If you want to make money online, creating a website is the best option for beginners.
Google is the largest traffic pool in the world, with a vast number of users searching for products or answers to their questions daily. Our website can attract traffic from Google, sell products, or promote affiliate marketing programs to generate significant income.
In the previous article on the top 10 best niche markets for affiliate marketing in 2023-2024, you can see that many niche market websites earn over $10,000 per month, and numerous webmasters have made substantial profits through their websites.
So, as a beginner looking to create an independent site to make money, where should you start?
Today, this article will share the best affiliate programs for beginners to start with website.
Contents
一、Three Common Forms of Independent Websites
When we create independent websites, we mainly focus on three forms:
E-commerce Independent Website
An e-commerce independent website is essentially an online store. The website will have many products uploaded, and we make a profit by selling these products.
Software Tools Independent Website
Many users are accustomed to paying for various software tools. Nowadays, many beginner webmasters choose to create software tools websites to earn money quickly. These software tools websites generally operate on a subscription basis—monthly, quarterly, or annually.
Recently, I have noticed many beginner webmasters opting to create AI tools websites.
Content Niche Independent Website
A content niche independent website can be understood as a blog or information site.
These websites might not have products for sale (and if they do, it’s usually through landing pages). The primary focus is on publishing articles, videos, and other content. The revenue comes from referring users to third-party websites to purchase products or through display advertising like Google AdSense.
For beginners wanting to make money with a website, creating a content niche independent website is the best choice.
二、Differences Among the Three Types of Independent Websites
E-commerce independent websites are typically operated by companies. These sites primarily rely on paid traffic, with search traffic as a secondary source. Due to the cost associated with paid traffic, novice webmasters usually do not choose this type of site.
Tool and software independent websites, from my current observation, mainly rely on AI-generated content to acquire Google search traffic. Since Google still gives good rankings to AI-generated content, this method can quickly gain some search traffic. However, if Google introduces a new algorithm to penalize AI-generated content, the traffic for these sites could drop to zero overnight. This potential risk led me to ultimately decide against creating this type of website.
Content niche independent websites offer long-term development value. However, they require significant time investment in keyword research and content creation. In my opinion, this effort is worthwhile because high-quality content is crucial for a website to consistently gain search traffic from Google over the long term.
Some argue that AI can now generate high-quality content, making the future of content niche sites uncertain. However, I believe that AI-generated content, which is based on data collection and output, cannot match the content created by humans. Human-created content has cognition and emotion, which can be conveyed to and resonate with users.
三、Content Niche Independent Website+ Affiliate Marketing
Since we’ve decided to create a content niche website, where should beginners start with their positioning?
1.keywords
Yesterday, while using SEMrush to find keywords, I discovered a keyword as shown below:
This keyword translates to: “Best Affiliate Programs for Beginners Without a Website.”
The user intent behind searching for this keyword is: looking for affiliate programs suitable for beginners who don’t have a website.
In other words: “I don’t have a website now, but I want to make money through affiliate marketing. What should I do?”
Based on this user intent, we can uncover more user search intents and keywords, such as:
- Best Affiliate Marketing Platforms for Beginners
- How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Without a Website
- How to Make Money with Pinterest Without a Website
- Best Products for Beginners to Promote with Affiliate Marketing
- How to Start Affiliate Marketing for Beginners
These are all long-tail keywords. Although their search volume isn’t very high, the good thing is that keyword rankings are also very easy to achieve. For example, the keyword shown in the above figure, SEMrush indicates a competition difficulty of only 22, which is a low competition keyword. A large number of such keywords can accumulate considerable search traffic.
Even if you are launching a new website, writing articles around these keywords, and building a few backlinks, the keyword rankings can quickly rise. According to projections, such low-difficulty keywords can reach the Google homepage in less than a month.
2.Website Positioning and Content Strategy
Based on the long-tail keywords we’ve uncovered, our website positioning is clear:
Create a content niche site to teach beginners how to earn money through affiliate marketing.
The content direction for the website can focus on the following areas to start with:
- Recommending affiliate platforms suitable for beginners.
- Recommending affiliate programs suitable for beginners.
- Teaching beginners how to promote affiliate marketing on social media platforms.
- Teaching beginners how to use websites for affiliate marketing.
In terms of content direction, it’s crucial to focus on several key keywords: beginners, affiliate marketing, niche site, social media promotion, and affiliate programs.
3.Website Monetization
I’ve analyzed numerous websites of this type, and they have strong potential for profitability. The main avenues for revenue include:
- Display Ads: Utilizing Google AdSense.
- Promoting Affiliate Platforms: Many affiliate platforms offer affiliate programs themselves, allowing you to earn commissions by promoting these platforms.
- Affiliate Marketing: Promoting products such as domains and hosting services within affiliate platforms can be highly profitable. For instance, promoting Bluehost can earn you up to $65 per sale.
Example: A webmaster writes an article titled “How Beginners Can Create a Blog and Make Money in 2024” to promote Bluehost products with affiliate links.
- Selling Digital Products: This includes ebooks, courses, etc.
Example: Courses on platforms like Udemy attract significant numbers of paying students, such as the course in the image with 47,217 enrolled students. Joining Udemy’s affiliate program via Linkshare allows you to earn commissions by promoting these courses.
If promoting others’ courses for a commission seems less profitable, another simple method is selling video courses directly on your website, ensuring all sales profits are yours.
summarize
Independent websites have vast market potential across various industries, and with Google commanding the world’s largest traffic, creating a website to earn money is highly reliable. However…
From the perspective of everyone being beginners, I believe two principles are crucial when choosing the positioning of an independent website:
Principle 1: You must focus on an industry that aligns with your interests.
Because of your interest, you will be willing to continuously update content, otherwise you might soon give up.
Principle 2: Dig into some low-competition long-tail keywords.
I see a lot of beginners creating websites where all the articles they write are based on high-competition primary keywords. Even if you write for 1 or 2 years, your entire website may find it difficult to get search traffic from Google
