Introduction
Preparing your business plan and website in advance helps ensure your success in affiliate marketing. You should aim for a regular, daily following or consistent monthly traffic to your website. The road map for new publishers has three phases, as outlined below.
Success Tip
These topics are critical to your success, so we recommend that you also research them online.
Phase I
Before joining Rakuten Advertising, you should build your site and develop business model, brand, following, and website traffic:
- Choose your market niche and focus.
- Determine your business model and business plan.
- Build your website, blog, or social media presence.
- Generate traffic to your site and grow your audience.
- Understand basic affiliate marketing monetization and how it fits your brand.
Phase II
Become a Rakuten Advertising Publisher:
- Join Rakuten Advertising's affiliate network as a publisher and set up your account.
- Build partnerships with advertisers.
- Decide which advertiser products to promote and get affiliate links for your site.
- Provide transparency and comply with advertisers' terms.
- Track earnings and manage your affiliate program performance.
Phase III
Grow your program and earn:
- Identify additional revenue opportunities such as flat fee offers and paid placements.
- Consider email marketing, such as sending an email newsletter to your audience.
- Set up free Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools.
- Review the Google Webmaster guidelines for affiliate programs, follow their blog, and watch Google Webmaster video tutorials and other website analytics tools on your site for additional site performance reporting if you have not already.
Additional Resources
Watch a video about affiliate marketing to learn more, then review additional activities to build your program.
Next Steps
Once you have registered and been accepted, find more resources in this Help Center. Contact Customer Support for technical assistance on our dashboard and tools.
Comments
As I can see, it is very little information about how to start, especially for people who never had any content to publish on social media. I suggest that you can get in touch with the successful publishers to get an Idea of how they started, and you can pass theses information for the beginners. also, advertiser won't be paying commission unless the product is sold, so I suggest that they can be easy on the new ones who are trying to start this publishing thing.
Hi Samar, you can do searches on the Internet to find detailed information, books and courses about how to get started with affiliate marketing as a publisher...that's beyond the scope of our work here in the Help Center. You can also view our blog, resources and case studies on our website here: https://rakutenadvertising.com/resource-center/ . The Help Center is here to help you use our tools in your program. Please take a look at the other articles in this section for more information.
can i promote thru faceook pinterest?
Antonio, please review this article https://pubhelp.rakutenadvertising.com/hc/articles/4409309810445-Promote-Links-on-Social-Media for more information about using your social media sites.
Is it possible to register an app as a publisher?
Olesia, please contact Customer Support by email at pubsupport@rakuten.com or using the Support icon at the lower right so they can understand your individual situation and personally assist you.
I have a new website which will continue to develop for holidays, information on relocation, history, real estate and importantly help USA and Uk citizens trace their family history and connections to Sicily and Italy via Ancestry.com. The website already has a page set up for Ancestry.com and I have applied, verified my website and been rejected twice. I have now registered again as directed from Ancestry and cant find them here. Also the process is very long winded and frustrating.
I wanted affiliate links to the ancestry page on my website. When properly set up , I have via my social media chanel's 10s of thousands of keen to trace ancestry links to Sicily, US and UK people.
I am wondering if I should drop it and put up another like my heritage which might be less complicated.
All I want to do is promote ancestry on my website.
David, you can do searches on the Internet to find detailed information, books and courses about how to get started with affiliate marketing as a publisher...that's beyond the scope of our work here in the Help Center. You can also view our blog, resources and case studies on our website here: https://rakutenadvertising.com/resource-center/ . The Help Center is here to help you use our tools in your program. Please take a look at the other articles in this section for more information. Contact Customer Support by email at pubsupport@rakuten.com or using the Support icon at the lower right so they can understand your individual situation and personally assist you with joining advertiser programs and getting affiliate links.
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