• Fitness & nutrition
  • Travel
  • Fashion
  • Online marketing
  • Tech
    • And a whole lot more.
    When you have highlighted some blog niches you may want to start, the next step is to narrow them down, so you can pick the exact type of blog you want to run. To do this, you need to ensure you answer these questions genuinely:
  • Can I write up to 100 articles on this topic?
  • Are people making money from this type of blog?
  • Are there high paying affiliate marketing programs in this niche?
  • Are there a wide array of products I can review and discuss in this blog category?
    • You need to ask yourself these questions and be very sincere in every answer you give. Successful affiliate marketing sites are built on help and trust. The people reading need to know that you genuinely care and want to help them.
    So instead of trying to choose a blog niche that is wide and popular, choose rather, one that serves an already existing and abundant market. If you don’t take your time to identify your target market, you’d end up with a website that serves a very broad range of people and will find it almost impossible to make any high-value affiliate sales.
    See Also: 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting A Blog
    Step 2: Setup A WordPress Blog The next important step is to create a custom WordPress blog. WordPress blogs are a must if you want to run a very successful affiliate marketing site. They are crucial because of a wide array of benefits and features they carry, which are far more valuable than free blogs like blogspot. Some great features a custom WordPress blog will give you that are far better than a free blog are:
  • Hundreds of ways to monetise your WordPress blog.
  • WordPress blogs have the best plugins like Yoast to help greatly improve your SEO ranking.
  • Google can easily suspend your Blogger site just as they did to Linda Ikeji in 2014, but with WordPress, you control your full rights. This makes Blogger a mirage and nothing solid.
  • You can do extremely limited things on Blogger, but on WordPress, the unlimited availability of plugins makes almost anything you think of possible.
  • Blogger themes are very bad looking and few, but WordPress themes are not just in their millions, but a majority of them are built to make you money!
  • Moving your Blogger site to another platform is extremely difficult, so most of the time, you’re stuck. But for WordPress, moving it is extremely easy.
  • There’s a limited support for Blogger sites if you run into issues, but WordPress has a vast community that provides solutions for everyone.
  • Google could decide to shut down the Blogger platform for everyone, just as they did with many of their other services, but WordPress is self-hosted. So your WordPress site is not going anywhere unless you want to put it down yourself.
    • As you can see, setting up a WordPress blog is the next crucial step to start a blog that leverages affiliate marketing to make hundreds or thousands of dollars every month.
    To create and host your money-making blog, click here now. If you have any challenges or questions through the process, feel free to contact me or leave a comment below.
    Click here to start creating your blog.
    See Also: How To Start A Blog From Scratch, In 20 Minutes
    Step 3: Choose A Professional And High-Converting WordPress Theme The next step is to pick a great WordPress theme for your blog. The user experience of the theme must be professional, beautiful and highly conversion-optimised for the blog niche you intend to write on.
    To make a lot of money from affiliate marketing, you need your website to look great enough to motivate people to take action. The landing page for the affiliate sale for instance, must be highly actionable, and the site in general must be able to load really fast in other to rank well on google.
    Two great sites to purchase an exceptional SEO-ready WordPress theme for your high-paying affiliate marketing site are:
    These two sites have some of the world’s best themes that will help you build a highly-converting affiliate marketing site user experience.
    If you have problems picking a great theme for your site, you can always reach out to me via email or leave a comment below and I’ll gladly help you out.
    Step 4: Start Writing Valuable Content The next critical step is to write great content. What you write here shouldn’t just be what you feel like writing, but should be the solution to your readers’ problems.
    To increase the chances of your write ups reaching the first page of Google, ensure they’re at least 800 words and that you did a proper keyword research before typing the first word.
    A slight strategy for your write ups can be the following:
  • Write 3 list posts.
  • Write 3 in-depth how-to articles in your niche
  • Write 5 articles reviewing 5 of the most popular products or services in your niche
    • To ensure your write up stays largely free of errors, I’d advise you sign up to use the Grammarly tool. This will ensure any mistakes in your texts are corrected on time, and that you churn out professional content that will help your affiliate marketing efforts earn you money.
    See Also: Make Money Blogging: Here Is How To Start
    Step 5: Sign Up For High-Paying Affiliate Programs In Your Niche The next step is to sign up for reputable high paying affiliate programs in your niche. Some of these can be used to great extents to help you make over $1,000 monthly. Some great products to sign up to their affiliate programs are:
    And thousands more.
    Now, the affiliate programs that you sign up for must be able to solve your readers problems, so you can make money. What you need to pay attention to are high-converting affiliate products. Especially those you have used and know very well. This will help you make a better judgement when referring them to your audience.

    Step 6: Create An Exceptional Traffic Strategy This is one of the most important steps. And it’s largely focused on how to draw traffic to your affiliate marketing site. Without traffic, you’ll never earn any affiliate income because, people wouldn’t even get to know about the products or services you’re promoting.
    Some great ways to get the traffic you need to promote your affiliate marketing blog are:
  • SEO
  • Social media
  • Email marketing
  • Guest posting
  • PPC
    • And a whole lot more.
    Step 7: Repeat Steps 4, 5, & 6! You read that right! Repeat steps 4, 5, and 6, over and over again. The more valuable content you write, the more your readers will trust what you have to offer, and the more affiliate income you’ll earn.
    When an affiliate program doesn’t workout well for you, repeat step 5 and try out other affiliate programs. Picking the right affiliate program that’d turn out great usually requires patience. But once you’ve figured an exceptional one (or a couple) out for your niche, you’d make a whole lot of money monthly.
    The Most Important Thing To Do Right Now! Affiliate marketing is an amazing way for anyone in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Africa as a whole, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom or in every other country around the world, to make at least $500 monthly.
    But while it’s exciting to know, how do you get any income you’ve earned? If you made $5,000 for instance in the past one month, how do you get the cash sent to you in your country, especially Nigeria.
    There are two ways, one is with Paypal and the other is with a Payoneer card. Many countries are not allowed to receive money via Paypal, and Nigeria unfortunately, isn’t also allowed, so you’re left with one option: to use a Payoneer card.
    So What Is A Payonner Card? A Payoneer card is a free debit card like the regular ATM cards in Nigeria and any other country. The difference is that it’s a dollar card that’s registered to a US bank account that Payoneer would create on your behalf in seconds after registering on their website.
    With this, your affiliate earnings can get paid straight into the card and you can withdraw your money from any ATM around the world or even use it to pay for things online.
    How Do You Get A Payoneer Card? Firstly, a Payoneer card is FREE to own. Secondly, you can get one by applying here.
    The sooner you apply for the card even if you won’t start your affiliate marketing site or efforts soon, the better, because it will take a few weeks to get to you.
    Click here to get your Payoneer card now.
    What are your thoughts on how to build an affiliate marketing site that makes at least $500 monthly? Let me know by leaving a comment below.