The only thing that determines affiliate marketing success is audience. You cannot sell affiliate products without building audience on your marketing channels. What does this actually mean? It means you have

 

• Blog traffic
  
• Social media followers
  
• Email subscribers
  

You need an audience that trusts you. Focus on growing your platform, then promote. That’s how you make affiliate sales, no shortcuts.

promote relevant products through engaging content, optimize for SEO, use strong calls-to-action, leverage email marketing, and track performance to refine strategies and build trust with your audience.

You focus should on building trust and providing value. Start by choosing the right niche and promoting products that align with your audience’s interests. Create quality content, blogs, videos, or reviews that highlights the product’s benefits. Use SEO and email marketing to drive traffic, and include strong calls-to-action.

promote relevant products through engaging content, optimize for SEO, use strong calls-to-action, leverage email marketing, and track performance to refine strategies and build trust with your audience.

Implementing affiliate links in your core content is a good idea, but you can't overdo it. Especially since sites that are designed as affiliate only, won't do too well on the search engines. They started losing organic traffic last year.

 

https://searchengineland.com/affiliate-sites-losing-organic-traffic-443792

[HEADING=1]Here’s why smaller affiliate sites are losing rankings after Google's core update and how brand search can turn the tide.[/HEADING]

 

Affiliate sites have been getting crushed in search rankings since Google’s March 2024 core update, and as a result, some are laying off teams or downsizing budgets.

 

However, many believe they are following Google’s guidelines and have “helpful content” because the content comes from experience. What are they missing?

 

Danny Ashton, founder of air purifier review site HouseFresh, wrote a passionate article about how “Google is killing independent sites” like HouseFresh, which lost 91% of its Google traffic, basically destroying the business.

 

Ashton wrote, “We keep an eye on Google’s news and documentation because these updates can literally make or break our website. That said, we don’t write for Google’s robots and always make editorial decisions with our readers in mind.”

 

[HEADING=1]What’s changed? [/HEADING]

From what I can see, after the Google March 2024 core update, many affiliate sites that don’t have any significant brand search lost traffic. However, many marketers seem to believe that the large authority sites are outranking them and that small “independent” sites can’t compete.

 

However, the problem isn’t that smaller sites can’t outrank large brands because of the site’s overall authority. The problem is that smaller sites are not driving brand search.

 

It’s important to note that brand search is just how your audience will search out your website or offering after engaging with messaging about your product, service or ideas on another platform (e.g., press or social).

Embedding too many affiliate links does not help with sales, if you add a couple of affiliate links that are related to your content, and add social proof related to the affiliate products, you might be able to generate sales. However, you still need audience for sales.