okay guys so let's talk about how you can start an affiliate marketing blog on medium.com so step number one is make sure you pick a niche and I know this is everyone's favorite I'm sure you're tired of hearing of this but we all know that you're just more likely to get followers and subscribers if you do have a specific Niche number two make sure that you are not pay Walling your articles so let me quickly explain there are different ways that you can make money on medium and one of the really popular ones is through
the medium partnership program so pretty much the way it works is you only making your articles accessible to people who are paid medium members it costs about $5 per month to be a paid medium partner and every time a paid medium member reads your articles you will get a portion of the membership fees into your account so we don't have a lot of time to go over this model but I'm actually going to be making a video showing you exactly how much money I made as a medium partner so make sure to hit that subscribe
button so that you don't miss that video so back to what I was talking about make sure that you are not pay Walling your articles so in this case we're going to be making all of these articles free to the general audience the reason why it is important is if you do want to have as much affiliate traffic as possible you don't want to limit your audience to just medium paid Partners ideally what you want to do is to make your articles as searchable and drive as much of external traffic as possible so number three
start creating content so there are different ways that you can create content on medium the first one is going to be obviously just writing content but not all of us are good writer I'm definitely not a good writer but obviously they never stop me so one of the other methods that I like to use is actually going to be utilizing Ai and I know there have been a lot of rumors about whether AI articles sell out on medium or not so of course I did some research so that you don't have to you're welcome and
based on the recent changes in the rules and policies you are allowed to use AI generated content as long as it's not paywalled which is yet another reason why I recommend making your articles free so one of the things that I've been really enjoying doing is is repurposing a lot of my YouTube videos and turning them into blog articles I actually briefly talked about this one in my content repurposing video which I'll include in one of these Corners if you want to check it out so for this step I'm actually going to use Riverside FM
and I'm going to use the AI transcription function pretty much what you need to do is upload an audio or video file and Riverside will automatically transcribe your entire file I then copy this text and go to chat GPT and just use a simple prompt like um let's say turn this into a blog post Chad gbt then creates an entire blog post from the video transcript what I know it's crazy and then what I do is I insert my affiliate links and images and then the blog post is ready to be published oh and by
the way in case you haven't heard of Riverside FM they have so many great tools and features catered to content creators that can save you a ton of time and make your life so much easier another feature that I think can be very helpful for Content repurposing is the AI show notes feature which automatically generates a summary key takeaways and chapters from video content which can be repurposed into written content I've been using Riverside FM for the past few months and it has saved me a ton of time and has helped me to generate an
entire new stream of income for my blog post which is why I'm so glad that they have decided to partner with me in this video so if you're interested in checking them out make sure to use my link down below and use code Christina sh to get 15% off of your subscription now number four is make sure that you are following medium guidelines and rules so in terms of the affiliate moderating list links I did research and medium does allow affiliate links but obviously if you are based in a country like the United States like
I am you need to make sure that you are following the FDC guidelines and are disclosing that those are affiliate links be honest I didn't see anything regarding the limit on the links obviously if your entire article is just affiliate links it's probably not ideal but as long as you're keeping it to a reasonable amount and still focusing in the actual content you will not get banned from medium now step number five or honestly could be also step number two is make sure that you're doing proper keyword research and optimizing your articles for SEO so
medium articles tend to rank pretty high on Google especially if you're doing things like product reviews or you know talking about your experience or I do a lot of like listicle style of videos talking about different apps so for example six work from home website so pretty much one of the tools that I've been using recently is sem rush so make sure you're optimizing your article obviously make sure to include all the main keywords in the beginning of your title in the main body and make sure that overall the article is really focused on those
keywords now number six is you can start promoting your blog so yes Google search traffic is really great but all in all you should be promoting your articles as well on your social media maybe sharing with your audience or even if you have like an email list that would be another great way to promote your articles and then the last step is make sure that you are constantly monitoring and adjusting your articles if needed to so I personally really love the medium and Analytics tool kind of really gives you an overview of what is performing
well how many views versus reads you have which are two different things and I've had so many instances where I would literally just tweak one keyword and it would really change the performance of my article so pretty much similar to what happens on YouTube so make sure you're always adjusting Things based on what works and what doesn't now let's talk about some of the additional tips that I noticed have been pretty effective probably one of the great niches would be things like product or software review obviously that is a very big part of what I
do um especially like software so for example one of my top performing articles is actually my Prime opinion article which is titled I tried making money on Prime opinion here's how much I made or here's what happened if I got the exact title um but pretty much I knew that Prime opinion is a highly search keyword a lot of people are looking to make additional money on surveys especially in this economy so I was pretty much aware that most of my traffic was coming from Google and when you're writing titles make sure that you're really
optimizing for things that you know people are going to be looking for so for example instead of saying my favorite investing tools I would do something like best investing tools for beginners because you know frankly nobody cares what your favorite tools are right unless you are a celebrity nobody cares most people are not going to be searching for like my favorite platforms people are going to be searching for like best platforms for beginners or something along those lines so if you like this video I think you're actually going to like like this one as well
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