People often ask if it’s possible to make money with affiliate marketing without a website or blog? The short answer is “yes”, and I’ll write how making money with affiliate marketing without a website is possible, in this article.
But, first let me write why people would ask such a question nowadays at all? Why not have a website? Is it because it costs some money to buy a domain and web hosting? Is it because it takes time to build a website? By the way, a blog is also a website, so I’ll be using in this article the word “website” mostly.
Why Not Have a Website or Blog?
I can’t imagine another reason why would anyone want to do affiliate marketing without a website. There are misleading articles on the internet that say the website is not necessary and that you can make a lot of money with affiliate marketing without a website. They are correct to some point. You can make some money, but the truth is that most of the serious affiliate networks won’t accept your application if you don’t have a website. So, you might do it without a website, but your earning potential will be seriously limited.
So, if you don’t want to have a website because you don’t have money, you should read this article, where I’ll explain how to start affiliate marketing with no money. Lack of money isn’t an excuse to not build a website.
If you don’t want to build a website because you think it’s too difficult and it takes too much time, you should test the tool below, which will build a website for you for free in less than a minute.
Of course, the empty website is useless, so you’ll need to spend some time to create some content for your websites. You’ll need to write articles for your websites. But most of the methods of affiliate marketing without a website, also include writing, or creating videos. You might use pay-per-click methods, but they are expensive and you’ll might lose money with them, instead of making money, if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Why You Should Have a Website
So, to conclude, there’s no good reason, not to have a website. The website will make making money online much easier and you’ll be able to make much more money.
To be a successful affiliate marketer who makes a living from affiliate marketing, requires that you build an online business, which main part is your website. Your website is your online real estate, which shows that you’re serious about making money online, not looking for some make-money-quick opportunities, which are actually scams, and which won’t make you any money.
I’ll explain later in this article how to have a website, start your online business and make money online for free. But now, because this article is about making money with affiliate marketing without a website, let me give you a few useful ideas.
How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Without a Website
All the methods I’ll describe below can be also used if you have a website. They’ll actually work better with your own website.
If you have your own website, you can send traffic to your website first, instead of directing it to an affiliate offer. That’s the main difference.
YouTube
Whether you have a website or not, making videos and posting them on YouTube is an excellent way of making money with affiliate marketing.
You can review some affiliate products that you want to promote, and place affiliate links in the video and video description that go to the product you promote.
The affiliate links are long and look ugly, so you should mask them using Bitly or another similar link shortening service.
It’s a good idea to offer a discount or a bonus if someone buys through your link.
Creating a page on Facebook is another option. It’s important to not just create content on Facebook which promotes the product you want to sell, but create some valuable content that will help people to make buying choices. Do not praise the products that aren’t good, just for the sake of selling them to make money. You should sell only the products you would buy yourself.
The problem with Facebook is that they don’t like affiliate links in their post. They can suddenly shut your page and they won’t even give you a clear reason why. It did happen to me. So, you might create a lot of content and then suddenly find out that you have just wasted your time because Facebook shut down your page.
Other Social Media
There are some other social media that are more affiliate marketing friendly than Facebook. The best of them in my opinion are LinkedIn and Pinterest. But, if you don’t have your own website and you depend on the social media only, you are always in danger of being closed by those media, because their rules change often.
Creating eBooks
Creating eBooks with some valuable content and affiliate links in them is a very good idea. You can give the eBook away for free, using the social media, and whenever someone buys through your links, you’ll make money.
Free Blogs
You could also use some free blog platforms, and put some valuable content there. The most popular free blogging platforms are Tumblr, Blogger and WordPress. But, again the problem is that your blog might be shut down any time by those platforms.
It happened to me with WordPress. One day I got an email from them that I’m using WordPress for business and that my blog will be shut down.
Paid Advertising
Most of the paid advertising won’t allow you to promote affiliate products. Some affiliate networks won’t allow you to use paid advertising at all.
If you’re a newbie, you should better educate yourself first, before you start using paid advertising. Otherwise, you might lose money.
If you want to make money using paid advertising, you should watch this free webinar with John Crestani.
How to Build a Website for Free and Be Successful with Affiliate Marketing
To be successful with affiliate marketing, you must right from the start treat it as a business. Your own business. It means you must have your own website and you must know what to do to be successful and make money online.
The easiest way is to join a community of successful affiliate marketers which is trained by the best affiliate marketers. Such a community is Wealthy Affiliate.
With Wealthy Affiliate you can start for free. You’ll be able to build your own website for free, with very good free web hosting. You don’t even need to buy your own domain, though it’s always better to buy it. When you have your own domain, it’s like having your own real estate online. If you have a website and build content on this website, your real estate will be growing in value.
The best part about Wealthy Affiliate is that you’ll be guided step-by-step, with articles, videos and personal guidance buy the top marketers. You’ll be able to find help very quickly from experienced marketers within the community.
Summary
As you can see it’s possible to make money with affiliate marketing without a website, but it’s not recommended.
There’s no reason why not to have a website. You can get not only the website, but much more at Wealthy Affiliate for free. Click here to check it out.
of course, you need a website to post your articles in order to make honest money online.
You need a platform in order to have a website. There are a lot out there, but for me, Wealthy Affiliate is all-time best there is. If you found another platform trustworthy, well good for you to be so lucky enough to find such a platform that doesn’t do scams.
Thank you for this post and all the best.
Aabidah
Thank you Aabidah. All the best to you too!
I’ve been looking into affiliate marketing as a possible online job over the last few weeks, and I didn’t really think I’d be able to set up a website etc.
However, after reading your article, I realise that this form of marketing without a blog will cost money…and most of the tactics seem like a bit of a gamble. Does this Wealthy Affiliate system accept complete newbies to the subject?
Yes, you can be a complete newbie. The training is step-by-step and it starts from the level of complete newbies.