes you might need
to use that so what you want to do is whenever you build a new layout for a page or anything like
that you always want to make sure that you have a mobile responsive website so you always want
to check it like that and if it doesn't look good then you can always edit it okay so we can
also click on turn on builder and we can also set a specific size for the text or the buttons
for mobile devices only so for example okay we'll click on the mobile device over here click on text
and then we can click on styling we can go to the heading one font heading one and we can change
it so we can change it to like let's say three okay so make it a little bit smaller so this
is going to only change for mobile devices only if we click back onto the desktop version then
what you're going to notice is that it goes back to that specific size so you can go back over
here and that changes right so you can even change the color and you can edit it however you like
specific for mobile devices only okay click on done save and let's close that okay so we've got
the basics for our website done so right now what we need to do is we need to focus in on creating
content for our website okay so this is going to be the most important part for your affiliate
marketing business and your affiliate marketing website so think of content sort of like food for
a restaurant so with a restaurant like everything could be bad but if the food is amazing then it
still could be super busy so that's how important content is for your website so right now we do
want to just have a very very simple layout now a lot of people you know focus in on you know try
to create the perfect website before they actually create content so the most important thing is to
have content so that people come to our website first we make some sales then we can always
adjust it as we go because we don't have much stuff on our website then we can't really create
much of a layout anyway so what we want to do is for our content creation you want to make sure
that you've done your keyword research from before okay so what we've done is i've determined
that i want to target tubebuddy review for my page so if we actually go to tubebuddy review over here
what you're going to notice is if you actually do like a quotation search basically we're competing
against 7000 other websites right so we want to make sure that our website is ranking on page
number one because generally if it's not ranking on page number one then people aren't really going
to you know click on page number two and three and four and things like that now ideally we do
want to have a website ranking number one two or three right so there are thousands of different
ranking factors for your website but the main two factors is going to be like the relevance
and the quality of content and also the number of backlinks for your website so what i mean by
backlinks is let's say for example on this forbes article and if you read the article you'll
notice that they have different links to other pages as well so if we click on a link okay
and that's going to redirect to entrepreneur.com and this article over here so this is a backlink
from forbes to entrepreneur so generally the more links that you have to your website the higher
you're gonna rank on google right provided that your content is good right so each link to your
website is sort of like a vote of popularity so the more votes then the higher that you can
rank so not all votes are sort of um equal so if you're getting a link from forbes.com which
is a you know highly trusted website that gets millions of visitors each month then it's going
to be different if you get a link from a a newer website so to actually get links to your website
we need to have the best content possible because if we don't have the best content then there's no
reason why people are going to actually link to us in the first place right so what we need to focus
in now is creating great content so i'm going to walk you through exactly step by step how to
actually do that so there are a few key elements of great content so number one which is probably
going to be the most important one is that your content should match the searches intent okay so
what i mean by that is what is the user what is the searcher trying to find like the information
right you want to provide the information that they're looking for so for example if we are
creating content about tubebuddy review for that keyword then your content should be a review about
tubebuddy right it should talk about exactly what it is you know who uses the product is it good
or not the different plans and pricing do you actually recommend it so i know that it sounds
like very very straightforward and sounds kind of stupid that you you wouldn't do that in in the
first place but when i first created uh my website like eight years ago i was creating a website for
maxi dresses right so what i found was that okay maxi dresses was very very low competition and
it had like over 100 000 um searches per month right so what i thought i would do is that
maybe i could actually target this keyword because it's low competition and no one else is
actually doing it so the thing is i created a website and i wanted to link them to amazon right
so that could make an amazon affiliate commission right but the thing is if you actually type in
max addresses what you're going to notice is that all of these websites over here are sort
of product uh pages or product categories so people are actually looking for you know a real
e-commerce website and they want to browse all the dresses and they want to you know purchase the
dresses okay so they don't really want to read a sort of blog post about maxi dresses and
then click an affiliate link to direct them to another website to purchase the product right they
want a real e-commerce website that they trust and then they can browse the product and purchase
the product right so that's the search's intent okay so you'll always want to make sure that you
create content that matches the searches intent so for example if for example you might you might
want to create a review about tubebuddy okay but then you might think okay this doesn't actually
get too many searches and you know it's easy but yeah it's not going to get too many searches so
what you want to try and do is maybe you wanted to try and just target tubebuddy okay so this one
might be medium difficulty but as you can see the global volume is quite high so a lot of people
are searching for it but if you actually go and type in tubebuddy over here then if you actually
scroll and look at the top 10 results there's no sort of um you know blog content about tubebuddy
right it's all like for example uh the actual website the actual chrome extension um tubebuddy's
youtube channel the app store and things like that so people aren't really looking for a article
about tubebuddy right if you know what i mean so if you actually target this keyword then you're
probably not going to rank for it on page number one okay because people are looking for the
exact product so before you actually create content for a specific keyword or key phrase
always do a google search for that keyword and look at the top 10 results and see you know what
type of content they've actually created okay so many times you don't have to try and reinvent the
wheel uh you do want to provide you know better content but you don't want to have it like too far
off what is currently ranking okay because that's generally what people are actually looking for in
the first place right so don't try to change it up too much you just want to create something that's
a lot better a lot more unique and then you want to get back links to your website and that's just
the basics of it okay so the next thing is also equally important is that you want to create
unique content so you never want to copy other people's content especially if you're copying like
the whole entire article you don't want to copy and paste right that's not going to work you're
going to make sure that content is unique and not a duplicate because the thing is like there's no
reason why google is going to rank your website if it's the same content as another website right
that will just be spammy okay so that's very very important that you don't want to copy um huge
chunks of other people's websites now yes you can copy like maybe like a small quote and things like
that um but you definitely don't want to copy like the entire article okay so number three uh you
want to provide real insight and real experience so a lot of people when they're creating a
affiliate marketing website they are just you know copying the the features and talking
about the features but they're not sharing their real experience and real insight okay so i think
you know 2021 and moving forward a lot of websites that actually just copy the features and just talk
about that without actually trying the product is gonna fail right because most people when
they're starting an affiliate marketing business they wanna do the least amount of possible
so if you actually have real insight and real experience it's going to help protect your
content from from other competitors as well okay and number four you want to have good
understanding of the topic or the product so you want to make sure you do your research
um you know really thoroughly now if you don't have the product you want to make sure you do as
much research as possible if you don't understand the topic then you want to find out and fully
understand it before you write about it so if you look at all the top websites all the top youtubers
you know they have a good understanding of what they're talking about okay so that's really really
important if you don't understand you have to learn that's just the truth you know there's no
way around it so if you do understand the topic then that's awesome okay you're gonna have a head
start but if you don't then you have to learn more about it number five you want to try and include
keywords from your keyword research naturally within your content so for example if we are doing
the tubebuddy review okay so what you can do is you can look at the top result or the top three
results and you can click into the keywords right um that they're actually ranking for for that
page and what you're going to notice is that um it's also ranking for other keywords as well so
like what is tubebuddy um is truebody safe how to use tubebuddy so these are some of the things that
people are searching for and some of the questions that people want to want answered okay so if
you actually include that content within your review content then it's going to be amazing right
because that's exactly what people are looking for so that's why it's really important to look at
the keyword research and look at all the keywords and try to create maybe different subheadings
from it as well so for example you could have tubebuddy pricing and then you could
have like content about is tubebuddy free how to use it and things like that within
your content and that's really going to help your your content stand out okay because you're
covering everything uh that people are looking for right so number six you want to provide
answers to what people are actually searching for on google or youtube or on the forum so this
is similar to number five um if you actually do a a search for the keyword so generally there
is a section like this like people also ask so you can include this within your content and
what you can also do is scroll down to the bottom part and you can see other you know searches
that people do as well and what you can also do is you can actually search up different forums
i think like reddit forums and things like that you can see what people are asking and also
go to youtube and watch the uh videos on the actual review on the product and then you can
discuss the concerns that people actually have so number seven you want to make sure that your
content is thorough and complete try to cover the entire uh topic really thoroughly okay try to
create the best thing possible that you can okay your content is your product number eight
you want to make sure it's well formatted so for example you don't want like a huge chunk of
text you want to make sure you break it down into different subheadings and make sure it's very
very easy to digest okay so people don't like reading like huge chunks of text and you know
if people see that then they're going to click off your website and then that's going to give
google a negative signal for your website because people are clicking off your website right so
google is going to take that into consideration in ranking your content as well number nine you want
to include supporting images and also screenshots videos and maybe quotes and references to
sort of enhance your content a little bit right because people don't want to read just a
bunch of text they want to look at some images and you know make it more interesting for them
and make it easier for them to actually read again okay so that's really really
important number 10 you want to include not just the good but also the bad as well like
if you're writing a review don't just write all the good points you should also write some bad
points as well that just adds some credibility to to what you're saying okay so if people see that
you're just you know writing all the good stuff then you know people aren't going to trust you so
people aren't going to read all your content and things like that so you don't just want to be like
okay this product is absolutely amazing and you have no downsides whatsoever then i don't think
that's very very good right but then on the other hand you do want to have like if there is some
bad points sometimes it's not necessarily bad uh for everyone so for me i used to like really like
if i if i don't like a product then i would say like okay i don't like it but the thing is like
there's different types of users so let's say for example you're creating content about tubebuddy
right you're writing a review so the users of tubebuddy there there are different types of users
for example you might have an 18 year old who has a gaming channel but then you might have like a
36 year old who has a business channel so everyone is sort of different so you have to try and uh
think about you know their needs right you have to think about okay is this product good for them
maybe it's not good for you maybe you should get this product you have to try and think of it like
that okay because sometimes one product might be good for one person one product might be bad for
another so for example if uh let's say for example uh i like bmws right but then someone might not
like bmw because of xyz maybe you recommend like a you know a different car maybe like a japanese
car or something like that because of x y and z okay so there's not necessarily uh just like
bad all the way and not necessarily good all the way so having both you know addressing both
points is going to help with your credibility and also help people make the right decision as well
okay so those are just some of the key elements of creating great content so what i want to
discuss right now is the content creation process so i want to help you guys break down everything
step by step day by day so that you guys can have like an action plan of creating content because
i know that you know creating content might be quite scary but honestly it's not as hard if you
break it down step by step day by day right if you try to do everything one day you're going to
get completely overwhelmed and you're probably not going to take any action and if you really want
to succeed with affiliate marketing it's about actually producing content and taking action
right so day number one you can focus on keyword and competition research so you can use ahrefs
to do keyword research and you can look through all the different websites and you know research
the different keywords that you can target as well and you can use a miller note to jot down all your
ideas and brainstorm you know find out you know what they're doing well what they're not doing
well you know what can you improve on and things like that or any other information that you might
need right because you might have a lot of things in your head so it's really good to actually just
write that down and then you can come back to it later on so then what you could do for day two
is you could do product research and also testing of the products so depending on the product and
depending on the competition it may take longer for the testing and things like that it
may take a week or might take two weeks it really depends on what type of product that you
want to promote as well okay because you want to gain as much product knowledge as possible that
way the content that you create is going to be really good all right so day three you can start
writing you know your titles your introduction your different subheadings and you can also create
your featured image right so what i recommend is writing all your content in google docs first
because that way you have it saved right you don't really want to write directly on wordpress because
it's not as easy to sort of edit your content there okay so you want to have your content ready
in google doc and then you want to transfer it once it's all done okay so you can write out your
title um and then you can also get your affiliate links as well so generally um you should apply to
join the affiliate program by now so most of the time when you join the affiliate program it's
going to be like an in-house affiliate program and you can just get the affiliate link directly
from the dashboard area sometimes the uh affiliate program might be like a affiliate network that you
have to join and then it does take like a day or two to get approved once you get approved then get
the affiliate link and then you can paste it into here okay so what i also like to do is i like
to write out you know who is reading this post okay because that's going to give me a very clear
direction of you know who am i writing for so you can also write out your introduction and then you
can also write out all the different subheadings so you don't have to write everything right now
but you can write out the different subheadings based on your keyword research and then once
you've done that then you can create your blog post featured image so your blog post featured
image is like the image like this right you got your blog post and then you need image that's
going to display on your blog right so you can either create it on canva.com or you could hire
someone on fiverr to actually do it for you so you can search blog featured image and you can
hire someone and think it starts from like five bucks or something like that five to ten dollars
for your blog post featured image and then you can get that done okay so that's probably going to
take you know 24 hours or 48 hours to get it done and then once you've done that day four you can
just focus in on writing so just filling out you know all the subheadings that you have written
right and you can just focus in on writing so when you're writing just pretend you're writing
to a friend right don't over complicate it i know a lot of people might be scared you might be
like thinking you know i'm not a good writer but at the end of the day we're just writing our
opinion okay so don't try to over complicate it just focus on writing and over time you'll get
better at it okay when you first start out you might not be the best um it's just gonna take
time just like if you were to learn tennis so you're not going to be the best tennis player
overnight okay you're not going to create the best chocolate cake overnight so you have to keep
on practicing and over time you'll get good at it all right and then the next day you can just focus
on editing that content making sure everything is well formatted and everything makes sense and you
know write out your conclusion and things like that and check all your work right and then day
six you can focus in on adding different images screenshots uh videos or different quotes and
you know references for your article okay so to add some more sort of depth into it okay so
if you want to screenshot things then what i recommend is going to getcloudapp.com so this is
a really awesome tool that's going to help you screenshot anything that you need and you can also
record uh short videos and also gif files as well so for example we click here we can capture
it okay just like that selecting the area and then that's going to capture again
that's going to upload directly to the server and then you can use this to draw like arrows okay
so you can also change the color to the color that you selected for your color palette earlier you
can also blur things out as well so for example like that okay so you can play around with the
different settings and once you're done click on share and then that's going to upload okay so
then you can paste in the url so you can share this with a friend especially if you're working
with other people this is a really really awesome tool okay so you can download that onto your
computer okay so what i recommend is creating like a special folder with all your images so when it
comes to images you always want to make sure that you sort of uh optimize images so it's not the
biggest file size you want to make sure that the image is not too big otherwise your website's
going to load slowly right so this is another sort of ranking factor as well um the user experience
factor right so with your website you want to make sure that it is loading quickly and a big part of
that is if you have too many images it's going to load slowly so what you always want to do is make
sure you use photoshop and either crop your images to a smaller size and you always want to use the
jpeg file okay unless you need a logo then you might need a png okay so let's say for example
we got the image let's just save that image okay so let's just download that all right so what
i recommend is naming your images appropriately so that might be uh let's say you know a specific
feature okay of tubebuddy okay so feature one all right because this is going to be for search
engine purposes as well right so i'll talk about that a little bit later then you want to go to
photo okay or you can use photoshop or any other tool that you guys use and then we can let's go
grab that image and then we can drop that in okay and then over here we're gonna scroll
down to resize and let's just resize it to i think one thousand and you wanna make sure this
is selected so that way when you change it the uh the height also changes okay click on apply and
then export okay so you probably need to log in okay and then we can save it as normal quality
so generally that should be enough and download it okay let's save it right so if we compare the
file size if we look at the file size over here uh so we've saved it as a png and that one is
about 107 kilobytes this one over here is about half that size okay so that's gonna ensure that
your website loads quickly otherwise if you have too many images then it's gonna be super slow
okay so that's a really important thing as well that you have to note then day seven then
you can focus on adding the actual content that you've written onto wordpress so this is the
next step that i actually show you and then i'll show you guys how to optimize it for the search
engines okay so let's get into that right now so once you finish writing all your content and also
getting ready all your images ready to actually upload onto your website then hopefully you know
adding that content to our website won't be as hard so with your images i've basically cropped
it to around 1000 pixels in width and they're all in jpeg format already right and the total
file size for the whole entire folder is around two megabytes okay so generally you probably
don't want your page size to be more than three megabytes three to four megabytes if it's that
size then you'll need to have a really really uh powerful web hosting server for example cloud
hosting otherwise your website's going to load slow what we're going to do is add in our content
so we can hover over here and click on add post or we can go to our dashboard area and we can go to
the post over here okay and then click on add new so let's click on that okay so now if you don't
see the dashboard the left hand panel and also the top tab then we can click on the three dots
on the right hand side and we can deselect the full screen mode okay so generally i keep it
like this it's just a lot easier for me so we've got our content ready so then all we need
to do is just copy and paste basically so copy and then just paste in your title scrolling down
and we're going to add in a new category so this one is going to be reviews okay so if you have
comparison it might be comparison if you have some other category for example like how to or tutorial
or news just write in your specific category and add new and then make sure that is selected
then we can go to tags this is going to be tubebuddy and then we're going to do comma
tubebuddy review and then we might do youtube growth tool something like that and then
for our featured image so you should have created a featured image previously
so we're going to click on that and then upload files select files and then
we're going to upload our featured image so i personally got the featured image done on
fiverr.com so you can either get that done or you can just use canva or photoshop depending on what
you guys use so the file size for the image is 1280 by 720 pixels so we're going to set that in
and set featured image so once we have done that then over here we can click on discussion and if
you want to you know allow comments or not allow comments you can disable it here as well if you
scroll down to themify custom panel over here you can actually set the specific layout for that blog
post right so you can do this later uh we're going to leave it as is right for right now okay but i
just wanted to show you guys that you can do that then the next step we can click on publish okay
and then we can also uh select this if you don't want to click on publish twice right so you can
deselect it and then every time you click on publish then it's published so over here we can
check our url is this the url that you want okay so basically what we can do is close this and
i want to edit that url a little bit because it is a bit too long so i want to keep it try to
keep it as short as possible so tubebuddy review let's do this okay so let's just delete that okay
we're going to keep it as tubebuddy review and then we're going to update that so just try
to keep your url structure uh nice and clean uh you don't want to have like 2021 because then
you know in 2022 then your url will be outdated so you don't really want to change your urls
too often because it's going to hurt your search engine rankings unless you sort of do something
like redirection but you know that's another thing that you need to do what you want to do is make
sure everything is done right when you just start out okay so once you've done that then let's check
everything that looks so good let's update it and we can navigate by clicking on v post or we
can just click on the url like that okay so this is our blog post so what i want to show you now
is how to add in the content for example the text images videos and your links then i'll show you
guys how to style it so change the layout and also change the colors to your branding okay so what
we can do is first of all turn on the builder on the top or you can turn it on over here and
then on the left we've got the modules again so generally you know there's quite a lot of modules
but you don't really need to use all of these so most of the time i just use like the text module
video module and the image module so over here is where we can actually put in our content so for
example let's say for example we want to add this content over here which is our introduction we
can just copy it from google docs and then i'm going to drag in the text module and drop it and
then i'm going to paste it and match style okay so that is the introduction and then what i'm going
to do is do the next part so what is tubebody so let's just copy that and then go over here so what
i'm going to do is i'm going to click on done and then add another text module and then i can put in
the title so what is tubebuddy now this is really important so we want to change it to heading two
or you could change it to heading three or four but don't change it to heading one so generally
for each blog post and each page you should only have one heading one and that's going to be your
title okay so this is for search engine purposes so for now i think i might just do it as heading
three okay that looks okay let's click on save and then let's go ahead and paste in our content
so copy come back over here so we can just add it in that same module as well so paste and
match style or you could just add in a new text module as well so sometimes i think that looks
okay so what we're going to do after is going to add like a content section and it's going to
scroll to each of the different sections as well so here if you want to add an image all right
so let's add in our image so we can drag in the image module just below that and then what i want
to do is click on upload files select files and i want to upload all the images that i'm going to
upload for this post so that way i don't have to upload it individually again so we're going
to select all our images except the uh this one which we've added in before and then what we could
do is just click on open okay so that's going to upload all our images that we need so that way we
don't have to you know keep on uploading images everything is very very streamlined so the image
that i want to pick is let's find it i think it's this one okay so this one over here let's do
insert file url and that's going to insert our image so we can also add in an alt tag over
here okay so this is maybe you know what is true buddy so what a alt tag does is that you can
put in like you know the description of the image so by default google doesn't really understand
you know what your image is about so if you add an alt tag it's going to give an idea of you
know what that image represents so then when google actually scans the content on your website
then they know okay this website is talking about tubebuddy and things like that let's click on done
and then that is done so then the next section is let's add this in over here copy it so this should
be fairly simple so what we're going to do is i'm going to keep on adding in that content so we're
going to add it in like that so as you can see over here it's probably too close so what i like
about themify is that you can actually hover over here and you can drag it like that so i'm going
to drag it and maybe do 20 pixels or maybe 25 okay so let's say if i do 25 then you know in
the future then all of it will be 25 as well so that's going to keep everything consistent
and we can click on that and we can also align it into the middle like that as well you can also
go to styling and you can adjust it here as well so they're both pretty much the same thing so we
can click on done so next i'm going to show you guys how to add in the next sections and i want
to show you guys up to i think up to pros and cons because i do want to show you guys how to
style this section as well so let's quickly add in the rest so let's just grab all of this
maybe let's just grab that one first copy let's go back over here we can also duplicate
the text modules like that if you want to so then we can just paste it in uh this one
we're going to reduce that size that spacing and then we can also bold our text like this
okay then the next section is going to be getting started with tubebuddy so what we want to
do is we want to sort of add like a calls action um near the start of our blog post which is going
to include our affiliate link so then people can click on their link and then if they do purchase
the product then we can get a commission right so generally we don't want to have our affiliate
links like at the end of a blog post we want to have it within you know the blog post maybe three
to five times so this one let's just copy that let's come back over here and let's just
duplicate that post again let's click on that and then let's just paste that in that
match style let's change this to heading three again then the next section is going to be
available on so let's just try and copy that copy this and paste that in let's grab another
text module put that below there paste that in okay so sometimes the format b might be off so we
need to try to reformat it ourselves a little bit so what we can do to display this text is
we can go to styling and then we can go to multi columns and set the column to two okay
so that's going to be like something like that so actually what we're going to do is i'm
actually going to click on this and maybe just let's just remove that one oops delete that click on that one and let's click enter paste
that in change that to bold okay so sometimes you do have to play around with it and fix it okay
so to try to make everything look nice so let's go back over here we're gonna add in a button so i'll
show you how to do that let's click on done let's go ahead and drop a button module just below here
and then we can change the button text so install for free and then here we can put in our affiliate
link so i'll show you guys how to cloak your affiliate link a little bit later right now i'm
just going to you know put the actual affiliate link so an example of an affiliate link which is
cloaked is something like this so we're on the food rangers blog and if you hover over the button
over here get tubebuddy now you're gonna see the forward slash tubebuddy on the bottom
left okay so that is an example so that just sort of cleans up your affiliate
links so sometimes when you do get affiliate links uh from the affiliate program it may
be like a very very long link okay it does look kind of messy and people might not want to
click it so sometimes a lot of blogs and a lot of youtubers actually cloak it like this and i'll
show you guys how to do that a little bit later so we're just gonna copy and paste that in
for now and we can edit that later so okay so for the link we just paste that in okay
so when people click on that link it's going to redirect to tubebuddy so what we could do
is probably just arrange it into the middle so right now i'm just going to leave it as is
and i'll show you guys how to change the colors later when we style everything so i might just
add a little bit of spacing right now maybe 20 25 i think that looks okay let's go back over here
okay let's add in the rest of that let's copy this and then click on done let's drag
in another text module below that's paste that in add some padding align
it to the middle come back over here so let's get this done let's copy this actually
i'm going to try and copy the whole bit just copy that and then let's go ahead drag in another
text module below that and then paste that in who uses tubebuddy change that to heading three
okay so if we want to sort of link a text so for example i'm going to click on this and let's
copy that link okay so if you want to add a link in wordpress and the editor so we could just
highlight the text okay and click on insert link and then we could just paste that in so generally
what i do is click on link options and i paste it in like that and then because this is linking to
someone else's external link then i want to open link in a new tab because generally i want to keep
people on my website if it's like a link within my own website then i'll just do it without this add
link and then you can do it for the rest of these ones so that's just the basics of it now you can
also add affiliate links like that as well okay so i'm not going to show you like each and every
one you're going to have to do that yourself so let's go back over here let's add this one in copy
that and let's see let's just add the whole thing done drop in a text module let's paste that in
change this to maybe heading oops that's not good ctrl z okay maybe hit enter
let's change it to heading three and then what we need to do is let's
try to format that properly like that okay um let's just leave that right now let's go
back over here okay and then maybe i might have another text so get started with the tubebuddy
maybe that might not be a button though so let's click on that and then just have it like
that paste that in let's move it to the middle and then if we want to copy the
affiliate link again just copy that paste that in so everything that i'm showing
you now is like the actual work that you need to do to become successful with making a affiliate
marketing website right so there's so many videos on youtube that just show you like you know
just like the concept of it but you actually have to do the work right so this is part of the
work um and yeah it's just all everything that you need to know so let's go down over here and
let's add in the pros and cons so if you want to display your pros and cons so we can display
it in a few ways so let's go back over here so what i'm gonna do actually is add a new row
okay something like that and then i'm going to separate it into two columns okay two columns
like that one on the left one on the right let's do a text module again paste
that in and then we're gonna copy that like that and then we can come
back over here let's paste that in okay let's change that to heading three oops
let's drop a space first change that to heading three or maybe try heading two maybe heading
three actually so then we can go back over here copy that and then we can just duplicate
that one drop that one over click this in select all and maybe just paste the match
style oops that's not good uh let's just delete that first paste and match style
click on enter changes to heading three save it let's click on this and okay so for the
rest of this stuff uh you can pretty much do that yourself so the next thing that i want to show you
now is how to actually style your blog post so i'm going to add in a bit more content and then i'll
show you guys how to style it and make it look really really nice okay so i've added in some more
content so what i want to show you now is how to add in like a content section something like this
over here where people can actually click on it and it can scroll down to the different sections
so this is going to add to the user experience of your blog post and your website so let's go
back over here and then let's turn on our builder so this is actually really simple to add so we
can actually drop in let's say a text module let's say we want to drop it over here oops let's
move it back okay so just above what is tubebuddy so over here we can label this content
let's change it to heading 4 like that and then what we want to do is we want to
look back at our article and we can start adding in sort of all the different uh
sections so for example what is tubebuddy so for example copy that and then we can start
adding all the different sections in manually and maybe who uses it like that and then we could
do the next section which is going to be let's say okay so pros and cons so or maybe getting uh wait wait a second i think we're missing
something uh what is shoebody pros and cons pros and cons enter so i'm just going to quickly
add all these in okay so you can add your content section in as well and then i'll show you guys
how to style it properly and link it to the different sections so right now i've just added
in everything like that okay so it's all in one column so as you can see on the right hand side
there's a lot of space over here so what we can actually do is i think we need to fix this text
over here first so let's click on enter so what we could do is click on styling okay and then
go to multi columns and set the column to two so sometimes you can set it to three depending on
how you want to display it i think that is okay as well so i might just put it as two though okay so
what we want to do is we want to add a background color so as you can see over here we've got nice
background color so what we want to do is go back to our miller note and if you have your color
palette selected then we could just copy the color code okay come back over here go to background
and we're going to paste in the color like that all right so what i like to do is i click on it
okay i'm going to drop the opacity down to let's say 0.0.1 or 0.15 maybe like that and then what we
could do is actually i'm going to put 0.1 for now and then we could go and go to border and then
paste in the color on the left okay so paste in the color there and then we're going to set
it to four so as you can see it's a bit too close to the edges so what we want to do is add
some padding so let's click on padding on here so padding is just space so i could just drag it
and move it in like that so i can try maybe 20. so as you can see it's a bit uneven so maybe what
we could do is make sure we adjust it a little bit let's see so we're going to deselect this
for the bottom i'm going to change it to maybe 10 okay so i think that looks a little bit better
or maybe even 5 something like that so everything looks really really nice now so how do you
actually link the different sections to each of the different sections over here so what you
can do is you can link it two ways so for example if we want to link it to this section over here
we can let's set in the uh link id first so let's click into the text module edit and then
for the id name we're gonna label it what is and then we're gonna copy it to our clipboard
let's click over here again and then select this text okay we're gonna paste in this so we're
gonna type in hash first and then paste it in and then we're gonna click on apply
okay so that's gonna add a link so if people click on it then
it's going to scroll down to the this section over here hopefully so let's
click on save and we're going to close it okay let's scroll down a little bit click over
there and as you can see it's going to scroll to this module over here so if we actually click
it it's going to scroll past the title area so what we want to do is actually scroll it to the
to the row okay so we can turn on the builder so if we actually zoom out then what you're going
to notice is that all this content is in one row okay so over here when you hover over it as
you can see this purple that's the second row so this is actually in one row so what i want to do
is scroll to the very bottom and i'm going to add a new row like this and then what i'm going to
do is i'm going to click it and drag it up okay so hold on to it click it drag it up to the very
top and i sort of want to separate it into two different rows like that okay so i'm going to drag
this content over here drag this one over here on the top okay so now it's in number one row and
then number two over here so i'm also going to add a little bit of spacing on the top like that
so maybe 25 so instead of linking it to the text module i want to let's just cut this and click
on done i want to link it to the row so we're going to hover over here row options and set the
row anchor to whoops let's row options and paste that in so that's going to set in the location to
the row let's click on save and we can close that so as you can see it's going to scroll down to the
row so if we click on that okay and that's going to look really good so what you can actually do
is you can make it scroll down to either the text module or the row so sometimes if we actually turn
on the builder let's say we want to scroll it to the summary section okay so we don't actually
have a summary here so let's just do maybe summary and then we can set the link summary
like that's and then we can scroll down and we can actually scroll it to the sort of the
text module above so we can scroll like this and then label this summary click on done save it and
then close it so if we click on it like that then it's going to scroll sort of like that okay which
is okay as well so you can do it both ways scroll it to the row or scroll it to the text module
so what you can do is you can individually uh do it for each one okay so what i want to show
you now is how to actually change the link color so as you can see the link color is red and
you know that's not part of my color scheme that i've actually set in here so what i'm going
to try and do is maybe change the colors of this copy that okay let's go ahead and go over here
customize and i'm going to try and change the color uh universally okay so that means i don't
have to change it you know for each individual module so let's click on let's go to body and
body link okay let's paste in the module like that okay so as you can see that color is really really
nice okay so everything looks you know blends in really well with my color scheme so that is that
then we can click on publish and then for the link hover what we can do is we can also set it to this
one so dark green okay and we can paste that in like that so when people hover over it it's
like this dark green okay so you can adjust it a little bit as well so maybe sometimes
i actually just take this color over here okay so we can actually go to a website called
zero to 255 and we can paste in the color over here click on next and then what we could do is
it's going to give us shades of the same color so what i like to do is pick maybe two to three
shades darker for the link hover okay so this is like a web design okay so you know you're
learning a bit of everything here and it's honestly what you actually need uh to know so you
need to know you know a little bit about keyword research a little bit about building your website
a little bit about design and everything like that so as you can see it just makes it a little bit
darker it's very very subtle but it looks very really nice click on publish and while i'm here
i'm actually going to change the color scheme for the entire website as well so we're going to start
from the top okay so for the headings let's click on okay so that is the main navigation
so over here menu link okay let's just select the green color okay so it didn't actually
save yet because i need to exit out of it perhaps so it's gonna copy that paste that in oops that
is actually the background color put it into here like that um i think that looks okay ish okay so
we can actually keep it like that or we could just do perhaps just for the menu link hover and we
could do something like that right so it hovers like that color so i'm actually going to go back
over here and make sure this one is saved as well and then click on publish then if you're scrolling
down as you can see you can see the back to top button so what we're going to do is we're going
to change that back to top button color so let's go to advanced and then scroll down to footer
and then look for back to top button okay for the color we're going to select this one okay
the dark oops that's not the one that i want so we want that for the background color and then
we want to change that to white something like that okay so that looks really really nice so you
can either pick like an orange color which is also part of my color scheme up to you right so just
try and keep everything consistent as possible um i think that is looking pretty decent okay
let's click on publish so what i want to do is maybe i want to change the footer color
okay so what we could do is go to footer wrap let's go to background color and maybe select
that color like that okay and then what i can do is i'm going to change the the link color within
there so let's put a font change that to white and then for the link color for the
link let's change that to white again okay so that looks really really
nice we're going to click on publish and yeah so that's basically how you actually
change the colors on your website so you can control each of the different sections over here
so let's close that for a second let's go to our blog okay so as you can see we can't actually see
our blog post yet so what we need to do is turn on the builder and actually display our blog post
so what we could do is click on the post over here and drag it in like that and now you can actually
see the blog post right so we can actually change you know how we want to display it like that and
then what we could do is click on save and then what we can do is i'm going to actually change
that hover color as well so let's click on close and let's click into that first okay so i want
to change that hover color let's go to customize okay so i want to click on post and then
that's going to be the post title over here for the post title hover we're going to change
it to the green so maybe the dark green perhaps uh whoops that's the background color okay
that should be the font color like that okay so it may be something like that and then for the
post title we can also align it into the middle like that looks quite nice and then for the
post date we can also change that as well so let's minimize all that and let's go to post date
we can also change the background color of that so for me i don't really want this rounded version
of it so i'll show you guys how to change it so what else do we need to change so let's scroll
down to the bottom okay so over here how do you change the color over here so we can go to forms
and then this is going to be the form button and then for the background let's just change it
to the green like that and then maybe the hover color let's change it to the dark green okay so
that's going to look really really nice and subtle okay everything is consistent on our website
then we can actually click on publish and then let's go and click on close so i want to change this okay to an inline sort
of uh date so let's go back to our dashboard so let's open up in a new tab let's
go to themify ultra themify settings and then over here we can go to default layouts
default single post layout and then what we could do here is we can either hide the post date if you
want to or change it to inline text click on save and then we can refresh it and then it looks
something like that okay so it's really really awesome this theme that's why i highly recommend
it because you can literally create any type of website any type of theme that you want right
so customizable otherwise if you you know pick a theme then sometimes you want to change
something and you can't really change the thing you need to change the entire theme right so
that's why this theme is so good so over here this is the meta description now you can definitely
hide it if you want to so for example we could hide you know the author save it and let's close
it and then that's going to disappear like that um you can also hide you know the different
sections like categories and tags like that as well maybe i just might keep it but what i want
to do is probably move it into the middle and i would probably want to let's say maybe let's
let's just not hide that one okay and then we're going to click on save okay so what i want to do
is change my name though because right now it's just my email so let's go to users over here click
on edits and then i'm gonna set my name so hogan chua and then display publicly as maybe hogan
or who can chew it doesn't really matter okay and then here you can also change and you set
your password as well let's click on update let's go back over here and refresh okay so that's
going to be like my name uh the category and the tags so let's just go to customize again
move that into the middle scroll down to post and this is going to be the post
metal okay move that into the middle and hopefully that is good to go so what
we're going to do now is i want to show you guys how to style something which is really
important so let's close that and close it now if we go to some websites as you can see with
the image you've got like a nice little border on that image it just makes everything very very
professional and just polished so how do you actually achieve that so we can go back over here
we can do that as well so turn on the builder so we can do it two ways we can click
on the image module and we could do like let's say boarded like that but the border
is a little bit thin to be honest we could also do drop shadow if you want to display
like that or we could just go to styling and then what we could do is we
could add a border so click on border and then we could do all so over here what we
could do is use a light gray so something like something like that should be alright and then
here we can set in the thickness which is three pixels okay then you got like a nice border
like that so that looks really really cool uh it could be like four pixels it really depends
on what you want i think that looks pretty good let's go over here maybe let's drop it down
a little bit so maybe something like that and then i'm just just going to add that to my color
palette as well so i can use it whenever i need so once you're done click on done okay so how do
you actually add it to the other images right so you don't really want to add it individually
because that's going to take too long so what you can do is you can right click and we can copy
okay so that's going to copy the styling so let's go to the different images on your website right
click and then we're going to paste paste styling okay so as you can see it's applied already
to this image and we can scroll down and we could right click again and then we could do
paste styling and then you know and so on okay so that's going to make it look really really cool
let's zoom out okay so that's what it actually looks like okay so uh make sure you zoom out of
your layout and make sure like all your spacing is all you know all good okay so you can just play
around with the spacing like that and let's say for example we want to add you know some social
media sharing links so let's drag the social share and we drag it below that or something like that
and then we could do you know facebook twitter uh maybe linkedin and then we could do let's
say squared and then we could do styling and then we could move it into the middle hopefully
like that let's decrease the spacing actually let's zoom back in so i think that looks not too bad we can also
change the color if you want to uh i think that is going to be the icon and then we could do
background color and then we could do something like that green or maybe dark green okay so
that really depends on what you want really i think that looks not too bad actually uh yeah so
that really depends on what you want okay and then what you could do is you can also add the social
sharing on the bottom of your page as well just duplicate it zoom out and then we can click on it
and then we could drag it anywhere that we want okay so we could drag it onto the bottom of our
blog post like that and we can also rearrange it to maybe something like that so i'm just
going to leave it as is i'm going to delete that okay let's click on save oops what did
i actually delete we can also undo over here okay let's save it and then we can close it so
before i actually show you guys how to customize the sidebar section i sort of want to show you
guys uh we're going to change the button over here okay so we're going to add some like calls
actions within our blog post and we need to change the color so we can click into the button module
and we can change the color over here but you got limited options right so i'm going to select
transparent and then let's go to styling let's go to button link background so i'm not going to
select green for this one i want to select the color that stands out a little bit which is maybe
the orange okay so i'm going to use something that stands out now you can use red or depending
on what you want okay so let's paste that in okay so that's going to stand out a bit more
so then the next thing is the link color we're going to change that to white okay and then
for the hover color let's just change it to a darker orange copy that's and then we can paste
that in okay then what we could do is make sure we add that to a color palette same thing for this
one add that in okay and then here get started with tubebuddy so we could change this link color
as well manually so let's go to styling go to link and then for the link color change it like that
and then for the hover we can change it like that okay so then we could also make it a little
bit bigger so like heading two or maybe not maybe heading yeah maybe add heading four or
heading three okay something like that so you can rearrange it um and then we could make it less
bold maybe yep something like that and save it okay so the next section i want to show you guys
how to configure your sidebar section so you could add like a image and you could add like
an advertisement a banner ad also an affiliate link and then also show your categories
and fully customize the section over here so let's click on save and let's close
so to edit your sidebar we need to go to the dashboard area we can also just go to
widgets uh directly so this is going to take us to the appearance and widget section right
so what we want to do is we want to edit the i think this one sidebar section okay so for
the recent post uh we're going to delete it recent comments we're going to delete that as
well let's navigate over here to see what i want to show so i might include like a profile image or
a little bit about us uh really depends i think it adds some extra trust uh for your content as well
so let's just drag in a image module from here let's add an image and maybe let's add this
one over here that's okay insert that in there save it click on done and then we could add in
a text as well so over here so about me and then you could write a little bit about yourself okay
so i'm just going to grab some dummy text for now copy that and paste that in okay so you can use it
and you can bold it you can also link it as well so save click on done now if you want to add
let's say a affiliate link so for example uh we could add a banner so i'll show you guys
how to add a banner so for your banner there's actually two ways of doing it so sometimes the
affiliate program might actually give you a sort of custom html that you can add in so for example
for the amazon associates uh we can actually click over here and we're gonna go and click on build
link and then over here right it's got the html for that product so it's gonna include the image
as well as your affiliate link all tied together with the shop now button and things like that or
you could click on the image only and you could also paste that in so this is the html so we can
copy it all right and then we can go over here and then we could drop in custom html and then
paste that in like that and click on save okay so or you can just do it manually so for example
if you have your own image so for example drop it below add image and upload files select files
and then let's just add in the tubebuddy logo okay and then we could add to widget like
that and then over here we can just put in our affiliate link manually so for example okay we're
going to grab our affiliate link so copy that and then come back over here
and then we just paste that in and save click on done so now we can actually go
back over here and let's see if we can refresh it so here's got an image about me and
then you've got your amazon link okay so that's the html that you've added
in and then this is the tubebuddy one that you've added in manually okay so both of
these if we click on it it's going to link and it's going to take you over here the other
one is going to take you to tubebuddy okay so yeah so for that one actually what i want to do is
i probably want to open that in a new tab if i can let's see edit image advanced options okay
let's open that in a new tab update and save okay let's go back over here let's refresh that and then let's click that okay that's going
to open a new tab so that's what we want okay so that is pretty much it for your sidebar um
we can also add in like categories as well so for example uh where is it categories over here
we could drop that in below okay and then you could arrange it okay so you can click on done
you could also do like the most popular post so for example i think this one featured post okay
so drop that in like that and you can also set the thumbnail size so for the thumbnail it's going to
be 128 by 720 okay 72 sorry and then we could do uh display the post thumbnail uh you could also uh
not display it so we can relabel like most popular and then we could save it and then let's see what
that looks like okay let's refresh it and then that looks like like that okay so you could do
that as well we can also remove the post thumbnail done refresh it okay so this is something that
you can play around uh with yourself so you're not going to break anything so you can just rearrange
it and you can play around with the different uh widgets and display it okay so part number six i'm
going to be going through on-page search engine optimization as well as off-page optimization
so this part is really really important because it's going to help us rank our website on google
right we want to make sure that on our website it is fully optimized so that when google scans our
website then they know exactly what our website is about and it has all the best settings so we're
going to go through that and then i'll go through off page optimization which is basically getting
backlinks to your website so generally the more backlinks you have on your website the higher
that your website is going to rank so i'm going to go through that in detail a little bit later
so what we're going to do now is we're going to install a plugin called yoast seo so we're going
to go to dashboard so this is a plugin that is basically going to help us optimize our website
on our page so when we hover over plugins over here click on add new and we're going to search
for yoast and click on enter so it should be this one over here yoast seo by team yoast and it
has over 5 million active installations installed so once that is installed then we need to make
sure we activate it just by clicking on activate and it should show the little icon on top so the
next thing we need to do is click on post and we want to make sure that all our posts and pages are
well optimized okay so if it's like your affiliate disclaimer page or your about page you might
not really need to sort of optimize it that much because you're not really trying to rank that on
google right so if it's like a review post and you want to make affiliate commissions from it then
you want to make sure that it is fully optimized right so we can click on edits so on the right
hand side yoast will actually show up like that you can also click back onto the gear icon to
display the old uh display panel okay so what i generally like to do is just scroll down to the
very bottom and you've also got the yoast panel um down here as well okay so scroll down to the
bottom of the post and navigate over here so the first thing you'll need to do is put in a focus
key phrase so this is going to be the keyword that you want to target for your page or your
post so for example it's going to be tubebuddy review so what yoast basically does it's going
to take that keyword and it's going to scan the content on your page and it's going to provide us
of a simple checklist to follow so if we actually click on seo analysis then you can see some of the
problems and the things that we've also done well okay already and it's going to provide
us a simple checklist that we just follow step by step to make sure our page is well
optimized for this specific key phrase over here okay so i'm just going to go through each of the
different settings that you should have optimized so the most important thing is you want to make
sure that your focus keyphrase is in your title so for most of you it should already be your post
title already so if you don't have your keyword in there you want to make sure you have your keyword
in there and try to keep it at the front of your title as well okay so tubebuddy review and then
you could have you know what is it and should you use it or anything like that after that okay
because this is going to be really important if you know someone searches tubebuddy review and
they look at your title and don't have it within you know your title then they're probably not
going to click into that okay so that's going to be a really really important factor so the
next thing that you want to do is if you want to edit manually you can do that as well just
by navigating to seo title and deleting that and just typing that in so two body review and
then you could do is it's really worth your money okay so you want to make sure your title is also
um has your keyword but it's also like enticing for someone to actually click into okay so for
me i'm just going to have it as the default one so i'm going to put the variable in there
and it's going to take it from my post title and add it there okay so for your meta description
by default it's going to just take a random snippet of a piece of content on your website
and include it in your meta description so this is uh the description over here okay so we can go
over here and we can type in a meta description that we want okay so we could do like in this
tubebuddy review will be taking an in-depth look at all the features and benefits and then maybe like does it really gets you more
views find out here something like that okay so with your uh meta description i generally try to
include the the keyword in there as well okay it's one of the checklist items over here as well um
but if you can't include it naturally then you don't have to right so with these different things
um besides the sort of the the title uh here like sometimes if you don't get it 100 then
it's okay right you don't need to like have everything 100 optimized so if you have like
80 of them like you know green then it should be pretty much good to go okay so here we can
actually just look through the different things and just fix it okay so as you can see i already
have a lot of these green now mainly because i've done this a lot of times and actually you know
when i'm creating content then i'm really aware of it and i'll try to actually do it already so
let's say for example you want to fix something then let's say for example this one your keyphrase
does not appear in the first paragraph then you can actually fix it okay sometimes you might not
have any outbound links which is like linking outside your own website and internal links which
is in linking uh within your own website you might not have it so i'll show you guys how to fix that
and for example the image alt attributes okay so you can just work through this yourself as well
i'm gonna click on update and then i'm gonna click on view post okay so just turn your builder and if
you want to fix something it's fairly easy let's just say for example you want to add you know your
keyword within the first paragraph just click into the first paragraph and try to include it within
the content naturally right you don't want to just like squeeze it in anywhere you want to make sure
that the sentence actually makes sense okay so if you can't do it then don't do it right so if you
want to add let's say for example um the the the link so an external link um outbound link then
let's say for example we can link misinformation click on the link over here click on link options
and then you can put in your url over here and link it up okay so most of the time for
outbound links or external links i'm going to open it in a new tab mainly because i want to keep
people on my own website and then we can click on add link now if you want to add an internal link
let's say for example you have another article about youtube growth and how to grow your
channel so maybe i can link you know this keyword to that page so people can click into it and they
can read about that content so it also has to make sense right it has to be relevant before you link
anything so you can click over here click on that and then over here we can just search for
our content so for example if you have you know the content and you know the title
you can just type in the title so let's say for example we're going to link it to our about page
right then we can actually just click it like that and it's gonna link up okay so for an internal
link a link on our own website i'm gonna just link it as is without opening in a new tab okay and add
link like that okay so the other thing is for the image alt tags so if we click into an image that
we've added you can add the alt tag over here so by default when google actually scans your website
and they look at images they can't really read you know what that image is about so that's why you
know all tags are important um it basically gives like a little description on the image so that
when they read the alt tag then they know you know what that image is about all right so you can
add your alt tag over here okay and click on done so those are just the basics uh that you need to
do so once you've done it you can just save it and you can click back to the back end of that post
okay and then you can scroll down and you can try and work through you know the different
other things that need to be fixed as well okay so as you can see it says your key phrase
does not appear to be in the first paragraph um but if we actually go to our page over
here you'll notice that you know it does include it within our first paragraph actually
right same thing over here okay that should be the first paragraph i think it might actually be
because we've got content on the right hand side and for some reason you know yoast seo might be
reading that and they can't actually see they read this content over here okay so don't worry about
it if you can't do it as long as you know you've included it over here then what really matters is
that google just scans the sort of the back end of your website and they'll know that it's actually
included there okay so yoast seo is just like a checklist tool it's not like a tool that tells
google you know uh where uh your keyword actually is right so it's just basically there to actually
just help you right so if we go back over here then you can go through each of these uh different
things and fix it once you're done just click on update so the next thing that we want to do is
we want to click on plugins and want to install a google site kit so what we want to do is connect
our website with google analytics and also the google search console so basically if you actually
search our website right now so we take the url and let's type in our url over here just paste
that in let's type site and colon hit on enter so what we want to do is try and index our
website okay so what we need to do is install our google search console and add our website
over there okay so if we go back over here okay so we're going to click on add new and then we're
going to search for google site kit hit on enter and then we're going to install this right so
it's going to help us connect google analytics and also the search console really really easily
so with google analytics you're able to track how many visitors are coming to your website and
what they're actually doing on your website how long they're staying so basically once you
actually have that information then you can figure out how you can actually improve your
content and your website and things like that by looking at the statistics okay so
once that is installed click on activate so what you also want to do is make
sure to actually log into your gmail or your google account and once you've done
that then we can just click on start setup and then we can just sign in with google and
then i'm going to select my gmail accounts just allow that and allow that
scroll down and allow that okay so now it just needs to verify ownership
of your website and that's going to add they're going to add a html code with the actual plugin
so click on proceed and then click on allow and then we can add the site and then that
is done okay so go to my dashboard okay so it's connected with google search console so
the next thing i want to connect is google analytics right so it's going to track
your visitors so click and connect service and select your accounts and select your accounts
just allow that and then allow okay so it's going to create a new account for us and our account is
going to be maybe just affiliate tutorial so this should be your uh basically your website name or
your company name okay this is the website and you can set in your country and time zone
and create account let's select that one allow so he's gonna select my country
here australia accept the terms of service and then accept go to my dashboard okay so that is pretty much done right so that's
gonna start gathering the analytics data once you know you have a few visitors coming onto your
website so let's say for example uh what we could do is we can search for the page so our page is
tubebuddy oops tubebuddy review and then we can click into that and view data and that's going
to give us you know how many visitors are coming to your website uh how long they're staying for
you know are they clicking on other uh pieces of content on your website or they are they just
leaving okay so once you do have visitors then it's going to show over here and then you can
start looking at the data and you know optimizing your website and making it better improving it
and things like that so the other thing that we want to do is we want to submit a sitemap file
so basically this is going to help google better understand how to crawl our website and you know
when we when we publish new content then hopefully it's going to index our pages a lot quicker as
well so this is really important so we can go back over here and what we can do is go to yoast
right so ghost over here click on general tab go to features and then for the xml sitemap we can
click on the uh question mark okay and then see the xml sitemap and it's going to redirect us over
here okay so we could just copy this url just the last part of it okay so sitemap index.xml right
just copy that and you should receive an email and you can also just click on submit a sitemap or
you can just go and search google search console and login okay so it's going to click on start
here and we can navigate to sitemaps on the left okay and then just paste in the url okay so our
website sitemap over there submit okay let's click on got it that should be good to go so let's
go back over here and that is pretty much it for your on-page search engine optimization so
make sure you optimize all the posts and pages that you want to rank uh rank for okay so for the
other pages which aren't as important like you're about affiliate disclaimer you don't really have
to optimize those ones okay so the next thing i want to talk about is your off-page seo which
is basically getting backlinks to your website so backlinks act like a vote for your website and
generally the more backlinks you have so the more sort of popular your website is and the higher
google actually rank your pages and your website okay so what i want to talk about now is off
page seo which stands for off-page search engine optimization so it's everything that we do off our
website and that basically means getting backlinks to our website right so i want to explain a little
bit about what backlinks are first so for example um in this article in neil patel's blog in
his article within here there's links right so if you click on that link then it's linking to
another website and that is basically a backlink now generally the more backlinks that you have
to your website so for example we have a lot of backlinks to our website over here that means
that it tells google that our website is popular and therefore it should rank it higher okay so
that's the general sort of idea behind backlinks so we need to have good on page optimization so
we need to have good content and make sure that it is fully optimized so that when google scans
our website that it knows what we're talking about then it needs some backlinks to tell google
that okay our website is more popular than other websites so it's also really important to
note that not all backlinks are created equal and each backlink have sort of different weights
to them and how much they're actually worth and how much they'll actually increase your ranking
by right so one of the factors is the sort of domain authority of a website so if you were
to actually get a link from neil patel's blog which is a very very authoritative website with a
lot of trust and it also has a lot of traffic as well then it's going to be worth a lot more
than if you were to get a link from a less established website and another factor is the
location of the link so if the link is within the content itself just like this then it's going
to be worth more than if the link is coming from like the footer section it's like a sort of like a
profile link that you get from your facebook page basically links which are harder to actually
obtain which is links within the content it's going to be worth more than links which are easier
to obtain so for example if you were to get a link from maybe like a blog comment then it's going
to be worth less okay so that's really really important to note as well as the relevance of
the blog they're actually getting the link from so if you were sort of a blog talking about
youtube and youtube marketing and how to make money on youtube and you're getting a link from
maybe a blog that talks about dogs it's not going to be worth as much and there's also two different
types of links as well so there is the do follow link and also the nofollow link so basically the
main difference is that the do follow link will actually pass that link juice that voting power
to your website to increase your ranking directly right whereas a nofollow link it doesn't pass that
link juice so google actually implemented this uh years and years ago back when a lot of people
were actually doing sort of blog commenting and spamming blogs with their links so what google
decided to do was implement the no follow link tag so for example if we right click this block
comment link and click on inspect then what you're going to notice it's going to show a
nofollow tag right so the no flow tag means that it doesn't pass any link juice to the website
and it doesn't directly impact the rankings of the website okay so this is not to say that
it's not important at all because it is sort of important for a natural backlinking profile as
well as leaving blog comments is sort of going to help you get some referral traffic back to your
website especially if it's a high traffic blog and it's also going to build a relationship
with the blog owner as well which is really really important in terms of our backlinking
strategy that we're going to employ later so what i want to go through now is a specific
backlinking strategy for an affiliate marketing website so this is really important because
there's so many different strategies out there of getting backlinks but what we're going to do
is we want to have a process and have a strategy specific for a new website so for our affiliate
marketing website we're going to be implementing a three-step strategy to building backlinks for
it so one of the best ways to actually build backlinks is through guest posting on different
blogs and websites so what that basically means is that we're writing an article for another website
right so for example on this forbes website over here this is an article written by erica right
so she's a brand contributor from deloitte and she's written this article about productivity
and within the article she's linked back to the deloitte's uh article okay so that's getting a
backlink through a guest post so this is one of the best ways to actually get a backlink because
it is also a contextual link it's a do follow link and it's also a relevant link that drives traffic
back to your own website as well so this is a really sort of powerful link that is going to help
sort of increase your rankings for your website so before we actually go ahead and you know do guest
posts and things like that we do need to do step number one and two so before we can actually uh do
guest posting we need to build a very very solid foundation and we also need to build relationships
and things like that that's why we need to do step one and two before we can actually go ahead and
you know find different blogs and websites and ask if they accept any posts and things like that
right because with guest posting we are basically contacting another website owner and asking them
can we submit our article on their website so what we want to do first of all is to sort of build
our own portfolio first to actually show them the work that we can actually create so this can
act like a practice for you guys and also if you are writing a guest post for them right it's going
to drive some traffic back to to our own website now if our own website doesn't have any content
on it then you know there's no reason for people to actually stick on your website and read your
content and eventually become fans of your website and if they don't become fans of your
website they're not going to come back and they're not going to they don't have anything to
link to right so they've got no articles to read nothing to actually link to so it's going to be a
waste if you actually you know create guest post right now first of all i don't think you
many people are going to reply because people want to see that you are a legitimate sort
of online business before they actually work with you okay so it's going to be a lot easier for
you to collaborate with them if you do have some work to show for that okay so for our affiliate
marketing website before we sort of focused mostly on review content comparison content basically
affiliate marketing content now generally with that type of content it's not really uh linkable
right so most of the time when people are linking within an article it's generally to a resource
so or it could be like two different case studies different statistics uh it could be to show people
how to do something it could be different case studies and things like that so what we want to
do first of all is to create sort of informational content which is worth linking to and also the
informational content um that sort of helps people right because when you actually help people it's
gonna sort of help you build an audience as well and it gives an a reason for people to come
back for example uh for my website which is talking about uh helping people how to start
a youtube channel how to make money on youtube then i would also create content for example like
how to get more views on youtube seven easy hacks or i could do like how much do youtubers earn i
would do like 21 real examples basically content that people want to read right and content that
people can actually link to people can share that type of content right so people generally
aren't going to share like my tubebuddy review or like video iq review or any type of review
so people normally link to resources so for example if i'm creating a video showing you how
to build backlinks and things like that maybe i can't cover every single little strategy but then
i would be like okay maybe you can refer to this blog post or you can refer to this website uh
you know this video so that's gonna i'm gonna leave a link in the description and that's gonna
help you know build a backlink for that website so that's what we wanna do first of all we
want to build a very very solid foundation so you want to build at least write at least you
know five informational blog posts which are in depth and also well researched as well as finish
off with your review and comparison content so that's going to take you a few weeks to actually
complete that but it's also very very important right because you need a portfolio to show people
that you can do great work and then it's going to increase your chances that you're able to actually
guest post for these websites okay so step number two branding and engagement so this is also a
really important step so what you want to do here is that you can actually create a relevant
web 2.0 profile links so for example that is like your facebook pages um so create a facebook
page create a youtube channel twitter uh profile and if you have any social media uh profiles then
you can actually add your domain or your website link as a website or in your buyer okay so most
of the time that's going to give you a backlink back to your website and it is probably going to
be like a nofollow link but it's going to add some trust signals for your website and it's going to
help with your rankings as well initially okay so what you want to do is you also want to engage
within the community as well so once you actually create those pages you want to get some initial
sort of referral traffic back right so one of the best ways to actually get that is to actually
engage in the community for example on quora right so it's a question and answer type
of website and people ask questions and then a lot of people will actually answer those
questions with an answer and here for example you know how does tubebuddy work and then this
person over here he's explaining exactly how it works with a link back to his video and a lot of
these will have links back to their uh different pages on their website as well and that's going
to give you some initial referral traffic okay so it's also going to help in terms of building
a reputation for yourself on the internet because when you want to request your different blog
owners to actually guest post on their website you sort of want to make sure you have a brand
right so when people actually check your website out and you know your social media accounts and
different things like that then they see that you are a real business okay so another thing that you
should do is also do some blog commenting as well so you can spend like 30 minutes a day doing
you know question answers and also uh doing blog comments and sort of engaging in the community it
could be like on on youtube as well or perhaps on you know a a person's facebook page or maybe a
person's instagram page you can start engaging there and sort of try and build a relationship
with the you know website owner and things like that okay so when you actually reach out to them
then they're more likely to know who you are so with the blog commenting you can do that
after you've found some relevant blogs that you sort of want to potentially guest post
on and i'll show you guys how to find the blogs in a minute okay so you can spend like 30
minutes per day doing these engagement activities so basically what we want to do right now is
to because no one knows our website we sort of want to get as many eyeballs on our website as
possible and this is something they just need to do when you just first start out so no matter
what business that you do when you first start out it's always going to be a little bit harder uh
you sort of want to do everything that you can okay so for example you could also post your
articles and your blog post on your facebook page on your twitter pages as well and things
like that so what we want to do now is to find different blogs and different websites where we
can actually guest post on so for this task we can use the ahrefs content explorer tool and we can
navigate to the content explorer tab on the top and we can enter in our topic so for example
it could be a word or a phrase uh for example let's say for our website we're gonna do how to
make money on youtube okay and then do a search so over here we can scroll down and we can see
the different search results for that key phrase so what we're going to do is we're going
to click on the one page per domain because there's 26 000 pages and we just need the
domain we don't really need the duplicate and you know the same pages from that domain as well
so basically we can actually scroll down and what you're going to notice is that a lot of these
websites are quite popular so for example the domain rating is very very high they get a ton
of traffic and if you're like a new website then it's probably not a great idea to actually go for
these with your first guest post or your first few guest posts because they get a lot of traffic that
means they get a ton of requests for guest posts so you sort of want to build up to that okay so
for example the shopify blog is very very popular and you know your chances are going to be quite
low if you don't have like a you know relationship with you know one of their uh staff and if you
don't have much of a reputation yet so what we can do is actually set in a filter before we do we can
actually set it to english first since we're going to be writing in english and we're going to add in
a filter and set a domain rating so we can set it to maybe 10 and 250.
Okay so that's going to pull
in the websites with a domain rating of 10 to 50. so what we could do is start sort of
browsing through the different websites to see uh if we actually want to you know
submit our guest post on that because not every website we can actually do it um because
maybe it's not relevant maybe it's a bit old you know maybe it's just not a website
that you want to guest post on so what we could do is just click on the different
results like that and let's click through okay and you can also do like a different search
as well uh so for example we could do like how to get small views on youtube and then we can click
on search and then we can scroll down we can click on the different results as well like that's so
basically opened up a few more different websites uh what i want to show you now is basically the
process of trying to find a good opportunity uh for our guest post okay so this one over here
our first website this online world so the first thing i've noticed over here is that's you know
this post is quite recent and that's definitely a good sign then the next thing that you want to
look at is you know is the content on the website sort of um something that you can produce
something that is relevant to your own niche and also does the actual blog accept you know
guest posts uh on their on their website okay so you can look through that and normally on the
bottom you might actually find like a author's buyer for example over here okay so this one is
ryan scribner he's a full-time youtuber and also the founder of another blog and he has written
a guest post on this blog okay so what you do want to look at also is probably like the about
page and check out the different uh social media channels see they're actually active if there are
then maybe you want to shortlist it and instead of actually contacting them you know directly um then
maybe what you do want to do is try to engage with them on their different social media platforms so
for example uh you would spend you know 30 minutes a day you know commenting on the content that
they produce perhaps on their facebook page maybe retweeting their tweets and things like that okay
or sharing their content on your facebook page right so you do want to get them on your
radar first especially if it's like a a blog where it's like very very personal which
i think you know this blog is right it's very very personal and i think a lot of the blog posts
like he actually writes himself some other blogs a little bit different as well so maybe i'll show
this this one and spend more time to engage with this one so we can look through some of the other
ones as well and we can look at you know is it relevant to my own niche as well sometimes this
one maybe perhaps i wouldn't maybe so let's just click on the about us you know sometimes you can
tell from the content um it's not like really like a personal blog they just have a lot of different
uh guest posts on there let's have a look okay so this one maybe not so this one over here
it's like i don't know this is like a maybe just sharing different content so what you can actually
do if you do come across something like this right you can go back over here and we can set
and add a filter to like set words to maybe uh above 1000 okay so maybe it won't actually
show uh results like this one over here okay so that isn't good this one over here uh
you can take a look at it and see is it something that you want to post on maybe not
you know it doesn't seem like there's a lot of um you know traffic a lot of followers following
this blog i don't know just the feel of it maybe i don't want to post on this one this one over
here let's have a look is it like a real person so you can look through the
content as well okay if it is then we would uh click on the contacts and
see if we can get in touch with them um this one over here okay 2016 it is
a bit old so let's click on the blog okay so it seems like they haven't updated their
blog uh recently so probably not worth trying to contact them this one over here okay so this one i
think i'm pretty sure this one is actually like a private blog network uh where they just sell seo
services so we can click on some of these ones and check their blog post you know are they
linking to okay so it's linking to a company website this one linking to like a product service
page this one is yeah it does it does look like you know it does look like a private block
network so so i probably don't want to post on this one don't want to contact them this
one over here perhaps uh maybe it's a bit old you want to look through their different content
so maybe not this one this one over here doesn't look too bad it's like a real person and let's say
okay so maybe this one okay so that's what i like to look for like is it like a real person because
normally if it's like not like a real brand then they won't have much of a following and you won't
get much traffic to your website and things like that so this one over here you know maybe maybe
not i probably have to look a little bit deeper so sometimes uh what you're going to notice is
that if you scroll down to the very bottom uh you might actually see like a write for us page
right so these ones openly accept guest post uh if you do want a guest post on it then what
you do want to do is look through their different requirements okay so if you can actually fulfill
those requirements then i think it's a good idea maybe to to get in touch and you know contact
them and submit your guest post so websites like this they might not have like a very uh loyal
following compared to a website like this where you know it's very very personal but
i think it might be still a good idea um just to get some initial links to
your website and to do some guest post uh to start off with as well um especially
if you know they've laid it out for you probably going to be a little bit easier
okay so this one over here as well i think it does have a write for us page so what
you can actually do is you can actually use google as well you can do like your topic for example
youtube plus and then uh write for us okay so you can type that in and you can see some of these
websites over here just by clicking into them and they might have like a write for us page where
you can actually submit like a guest post as well okay so you have to look through this manually
uh yourself and you can also just shortlist this on like a google doc or an excel document you
can also sort of export it uh export it as well for example export it so then you can just export
it onto your computer and then you can actually use a tool called hunter.io and you can actually
search up their domain and try to find the emails that way so you can actually bulk import the
domains for example let's say we take this domain over here like sometimes they might not have a
contact page or they might not get back to you you can actually take the domain and you can
use the tool like hunter.io and you can just put in their domain over here and we can click on
search and that's going to give you their email addresses so it's not going to work every single
time but sometimes it might work and you'll have a direct email to them okay because sometimes the
contact email might not go directly to their email it might go to the junk mail or whatever it is
but if you're able to actually contact them for example maybe their personal assistant uh then
it might actually uh be quite effective in your outreach campaign okay so i think personally
probably uh doing it manually is probably the best uh solution um it is a bit tedious but
you get to sort of look through each website and sort of manually filter it rather than just
you know export it in bulk so that is pretty much it in terms of actually finding different
opportunities where you can actually guest post so the next thing that i want to talk about is how
to actually email them right so i'm going to give you guys a very very simple template that you can
use um as a sample right so you could do like hey john big fan of your work especially x y and z
post i'm hogan from hogan2.com i've written four and then maybe you can provide a few
examples you don't want to provide too many you can also just provide examples of
your work if you haven't done any guest posts yet and then you could say i was wondering if you
accept any guest post if you do let me know because i love to write for your blog right so
very very simple and then you can include a few different ideas uh that would work really well for
their blog okay so what i recommend is making sure that you have done your research on you know
seeing what blog posts work well on their blog and also if you want to go the extra mile then
you can also do some keyword research as well right because at the end of the day they also want
to get more traffic to their website right so if you actually have done the work um to actually do
some keyword research then you can actually show them you know this is a great opportunity as well
for you to actually get some more traffic okay so what you want to do is you want to sort of set
this as like a daily uh process where you reach out to like a dozen uh different websites because
not everyone's going to get back to you okay and then what you need to do is you want to make sure
that you follow up okay so follow up uh with like a follow-up email uh to ask if they've received
email and things like that because sometimes they might just ignore it um and you might have to
try again okay so make sure to not be like too pushy uh in terms of you know getting guest posts
sometimes they just don't want to so that's fine and you have to move on and then later on once
you've built your portfolio your reputation then reach out again okay so in terms of actually
writing up your content uh so what i do recommend is obviously looking at their own requirements
first and if they don't have any requirements make sure to ask them okay so generally in
terms of the links back to your own website you should only include one to two maximum okay so
depending on the length of your content maybe if it's like more than like 2 000 words maybe
you can link to it two times but generally probably just one time and then you can also
link to maybe some external resources as well also make sure to ask them about that okay so
you could also link back internally to their own website so what you could do is after you've
written your guest post then you could also look at the content on their on their blog and try to
help them internal link uh to their own website right because that's gonna help with
help with their own on-page seo as well and help their own uh pages to rank okay so
you can do that and then what you need to do is uh make sure to not include any affiliate links
unless they say you can and you don't necessarily need to link directly back to your review page
right so so for example i would do something like before i create a video i always check
out the competition by doing a general search on youtube if it looks like a decent opportunity
i will then do some keyword research i normally use tubebuddy for this purpose and then i can link
it to my tubebuddy review okay so sometimes that is maybe like on the borderline you know two
commercial because it's linking back to my review if it is then i would probably link to maybe
like another article on my website for example an article showing people how to actually do keyword
research and within that article then i'll link to tubebuddy so what i mean is that i would have
let's say a tubebuddy review and then i might have a how to do keyword research for youtube right
and then instead of linking directly to my review i will link to this article first okay and
then from this article i'll link to this review right so this is uh internal linking right that's
still going to pass a little bit of link juice um but with guest posting sometimes it can
be a little bit uh you just don't want to do that right you just don't want to link directly
to like a product page or like a service page um sometimes you can do that uh just make sure
to ask them okay so that's pretty much all for guest post make sure you provide really
great quality content and make sure to organize you know all your images and screenshots
and optimize all the image sizes for them so you want to make it as easy as possible for
them to actually just publish that guest post so that in the future then they'll like to work
with you right and then once they've actually posted their guest post make sure to actually
follow up and engage with the comments if there is any comments so that you can actually get some
referral traffic back to your website as well okay so in the beginning it's going to be quite
hard and quite manual in terms of actually building backlinks and doing guest posting and
creating content but after a little while then your content will start ranking on google right
and that's going to naturally get you some more people on your website and if they like your
content then they're going to link back to you right and then that basically means
that you're going to get more backlinks and that's going to increase your rankings right
so then once that starts going then you're going to start getting more and more natural backlinks
to your website and everything else is going to start ranking as well right so basically
the more people that come onto your website then the more opportunity you're going to get for
natural backlinks and then you don't have to do as much guest posting anymore because a lot of people
are going to link to you naturally right so this is like the flywheel effect and if you actually
read a little bit more about the flywheel effect uh jim collins actually discusses this in
his book i think it was like good to great and it talks about amazon's flywheel effect so
basically he talks about how uh you put in a lot of effort in the beginning and until one day
the flywheel starts to turn right so you're going to put in a lot of initial effort and then once
the flywheel starts to turn then it's going to be really really easy for you and all you need
to do is to produce really great content so this is amazon's flywheel and basically what
drives growth is very great customer experience so that's going to drive more people to actually
use the website so more traffic to their website and because there's a lot of people on
the website then sellers will be attracted to actually put their products and list it
on their website that's going to increase selection and that's going to increase customer
experience and that's going to drive lower prices and that's going to sort of drive growth naturally
right so for example for our own flywheel is that we're gonna produce really great content uh but
initially we do have to get people on our website first right to get some fans and subscribers and
then once we do have fans and subscribers then we might get links naturally okay so getting links
naturally is always going to beat you trying to always trying to obtain links right so that's
going to increase our rankings and visibility for our website that's going to get more people
to read our really great content and then it's going to get more links and then we're going to
get more rankings and yeah so that's going to sort of drive growth for our own website right
just like if you were to open a restaurant um you have really great service really great food and
really great value initially there might not be a lot of people to our restaurant and we have
to do a lot of advertising marketing for the restaurant but then once people actually come
to our restaurant they really love the product then they recommend them to their friends and then
their friends will recommend them to their friends and it's going to keep on going and that's going
to drive growth for the restaurant okay same thing for our website initially it's going to take a lot
of manual work but eventually it's not going to be as tedious and all you really need to focus in
on is to create really great content and that's gonna drive your growth okay so that's pretty
much it for off page seo okay so we're pretty much finished with this free course uh showing you
guys how to create an affiliate marketing website what i want to do now is just to give you some
final tips to help you guys succeed faster with your website so the first tip is what i recommend
is actually targeting long tail keywords for your website's content right so when you're actually
doing keyword research and you're using ahrefs what i recommend is using the sort of filter tool
on the top so what we can actually do is we can actually filter the keywords by using the word
count and we can target long tail keywords by selecting key phrases which are five words or more
so we can click on apply now generally with these keywords they are going to be lower competition
and you're going to be able to actually create content which is more targeted so that's going
to give you a more chance to actually rank your website quicker especially if you're a new website
you don't really want to target key phrases which are too short because they're going to be higher
competition and it's not as targeted so you want to focus on low competition keywords first until
your website builds some more authority and trust then you can actually go ahead and target
more competitive terms make sure to get a few sales first and then you can really once you
actually believe you can actually get results then you're gonna you know take more action then
you're gonna get even more results so you can also set the volume over here to maybe up to a
thousand and click on apply and you can also set the keyword difficulty to maybe up to 30 right so
go for low competition first then aim higher later so tip number two is to be early so when you're
actually choosing a niche i highly recommend choosing a niche that you are very interested
in because if you're interested in a niche then when a new product comes out generally you'll
know about it right then you're able to actually create content earlier than everyone else that
means that your website is going to rank a lot easier because there's going to be no competition
at all so that's really really important i think within sort of anything that you do in business if
you're early then you're always going to have this early movers advantage right that's going to be
the same thing for an affiliate marketing website so for example you could do like you know maybe
old product versus the new version of product should you actually upgrade right so that's a
very very targeted uh key phrase that you can actually use uh when you're actually doing
new product uh reviews and things like that so tip number three if you guys want to get fast
results what i recommend is actually turning your blog post into a video so what you can
actually do is if it's like a product especially like a digital product you can create like a
tutorial sort of review and you can go through all these points in video you can talk about the
pros and the cons you can show people the features how to use it uh what you'd like and what you
don't like by doing a screen recording just like i'm showing you right now in the screen recording
and tutorial for pc you can use camtasia to record as well as edit and if you're using mac then you
can use screenflow to record your screen and also edit as well and if you guys are really serious
about it then you're probably going to need a mic and for that i recommend the blue yeti mic and
you can also get the blue yeti nano as well if you don't want something that's you know really bulky
all right so this one is really really bulky and really big probably not going to be great for
traveling this one is really really small and really awesome as well so if you actually upload
onto youtube then all you need to do is you know make sure you create a really nice thumbnail make
sure to actually do some keyword research as well by using tubebuddy or vidiq and you can put in a
title try to make it a little bit different from other people put in a description and you can also
put in your link so for example the review link in the description or in the comment section that's
going to get your backlink back to your website and it's probably going to get you some referral
traffic as well that's going to help your website rank on google and yeah if you're creating
a video you're able to showcase the product a lot better as well and if you're showing your face
then you're going to be able to build some trust and you don't have to build any backlinks to your
video so that means it's going to be a lot faster for you to actually get results especially if
you have really good watch time for your videos right so i'm not going to talk too much about it
but creating a video is just you know so awesome because you're able to also build a brand and when
you are reaching out to get guest post then it's going to be easier for you as well so tip number
four is repetition and execution so in this video i've shown you guys how to do everything just once
so for example i've shown you guys how to set up the website once i've shown you guys how to use
the builder once i've shown you guys how to create content once how to do keyword research once how
to actually add that content onto your website one time so the thing is uh you've learned everything
one time right but to actually get results you've got to actually repeat those actions over and over
again just like if you were to let's say go to the gym or something like that and you want to get
fit so you've got to go on the treadmill you know every single day like for weeks and months until
you get really great results so the same thing with your affiliate marketing website you've got
to execute on a daily basis and what i recommend is having sort of like a daily process so take
what you've learned from this video and you know write out your own daily process of content
creation of keyword research and things like that so obviously you can you know group it into like
for example you could do keyword research one week and then maybe the next week you could just
batch create the content and things like that and then the week after you can you know edit the
content right the concept of affiliate marketing the concept of passive income it's super easy to
explain and it's really easy just to watch a few videos but to actually get results you've got to
take action okay so that's going to be super super important in terms of being successful online
so tip number five and the last tip is to focus so make sure to focus on your readers make sure to
focus on the people that you are trying to help so create content to help those people and that's all
you should really just focus on right don't focus on other businesses don't focus on e-commerce
don't focus on you know drop shipping don't focus on amazon fba don't focus on anything else other
than helping your readers other than creating the best reviews possible i think this is the biggest
trap that most beginners fall in is to chase a lot of different sort of making money online
opportunities and not just sticking to one until you're successful so i'm not saying that you can't
do those ventures later but until you actually start making money and until you make stable
income from your affiliate marketing website don't go and do other things right it's just like
choosing a sport let's say you choose tennis let's say you choose basketball you don't really want to
switch from that to like swimming and then to like other sports as well because it's going to take
you time to actually learn the skills required to be actually good at it to be able to actually earn
an income so this is going to be the same with affiliate marketing and your affiliate marketing
website so yeah so make sure to focus and don't get distracted by you know what is hot and what
is trending at the moment focus on your readers and your customers so that is pretty much it for
this free course on showing you guys how to make an affiliate marketing website so what i'm going
to do is hopefully within three to six months i'll update you guys with the progress of my website
so i didn't really want to reveal it right now because i don't want people like copying exactly
what i do and things like that um so yeah so if you have any questions drop it in the comment
section down below so hopefully i can create a few more videos to show you how to add in a few more
things to sort of fully customize your affiliate marketing website but i'm not really sure you know
how this video is actually going to do so this is a very very long video like four hour video but
it literally covers everything you need to know to create a thousand dollar per month or even
more affiliate marketing website yeah do let me know in the comments below what you guys think of
this video and make sure to give it a thumbs up if you found any value in it it really helps me out
because it did take a long long time to actually put together for you guys so thank you guys
for watching and see you guys in the next video