This Is How to Start Affiliate Marketing Without a Website

Are you interested in affiliate marketing, but you don’t want to spend a lot of time and energy building a website?

Are you curious about other strategies you can use to share affiliate links, no website required?

Fortunately, we will be providing you here with answers.

To start affiliate marketing without a website, you should pick affiliate products and services that are relevant to your niche. You can then share your affiliate links on social media, YouTube, forums, publishing platforms, emails, and eBooks.

This article will go over each of these marketing strategies in depth and will list some popular affiliate programs that don’t require you to have a website.

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Learn how below!

Pick Affiliate Products Relevant to Your Niche

The very first thing you should do when affiliate marketing without a website is to decide on your niche.

You’ll want all of your content and your affiliate products and services to be relevant to this niche.

For example, let’s say your niche is makeup. You’ll want to create all of your online content around makeup, applying makeup, getting makeup off, how to do a cat-eye, you get the idea. Your makeup accounts will attract followers who are interested in makeup.

Now, when you promote a makeup-related affiliate product, such as a specific type of mascara, your audience is more likely to be interested in the product.

Having a niche will attract an audience that will likely be interested in the products you are promoting. This will make it much easier for you to make sales!

Join Affiliate Programs That Don’t Require a Website

There are some affiliate programs out there that don’t require you to have a website to promote their products and services. Below are just a few of the most popular ones, but there are tons out there.

As a side note, make sure you do your research and find products and services that you truly enjoy.

Actually, liking the products will make it easier for you to market them authentically!

Amazon

Amazon offers two different affiliate programs, including the Amazon Associates Program and the Amazon Influencer Program.

Amazon Associate Program

Amazon’s Associate Program allows you to promote their products and make a commission; no website required. However, you do need to be a creator, publisher, or blogger to get approved. This means that, if you don’t have a website, you’ll have to have an active blog, app, or social media channel instead.

To be accepted as an affiliate, you have to have an active following and the kind of content that Amazon is looking for. If you’d like to know more about the application review process, check out this FAQ page by Amazon.

Amazon is great because it has products and services for every niche. Whether your thing is cars, dogs, makeup, or tech, they’ve got relevant affiliate products for you.

Once you are accepted as an Amazon affiliate, all you have to do is recommend products to your audience. Once someone uses your unique link to buy the Amazon product or to purchase a subscription to a qualifying program, you’ll earn a commission.

The commission you will earn ranges from 1-10% depending on the category of the product you are promoting.

Amazon Influencer Program

The Amazon Influencer Program is for individuals who are active and have a large following on social media. You must have an account with YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook to qualify.

Amazon will look at your social media presence and will analyze the number of followers you have to determine if you meet the criteria to become an Amazon Influencer.

If you are accepted, you get to create your own page on Amazon that has a custom URL. This is what you will share with your audience and how you will recommend products. If anyone buys qualifying products off of your page, you get a commission.

Dropship.Me

Dropship.Me is a company that provides its users with top-selling products. Basically, Dropship.Me finds promising products, writes their descriptions, and makes them appealing to buyers. Then, website owners who want to sell products on their site can download Dropship.Me and can select products they want to add to their site from Dropship.Me’s catalog.

Although Dropship.Me is made for website owners; you don’t have to own a website to be an affiliate for them.

While it may be a little challenging to promote something you don’t use, if you have an audience that will likely need their services, then it’ll still be profitable for you to be an affiliate for them. Make sure you learn about their platform and why your audience will find it useful before promoting it!

Dropship.Me claims on their website that you can make up to $269 per sale.

Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that lets users set up an online store where they can sell their products. It makes selling, shipping, and managing products much easier!

To become a Shopify affiliate, you need to be an entrepreneur, educator, influencer, or content creator.

As an affiliate, you will recommend Shopify to your clients, students, followers, and so on. If they purchase a paid subscription to Shopify using your unique referral link, you’ll get a commission. Shopify states that, on average, you will get around $58 for every user that signs up for a paid plan.

LiveChat

LiveChat is an online customer service program that allows customers to chat with agents online instead of having to call them or wait for an email. They also offer help desk software and web analytics tools.

Once you become an affiliate for LiveChat, you can share your unique affiliate link with potential customers to make sales. LiveChat has a tracking cookie of 120 days, so as long as your customer uses your affiliate link within that period, you will get credit!

The LiveChat affiliate program allows affiliates to earn 20% recurring commission for every customer that you send to their site. After you’ve earned $50, you can cash out and will receive your commissions via PayPal.

Check Out A List Of My Favorite Affiliate Programs

Advertise Your Affiliate Products on Social Media

Social media is a wonderful way to promote your affiliate products and services without a website. You can post videos, pictures, and reviews of your affiliate products to get your audience interested.

Facebook

Facebook is an ideal tool for promoting your affiliate offers.

You can share your affiliate products and services in your status in Facebook groups, or you can buy Facebook advertising if you’d like to reach a wider audience.

Facebook groups are like online clubs. People with specific interests can join groups and converse with others who are interested in the same thing.

One affiliate marketing strategy is to join groups that are related to your affiliate products and services. Then, after building rapport with members of the group, you can share your affiliate links with them. Make sure you aren’t just spamming your links. Always try to contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way!

For example, if you are an affiliate for a dog food company, you may want to join groups that are interested in dogs and start a discussion about what everyone’s favorite dog food is. During the discussion, you can bring up your affiliate product and let them know why you think it’s amazing in a genuine way.

You can also create your own group based around your affiliate product. When people join your group, you know that they are at least somewhat interested in what you have to offer, so you can try to strike up a conversation with them and make a sale.

If you choose to go the Facebook advertising route, it is recommended that you do split testing of your ads. Split testing means you create multiple ads that you run at the same time. Facebook allows you to see which ad strategy is resulting in a higher conversion rate (AKA leading to more sales).

Twitter

Twitter is a social media site where you can create short posts called “tweets” and share them with your audience. Other people can like your tweet or share it on their profile, which is called “retweeting”.

On Twitter, you’ll want to build a following of authentic users who are interested in what you have to say. Once you have a following, simply share your affiliate products and services and tell your followers why these products will help them.

Twitter is a really easy way to share your affiliate products and make a commission!

Instagram

If you post amazing pictures that captivate your audience, then Instagram may be the perfect social media platform for you to use to share your affiliate products!

If you have followers that are engaged with your content, it’ll make getting affiliate sales much easier. Try to build a following of people who are interested in your content and want to hear what you have to say. Simply following and unfollowing a bunch of users won’t help you in the long run since they likely won’t be interested in your content.

After you build an audience, share your affiliate products in your story and on your Instagram feed. This will get your followers interested.

One of the downsides to Instagram is that they don’t let you post links in your Instagram descriptions. One way to bypass this is by posting a picture, talking about the product in your description, and then directing users to go to your bio @username where they will be able to click on your affiliate link.

If you want to post multiple affiliate links in your Instagram bio, check out Linktree. Linktree is an innovative tool that allows you to post one short link in your bio. When a user clicks the link, it takes them to a web page that lists all of the different links you want to have active. So, if you have multiple affiliate links you would like to post, simply sign up for Linktree, and you’ll be able to do so!

Discuss Your Affiliate Products on YouTube

YouTube is an awesome way to get your affiliate links out there. The best part? There is no website required.

You can make videos about literally anything on YouTube, from knife throwing to makeup tutorials. So no matter what your affiliate products are, you’ll be able to promote them on YouTube.

When you are creating videos, make sure that they are relevant to the products and services you are promoting. People often go to YouTube to find solutions to problems they are facing or to gain knowledge about something, so make sure your video is informative and useful, not just a sales pitch.

Let’s say, for example, that you are trying to promote art materials. To advertise the materials, you could do an art video in which you are using the materials. As you are doing art, you can tell your viewers why you like the materials and why you think they’ll enjoy them as well. Then, post the affiliate link in the description section below your video.
If you are new to affiliate marketing on YouTube, and you would like a crash course for beginners, check out this informative video by Nick Nimmin.

In the video, Nick discusses the first steps you will need to take to turn your YouTube videos into affiliate marketing machines!

Find Forums Related to the Product or Services You Are Promoting

Forums are a great way to promote your affiliate links without a website.

You’ll start by joining various forums that are related to the subject you are promoting. Then, start interacting with others in the group. Be an active and helpful member; don’t just continuously post your affiliate links. You want people to like you and think your information is useful so that when you post your links, they will be happy to click on them!

Make sure to check out each online forum’s rules to determine if they allow users to post affiliate links or not.

Use a Publishing Platform

Publishing platforms are websites that allow you to have a blog. They make it, so you don’t need a website of your own to publish your writing! On these sites, you are able to write articles, reviews, and more.

Publishing platforms are a great way for you to share your affiliate links within your writing.

While there are quite a few publishing platforms out there, the crowd favorite seems to be Medium. More about this below!

Medium

Medium is an online platform where individuals can publish stories. You can use Medium as a way to get your writing, and therefore your affiliate links out there without having to create a website.

If you write high-quality content, Medium will share your writing with audiences that will find it interesting, or they will share it in their email digests.

For example, suppose you are an affiliate for a company that creates security systems. In that case, you may want to write an article about crime and post your affiliate link to the security system in your article. Then, the Medium editorial team will check out your writing, and if it’s up to their standards, they will share it with readers interested in crime, security, and so on.

Medium posts also show up on Google, so individuals that are not a part of the Medium platform can also read your article and get exposure to your affiliate links.

Try Email Marketing

Email marketing allows you to embed relevant affiliate links into the emails you send to your subscribers.

Email marketing is a great strategy because all of the email addresses you have were given to you voluntarily. This means that your subscribers were at least initially interested in what you had to say when they signed up to be on your email list.

Make sure your emails aren’t spammy. This will result in you losing email subscribers and therefore losing potential sales.
Also, check with your email provider before sending out affiliate links. Some providers do not allow you to send out emails with affiliate links in them. Others do allow it but have certain rules you have to follow.

Create an eBook

Another way to promote your affiliate products and services without a website is by creating an eBook. Your eBook should be informative and should be on a topic that you have knowledge of.

As you write your eBook, include affiliate links throughout. Make sure the links are relevant and are things that will truly benefit and be of interest to the reader.

You can then share your eBook through one of the other methods we’ve discussed, such as social media, in a blog post on a publishing platform, or in an email.

Conclusion

If you want to be a successful affiliate marketer without a website, you should start by deciding on your niche.

This helps you promote your affiliate links to audiences that will be interested in them!

Next, you should decide which affiliate programs you want to join. Make sure they don’t require their affiliates to have a website.

Once you have your affiliate products and services, promote them using any of the methods mentioned above, including social media, YouTube, forums, various publishing platforms, emails, and an eBook.

I hope this article helps you to become a successful affiliate marketer, no website required!