Best way to start affiliate marketing a new mens magazine website?
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I have just started up a new mens magazine website featuring articles, videos, sports news and photos to help drive traffic to the website. I write all the articles myself and do the social media updates in my spare time.
I was wondering if anyone has any tips on the best way to start doing affiliate marketing for a new website? I was inspired to do this by successful internet marketers who make a passive income off their websites. So far I have added Amazon and William Hill as affiliate links as I think my target market will be looking for these types of product links.
Also, for anyone who has experience in this, how long it taken for your blog to become successful and make money?
Many thanks,
Alex
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Hi Mat.
Thanks for your input and suggestions on this. Some very useful points, especially about adding an extra paragraph in at the end. I will try this.
It's a very new website, so just trying to build on the traffic and get established in the niche right now.
All the best
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I think you have loads of opportunity to do affiliate stuff on that site. Grooming, fashion, experience days, media, gifts - near endless. It's all going to be dependent on getting the audience and having the trust of that audience.
However affiliate marketing goes beyond having content and putting some affiliate links alongside it. For example, I'm currently looking at your "how to pull at a wedding" article. Not my thing, but I'd imagine it has an audience. you have some e-book links in the side bar and an amazon banner. I can't imagine that the click through would be amazing on these.
Imagine instead that you added a final paragraph "Headed to a wedding" that suggested some useful links for a lad heading to a wedding. Maybe a couple of suit shops, a grooming store and the like. More useful - and more likely to get a click/sale.
However your challenge is going to be traffic - the rest will come. I'd definitely be pushing the "stay in contact" type message. Get them on mailing lists, following your facebook page, on twitter etc so that you can keep bringing them back to the site.
How long does it take? That largely depends on how hard you are willing to work and a bit of luck.
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