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Can you do affiliate marketing if you don’t have a blog? In general, is a blog a must-have if you signed up for a specific affiliate program, or can you do without it at least at the initial stage? In today’s article, we understand and answer questions about the “blog + affiliate marketing” bundle.
Is it possible to do affiliate marketing without having a blog?
A neophyte affiliate marketing opens another instruction on how to be, where to start, what to do right now to earn the first money, and all the irons sing songs to him: first you have to make a channel on Youtube, no, better in Telegram, oh no , you just have enough site or blog.
The brains of the neophyte begin to boil, he understands that the first money is as far as the Great Wall of China on the knee-elbow position, and therefore a rare resident of Uryupinsk will reach the cherished goal.
The neophyte closes “these Internets of yours” and sends his resume to the rubber goods factory number two. They will certainly take it there, and they will pay wages. Maybe not as big as you can earn in affiliate marketing, but consistently and monthly.
But the beginner just had to ignore useless advice, turn on his head, and look for alternative solutions: can an affiliate program bring him money if he does not have his own blog? What needs to be done in order to start earning in affiliate programs?
The answer lies on the surface. Use what is.
Easy start in affiliate marketing
Every Internet visitor today has an account on at least one social network, be it Instagram, Facebook or something more exotic.
What is usually called a blog? Some special resource, for example, the same account in the dying LiveJournal or a separate site created on free WordPress.
On such resources, the author rolls out his observations on life, comments on current events, or talks about how he discovered online trading, how much money he lost or how much he earned.
All this can be done with the same success in your account in any social network. Let no one call such an account a blog, although in fact it is the same online diary.
Further – even easier.
We are looking for any affiliate program that we like, promises to pay well, gives a referral link and upgrade our social network account to the theme of a specific affiliate program.
Where to look? In USA, Europe, the EU there are a large number of online platforms specially created for affiliate marketing. For example, the Alanbase online service was also created so that product owners (advertisers) could easily find partners, and partners would receive offers with the most favorable conditions.
Let’s say you have registered on one of the online platforms and have chosen an affiliate program that you will promote.
Now what?
We explain on the fingers.
For example, our affiliate program pays a commission for a visitor to issue a debit or credit bank card.
So, we are starting to talk on social networks about how and why we use bank cards. We describe real (or invent!) stories about how, thanks to the competent use of the card of a particular bank, we managed to save money, get a profitable cashback, or get some other goodies related to money.
After 3-4 such posts, we make another type of “wow-post”. Something like this: do you know that bank X has rolled out a super card (we list its advantages, everything that can be read in the advertiser’s offer on the online platform where the affiliate program you participate in is found), and at the end of the post we give our referral link so that the reader can click on it and take advantage of the offer.
The main advantage of this way of promoting an offer from an affiliate program is that it is absolutely free. Is that you pay the provider for the Internet.
But there are two big fat minuses. If you are not a millionaire blogger, then the audience of all your social media accounts is finite. Secondly, some of your real friends, and even the most ordinary subscribers, can quickly get tired of even native advertising of an affiliate program, no matter what the subject.
Is it possible to act differently if you are doing affiliate marketing, but do without your own online diary and not even use social media accounts?
Yes! And this method of promoting affiliate products is called traffic arbitrage.
Traffic arbitrage in affiliate marketing
Buy traffic cheaper – sell it more expensive. This is to explain in a nutshell what traffic arbitrage is.
The key word is “buy”. Unlike promoting affiliate offers through social media accounts, you can’t do without money.
This may sound like bad news, but it really isn’t. Everything is fair in the traffic arbitrage scheme in affiliate marketing. The partner risks his own funds, the product owner pays him a reward if he receives conversions from attracted traffic.
Yes, it will take a partner some time to figure out what kind of traffic is of high quality, what sources are best to use, to strike a balance between money for acquiring traffic and receiving an agency fee. But no one will be dissatisfied: if the offer is in demand among the potential target audience, then there will be conversions. If there are no conversions, all the partner needs is to change the offer or even the vertical.
There is another important advantage in such an affiliate marketing scheme. It is not at all necessary for an affiliate to have or create their own online diary, to strain and write something thematic about the affiliate offer in their social networks, risking dissatisfaction with friends and subscribers.
You will have to master other online tools. For example, to master traffic sources, understand how contextual advertising works, or learn the nuances of running advertising campaigns in teaser networks. If you want to make good money in affiliate marketing, all this can be done in a relatively short time.
Summary
You don’t need a blog to be successful in affiliate marketing. Especially at the beginning of a career in this field. There are other ways to get started. But when and if you get the first results, the first money, you can reach a stable income, then you can already think about creating your own website, blog, online diary, call it what you want.
In some cases, this approach allows the partner to act more flexibly, but the option itself – the presence of a blog – is not at all necessary. It is necessary or not – only you decide.
