Let’s say you’re a graphic designer and you’ve decided to do a little bit of affiliate marketing work on the side. Let’s also say your affiliate is a design software company and they have a free flyer maker program on their site.
You could write a blog post on your site called “Ten Ways to Make Stunning Flyers With ____’s Free Flyer Maker.” Boom! Instant platform to link out to your affiliate’s products in a viable and authentic way.
This is where affiliate marketing is already going. It’s all about your audience and giving them an authentic and useful experience.
You have to think of your affiliate’s product as a solution. People don’t go to the internet looking to just buy your shit and be done. They go to the internet to fix their problems.
Even if you aren’t in affiliate marketing (why you’ve read this far and aren’t in affiliate marketing beats me) and have your own product, you should be in the mindset of providing a solution to consumers.
If your audience is a bunch of artists and graphic designers, they didn’t come to your site to buy sex toys. So, although you might think it a great and lucrative thing to be an affiliate of some sex toy company, you’re not going to get very far trying to sell to graphic designers and artists. They come to your site for graphic design solutions.
If they wanted sex toys, they would have searched for sex toys.
And if you are throwing in misleading links to sex toys in your blogs or content, Google’s going to dock you plenty on your SERPs. So, good luck figuring out how to genuinely sell sex toys as a graphic design solution.
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