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Hi, I'm new to this community and astonished by the websites people share here and the knowledge that everyone has.
I'm from Japan and I just wondered how people learn outside Japan to become a professional affiliate since Japan could be a lot different from other countries as it is sometimes stated like an isolated island which has its own way being left behind.
Start by spending some time READING and researching places like the GPWA.
There is 20 years of information here to parse through. After much investigation, you will start to see patterns emerge, and if you have specific questions, ask here.
There is not single "one-off" "silver bullet" simple "just do these 3 things" approach.
Rick
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Hi Rick, thank you for your advise.
We have schools in Japan to learn to become affiliates but do people overseas also learn that way or people just look up on the internet and learn by themselves?
What makes you think we make good websites? :-P
Practice, practice, practice!
Reading, researching, practice....the sum total of your experience, right place/right time (and learning quickly how to take advantage of it), getting it wrong, understanding why you got it wrong, learning how to put it right, building....reading, researching, practice....putting it all into practice....and much more.
(disclaimer : I personally have never built a 'good' site...but because of all the above I would be able to if time/resources permitted)
You could try to cut the corners with attention on (and thought around) structure of your site (ie how you approach covering your chosen subject, and how you will grow into it with the least amount of changes of direction possible), and a heavy focus on creating valuable content around that subject.
And that may work to a point. Just those 2 items.
But in the end (assuming you're working alone), you need an understanding of, and the knowledge to handle dozens, if not hundreds, of different aspects. That's where everything else comes in to play.
And remember, there's a subtle difference (well, an extra set of elements/skills you need to know or possess) to building a 'good' website and building a 'good' affiliate website. There's a core that's the same (the iceberg under the waterline) and the bit above, which is where you start going outside of the pure 'good website build' area, and into the business/affiliate side where many members here have excelled (alongside building the strong platform on which to do that, of course).
To go into sufficient useful detail around all this will take a lengthy post (very lengthy). Someone may have a go, if time allows :-)
Trial and error.. there is no set way of doing it hence why most cookie cutter sites dont rank, you have to consistently test new methods to see what works..
Doing research what others are doing good and are doing less, reading about things you need to know more about (on-site SEO for example) and the most important: trial and error.
In the months some are reading, they already could have an affiliate site up and running and generating their first ftd's.
Not sure if I can pretend yet that I’m making good websites, but I learnt a lot by working as a Product Owner for a super affiliate for a few years, and by taking the course of Matt Digitty called «*The Affiliate Lab*» which covers mostly the SEO aspects of it (on and off-site). Otherwise, I experiment a lot with my sites, and learn from those tests :)
It is a good idea to read books and refer to other websites.
I value learning about SEO.
I've built and am building two affiliate sites, one in the home niche, and one (the newest) in the gambling niche.
The hardest part for me to get my head around, is monetization. It's a minefield especially if you have a big long-term vision. The rest is pretty similar to other websites, but harder as the space is more competitive. But if you really study your niche, you'll quickly see that most websites are not even that good with their content. So just outwrite, outsmart, and outmarket them.
The problem is the time it takes to get there, it's very time consuming, resource hungry, and capital heavy (arguably). And the happy days may never come (e.g., algorithm change). But the recipe has simple ingredients: content + reputation + user experience + outreach :)
There is literally hundreds of ways to do it. Following someone who has "done it" is always a good idea I think and try to learn from them. An even better approach (if you have the opportunity) is to get a mentor or work for an established affiliate to gain insight to what they are doing in real life.
Don't get me wrong, online courses from power marketers can be great but the quickest learning method is by actually doing the work and if you have the chance to work alongside an experienced person you will pick up skills much faster. Good luck!
Through a lot of hard / dedicated work and doing regular local search engine optimization (SEO) to go along with it. You also need to know how to rank for the right keywords to get up in the SERPs. It will all take time and patience.
I live in Japan as well. I have the same opinion about this question. It is very helpful. Thank you very much.
Exactly, most of the competition is awful and easy to beat, even without outreach/link buying... particularly for the low competition and long-tail keywords.Quote:
Originally Posted by datstheguy
I read a lot / research and always trying to learn something new/new ways to do things (...and it always feels like i'm playing catch up)
I have to agree with @petimi and all the guys who have given advises.
It is a constant game and you have to play it seriously and never giving up. If you give up in the first 1-3 months, this is not definitely for you.
Search, learn ,work , make tests and devote a lot of your time. Results come if you do not think for the end result, but for the entertaiment all-along the way, you will succeed sooner or later.
I have started affiliate business as just one interesting area to explore, so to speak just dropped in to it and it seemed to work. Hovewer, to improve my site in this area I needed to rething all the website's topics and strategy. It is important to focus on this thing if you would like to acquire some significant success. I wouldn't say I have learnt how to make a good affiliate site, but still, I can say, at least I know how to start one. As people told before me, you need to study SEO and work a lot on the content of your site. Be original, be unique, give something for your visitors. Don't just try to get the commissions. And, of course, you will need to wait, wait and wait. Every site needs years to get known and indexed properly by the Google.
I'm new here. Started my affiliate site in 2017, didn't work much on it till 2020, and it had zero traffic. Then started working on it regularly, and it started showing some promise. In my opinion the key is to not give up, keep researching, keep learning, provide quality content!