There’s no better time to start monetizing your blog than right at this moment.
While there are many different ways to make some serious money with your blog, Affiliate Marketing is perhaps the easiest and best blog monetization method for newbie bloggers and those who prefer something easy to start and hands-off.
Even if your blog doesn’t have a huge amount of traffic yet, you can still make pretty sum with affiliate marketing if done correctly.
If you are serious about making money with your blog, then you should consider joining the Shareasale Affiliate program.
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What is ShareASale & how it works?
Founded in 2000, ShareASale is a popular Affiliate Marketing Network, in which you can use it find products to promote and earn commission for each referral.
Everyone can join for free. Whether you’re a blogger, YouTuber or content creator, this is the right platform for you.
It has over 3,900+ Affiliate Programs spanning 40 different categories that you can choose from, such as web hosting, parenting, clothings and online dating services.
If you run an eCommerce store or have your own products, you can sign up a Free account as a merchant on ShareASale. This way, you can spread the word by paying people to promote them. Also, ShareASale provides a Welcome Kit and training webinars to help you launch a successful affiliate program.
Put simply, ShareASale works as an intermediary between affiliates and merchants:
- Affiliates: Bloggers or content creators like you and me, who promote product and write reviews about it on a blog. In return for referrals on the product, we get rewards with a commission.
- Merchants: Business owners, creators, sellers or bloggers that have a product/service to sell. They’re ready to pay people to review and promote their product/service.
The best thing about joining ShareASale affiliate network is that you don’t have to a huge following or massive web traffic to sign-up and start making money blogging.
It’s definitely a great place to start while you figure out blogging and blog monetization.
As you can see, there are two types of people using ShareASale, affiliates and merchants. And this tutorial will focus on bloggers who want to use ShareASale to make monetize their blogs.
If you’re ready to start earning some serious cash with ShareASale, continue below:
How To Join ShareASale Affiliate Network
The process of creating an account with ShareASale is pretty easy and straightforward. However, you need to have a website to apply for an affiliate account on ShareASale.
If you don’t have a website yet, follow this step-by-step guide and setup your own website in just 15minutes.
To become a qualified affiliate member, you have to complete a simple 5-step affiliate sign-up process. Let’s get started.
Step 1: Create a ShareASale account.
- Click here to sign up a free account on ShareASale.
- On the homepage, click “Affiliate signup” button at the top right corner or click “I want to promote this merchant on my website” button.
- A signup form will pop up which you need to fill out your login information such as username, new password and your country.
- Once you complete the information, click “Move on to step 2” button.
Step 2: Fill in your website information
This is a very important step as the merchant will decide whether to approve/reject your application to join their affiliate programs based on your primary website.
- Make sure you enter a functional website in this step.
- Next, select the language of your website.
- Answer a few questions about your website. Check the box that applies to you.
Step 3: Enter your email address
Most web hosts will give you a free option to create an email using your domain URL, though some of them will charge you a fee.
You can get your free domain email address with popular web hosting providers such as Bluehost, HostGator and Siteground.
Step 4: Your contact information
- Next, fill in your contact information such as name, address, payment details.
- You can see there’s a 4-digit support pin. Use this number to verify your account when you call them for assistance or technical support.
- Write a concise and quality description of your website.
Step 5: Your payment information
- The last step is to choose your payment method. You can choose to accept payment via check or direct deposit.
- If you can’t decide now, simply click “Choose later” to configure it later.
- Click “Complete sign up” to submit your application.
- You’ll then receive an email from ShareAShare, click on the confirmation link.
That’s it. Now you’re on your way to becoming an approved affiliate with ShareASale.
Next, you’ll need to find some amazing products to promote to your audience.
How To Find a Product in Shareasale To Promote on Your Blog
Once your application is approved, follow steps below to find a product related to your niche.
- Go to ShareASale website, click “Affiliate Login” and enter your login details.
- On your dashboard, go to “Merchants” then click “Search for Merchants”.
- If you know the name of merchant that you want to join, then simply enter the name in the search box and click “Search”.
- If not, you can browse through the categories or enter a keyword into the search box.
- Find the merchant, and click “Join Program”.
- After you read and agree to the program agreement, click “Join this program”.
- Now, wait for the email notifying you of your approval!
Here’s few affiliate programs on ShareAShare that you may like to join and promote:
How To Create an Affiliate Link from Shareasale
To start promoting a product, you’ll need to add link or banner to your blog.
- On your dashboard, hover your mouse over “Links” and click “Get a link/banner”.
- You’ll see a list of approved merchants.
- Select the merchant you want to promote, and click “Get links”.
- You’ll be taken to a page where you can select Text Links, Banners, Create Customer Link etc.
- Here we want to get a text link, so click “Get HTML Code” and you will see a link that looks quite spammy (as in the screenshot below).
- Tip: To shorten this link and make it looks more professional, use Pretty Links (a free WordPress plugin to shorten and organize your Affiliate links).
- As an example, this is my DMCA affiliate after using Pretty Link to clean it up: https://thinkmaverick.com/dmca
- Once you’ve created your affiliate link, you can place them on your blog or website. The process is the same as adding any other links to your blog. Simply select the desired words and paste the link that you’ve created above.
How I Make Money from ShareASale
Here are a few tried-and-true techniques that I use to promote merchants on ShareASale and make money online:
1. Write a How-To Guide, Review or Article
I like to write reviews, tutorials and helpful guides about products which I personally used on my blog. It’s a fun and easy way to earn some passive income from your blog.
For example, I’ve written this and this step-by-step guide about Tailwind to help my readers get unlimited supply of quality blog traffic without much effort.
You can also add some screenshots along with the written content. And don’t forget to include your unique affiliate link on your article. Whenever someone clicks on links from your page, it will be recorded in your affiliate account.
2. Create a Resource page on Your Blog
Creating a resource page on your blog is another great way to promote affiliate products. To give you a better idea, check out my blogging resources page here.
As you can see, I also have my resource page listed on the main menu bar of my blog.
3. Use Banners, Widgets and Links
Aside from putting text links on your blog post, placing banners and widgets on your website/ blog will definitely increase visibility and click-through rates. Add a banner on your sidebar, within the content or anywhere that you see fit.
4. Social Media Marketing
If you think the product may be beneficial to your audience, tell the world about it on social networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.
5. Email Marketing
Don’t forget to recommend the product to your email subscribers.
Conclusion
It’s easy to get started with ShareASale and start to monetize your websites.
If you want to learn more about affiliate marketing, check out this 5-day free training on Affiliate Marketing. It’ll help you craft a successful affiliate marketing strategy and make your first sale!
And also, get this spreadsheet of affiliate programs (along with sign-up links, commission rates and minimum payout threshold). It’s totally worth it.
Do you have any concern not to have this extra passive income stream?
Do you have any problem or question following this tutorial to create your affiliates link on ShareAShare? Feel free to comment below.
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