How to Build a $1000+/Month Affiliate Marketing Website (Make Passive Income) - 2021

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

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Length: 233min 19sec (13999 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 05 2021