There’s a certain stigma that leads people to believe they can’t do affiliate marketing without a website. While operating a website or blog is the most surefire way to succeed at affiliate marketing, you can be a successful affiliate marketer without them.
The key to affiliate marketing is knowing how to send targets to an affiliate vendor’s site, and that can be accomplished in a number of ways. As long as you know how to get leads to click on links and make a purchase on your affiliate merchant’s site, you’re good to go.
In this article, we’ll explore four ways how to do affiliate marketing without a website. Let’s dig in!
4 Ways to Do Affiliate Marketing Without a Website
If you’re interested in affiliate marketing, but hesitant because you don’t have a website or blog, we’ve got some good news for you. Just check out the following four simple solutions.
Keep in mind, the best way to succeed at affiliate marketing is through a combination of platforms – including a website and blog. Consider the following methods great ways to get started!
1. Promote Through Social Media
While becoming an affiliate marketer doesn’t require you to own a blog or website, it does require that you have an online presence. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts can be a good start.
As long as you have friends or followers, you have an audience who may be inclined to click on the affiliate links you post. The key is to create posts that will have an impact on your audience and inspire them to click.
Above all, make sure your social media posts contain useful content and make use of images. Visual elements are proven to attract readers.
Also, ensure the content you post is relevant to your niche. Posting something that means nothing to your niche may drive away potential customers. You need to earn your audience’s trust, so it’s vital that the posts you create are meaningful and attractive to them.
2. Create an ebook
Another good option for promoting affiliate links is through an ebook (promoted on social media or forums). Although this option is more involved, a successful ebook can have long-lasting results if done correctly.
Most importantly, when putting together an ebook, you should choose a topic you’re knowledgeable about. You never want to write an ebook simply for the sake of plugging in some affiliate links. Your readers will see right through it.
The point is to provide your readers with helpful information. That is, the goal is to gain your readers’ trust in the information you’ve provided. If they perceive value in the information you’ve presented, they should be willing to click on your affiliate links.
3. Promote Through Forums or Online Communities
Online forums and communities are all over the internet these days, and they’re great places to promote affiliate links. To get started, search for a forum that discusses topics around the product you want to promote.
Also, make sure to check the community or forum guidelines so you understand what (if any) types of affiliate link posts are allowed. Once you find a good forum or community, become an active member. Your active engagement will help you gain the trust of other forum members.
Active engagement includes interacting with people, providing helpful answers to questions, and offering solutions to problems. In the context of these interactions, you can include your affiliate links. Over time, community members will grow to trust you and be willing to click on the links you provide.
4. Use YouTube Videos
YouTube is one of the most effective platforms for promoting affiliate links. And all you need is a YouTube account to get started. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be a YouTube star with thousands of followers to be successful with affiliate marketing on the platform.
As long as the videos you post are informative, useful, and creative, you should have no trouble achieving success.
Just make sure your videos are relevant to the products or services you’re promoting, and place your links in the description section. Keep in mind, though, that YouTube requires you to provide disclosures letting viewers know you’re promoting affiliate links.
The Takeaway
There are plenty of ways to do affiliate marketing without a website. As we discussed, four of the best are:
- Promote through social media
- Write an e-book
- Create forums or online communities
- Record YouTube videos
Whichever way you choose to go, be consistent with your posts, and provide your readers, viewers, or followers with fresh and useful content. Also, make sure to analyze your progress, be patient, and work toward eventually operating a website and blog. Affiliate marketing takes time and hard work, but it’s certainly worth it in the end!
Do you have any questions or thoughts on doing affiliate marketing without a website? Let us know in the comments section.
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Thanks for posting this information. Affiliate marketing is gaining pace and anyone can take advantage of it and earn some extra money. It is important to know some secrets and to be well motivated.
Thanks for creating this information,am a newbie who just want to go into affiliate marketing,this information will go a long way.I’ve not tried any online marketing before this is my first time and I choose to be an affiliate marketer.I hope and believe it’s gonna yield a good result
Grateful for this information. I love affiliate marketing but don’t have any idea but with this I think I can try something.
Thanks.
I want to do affiliate marketing but I have no website. I am inspired by reading your awesome blog. Thanks for sharing.
Although you can do it without, its always better to have a website Razob, it will mean you can explore a lot more techniques.
Hey….which website provide affliate marking without website
Join any website like Amazon or ClickBank…
When you fill the form, instead of putting website URL, use your Facebook page’s URL or you can also use YouTube page URL.
JUST COPY THE URL AND PASTE THE LINK IN FORM…!
but fb not allowed affiliate links. so how we post link on fb
Please how do I get an account with amazon and start selling their products
Second
I tried sending clickbank a direct email seeking access they refused
Please any other means to get in?
Thanks
How
I want you to teach me little about affiliate marketing please
Thank you for the great tip. I don’t have a website but I do have a Facebook account.
That is great Sharon! You can definitely leverage Facebook, the key is to build your audience first and not spam them with offers. Once in a while is OK, every day is not.
Is it better to open a dedicated business page to promote your product or service with affiliate marketing? or use personal account?
I have a YouTube channel & our subs are asking for links to all of the clothing we feature. How do we get affiliate links? It seems like in order to apply you need to have a blog site?
Hi Kelli,
You should be able to provide your channel URL as the website URL for most affiliate program signup forms.
It will vary program to program though, best to reach out to the ones you’re hoping to work with and explain.
Hope this helps!
Hello Josh,
Can I start affiliate without a website or blog?
Regards
Dev
See up above dude… that’s what this whole post is about 🙂
Hi. Thank you so much for this post. I really love the affiliate marketing idea. However, I’m a fairly late bloomer so, This is a bit overwhelming. I am a complete beginer. So much so, that even after reading this post I still don’t know where to start. I am inspired though. I’ve been researching this for a few months now, & still can’t figure out what step one is. For those of us that are new to all of this, what would you suggest as step 1-5 for the ” forums and online communities” option.
I will continue to search your site in hopes of finding the answer. Thanks again for your time, patience, generousity and service.
I’m like you but found a lot of info watching YouTube videos.
Did you find a way to do affiliate marketing without a website?
Very nice article i am very much inspired from this.
Hi. Thanks for the post. I really wanted to do affiliate marketing. Can we promote our marketing in twitter without followers. While searching about this I found a video that we can promote affiliate marketing without any followers also. is it correct.
Sounds dodgy to me Bhagya, you could maybe go paid acquisition on twitter, but I’d love to hear how one would organically do this without any followers without spamming the crap out of people. Call me a pessimist but doesn’t sound like a very good business model.
this article very useful for me. love it. thank you
A good post …..but you really left us all thirsty not mentioning the affiliate programs that offer the shit without a website…… reply as you replied the others with a good answer.
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I get asked this same question from a lot of the customers that come to my page on FB and I tell them yes it is possible but only if you grow your audience accordingly. I also use myself as an example of how I started, Jumping around but I had to learn the hard way. Awesome blog post man.
Please I really need a mentor I hope you can help me with affiliate marketing
Great Post, I got my answer was searching for a long time.Thanku very much
Hi Josh. Thanks for such a superbly written article.
I want to add that although it is not required to have your own website for doing affiliate marketing, it definitely helps to have one.
I think every affiliate marketer should strive to get his own website as soon as possible.
Agreed Zysola!
I want to add something here from my experience that guys if you are doing affiliate marketing without any website. I highly recommend you to be as consistent as possible. FREE methods just take some time to produce results. Though these tips are really good as explained here.
Peace!
I can’t find any affiliate programs that let you become an affiliate without a website. Do you know of any affiliate programs that let you join without a website?
Try cj affiliates
Hi Josh, thank you for your article. I have a website which has a program of Visual Guided Meditations (created so the hard of hearing can experience guided meditations). Is there a way that I can offer someone the opportunity to be an affiliate if they don’t have a website? The first 5 meditations are what she can put on social media (they are little movies) and could she put a link on that to receive the benefit of an affiliate? I would love to hear your advice.
Hey Robyn, yes you could. You would be the one running the affiliate program. That’s not what ThirstyAffiliates does though (our tool is for the affiliate), so I’d recommend AffiliateWP for that job. It’s up to you as the program manager to say what your affiliates can/can’t do to promote you.
Are there affiliate programs that promote services
Really very good explanation about affiliate marketing and i read your complete blog i found something new here so thank you again and keep posting and update with new things.
and please can you share some more about affiliate earning.
Thanks for the very informative post. I really want to be an affiliate marketer. But i dont have website or blog yet. Right now while im still studying about affiliate i do it has great potential specially when you upgrade to gold membership.
I hope next time you will write about companies that accept affiliate without website. God bless.
I completely agree 100% with this! You ABSOLUTELTY don’t need a website to get started in the affiliate marketing industry. I started with Click Bank and you don’t need a website to start with them, JVZOO also. So yeah I second this post! If you want to become an affiliate marketer don’t be discouraged when applying to all these programs that require a website such as Pepper Jam, Commission Junction, Rakuten/LinkShare just to name a few. There are plenty affiliate programs out there that require only a social media account(almost everyone has those) or NO WEBSITE at all! You just have to be willing to do some digging and be patient. Although I always recommend you create a website because best way I describe it is, its like a piece of real estate that can appreciate in value , sometimes DRAMATICALLY. So always be open to that. Other than that if you want to get started in affiliate marketing without a website I say get out there and start digging!
I just got a new Facebook account, created a page on brand and products
And am stock
What or where do I go from here?
I tried clickbank but was denied access
Please where else and what do I do
Very helpful content
very helpful information. I was trying to search the ways to start affiliate marketing. Thanks to provide the information I needed.
I was thinking of doing affiliate marketing, this article helped specially affiliate marketing without website. Can i do affiliate marketing with Pinterest?
Hi Shiv,
Pinterest does allow affiliate marketing! However, I do advise that you review their Community Guidelines and their Paid Partnership Guidelines first.
Community Guidelines: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/community-guidelines
Paid Partnership Guidelines: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/community-guidelines#section-paid-partnership-guidelines
this blog is very helpful and effective. it has clear my all confusion. i was thinking to do affiliate marketing but i don’t have the confidence . After reading this post i have the confidence to start it
Hi that was a nice blog it is very useful but I have a question is website is best or social media is best for affiliate marketing I am confused with this plz help me out and thank you for a such a good information 🙂
Hi Marzook,
As stated in the article, “the best way to succeed at affiliate marketing is through a combination of platforms – including a website and blog.” While we cannot say that either is best, we can say that having both a website/blog and a social media presence is key. And having a website/blog to share on social media can do wonders for your affiliate marketing practices!
Thanks for sharing this. It really helped me a lot.
Thanks for sharing your information with us. I was searching for a nice blog post website and finally found one here.
While a having a website can boost your chances of success as an affiliate marketer, it is still great to promote your affiliate product through online forums and communities
Thank you very much for this article this is very usefull for me and all steps are genuine. Totaly article is very informative. Thanks
youtube videos are a great source to promote your affiliate product. thanks a lot for sharing this article with us!
This post gave me hope as a beginner, thanks for the wonderful tips, I hope to make the best use of it.
Hi, nice ideas to start an affiliate business. Worth to take a look.
Thank you
My question is..after posting videos on YouTube or other social networks, how does the money come into ones account?
wow! It’s is outstanding Blog! Thanks for sharing with us this valuable information. I’m always read your blog for and I have got a lot of informative blog for this. It really good!!!
that’s an amazing article
Very nice article. Helped me a lot.
thank you
Great post.
I read through your entire blog and learned something new, so I want to appreciate and encourage you to keep posting and adding new content, and could you kindly elaborate more on affiliate revenue?