So with amazon dropping their affiliate Rates by up to 60 In april 2020 a lot of affiliates who Defaulted to using amazon for all their Product recommendations have been left Wondering if they should drop it all Together or at least diversify from it The anger went as far as having the Income school guys Asking all their followers to organize The strike and take all the amazon Associates things of their websites Together on the same day So let’s give them what they’re asking For let’s go to our websites And just do a control find on your posts Do a search for all amazon links And go one by one and let’s remove them Let’s get them out of here I think we’re gonna see our incomes go Up in almost Every case if we do this and we’re going To be giving amazon what they deserve As a french person and de facto strike Specialist I’m a little bit offended they didn’t Invite us to join in but i’m sure Jeff bezos took notice and will never Ever do this again But in case he does anyway it’s probably A good idea for affiliates to diversify Their income Sources so in this video we will be Asking ourselves how to find
Profitable affiliate programs outside of Amazon and how to filter out those that Are not worth your time But before we do if you enjoy that kind Of content don’t forget to subscribe to Our youtube channel Drop us a thumb up and click on the Notification bell if you don’t want to Miss any of these kinds of videos A recent data study that is really Trustworthy has shown that authority Hacker subscribers are 42.6 percent more Likely to rank number one on google so Do yourself a favor and subscribe now To go back to the topic of the video When i pick an affiliate program I expect two things from it one it makes Me money and good money possible And two it does not destroy my Reputation from recommending the product Aka the people who bought the product Are happy with their purchase I know a lot of people don’t really care About the second point but if you’re Watching this video i Am going to assume you do it’s going to Be a big part of how we pick affiliate Programs to promote So in the light of these things the First thing i do when i pick an fa Program Is i look for a product that is Competitive within its market It doesn’t necessarily has to be the
Best product in the market as long as The price to value ratio Is good enough and so people get good Value for the money they spent on a Product And this point is probably more Important than it seems You will often find that the crappier The product is the higher the commission Is to offset the fact that they are crap And to try to your affiliates to promote Them anyway So they can bank as much as possible so For example when you go how to start a Blog you will see that bluehost is Pretty much In 99.9 of the cases the recommended Hosting And we can all tell that if you are Serious about hosting your website and Ranking and just having a great website Bluehost is probably not the place that You’d be looking for but they probably Have the highest payout and that’s why People are recommending them If you’re trying to build an audience For the long term on the other side Having bad recommendations will reflect Poorly on you people will call you a Sellout People will not follow you and it’s Going to be very hard to kind of like Have that snowball effect of growing an Audience and that’s why we recommend
That you pick something that has A good value to price ratio and Personally i would rather make a little Bit less commissions today but Make more commissions tomorrow because I’ve undertrusted people and they just Follow my next recommendations and Eventually i will make more money in Total from these people because they Trust me The second thing that i’m looking for When i pick an affiliate offer is the Ratio Of sales content quality against payout And i know most people when they pick an Affiliate offer are very very focused on The payout but don’t really care about You know what the sales material looked Like what the sales page looked like What the checkout experience is like But it’s equally important and really The sales commissions only have the Story Because the actual money you make as an Affiliate is The payout obviously but multiplied by The conversion rate And trust me i’ve seen my fair share of Offers that have very high payouts but Convert Nothing and you make very little money Despite the fact that they show a big Payout number when you sign up as an Affiliate
And that’s basically 95 percent of Clickbank for you So to illustrate this let’s take a quick Example and do some math On one hand you have product a it makes You only 10 dollar per cell but has a Really good sales page that converts About eight percent of people And on the other hand you have product b That makes you fifty dollar per sale so Five times more But only converts one percent of people How much money are you going to make When you send a thousand visitors to Each offer Well product a should be converting 80 People out of a thousand Making you each ten dollars so you’re Gonna make eight hundred dollars And product b is going to be converting Ten people out of a thousand Making you fifty dollars each making you Five hundred dollars So despite the fact that product a has a Payout that’s five times lower It will make you sixty percent more Money when you promote it obviously These things will vary It will depend on the intent of your Traffic and maybe over time the low Paying offers will eventually fix their Sales pages and catch up etc But i know for talking to a lot of Affiliates that you guys often default
To the highest paying offer And you would benefit from trying the Offers that pay a bit less but have Much more trustworthy branding and sales Pages checkout experience etc Because we often make more money from These offers than the ones that have the Highest payout Finally the last thing i’m looking for In an affiliate offer Is that my competition is actively Promoting the offer The best way to find who is promoting Any affiliate offer is to take the Tracking link that you get given By the affiliate network or the Affiliate dashboard and throw it in hrs To see which sites link to it and this Will be the affiliate sites that promote It i’ve made an entire video that shows That technique so just click on the card Above if you want to see it But in an affiliate world full of trash Offers that don’t really convert anyone For me the best indicator that an offer Is interesting is to see that your Competitors are happy to send traffic To a given offer especially if they’re Willing to send that traffic over the Long time then that tells me they are Probably making Money and from their test that is the Best offer And this is a perfect transition for me
To talk about a few ways you can find These golden offers outside of amazon’s Associates Because my favorite tactic for finding These offers other than putting the Tracking domains inside of ahrefs like i Just mentioned Is actually to put my competitors Domains inside ahrefs and look at their Outgoing link domain so i can see which Offers they’re linking to the most then From there i can click on the links to Target drop down and i can see which Pages are linking to these affiliate Offers and then i can Put these pages urls inside hdfs to see How much traffic each page is getting So i get a very clear picture of which Offers they are sending the most traffic To I’m not gonna repeat it enough the Validation by your competition is by far The most reliable way to tell an offer Is worth your time There is other ways to find affiliate Offers like google in your niche plus Affiliate programs for example but i Like it a bit less than the validation From the competition I like to add reddit at the end as well So i can read conversations On reddit about people that are Affecting these niches and these tend to Be
Candy discussions where people really Tell what’s working for them so it’s Quite interesting to go and read And finally the last method i would Recommend and it’s really my least Favorite is actually to go to the Networks themselves and just sort by the Networks metric they give you like the Cpc For cj or carousel or like gravity for Clickbank for example And just go through it and try to find Something that at least has a decent Sales page which tends to be A bigger factor to me than even the Payout but from watching this video You’ve probably started to understand That from The limited information that’s available Online the fact that a lot of people who Promote Affiliate offers are quite deceiving Lying to you trying to get you to Promote stuff that you probably should Not Promote and also the fact that the Conversion rate for any given offer is Going to be quite personal to you Depending On the intent of your traffic there is No easy cookie cutter way to find the Perfect affiliate Offer for you and it’s going to be a lot Of work to find the right one
And that may explain why nine months After amazon cut their affiliate rates And people like income school Call for a boycott of amazon most of the Sites that you will find googling Affiliate queries Still are using amazon to promote their Affiliate stuff and make money that way Because switching away from amazon is Hard work and you should be expecting Quite a few failures before you actually Strike gold and Match or exceed your earnings from Amazon and that’s probably why many People have decided to focus on growing Their search traffic To offset the fact that the affiliate Rates are a bit lower Rather than try to find something else That works better But it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t Do it swapping to niche affiliate Programs and being able to diversify Your income Not only can increase your revenue but Also protects you from Future changes that people like amazon May make to their affiliate programs And trust me once you’ve made it work Once it’s going to feel like magic and You’re going to be really excited and The only thing you want to do is do more Of it So my advice if you are going to be
Trying any new absolute program and Slowly transition away from amazon Is to pick one of your pages maybe not Your top earner but maybe your top 10 Owner for example And try to just swap fa programs on that One page And take a snapshot of how much money That page made on amazon in the last 30 Days Then 30 days after you sort the programs Just compare the earnings and decide Whether you made more money or less Money By swapping affiliate programs if you Made more money then expand it to five More pages and run the experiment again For Months if it went well go for 10 15 20 Pages and kind of expand faster and Faster If it did not match the earnings or one Below you can either cut it completely If you like made zero sells and there Were zero conversions Or you can just try it on one other page If you still want to give that program a Try Slow and steady wins the race here and It protects your Earnings when you only swap for one page And not all your site at once In case the affiliate program is not Good enough before i close things down
I wanted to let you know that if you are Looking for a free affiliate training Where i show you how we set up our sites The tools we use the methods we use to Create content Outsource it build links etc we are Offering one on Authorityhackertraining.com it’s 100 Free and a lot of people have said that It was quite helpful to them so go check It out So to close things up let me ask you a Question have you made a transition From amazon already are you still Looking around still using mostly amazon Or have you tried and fail let me know In the comments below i’d love to read Your stories we read all of the comments Even if we don’t have time to answer to All of them so thank you for everyone That has been dropping comments already I want to hear your stories about Switching away from amazon because it is A pretty difficult thing to do alright Thank you for watching this video we Will see you next time in a podcast to Another dedicated video like this [Music] Peace You