## Introduction
This guide is designed to help you write better content for affiliate marketing.
There are a lot of different ways to make money with affiliate marketing, so this guide will help you find the one that’s right for you. It will also help you understand how affiliate marketing works, so that you can make the most out of your affiliate marketing efforts.
## What is Affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a type of online marketing in which you earn a commission when someone buys a product or service through your affiliate links. There are many different affiliate programs out there, but the most common ones are Amazon, Clickbank, Shareasale, and Commission Junction. You can read more about affiliate marketing in the Wikipedia article on affiliate marketing.
In this guide, I will be using the term “affiliate marketing” to refer to the type of affiliate marketing that I am most familiar with, which is to say, affiliate marketing with Amazon. However, you can use this guide to write content for any affiliate marketing program, and it will work just as well for those programs as it does for Amazon affiliate marketing!
If you are new to affiliate marketing and want to learn more about how it works, I recommend reading this guide Earn-Money-With-Affiliate-Marketing on how to make affiliate marketing work for you, as well as the Amazon affiliate marketing guide on Amazon’s website.
## The goal of this guide
My goal with this guide is to teach you how to write great affiliate marketing content. I will teach you:
1. How to choose the right affiliate program for your content
2. What affiliate marketing is, and why it works
3. How affiliate marketing differs from other types of marketing
4. What you need to do to get started in affiliate marketing
5. What to write about
6. What not to write
7. The importance of good writing
8. The different types of content you can write
9. The structure of a great article
10. The best time of day to write an article
11. The most effective way to write a blog post
12. The benefits of writing a blog
13. The types of blog posts you should write
14. The difference between a blog and an e-book
15. The pros and cons of writing e-books
16. The advantages of writing an ebook
17. The differences between an ebook and a webinar
18. How ebooks and webinars are different
19. How you can monetize your ebooks
20. How an ebook can help you build your business
21. How a blog can be used to build a business
22. Why a blog is a better choice than an ebook for building your affiliate business
23. Why you should use a blog to build an affiliate marketing business
24. What type of content to write for your blog
25. What types of articles you should not write
26. How much you should charge for your articles
27. Where to find the best affiliate programs to promote
28. How and where to promote your affiliate products
29. How long you should wait before promoting a product
30. How many products you should promote at once
31. How often you should post on social media
32. What social media platforms you should focus on
33. How social media is different from other marketing channels
34. Which social media channels are the most effective
35. Why Facebook is the best social media channel
36. Why Twitter is the second-best channel
37. Why Pinterest is the third-best
38. Why Instagram is the fourth-best social media platform
39. Why LinkedIn is the fifth-best platform
40. Why Google+ is the sixth-best option
41. Why Reddit is the seventh-best choice
42. Why Tumblr is the eighth-best site
43. Why Quora is the ninth-best place
44. Why Blogger is the tenth-best website
45. Why StumbleUpon is the eleventh-best web site
46. Why Digg is the twelfth-best resource
47. Why Evernote is the thirteenth-best tool
48. Why Slideshare is the fourteenth best tool
49. Why YouTube is the fifteenth best resource
50. Why Vimeo is the sixteenth best place
51. Why Flickr is the seventeenth best site
52. Why DeviantArt is the eighteenth best website
53. Why Wikipedia is the nineteenth best place to find information
54. Why Fiverr is the twentieth best site to buy a service
55. Why Freelancer is the twenty-first best option
56. Why Scribd is the 22nd best website to read books
57. Why SlideShare is the 23rd best tool to create slideshows
58. Why Smashing Magazine is the 24th best resource for web designers
59. Why Shopify is the 25th best website for e-commerce
60. Why Hubspot is the 26th best tool for marketing
61. Why MailChimp is the 27th best service for email marketing
62. Why Weebly is the 28th best option for building a website
63. Why Wix is the 29th best site for creating web pages
64. Why Squarespace is the 30th best platform for building websites
65. Why WordPress is the 31st best website builder
66. Why WooCommerce is the 32nd best service to sell products online
67. Why Tumbler is the 33rd best place for sharing photos
68. Why Typeform is the 34th best way to collect feedback
69. Why SurveyMonkey is the 35th best web-based survey tool
70. Why Trello is the 36th best project management tool
71. Why Unbounce is the 37th best landing page builder
72. Why Hootsuite is the 38th best social networking tool
73. Why Sprout Social is the 39th best content marketing tool
74. Why Marketo is the 40th best marketing automation tool
75. Why Infusionsoft is the 41st best CRM tool
76. Why GetResponse is the 42nd best autoresponder service
