How Affiliate Marketing Works [Explained]

in this video i'm going to talk to you
about how we make money as affiliate
marketers
so let's say for example you have a
website around kitchen appliances and
you're looking for a new product to
promote
well these instant pots are really
really popular products and they're
extremely popular around christmas time
so let's say there's people out there
who are looking for
a new pressure cooker okay so people's
doing all kinds of searches for pressure
cooker
slow cooker but they don't know exactly
what the product is they want yet
so they're on google they're on amazon
all these places and they're doing
searches
for pressure cookers and slow cookers
and they run across
this product here the instant pot du060
and so they like this product and this
product looks
great okay so they decide they're on the
edge of
buying this product so what do they do
right before they buy
well what a lot of people will do is
they will look up reviews
on google for these products
so for example they will take this
product here
do a search on google and what they'll
do is they'll type in
the word review as you can see here
people are searching for reviews because
it's showing up right here
and if we do a search let's just open up
some of these websites here that pop up
and see what we get okay
so here is a website called digital
trends
and if we scroll down you're going to
see they have a basic review of it
and then they have some links here to go
to amazon walmart and even newegg.com
and what happens is is when people
searches for reviews of this product
and they come to this website and if
they come down here and click on one of
these links
this is a special link that the owner of
this website has
that amazon or walmart a new egg can
track specifically to this user
so if the customer buys this product
through this link
they know that it came from this website
and so they will send the owner of this
website a paycheck for referring that
person to their site to buy
their product and so if we look
we can see there's all kinds of websites
that does this because it works
so we can scroll down through here we
can see there's another person who made
a review of it
they even got some amazon ads here if
they click through on any of these links
and buy
products on amazon's they'll get
commission for it and here's a link
right here
let me go ahead and click on this and
see where it takes us
okay so this takes us to a comparison
page
and if we scroll down here we're going
to see
where they have this pot right here and
then they have a link here it says see
lowest price now what happens is if i
click this
is going to redirect me to amazon to
this product
now you can see up here it says
tag equals my instapot so
this here is actually the affiliate id
of the person who owns this website so
if i go ahead here and if i
buy this item amazon knows that it came
from the person of this website and
they're going to earn a commission
for it and so that's the way affiliates
make money and by writing reviews
you are getting right in front of your
customer right before they buy
okay so that's what they call a buyer
intent keyword
so people searches for a product plus
review
or even product plus discount or product
plus coupon
so when you rank for those kinds of
keywords uh people's gonna find them
right before they're ready to purchase
they click your link and then if they
buy you get commission for
it and that's how we make money as
affiliate marketers