How To Build An Affiliate Marketing Website 2026 (COMPLETE GUIDE)

so this might be the most valuable video I've ever uploaded on YouTube I've been doing affiliate marketing for about 5 years now and I've reached a stage where I'm making over $100,000 per month in profit consistently just from affiliate commissions so if you're wondering if it's still worth it to start affiliate marketing today then I can tell you 100% yes it is worth it if you're able to focus and if you're able to commit affiliate marketing is a long-term game you're not going to to see money rolling in overnight but if you're in it for the long term then I believe that there's no better business model to start than affiliate marketing now I'm not selling a course on affiliate marketing the reason I'm able to make six figures a month in affiliate commissions is because I dedicate 100% of my time and focus to affiliate marketing so I don't have time to also be selling courses but here's the good news for you you're going to get everything you need all the information and instructions you need completely for free in this video first I'm going to show you how to build your own affiliate marketing website using WordPress and Elementor which is the best and most popular way to build websites we're going to start from complete scratch and I'm going to take you through step by step Click by click how to build a simple but effective affiliate marketing website we will only be using free tools to build and run this website so the only thing you have to pay for is hosting and I'm going to show you how to get hosting for less than three per month and in the second part of this video I'm going to reveal to you my personal affiliate marketing strategy that has allowed me to scale to over $100,000 per month this includes how to find the best and most profitable keywords and how to craft optimized blog posts that actually rank on Google and don't worry if you don't actually like writing blog posts nowadays we have amazing tools like chat GPT that can do most of the writing for you I'll show you exactly how to use chat GPT to create create unique and high quality blog posts that are also optimized for the keywords that you're targeting I'll even give you the exact prompts that I use to get the most out of chat GPT so if you are really serious about starting your own affiliate marketing website that makes you money the best thing you can do is watch and follow along with this video my name is Simon and I'm very excited about what I'm about to show you let's get started all right so we're going to be using Wordpress to build our website on WordPress is by far the most popular way to build websites and especially for an affiliate marketing website WordPress is the best option because it will give us access to the best SEO tools which help us to optimize our content so we have the highest chance of ranking on the first page of Google for our targeted keywords and at the end of the day this is what makes us money with our affiliate marketing website the other cool thing about WordPress is that it's completely free to use the only thing we need to pay for is hosting so hosting is basically renting some space on a server that runs 24/7 so we can have all of our website content stored on that server so that our website visitors can access our website at any time and we're going to be using hostinger as our hosting provider now the reason I recommend hostinger compared to other hosting providers is just because I had the best experience using them compared to other providers I've used in the past hostinger is very reliable it's very fast and it's also very easy to use which is great for beginners and at the same time it is one of the most affordable options you can actually run your website for as low as $2 per month which is incredibly cheap personally I recommend to go with the WordPress starter option here because this will give you some additional features like unlimited bandwidth or a free domain the domain is basically the name of your website so this will come down to $3 per month which is still incredibly cheap now to get access to the best prices for hostinger you want to use the first link Down Below in the description this will take you to this site here this is my special uh landing page for my audience as you can see here it says special deals for medic media audience and basically they gave me a better deal for you guys because I've been working with them for some time I'm also going to show you how to actually decrease the prices you can see here and by an additional 10% by using my discount code so make sure you use the first link Down Below in the description and then once you're on this page here you want to just scroll down and you want to click on select here for the WordPress starter option and this will take us to the next page where we're going to have to decide on how many months in advance we want to pay for our hosting so the longer pay in advance the cheaper it's going to be as you can see here the 48 months option this is the cheapest option this way we get four years of Hosting for only $2.99 per month and the plan renews after four years for $6.99 per month so this definitely the cheapest option then we have the 24 months option this way we get 2 years for $299 and then it's going to renew at $7.99 per month then here we have the 12 months option it's going to be $299 for one year and then it's going to Renew at $88.99 per month then there's also the monthly payment option which I wouldn't recommend because this way it's just going to be much more expensive um after two months you're already paid more compared to this option here because here you also get a free domain which is already worth like $10 so I would highly recommend to go with the 48 months option pay a bit more up front but then in the long run it's going to be much cheaper now for this video I'm just going to choose the 12 months option because I'm just going going to build an example site to show you how it's done but I'm not going to really use this site um for myself so this way I only have to pay 3588 to create this video so once you've chosen your plan just click on continue then here we're going to have to create our account so choose your country here and then you can either sign up using Facebook Google or you can also just use an email address I'm going to use one of my email addresses here that I've created for this video and then click on continue and this will take us to the payment options now before you choose your payment option and type in all the information you want to make sure to click on have a coupon code and then you want to type in medic media this is my personal coupon code when you click apply it's going to deduct an additional 10% off the price so you can make sure to actually have the cheapest price possible to get your hosting once that's done just choose one of the payment options here I'm personally going to go with credit card type in your in inform here and then click on submit secure payment and by the way hostinger has a 30-day money back guarantee so if for any reason you want to cancel your plan you can just message hosting or tell them you want to cancel your plan if it's within the 30-day period they're just going to give you a refund no questions asked so just keep that in mind so then here just type in your password and click on confirm so now we are in our hosting or dashboard the first thing we want to do is confirm our email address that we have used to sign up so let's go to your inbox of the email you have used and then look for the email saying verify your email address then click on the email and then just click on verify email here and this will take you back to hostinger now the next step is going to be choosing our domain name this is going to be the name of your website so for example the name of Apple's website is just apple.com the name of Facebook's website is facebook.com and now for our website that we building we also want to choose our domain name which is unique which people can type into the URL box and then they will get to our website and now on hosting or here because we have chosen a plan that includes a free domain we can just simply click on claim domain here and then we can look for a domain that isn't taken yet so first of all we want to choose the extension here at the end so this could be a com it could be AET a Co or whatever you want now personally I would recommend to go with a doom because it's basically the best one to choose it's the most legit it's what people are used to so if you can go with a doc and then you want to type in the name of your website now you want to spend some time thinking about the name because it's not something you can easily change you once you have decided on a name so if you don't really don't know what you should name your website and the easiest thing you could do is just name it by your own own name so it could be something like um Sams smith.com if that would be available and um for this website I'm building in this video I'm going to just use the domain medic reviews.com because it's going to be an affiliate marketing website filled with mainly reviews of specific products where uh I'm an affiliate of so um once you type in the name here just click on check availability and then you can see either the domain is taken or you can actually get it so in this casee the domain is still available so we can just click on claim domain and then to register this new domain we're going to have to fill in some contact information so just follow the prompts here and fill in all the information then let's click on continue and then don't worry about what you can see here just click on skip I don't need a website and then we get to this page here where we need to verify our email address that is associated with our new domain as you can see here email verification status so what you want to do is go to your email inbox the same email you've used to sign up for hostinger and then you should get an email looking like this request for email address validation click on it and then you want to click on the link where it says please click on the following link to confirm you have received this email and validate your email address just click on this link here I'm not a robot verify and then once you see something like this you can just close the tab or the window and go back to hostinger reload the window here reload the page and then you should be able to see the email reification status is now verified great so now that we have set up our hosting and also our domain name it's time to install WordPress so in the top menu let's click on home and then under setup WordPress starter let's click on setup then click on start now and then we're going to skip all these questions by just clicking on skip I don't want personalized experience so now we also need to create an account for WordPress and I would recommend to just use the same email you've used for your hostinger account and by default they already put it in here so all we need to do is just type in a password and then click on continue then here we don't want to install any of these plugins so we're just going to click on skip I will manage plugins later we also don't need a template yet so let's click on skip I don't need a template and then we're going to have to choose the domain of our website this is going to be the domain we have chosen before so here you can see it's already selected for us medic reviews.com so I'm just going to click on select here and then here we can also select the location of our server this is the place where all of our website files will be stored and the closer the server is to the person visiting your website the faster your website will load so if you know that most of your visitors are going to be coming from Europe then you want to choose a server location here in Europe but if you know that most of people will be in the United States and then just choose United States also if you're going to have a international audience don't worry just go with the default location it's going to be fine and click on finish setup and then once WordPress has been successfully installed we can go to our WordPress dashboard by clicking on edit website so now we are inside of the WordPress dashboard which is basically the back end of your website here is where you can control every part of your website and throughout the video you're going to get familiar with how to use WordPress so don't worry if everything looks kind of overwhelming now we're also going to clean up this whole dashboard here because there's a lot of things we don't need so we're going to delete them in a second but first let me quickly show you how you can easily access your WordPress dashboard at any time because that's already something many beginners get confused about they don't know how to get to their WordPress dashboard and you're going to be going here a lot especially when you start building your website so the easiest way to get to this dashboard is to just open up your browser go to the URL box and type in your domain so for me for me this would be medic reviews.com and then uh type in/ wpen admin and then hit enter so WP hyphen admin stands for WordPress admin hit enter enter and this will take you to your WordPress dashboard sometimes it will take you to a login screen where you can log in using your WordPress login credentials that we have set up before so this is the quickest way what you could also do is just to go through your hostinger dashboard so when you log into hostinger just go to websites which is a new tab that will be created for you once you have a website and then just click on edit website here and this will also take you to your WordPress website what I could also recommend is to just add this URL as a bookmark to your browser so whenever you want to access your dashboard you can just click on that bookmark and then it will open up your dashboard now the next thing we're going to do is we're going to look at some basic settings here on WordPress that we need to change before we start building and we're also going to delete a lot of things that come pre-installed with WordPress that we don't need such as different plugins different themes and stuff like that that make everything kind of cluttered and makes it a lot harder to kind of navigate through your dashboard so you're going to see that everything is going to look a lot easier and cleaner once we are done with that step so we're going to start here on the dashboard so just click on dashboard here on the top left and then you want to click on screen options here on the top right and make sure all of these options here are unticked which will just get rid of all of these windows that we just don't need as you can see it looks a lot cleaner here now later on you can just add any dashboard boxes but that's not something we have to worry about right now right now we just want to have everything clean now let's move on to posts later on in the video I'm going to explain exactly what the difference is between posts and pages but for now we're just going to delete everything here so we have an example post let's just tick it here make sure it's selected then go to bulk actions move to bin apply and then to really delete it permanently you want to go to bin and then you want to click on empty bin right here and now we have zero posts now we want to go to we can also go to Media this is basically where all of your files and images will be stored currently we don't have anything in here which is fine so we don't need to do anything let's go to Pages now there is two sample pages so a privacy policy and a sample page we want to get rid of both so let's just take both of them go to bulk actions move to bin apply and then we want to empty the bin so let's click on bin and empty bin and now we got rid of these Pages as well then uh on the comments we don't have any comments we don't need to do anything here um we don't need to do anything here then we want to go under appearance and click on themes so as you can see there's already three themes that are pre-installed with our WordPress account we want to just delete all of them basically so let's click on this one first click on delete okay the second one delete okay and then for the third one we can't delete this one yet because we always have to have one theme installed so we're going to leave this for now and later on when once we install the theme that we're going to use we're going to also delete this one here then let's go to plugins and then as you can see here there are already some plugins that come pre-installed with your WordPress dashboard most of them we don't need so whenever you don't need a plugin you just want to get rid of it because having more plugins will just um lower the speed of your website which is bad so if you don't need a plugin just delete it so we're just going to take all of the ones that we don't need so we don't need this this we don't need the hostinger one we do need the light speed cache plugin so we're just going to keep this one but we're actually going to deactivate it for now so let's just click on deactivate and let's just tick those again and also the wp forms so also need we also going to need this one um so we're just going to leave it here and then we're going to go to bug actions first of all the activate them click on apply and once they already activated select them again and then go to bul actions delete apply okay and now we are just left with the light speed cache plugin and the wp forms light plugin next let's go to settings and general then here we can change our site title from just our domain to an actual title so we're just going to name this one medic reviews obviously you want to change it to to your own website name and then we could also change the date format time format here but the default settings are fine in my opinion so I'm just going to click on Save changes and then we also want to go to peral Links here under settings and then here we need to change the permalink structure which is basically the default way our URLs will be created for our blog posts so for example this is a blog post on an example site and here at the top you can see the URL this is kind of what we want it just should be the domain of our website and then for Slash and then the blog post keyword or the blog post name now by default WordPress sets it to this link type which is really ugly so what we need to do to change this is just click on post name so it basically adds the post name here to the end but if we just use post name we have this forward slash here at the end we want to get rid of this so we're going to go back to custom structure and then we're going to delete the last um character here the for slash like this and then we're going to click on Save changes and from now on we have we will have pretty URLs for our blog posts on the website then what I would also recommend is to disable the comment section on your website so usually when you go to an article of a website and you scroll all the way down sometimes you have the ability to comment something here um under the post but when you're starting a new website most of the comments or pretty much all of them will just be spam comments and you don't want to spend any time dealing with those comments I would recommend is just to turn off the comment feature completely by going to settings and then clicking on discussion and then here you want to untick this option allow people to submit comments on your post just untick this option and then click on Save changes here at the bottom and now all of your new blog posts won't have the comment section now you can always turn on comment on any post that you have so don't worry you're not giving up any options here for the future but believe me it's kind of a lot less annoying when you turn off this feature in the beginning great so now that we have cleaned up our WordPress dashboard and we have gone through the most important settings we can start building our website now whenever you want to see how your website currently looks like you can just come over here to the top left where you can see your website name then right click on visit site open in a new tab and then in this new tab you can see how your website currently looks like it will basically just go to your domain so we can always check out how the website currently looks like obviously it looks very bad and we're going to change everything here and the first thing we're going to do is actually install a new theme which is going to give us the basic structure of our website so let's close this tab and then to install a new theme let's go to appearance and then click on themes the currently active theme is the 2023 theme as you can see here this comes pre-installed with a new WordPress account so what we want to do is just add a new theme so we're going to click on add new on the top left and this will take us to the theme Library where you can see there are over 5,000 themes you could choose from and the theme that we want to install for the kind of website we want to build is this one here the ocean WP theme so if you don't see it you can just type in Ocean WP here in the search box and then you can see it will come up this is one of the best themes you can use for creating a blogging website which is basically the same thing as an affiliate marketing website so just click on install right here and then once it's installed click on activate and now you can see we have two different themes the ocean WP which we have just installed and the old one which we can now delete so let's click on the old theme click on delete on the bottom right confirm and now we're just left with this theme we want to actually use now you also want to make sure to click on enable auto updates so click here and that's everything we need to do now the next thing we're going to do is we're going to add a few plugins that will make building our website a lot easier so let's go to plugins here on the left side and then you can see we already have two plugins that came pre-installed with our WordPress account these are the ones that we didn't delete before so plugins are essentially an extension to your website that give you a additional features like for example you could add a plugin that gives you the ability to add a chat function on your website or that gives you some more design options and that's one of the great things about using Wordpress is that pretty much anybody could code a plugin for WordPress websites so that gives you virtually Endless Options of what you can do with your website just by applying or by just by installing the right plugin now a lot of plugins are free and for this video we're only going to use free plugins but there's also some paid plugins as well now to add a new plugin we're going to just click on add new on the top left and then the first plugin we're going to install is called Elementor so let's type in Elementor here in the search bar and then it's going to be this plugin right here this is like a visual page builder that allows us to use drag and drop when creating our website which makes everything very very easy and this is also the most popular page builder for WordPress so let's click on install now and then the next plugin we're going to install is called ocean extra this is like an extension for our um theme that we have installed before that gives us a few more design options so let's click on install now here then let's go back and click on plugins and now the first thing we want to do is we want to enable auto updates for all of our plugins so that we don't have to manually come into our WordPress dashboard pretty much every day and manually update these plugins so on the the right side you can see enable auto updates you would just want to click on each of these links here so that we have enabled auto updates for all of our plugins if you don't see this option you want to go to screen options here and then you want to tick this option automatic updates and click apply and then you should be able to see the this uh this button right here and then with plugins you can basically have them deactivated or activated once you have them installed and you can always notice if they are activated by looking at the background of the plugin so here we can see it's this light blue background and we can also see a button that says deactivate this means that this plugin is currently activated and all the other ones that have a white background they are not activated now to activate the plugins we could simply click on activate right here or we could also select multiple ones like I'm going to select the ones we have just installed and then go to bulk actions activate and then click click on apply then just simply close these windows here that show up just to make things look cleaner again so these are all the plugins that we need for now throughout the video we're going to install a few more plugins to build our website but we're going to install them as we go so that you understand the exact purpose of each plugin that we're going to use now before we move on building our website I want to give you a quick overview of the website structure so that you understand exactly what we're actually doing so in affiliate marketing site has two main Pages it has the homepage and then it has the blog page with all of the blog posts and then usually there's also an about page where you can talk about the website or the business and then you can also have a contact page where people can just fill in a form and contact you sometimes there's also other Pages like for example different categories that you could add also to the navigation menu but these are basically just a specific summary of some of the blog posts that get into that belong to this specific category now you could also add a resources page or different things and I'm going to show you how to do that but um we're just going to build the basic structure which is everything you need to make money with your affiliate marketing website because the money is actually here in the blog posts so I'm going to go to the next slide here where it kind of Illustrated how the website works and how you actually make money with this website so as you probably know blog posts are just informational posts where people can read them and then they get some information that they were looking for so what we want to do with our affiliate marketing website is we want to create blog posts about topics that actually lead to a customer buying something so for example when somebody types in best email marketing tools they're looking for an overview of the best email marketing tools so then we're going to write a blog post a Roundup of let's say the seven best email marketing tools and then for each tool we're going to sign up for the affiliate program of that specific tool and then we're going to add our affiliate link to the blog post and when somebody clicks on that link We may receive a commission so that's basically how we make money and that's how we want to structure our page all these Pages here they're actually not that important they're just going to give our our website a structure but most people won't even see these Pages here most people will just see the blog posts because these are the pages that come up when people type in the keywords that we're going to create our blog posts for four so 99% of traffic will just go to these posts here and then sometimes people will also check out the homepage the about page or the contact page so this is the homepage that I'm going to show you how to build very easy very simple very clean there's going to be a logo at the top here in the header then here you can see different links so there's the blog page we talked about the about page and the contact page and then here there's just a email newsletter signup section which is also a great way to get some additional Commission by creating a newsletter and then putting some affiliate links in those so that's something you want to do then we uh below the hero section of the homepage we're going to have the Articles so we're going to feature a couple of Articles here on the homepage and then that's it for the homepage so we're going to keep things very simple because you want to focus on creating blog posts and not really on creating the most beautiful website um so that's why we're going to create something very simple very easy but very effective then we also have the blog page where you can see an overview of all of the blog posts with the different categories and then there's also a sidebar here where you can talk about yourself or the business another newsletter signup section some social media links and then the recent posts here when people Click on each of these posts they will obviously go to the blog post where this is just a dummy post here and then at the bottom you can see um suggested posts that are related to this post here and then again the same sidebar as on the blog page then we have a simple about page right here where you can talk about yourself and then the contact page just a simple contact signup page where people can get in contact with you and then obviously there's also the footer of the website with the privacy policy and the terms of service and I'm going to give you templates for both of those as well now to make it absolutely clear what the difference is between a page and a post so for this website right here you can see these are all posts and when we go to blog to the blog page here are all the blog posts this is the content of your website this is the thing that will rank in Google and should get people to our website so to show you how this looks like in WordPress I'm going to go to the example side and go to pages right here so here you can see these are all pages the homepage the about page Blog Page contact page privacy policy and terms of service these are all of the the pages right here blog about contact and so on and then these right here like I said these are posts and you can find them right here under posts and then these are the six posts the dummy posts that I'm going to show you how to import and when we click on them we can see that this is just basically text so this is text this could also have images or buttons and then what will happen when you add a new post then when you click on that post here then it would automatically be structured just like this and we can also customize how the structure will be and this is the difference between a page and a post what we're going to do is we're going to first um create all of these Pages which is going to give our website the structure and then after this is done you're basically finished building your website and you just have to focus on creating these text image posts so this is going to be the work of building an affiliate marketing website just creating content adding it to the to the posts right here in the dashboard here under posts and it will show up on your website so the first page that we're going to build is going to be the homepage which again looks just like this we have this zero section here a newsletter signup section then we have the popular articles so these could be the latest articles or popular ones that you want to feature on your homepage and in order for us to see how this will eventually look like we do already need to have a couple of blog posts on our page this is where I'm going to give you these sample posts these placeholder content posts and then we can see exactly what we're actually building how it will look like once you do have some of your own content so to save you some time I've already created these dummy blog posts that you can simply import to your WordPress website and I've created a Google Drives folder for this video you can basically access it by using the link in the description it's going to say something like Google Drive and then you should get to this drive folder here and once you're here you want to click on website content and then you want to click on dummy blog posts and then you want to download the dummy blog post. XML file so right click and download download anyway and then just save this somewhere on your computer and then we're going to go back to the dashboard and we're going to go to tools and then click on import then we're going to go to Wordpress and click on install all now and then let's click on run importer and now we're going to drag and drop the file here into this window or you could just click on choose file and then find it there I'm just going to Simply drag and drop this file just right here and then click on upload file and import then here you want to select you yourself as an author so your account here and then also take download and import file attachments and click on submit and then all done so now we can go to to posts and now as you can see these dummy blog posts are imported and now we also want to add some images to these posts because when you go to the example website you can see each of these posts has a featured image which is also visible here on the homepage right here so to get these images you want to again go to the Google Drives folder go to the um dummy blog posts and then under blog post images you can double click here and then you can just um download all of these images when that's done you want to unzip the download file and then you want to come back to your WordPress dashboard and then open up each of these blog posts so I'm going to just hit um command or hold down command or control if you're using Windows and then click on each of these blog posts so it opens it up in a new tab you could also just write click and then click open in new tab and then we have these six tabs open with each of the blog post posts now to add the featured images we're going to first uh close this down and then on the right side under the post menu we're going we're going to go to featured image and then we're going to click on featured image and here we can just import all of the files at the same time so I'm just going to drag and drop all of the images right here and then to add the first image to the first blog post I'm going to select the first one here and click on set featured image and then simply click on update and I'm going to going to do the same thing for the other blog post as well so again go to featured image set featured image then choose the second one set featured image update then the third one again featured image set featured image choose the third one set featured image update and when that's done for all the six blog posts we can just close all of these tabs and now let's create our homepage so let's click on pages and then let's click on add new and then let's name this page home and then at the bottom we want to change some settings so under content layout we want to change this from default to 100% full width and then we also want to disable the paddings right here then you also want to go to title and then disable the title by clicking here and then you want to click on publish again publish and now we can look at how this site currently looks like by right clicking on view page and and then opening this up in a new tab then we can open up this tab and we can see this is currently how the page looks like it's basically an empty page but when we look at the URL here at the top we can notice that it that it has a for slome at the end of the URL so when we delete this section of the URL and just hit enter and actually go to our domain which our homepage should show up for we can see another page actually shows up so what we need to do is we need to tell WordPress that we want to have the other page we've just created this one as the homepage so let's go back to the dashboard by clicking on this um icon here at the top left and then you can see here under Pages we have the new page created the homepage and now what we need to do is go to settings and then click on reading and now we want to go to your homepage display and select a static page and then under homepage you want to select the page we've just created which we called home so we're going to select home here and then we're going to click on Save changes and now when we go back to our domain so to our website by clicking here we can see that this new page that we've created is now assigned as our homepage and you can also see this by going back to the dashboard and then you can see next to the homepage it says front page this means that this is now assigned as the homepage so now to edit this page we're just going to click on it here and then we're going to click on edit with Elementor Elementor is the page builder that we have installed before so this is the visual page builder that we're going to use to design our website it's very easy to use you can just drag and drop in elements from the left side to your page and Visually build out your website we're going to start with the first section of the homepage which is this section here and we're going to start with uh this text here but the first thing that we notice is that we have two columns so one column here for the text and the email signup section and then one column for the image so that's what what we're going to do first so here we're going to click on the plus sign and then we can see we have different options for the layout so we have a just one column two columns three columns and so on we're going to use the two columns layout and that way we can have two different spaces to add elements for now to add an element we're going to go to the nine dots right here on the top left and this will take us to all the different elements we can drag in the first thing we're going to drag in is a heading so let's just click and hold and then drag the heading into the First Column here just like this and then we can already like change the text so let's just see it says helping you choose the right marketing tools so we can just either um just write it right in here or we can also write it in here so wherever you want works I'm just going to type it in here so helping you choose the right marketing tools obviously you can just type in whatever you want whatever kind of website you want to build the tagline is going to be a bit different now the next thing you notice is that the color of the text is actually blue which is the default color that comes with a new website and if you look here the color is actually like this very kind of uh like this almost black but it's a bit more gray as well so we want to change the color so what you could do is when you click on this element ment here you could go to style and then go to text color and then change the color right here but you don't want to change the color for each single element what we want to do is we want to set up some Global colors uh basically are default colors for the entire website so that when we add new elements then we always have the same color that we want for our website and that also makes it easy to change the colors later on once the website is finished so to set up our default colors we want to go to the hamburger icon here on the top left and then go to side settings then go to Global colors here at the top and then here we can see the default colors that are currently active so we have this blue that we've seen here with the text which is the primary color then we have a secondary color a text color and then also an accent color and then we can also add some more colors here at the bottom so now we want to Define what kind of colors we want to use for our website now for the example website that I'm going to build here in this video I've used this green here as an accent color and then for the text colors I've just used this very dark gray and then for the bottom I've also used some kind of dark gray as well as the background here so a very simple color setup which I'm going to recommend to you to use a simple one when you're starting out you can always change this later on uh for your website now the easiest way to set up your colors is by going to a site called coolers.com start the generator and then you can set up your colors here now I'm going to Simply do three different colors so I'm going to click on the X twice so we only have three different colors and then what you can do is just hit uh a space the space bar on your keyboard and then it will just generate different color pellets that you could use for your website so if you like a specific color so for example we like this one we could just click on the lock icon and then this color will basically stay here and then if we hit the space bar again it will just change to other colors that will fit well with the first one we have chosen here so you can do this and just find out the colors you want um I've basically created my own pette for this website here which I'm also going to link Down Below in the description so if you want to use the same colors uh for building the website and then later on you can still change them you can use this pette as well so this is going to be the accent color this is going to be the text color and then this we're going to use as a background color for some parts of the website I believe it's just the footer so I always have this open here so I can just click on the copy uh icon here and then it will copy this color code that I can simply paste into um my my default colors so first for the primary color I'm going to copy this code here so I'm going to click on copy here then I'm going to go back and I'm going to change this primary color I'm going to just paste that in here contrl V and as you can see now the color has changed I'm going to use the same color for the secondary color as well and also for the text color just to keep things simple like you don't want to um do too many complex things when you're just starting out building a new website um especially if you're a beginner so then for the accent color we're going to um go back to our pallet then we're going to use this one here copy and we're going to paste that in here as well and then I'm also going to add a new color for a background color going to click on add color here then I'm going to name this one background number one and I'm going to copy this last color by clicking here going back and then choosing the color like this and that's everything we need to do so these are the colors I'm going to use I'm going to click on update here at the bottom to save this and you can also see that the heading we've added before the color has now also changed to the default primary color we have set here now what we also want to do is Define our default fonts for the website so let's go back by hitting the back icon and then going to Global fonts and then here if you want to you can just keep the global fonts that are set up by default for all the primary secondary and so on um I personally going to change this so I'm going to click on the pen icon and then the default one for the primary is Roboto I'm going to change this to open sense so I'm going to choose this one here and then it changes as you can see here if you want to you can also choose Roboto or any other popular um fonts I would just make sure you use basic fonts that are easily readable and not use like very fancy ones because people just don't like to read um text in fancy fonts it's kind of more difficult to read and what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the same font for all of the different text um types so I'm going to um use open sense here as well and then for the text as well open sense and then for the accent as well so most of it was a Roboto which again is also fine so you can use that if you want to but I want to make sure you you know how to change your font Styles so once that's done let's click again on update so now let's close the side settings and go back to our elements so now we want to change also the size of this text of this heading here so we're going to select it by clicking on the pen icon and then we're going to go to style and then under typography we can change the size so we can just drag this to the right side I just want to have it on three lines kind of like this then we can also change the the weight to make it Bolder by maybe making this 700 a bit Bolder and then maybe we're going to change the size again a bit less like this and then we can also change the line height here so I'm going to just increase the line height just a slight bit Pro like this looks fine to me then let's click on update and now we're going to add the second text here we're going to add this section here the the text saying that you should sign up to the newsletter so we're going to go back and then we're going to go to the nine dots here and we're going to drag in the text editor like this just under the heading and then we're going to just change the text so I'm just going to copy and paste it from this example site copy and then paste this in here and then it just takes the default colors again and the default fonts we've already set up so that's fine but we want to go to style and then again go to typography and then also change the size a little bit kind of probably like this and then you can also change the weight if you want to I'm going to leave it here as it is and the line height is fine as well so let's again click update next we're going to add the email signup section that you can see here so let's go back then click on the nine dots and go to the elements and then let's scroll down all the way to where it says WordPress so click the drop- down arrow and then we want to look for MailChimp so here we go here is MailChimp we just want to uh click and drag this below the text then here we want to do some adjustments so we're going to first delete the title here then we're going to delete all of the text because I just want to have the email signup section and not any text above and we're also going to delete the accept gdpr term section and then we're going to change the text for the button I'm going to change this to join now and then I also want to have this a bit closer to this text here at the top and to to to get this closer we're going to have to go to Advanced right here and then we're going to change the margin so with margin and padding you can basically control how close the elements are to each other so the gap between each of the elements now uh what's the difference between margin and padding now there's an overview here so just look at this image here and you can see this is the content and then this is the border of the content um for example here this is the content and then this this line here is the border of the content now when you increase margin it will add spacing outside of this border if you add padding it will CH it will add spacing inside of the border so just keep that in mind now we're going to remove some margin here at the top of the email signup section so first we're going to unlink we're going to unlink these values here by clicking on the link icon and then I'm going to remove some spacing here at the top by clicking on the down arrow and as you can see by clicking it the spacing here at the top decreases so let's just let's do minus 25 or let's actually do minus 30 that's fine then we're going to click on apply and there we go and now we can notice that the color of this join now button is in blue instead of the accent color green that we have added before under Global colors so we actually want to change this to this green right here that we've set up before and the reason it's still blue is because we also need to set up our default colors on the WordPress level and not just here on the Elementor level which is our page builder so we're going to do that now so let's first click on update to make sure we save the changes and then we want to go to our website so we're going to Simply copy the link here of our URL here at the top and then open new tab and just paste that in here hit enter and then you're going to just going to see how the website currently looks like how the homepage looks like and you can see this bar here at the top you can always see this bar when you're logged into WordPress for the side you're on right now so let's just click on customize here then let's go to General options then General styling and then here you can see we can also set up our default colors on the WordPress level so let's go back to our color pellet and I'm going to copy this scen here by clicking on this icon going back here or actually actually here and then changing the primary color I'm just going to paste in the color code here all right and then I'm going to also set a hover primary color so usually I use the same color and then I just make this a bit lighter or darker now let's just make this a bit darker kind of like this that's fine and then we can also scroll down and go to the colors here so for the link colors I want to set this to the black that I've set here the gray and then just paste in the color code here and do the same thing for the hover I'm going to also use this green so I'm going to again copy this and then change the hover color to Green as well and then click on publish and now we should be able to reload the page so let's maybe just delete all this at the end go back to our website hit enter and then we can see the button color has now changed to green and when we hover over it the color has changed to the hover color which is a bit darker a darker version of the same green so now we can go back to our Elementor Page Builder and let's also reload the page here to see if the color changed here as well and there we go it's also green now now later in the video I'm also going to show you how to connect your website to the email marketing tool MailChimp so that whenever somebody types in their email address on your website it will go to your email list on MailChimp and you can send them out email sequences or newsletters and so on so for now we're going to leave it at that but later on we're also going to connect it so that this um signup section actually works now you don't need to collect any emails on your website so if you don't want to you can just right click here on the pen icon and then just delete this email marketing section so next we're going to create the second part of the hero section which is adding the image here now you don't need to have a person here um you can also add another image but this is a very popular design so I'm going to show you how to do it like this and I'm also going to show you how to remove a background from an image because this image here of this guy I actually found it on a website called pexels I believe pexels.com this is a website where you can find free stock images that you can use copyright free on your website so for example you could just type in guy with uh laptop something like that and then uh different people come up and you can basically just use these images completely for free make sure when you download one of these images you go to um you download this version here large or even medium don't go with the original size because it's just too large and it will decrease the loading speed of your website which is very bad so I would just go for the large image here another site you can use is unsplash um.com so this one here here you this basically the same side you can just also find stock images that are copyright free now if you want to just recreate the same side you can just go to the Google drive folder for this video which again you can find in the description below then go to website content and then go to Hero section and here you can see this was the original image that I've found and then I actually remove the background so it just was this guy so the tool that I've used to remove the background very easily is I've used canva.com and I'm going to leave the link to this down below in the description as well it's a very nice design tool very easy to use so I've just uploaded the image of this guy here and then I would click on edit photo and then click on background remover here but as you can see this is a pro feature meaning you have to pay for canva I believe it's like 10 bucks a month to be able to access this feature I think there's also a free trial so you can just use the free trial then remove the background and then download the image and then you don't have to pay anything but um when you when you remove the background you want to click on share and then go to download and then make sure you take the transparent background option and then click on download and then you get this file basically um without the background now if you if you want to get another free tool there's also this website here remove.bg and there you can also remove backgrounds so I'm going to show you quickly how this works so I'm I'm going to just drag in this image here and then it will automatically remove the background and you can download the image for free if you want to have it high quality then I believe you have to pay something as well but it's very little so that's basically how it works so let's go back to our website here and let's add the image so let's go to the nine dots here and then look at the elements and now we want to add an image so I'm going to drag in the image from the left side put it here and then to change the image I'm going to just click on choose image and then I'm going to drag in the image I have um created so I'm going to just drag this in here once it's uploaded click on select and now before we do anything with this image let's just align both of these um columns here in the center so we're going to click on the section here we're going to select a section and then we're going to go to vertical a line and change it from default to middle and this way we have the both of the elements here in the center and now when we go back to the example page we can see that there's like a gradient in this hero section going from the bottom all the way to the top so it starts here at a light gray color and then goes all the way to the top to a white color so we want to add that as well so we're going to go back and then we're going to again highlight this section or select the section and then we're going to go go to style and then click on this gradient icon here once we click on it we can SE select the gradient colors so for the first color we're going to select a a wide so a complete wide with the code um 6 fs and then the second color we're going to change this to a light gray so we're going to do something like this that looks fine and now we want to also have this this guy come up right at the border of this section just the same way as we can see here so to do that we're going to select the image and then go to Advanced and then keep the values here for margin linked and then just remove or go down with the value by clicking on the arrow and then by clicking on it you can see that the image gets larger and slowly gets to this border here as you can see so maybe one more maybe yeah just like this now if for some reason when you add the gradient the gradient stops here and doesn't go over the whole width of the page then you want to make sure to select the section and then you want to turn on stretch section here under layout so go to layout and then click on turn this on stretch section and then it should look just like what you can see here so now we're done with the first part of the homepage and we can move on to the second part which is this one here the popular articles section where we just feature a few blog posts and in order for us to create this nice layout we need to install a plugin so let's go come back here and then let's go back to our WordPress dashboard by going to the icon here and then going to exit but before I actually click exit make sure you update your page so all the changes are saved and then click on exit and then you can simply click on the WordPress icon here and this will take us back to the WordPress dashboard so now let's go to plugins then click on add new and then the plugin we're going to use is uh the post grid so we're going to type that in the search bar and it's the first one that comes up so let's click on install now then activate and then we can just scroll down and click on Save changes and now let's go back to plugins and look for our plugin which is this one here it's already activated but we also want to enable auto updates so let's click on enable auto updates here and actually let's also enable it for this plugin here the WordPress in importer which we have used to import our dummy blog posts so now that we have the plugin installed we can go back to our homepage by going to pages and now as we have already used Elementor we can just go and click on edit with Elementor and this will take us back to our editor so now let's first create the new section by clicking on the plus icon here then this time it's just going to be a one column section so we're going to click here and now let's go go to our Elements by clicking on the nine dots and now we want to use this um this element here which is the tpg grid layout because we have installed the plugin we can now see this element so we can now drag this inside of our section and now we can already see that our posts basically show up here now we want to go into some of the settings so here for the layout we're going to keep the layout one then we're going to click on settings and for field selection we're going to deselect a few things so let's deselect the section title and also the metadata then let's open up this exerpt content menu and decrease the number of characters that should be shown as the preview text here to let's say 170 should be enough and then we also want to click on the read more button and I'm going to change for the button style from the default style to only text button and then read more is fine and I also want to have an icon so I'm going to uh activate the icon here and I'm going to choose an icon by clicking here and then I want to have something like an arrow so let's maybe choose this Arrow here click on insert and this will insert this Arrow here then let's go to the style settings by clicking here and then let's click on the read more uh section here and change the text text color so I want to have this in my accent color which is green so under text color I can just click on this globe icon and then all of my Global colors will show up and I'm just going to choose the accent color we have already set up and then as you can see it will change to this screen now we can also go to post title here and this is about the title and as you can see when we hover over the title it's actually blue and we want to change this to our accent color so under post title let's switch from normal to hover and then here we can Define the hover color so I'm going to just going to click on the globe icon again and choose my accent color and then we can see when we hover over the title it changes to Green next let's click on card and then we're going to add a radius for the Post like the blog post cards here is entire thing so we're going to just go to cardboard radius leave these values linked and then we can just click on the up arrow and then change this to let's say 20 and this will add these rounded Corners which looks a lot better and then we also want to add a box Shadow just like you can see here and we can do that by just clicking on this pen icon next to the Box Shadow and that's everything we need to do you can also change the values of the Shadow here but I think it already looks pretty good so that's how I'm going to keep it then we might also want to change the text size of the title and also of the um preview text so let's scroll up and first go to the Post title then we can look for typography right here click on the pen icon and then here we can change the size so we can make it bigger or smaller I think I'm going to make it a bit larger I think this looks pretty good and then I'm also going to go to the exerpt and then go to typography and also adjust the size here I want to have this a bit larger this is too much so I think maybe like this actually let me go back to the post title and decrease the text size just a little bit maybe we do 22 okay now I think that looks great so to save this just click on update and now the only thing that's missing is the title for this section just something like this like popular articles or recent blog posts something like that so let's go back here click on the elements icon and then drag in a heading just above our blog post section then we're going to change the text here to let's say popular um articles and then we're going to change the size so we're going to go to style go to typography and then first of all change the size to something a bit bigger 36 is fine and then maybe also change the wage to let's say 700 to make this a bit Bolder and then let's also also add a bit of padding or bit of margin here to the bottom of this text of this heading so let's go to Advanced and then unlink the margin values and increase the bottom margin to let's say 10 pixels is fine and then we also want to add a bit of a margin here to the top of the entire section and also to the bottom so let's select our um block post section then go to advance we're already here and first of all unlink these values and then for the top I'm going to add let's say 30 pixels and at the bottom I'm going to add 100 pixels so this will be added here at the bottom of the section and before the footer and that's it for the homepage now we're finished with our first page let's make sure we update the changes and then we can also check out how the page currently looks like by looking at a preview we can click on this IE icon here on the bottom left and then a new tab will open up so we can see how your website looks like or how the homepage we've just created looks like we have the margin we added here at the bottom we have the margin here and then we have these two sections looks pretty nice and clean in my opinion obviously we have some more work to do like the header and the footer and all the other pages but now that you understand exactly how the page builder works it's going to be a lot easier so also here on the sitemap overview we can see our homepage is now done and the next page we're going to work on is our blog page so when we go to the example side and click on the blog page then we can see what the page is going to look like and we don't actually need to design a lot here because it's already pre-designed by our theme and WordPress so we're going to have all the blog post here and then we're also going to create this sidebar with a search bar an About Me section a newsletter section and the recent post section and then also some some social media links so let's go ahead and create that page we're going to start in the WordPress dashboard again so let's go and open up a new tab type in our URL so this would be Medics reviews.com wpadmin hit enter and this will take us to our dashboard then let's click on pages and create a new page then we're just going to give the page a title I'm going to name this one blog and then click on publish again publish and now just like we've done with the homepage we need to tell WordPress that this page is going to be our blog page so let's go back to our WordPress dashboard and go to settings click on reading and then here under post page we're going to select our page that we've just created the blog page click on Save changes and now when we go back to our Pages we can see that the new blog page is assigned as the post page which is what we want now when we click on view here and open this this in a new tab then we can see that there's already content here on the page because we have assigned this page as our post page but we still want to make some changes here so let's click on customize and by the way the changes that we're going to do for the blog page is going to be in the WordPress customizer and not in Elementor so this might be a bit confusing but just follow along and everything is going to be fine so first we're going to change the layout so let's go to block then go to blog entries and then here change under blog style change it from large image to thumbnail and this way we get this kind of thumbnail design which looks a lot better in my opinion the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go back by hitting this Arrow here twice this will get us to the main menu again then we're going to go to General options and go to page title and then here we're going to go and and for for the visibility we're going to hide on all devices so we get rid of this ugly page title here at the top then let's go back again twice then let's go to typography and click on body and then here we also need to set our default font so we want to set this to the same font we have on our homepage which we have set on the Elementor global settings so I'm going to go with open sand again but you want to choose whatever you have chosen CH there so open sends and then you can see it changes for all of the text then I also want to change the size I want to increase the size of the text just a little bit so I'm going to change it from 14 pixels to 16 pixels to just increase the size then let's click on publish and now we're going to take care of this sidebar here we're going to make this look exactly like you can see it here like I've shown you before so let's go back and then let's go just to the main menu here and then let's go to widgets go to default sidebar and then click got it here and then we want to first delete everything here so we start with a blank canvas so this is kind of combersome sometimes so just want to click on these items go to the three dots and then click on remove search do the same thing here three dots remove heading remove these links this group remove the comments and also so remove this text here again remove so we just are left with this plus icon and now the first thing we're going to add is a search bar so let's click on the plus icon and type in Search and then we're just going to click on search here and there we go we already have it here then we're going to add the next thing which is the about section so let's type in about about me choose this one and there we go now here we can basically change some settings so about about me is fine I can change the name right here so let's say Sam Smith or basically your name and then we also want to add an image now you can't really click on this button and just upload an image here so we can we basically need to upload it to our media library and then copy the link and paste it in here so let's click on publish first and then let's go back to our dashboard so I already have it open here you can just go to it and then we're going to click on um media right here and here we're going to upload our profile image now again you could just use the profile image I've provided in the Google Drives folder I'm going to just use one that I have prepared here I'm going to use this one here so I'm going to drag it into the media library and then once it's uploaded you just want to click on the profile image and then I'm going to copy this URL right here then we're going to go back to the customizer and then click on the about me section and then just paste in this URL here paste and just like that it has now changed then you can also add a description here if you want to about yourself so I'm just going to copy and paste it from this example page here paste that in here and then you can also add some Social Links just below this text so you can just paste those links in here so for your Facebook page you want to just add your link so I don't really have one but I'm just going to going to uh type in the Facebook URL and once you type in a URL here the Facebook icon will already show up the same with Instagram LinkedIn or all the other social media Pages just uh paste in the URL to your LinkedIn or whatever you want to add and then it's going to show up here at the bottom then I want to add the newsletter signup section so let's scroll down click on the plus icon once again then type in mail so the MailChimp uh widget will come up let's click on it and then you can see this sign up section here so I'm also just going to copy the text so just going to copy the text here paste it into this text box which will show up here and then I don't want to have them accept the gdpr terms you can if you want to I'm just going to delete it and then this part will be gone and then for the last part of the sidebar we're also going to add um the recent posts so let's click on ADD block then type in recent and then we want to do recent posts right here and there we go that's all we have to do now the most recent posts will show up now if you want to show more more posts here I would actually show more so I would just change the number here to something like six or even even more if you want to but I think six is fine and that's all we need to do let's click on publish and now I also want to change the text size of the sidebar titles and also of this text text here so to do that we're going to go back to the main customizer menu then click on typography then go to First we're going to do the heading so we're going to click on sidebar widget heading and here we're going to change the heading to let's say 18 pixels and then we're going to go back and also select the widgets here and then we're going to change the font size to let's say 15 pixels and this will increase the text size here as well you can have it a bit smaller if you want to maybe 14 is fine as well just like this all right let's again click on publish so that's it for the blog page we're pretty much done already and we've also already taken care of this sidebar which will be not only shown on the blog page itself but also on the blog post so when you click on one of these posts here then you can see that on the right side the sidebar will be visible as well so when we go back to the overview here we can see we are already done with two pages the home page and the blog page and now we're also going to really quick look at the layout for our blog posts so how the page looks like when somebody clicks on a blog post so let's come back here and then we're already in the customizer if you don't know how to get here you can just type in the URL of your website and once you're logged in to Wordpress or if you're logged in you can see this bar here at the top once you see this click on customize and this will take you into the WordPress customizer so um we're going to click on blog and then now we've already added the entries now we're going to addit the single post so now this is how the single post page currently looks like we have the featured image of the blog post the title The metadata and then the content here the sidebar we already have created here as you can see and then at the bottom we have the um posts that are related to the post that we are just reading so as you can see this already looks pretty good so we don't actually need to do a lot here the only thing that I want to do is I want to do some changes here to the metadata so we're going to go to the uh meta section here and what I want to do is I want to deselect the comments and maybe also the category if you think it's important then you can just leave it here I'm going to probably deselected and then for the date I'm actually going to change I'm going to delete the date I'm going to disable it and then I'm going to um change it to modifi date so whenever you update your blog post then the date will be updated as well and that's actually the only thing that we're going to change here now I also want to show you how you can change this name here that shows up for the author of this blog post so let's click on publish just to save the changes then let's go back to our dashboard and click on users here and then we can see we only have one user so far this this is going to be your own account so let's click on it and then let's scroll down and then here under nickname we can just change the name so let's say it's Sam Smith and then we also want to change the display name publicly as we want to change it to Sam Smith and then we're going to click on update profile and now when we go back here and reload the page we should be able to see that when we click on one of these blog posts s that the name here has now changed to our new name so next let's take care of the about page so just to show you how this page is going to look like we're going to go to the example page click on about in the navigation menu and then you can see how the page is approximately going to look like as you can see it's a very simple page because it's really not that important to spend too much time on these Pages or even the text that you're going to add here because people are not even going to see it you don't even have any traffic yet once you have enough blog post and you have some traffic on your website then you can spend some more time perfecting your about page but for now you just don't want to spend too much time on these things that in the beginning don't really matter so I'm also going to show you by the way how to easily create a customized personalized text here for uh your about section using the chat GPT AI tool but first let's create this page so we're going to start again in the WordPress dashboard we're going to click on pages and then we're going to add a new page here at the top we're going to name this page about and then under content layout we're going to go with full width we're going to disable the paddings here and then under title we're going to disable the title and then click on publish confirm publish and then already from here we can click on edit with Elementor and then we're going to add a section so we're going to click on the plus icon add uh the single column section here and then go to the elements and drag in our heading then I'm going to change the text to about me or whatever you want to have it titled and then I'm going to change the size so go to style typography size I'm going to do 36 again as the title size and the weight is going to be let's say 700 and then let's go back to our elements and drag in the text editor just below the top title and now we need to come up with a nice About Me section now the way I did this for the example side like this text I just use chat GPT which is a tool that I'm going to show you more about later when we get into writing your blog posts so this is a free tool you probably have heard of it I'm going to leave the link to this down below in the description as well it's a very cool AI tool that can basically write an very well-written text for you so we're just going to ask it to write an about section for our website and so I'm going to type in something like please write me my about section for my let's say blog website and then we're also going to give um this AI tool some information about ourselves so it's actually personalized here's some information about me uh and U things that I'd like to include so I just came up with a few things that I want to have included in the about section like I have 5 years experience in online marketing every week I test new marketing tools and review them on my website and my goal is to help you find the perfect marketing tool for your business now you can add as many things you want to add here as you want but for the sake of this video Let's just use this and then uh hit enter and then chat gbt will basically write your about section for you you can basically copy paste this or you can I mean you'll probably want to read through it and make sure it's actually truthful to you and your website but this is going to give you a basic structure that you can use and then you can basically rewrite it however you want but for this video we're just going to use this so we're just going to copy the text here uh copy and then go back and paste this in here and just like that we have our about section now obviously you want to change all these things in the brackets here so I would change this to uh the Blog name madx reviews and just to make this a bit easier to read U we're going to just drag the text text box just a bit to the left side and then you also want to go in here and make sure you add some spaces here maybe you also want to um make some some sentences bold like let's say we want to make this sentence bold because it's kind of important just give this text a bit of structure so it's easier to read but again don't worry about it too much because like I said probably nobody is going to look at this page in the beginning then obviously also add your name here at the bottom and then I also like to add an image here at the bottom so let's go to the elements and drag in an image then click here and I'm also going to just use this image here click on select and then we're going to align this to the left and we're going to decrease we're going to go to style and decrease the width just like this we can also change the Border radius here so when we click here and increase the radius it will become a circle which looks great and now we're also going to add some padding or some margin here to the top and bottom so we're going to click on the entire section go to Advanced and then unlink the margin uh values go to 30 pixels for the top and then for the bottom I'm going to do 100 pixels and that's it let's click on update and that's going to be our about me page now again you can spend some more time here add some pictures and so on personally I like to do this once the website actually starts getting traffic so I don't so I focus actually on the important things which is writing blog posts now to see how this looks like you can always go to the preview uh icon here at the bottom and then you can see how the page looks like so now we only have one more page to go which is the contact page so let's go to our demo page and see what the content page is going to look like so we're just going to have a simple title some text here and then this form field where people can type in their name email and the message message so the first thing we want to do in order for us to create this form field is we need to install two plugins so let's go to our dashboard and then head over to plugins and then the first plugin we need we already have installed which is the wp forms light plugin so we don't need to install that anymore so let's install the second one so let's click on add new here on the top and then we're going to type in the search bar Qi add-ons and we're going to look for a plugin like this this Qi add-ons for Elementor we want to install this install now and then we want to activate it activate and this plugin is going to enable us to have some more styling options when it comes to our form Fields with WP forms so the next thing we want to do is we want to go to we're just going to do no thanks here and then let's go to Qi add-ons for Elementor and click on widgets and then here we can basically deactivate the widget widgets for all of the options except for forms so deactivated for business creative um showcase SEO infographics and then for form style we're going to leave this turned on and we're going to turn it off for everything else and now because we have installed the wp forms plugin we should now be able to see this menu item here WP forms so let's click on it and then we're going to click on add new to create a new form then here we're going to use a simple template so let's click on simple contact form and click use template and then here we're going to do some changes to this simple contact form so let's click on the first field here and then for the format I'm going to change this to simple so we only ask for one name then I'm going to go to Advanced and I'm going to just hide the label here so I'm going to tick this option and then the name text will be uh deleted and then for the placeholder content I will just type in your name so people can see what they need to type in here then let's go to the second field the email field uh here again I'm going to go to Advanced go to hide label and then for the placeholder text let's type in your email and then for the message I'm going to change this to Advanced and go to field size I'm going to do a large placeholder text I'm going to do your message and then we're going to hide the label as well to just keep things very simple and clean and then actually I'm going to make the message required as well so let's go back to General and then take the required option so people actually need to type something in here so that's going to be our form so let's click on Save and then close the window and now we can see we have a new form which is called Simple contact form so now we have everything we need to create our contact page so let's head over to Pages then click add new and we're going to name the page contact and then here for contact layout we're going to do this 100% full width we're going to disable the paddings and then for title we're going to disable the page title and then hit publish and confirm and now let's click on edit with Elementor then let's add a new section and let's do a one column section then we're going to need a header so I'm going to go to the elements here and drag in a heading so I'm going to just going to change this to cont or just contact us or something like that go to style and go to typography then I'm going to change the size of the title to 36 pixels make the weight a 700 and then we're also going to add some text so let's go to the elements again at the text editor just below and then here I just want to say that they can also send an email so just like here on the example page it's going to copy this text here and just paste that in here and I think the size is actually fine so I'm going to leave it at that and now we can actually drag in the form we have created before so let's go back to the elements here and then we going to type in WP forms and then we have two options now because we have installed the QI add-ons we're going to have this option also which gives us more design options so we want to use this one this this red one so I'm going to just drag this into the canvas and then you can see this is the form you have created before and we can now go to style over here and then we can make some changes So eventually I want to have this form look like this form on the demo page so we have this green button we have this Shadow here around the form so that's what we're going to do so let's go back here and then under style let's first go to the button style and then we're going to scroll down and go to button um background color so here let's check out the default colors and I'm going to change it to my accent color for this website and then I also want to have the um the width of the button go through the entire page so for the button full width option I'm going to change this from no to yes and just like that we have this larger button then let's go to spacing style and then under input padding we're going to add 15 pixels to all the sides and then let's go to the advanced menu here and then we're going to open up the Border menu here and we're going to click on this pen icon next to box Shadow to activate the Box Shadow then let's go to layout and add some padding to the inside of this form so let's unlink these values then we're going to do one here we're going to do 30 for the right side for the left side also 30 and then for the bottom we're going to do let's say 20 or let's say 18 then what I forgot to add are the rounded Corners so let's go back to border and then for Border radius we're just going to add 30 here and now it pretty much looks the same as here on the example page now the only thing we need to do is add some margin to the top and the bottom of this section so it's not as close to the header and the footer so let's click on the section go to Advanced then I'm going to unlink the margin values and for the top I'm going to add 30 pixels and for the bottom I'm going to add 100 pixels and click on update now just for you to understand how this contact page works it's very simple so I'm going to do a quick demonstration so let's open up this new page by clicking on this I icon at the bottom left and then let's just type in something random so I'm going to type in my name and a random email example at gmail.com and then type in just a message hello and then when we click on submit we should be getting a message saying thanks for contacting us we will be in touch shortly and now what happens is that you the owner of this website will get an email to your inbox of the email uh account you have used for WordPress and you're going to see this email so it's saying new entry simple contact form and then when you click on the email you can see the name the email and then also the message we have just typed in when you want to get in contact with with this person that has filled in the contact form you can just click on reply and then it will already put in the email they have given you as the recipient and then you can just type in whatever or just respond to them and send them an email and then just keep in contact uh via email great so now we're done with all of our four pages and we can see that in the dashboard we can see on pages we have an about page a Blog Page a contact page and the homepage when we visit the website by hovering over the website name and then right click open in a new tab then we can see this is the homepage but there's still one thing missing which is the header here at the top and the footer so what we're going to do now is create a header which looks like this where we have the logo here on the left side and then we have the navigation links here on the top right which will take us to all of the other Pages we have created and then the footer we're going to also add the logo once again and then our legal Pages the privacy policy terms of service or any other uh policies you want to add here so let's go ahead and and create our website header and the first thing we got to do is create our main menu that you can see here so let's head over to our WordPress dashboard and then go to appearance and click on menus and then we want to create the menu by giving it the name here so I'm going to name it main menu click on create menu and then we need to add pages to our main menu so under Pages let's click on view all and then what we want to add is our Blog Page our about page and our contact page so let's click on ADD menu here and now we can see we have these pages in the main navigation menu we can also move them around by just dragging them up or down so the ones that are at the top here are the ones that will come up first now uh under M menu settings we want to choose the display location so where this menu will be displayed and I'm going to choose main which will then uh mean that it will be shown in the website header so let's click on Save menu and then let's look at our website again by going here and then right click open in a new tab and now we should be able to see we have this new menu as you can see here and now to customize this menu to make this look exactly like what we see here we're going to have to go and click on customize then here the first thing I want to do is disable this top bar which is the bar above the header so let's click on top bar and then go to General and then just untick the enable top bar option and now you can see the the top bar is gone let's click on publish and now the next thing I want to do is disable this border that you can see here just below the header so let's go back to the main menu then let's go to header General and then for the header border bottom we're just going to click on disable and that way the border is gone let's click on publish then let's go back one step and click on menu and then here what we can do is add an effect that will be shown whenever we hover over the links here so what I want to do is just add this underline effect that you can see here when we hover over this navigation menu and you can do that by going to link effects and then it's this first one underline from left and then when we hover over the links you can see you have this underline effect we just need to change the color as well so under links effect color we're going to change this from the blue to the accent color that we have for our website so I'm going to take this color here and then paste the color code in this field and then just click out of the window and now when we hover over here you can see we have this green underline then let's scroll down and for the link color this is just the color of the text here so I'm going to change this to also one of my default colors which is this one here for the text so copy this code paste that in here and now the color has changed and then I also want to disable the search function here so I'm going to scroll down and look for search icon and then I'm going to change it to disabled and now it is gone let's click on publish and now the last thing I want to do is change the font size of this menu so let's scroll all the way up go back to steps then go to typography go to main menu right here and then we can change the font size here so currently it's 13 pixels I'm going to change this to 17 pixels to just make the menu here a bit larger then click on publish next we're going to add our logo to the header so let's go back and then back again and then go to header and click on Logo and then we can click on select logo here and we can drag in our logo so I've prepared one for this website which looks like this so let's click on select and then obviously we want to have it uh we want to see the entire logo click on crop image and there we go this is far too to large so for the maximum width we're going to set this to be a bit smaller probably something like this looks fine so now I want to quickly show you also how I created this logo because it's actually really easy I've used a tool called canva you can find the link Down Below in the description so once you have an account with canva just click on create design then for this logo uh I've used a custom size here then I've used 1,400 * 200 pixels you can also use other dimensions depending on what your logo should look like then create new design and then um I took the text tool add a heading then type in the name so madx reviews then make this all caps make this larger kind of like this and then I also just added an element here so go to elements on the left side type in marketing H because this should be about marketing then under Graphics see all and then I have a lot of different uh marketing Graphics that I could use for my logo so I want to have something simple maybe something like this would work so I have a premium account with Kena that's why I have access to probably more elements than you with a free account but obviously you can also upgrade if you want to um so then you can also change the color so for example reviews I would change to one of the uh website colors which could be this one here then we're going to go to colors and then add this color code and then for the logo we can also change the color so I would change this screen to my accent green color and then the yellow I would change to uh that was wrong the yellow I will change to black or do it the other way around or have this one green and this one um black so whatever you want but this way you can really easily create a quick logo using canva now what you want to do is you want to have a logo for a a light background like a white and then also one for a dark background so what I like to do is just click on the duplicate icon here and then everything that's black I'm going to change it to White so just highlight the black part and then change the color to white here the same change the black to a white color then click on the background and then change the background to a black and now you have a logo for a light background and a dark background now to download these logos we're just going to click on share and then click on download and then we're going to activate the transparent background then click download and then we have the files on our computer now again if you don't have a premium account with canva you can use a site called um remove B remove.bg and this way you can remove the background uh for free and you don't need to pay for canva and then here as you can see we can also add a Rea display logo this should be twice the normal logo size so you can also do that in canva just um right clicked on your design click on make a copy and then open up the design again and then go to resize and then just double the values so hit this lock icon change the height from 200 to 400 click on resize and then you have twice the size and you can download it again and then upload it here for the Rea logo I've already prepared it so I'm just going to upload it here from my computer choose image there we go so so now we're already done with our header so let's click on publish but there's one more thing I want to show you which is if you want to add categories here to your header navigation bar which is something you see a lot with affiliate marketing websites and blogs and you can also do that as well by going to your WordPress dashboard and then under appearance and menus you can also add categories so here add menu items you want to click on categories and then I have one category so for so far for this website and we can just click on it click add to menu then save menu on the bottom right and now when we go to our website visit site we can see we have now a category link as well so you can add as many categories as you want or you can add also other pages and then add them to the menu as well next we're going to create the website footer which is going to be visible at the bottom of the website and this is what it's going to look like we have a logo then we have this um separator then our policy pages and then we have a copyright notice all the way at the bottom so let's go to our page and then we're going to click on customize here on the top and then the first thing we're going to do is change the text here at the footer bottom so let's click on footer bottom and then to change the text we can just change it right here so I will just copy what I have here on my example website just copy this text text then paste that in here now you can also get rid of the footer bottom if you don't want it you can just untick this option here and then the footer bottom will be disabled then I also want to change the background color of the footer bottom so I'm going to use uh this color here so I'm going to copy it and then let's go back to the customizer click on the background color and then paste in the color code right here there we go and then let's save the changes by clicking publish and now let's take care of the footer which is the section above so let's go back and then click on footer widgets and then the first thing we want to do is determine how many columns you want to have in that footer and here for this example we only have one column so that's kind of the simplest version you can do so we're going to change from four columns to just one column like this then I'm going to scroll down and for the text color I'm going to change this to just a total white and for the links hover color I'm going to change this to my accent green which is this one so let's go back paste that color code in here and then save the changes click publish actually I forgot to change the background color as well so we want to have the same color like we have on the fotter bottom which is this color here so let's copy it then go to background color copy or paste in the color code and there we go now we can click publish again and now we're ready to add content to the footer so to do that we're going to go back and then we're going to go to widgets footer one and then here we can click on this plus icon to add different elements to our footer so the first thing I want to add is my logo for that I have made for a dark background so I'm going to choose image and then you can either click on upload or you can also just drag and drop your um logo to the window here and that will also up upload it and then we can see it's much too big so we're just going to uh click and drag this to the left side to make this logo smaller so this is bit too small so let's just experiment how it looks the best so maybe a bit more I think this looks fine and now before I add the policy links I want to add a separator so I'm going to click on the plus icon again type in separator and there we go we can just use this one here and there's nothing more we need to do so let's click on the plus icon again and now I'm just going to add some text so I'm going to click on paragraph and then I'm going just going to type in the policies that I want to add so I'm going to add a privacy policy and then I'm going to add this line and then I'm also going to add a terms off service page link and then to Center the text we're going to click here and then align text Center and now it should be right here and that's pretty much it for our footer now now there's one more thing we need to do which is um make this text a link which then goes to the privacy policy page so we would have to click here and then add the link but we don't have made our privacy policy and and our terms of service page yet so first we need to create those pages and then we can link them to the footer menu so first let's click on publish and then let's go back to our dashboard and create those pages so let's click on pages then click on first close this here and then click on add new we're going to start with the privacy policy then for Content layout we're going to do 100% full width and disable the paddings and then for title we're going to disable the title as well then click on publish confirm then let's click edit with Elementor then we're going to do a simple page so we're going to click on the plus icon do a one column section and then we're going to click here and add our heading so let's just just add this here then I'm going to change the text to privacy policy and then go to style change the typography size 2 36 and make it a 700 in weight and then I'm going to click on the elements again and I'm going to add the text editor and drag this just below the title and now to create your privacy policy you have a couple of different options you could either just go to other websites that are very similar than yours and then basically use their privacy policy as a template then CH just change all the information to your own information or you could use a website called termly doio this is one I really like and then here they have a privacy policy generator so you could use that to create your own privacy policy based on your own individual um case so they're going to ask you a couple of questions about your website and then uh they will give you the um privacy policy or terms of service and everything that you need now to make it as easy as possible for you guys I've created a basic privacy policy that would be applicable for a an affiliate marketing page or a blogging page and you can find that in the Google drive folder link Down Below in the description so when you click on that you can just click on policy templates here and then I have one for a privacy policy and terms of service so I'm going to add the this template in this video so I'm going to click on privacy policy first and then before you copy and paste that onto your page what you want to do is just uh look at these uh placeholders here and make sure you replace them with your own information and the easiest way to do that is if you're using a Mac just click on command F or contrl F if you're using Windows I believe and then you want to type in this this Open Bracket here and then it will show you all of the places where you need to replace the content so it would be the company name the website URL and then here at the bottom it's also the contact email address once that's done you can just um highlight everything and then right click and copy and then go back to Elementor and then just paste that in here and there we go that's everything we need to do and also the headings should be already a heading to in H2 when we go here we can see it's an H2 so it should be formatted correctly if you just copy and paste it from this document now we also want to add some space to the top and bottom of this section so let's uh select the section here go to Advanced unlink the margin values then I'm going to add 30 pixels to the top and to the bottom as always I'm going to add 100 pixels and that's fine let's click on update so now we're done with the privacy policy page let's go back to the dashboard by clicking on the hamburger icon clicking on exit that should take us back to this page then let's click on on WordPress icon and that takes us back to the WordPress dashboard and here we can see under Pages we have now a privacy policy now the quickest way to also create the terms of service page or any other policies is to just copy this page and then change the text obviously so uh we have to install a plugin to be able to duplicate this page uh because this is the quickest way so let's click on plugins here on the left side and then click on add new and then we're going to search for do duplicate page and here we can see we're going to just use this plugin here so let's click on install Now activate and then let's go back to our pages and now when we hover over our privacy policy page we can see we have a new button that says duplicate this so let's click here and there we go now we have a new page as a draft so to change it let's click on it then we're going to change the title to terms of service and publish the page publish and then click edit with Elementor and then we're just going to replace the content so here instead of privacy policy we're going to do terms of service and then also replace the content here so I'm going to again use my template for a terms of service page so go back through the Google Drives folder click on terms of service then we want to make sure to replace all of the place holders here so again uh hit command F Type in the Open Bracket and then we can see all the places where we need to replace the uh content so do that and then once that's done just going to highlight everything right click copy go back to the Elementor and then I'm going to highlight everything here delete it and paste in the new content and everything should be formatted correctly so there's nothing more we need to do let's click on update then let's go back to the WordPress dashboard again and now we have our privacy policy page and terms of service page the last thing we need to do is link those pages to the footer menu so let's go to our page by hovering over here right click open in new tab and there we go and now we want to link those pages to the uh menu here so let's click on customize then go to widgets footer one and then for the text here we're going to add the links so to get those links we're just going to go back to the dashboard then we're going to just click on this page the privacy policy and then here is the URL so I'm going to just copy the URL from here copy copy link address then go back here make sure this is highlighted go to link and paste that in here make sure it looks good all right click here and there we go now it's a link we're going to do the same thing for terms of service so let's go back and click on the terms of service page then we're going to click on the URL highlight the URL right click copy link address go back here then highlight the link and actually paste that in here hit enter and there we go make sure we publish the changes and now to test this out we could close the customizer here and then let's actually click on privacy policy that will take us to the privacy policy and then when we click on terms of service that will take us to our term terms of service so now we have a website that looks great on desktop but we also want to make sure that it looks great on mobile phone screens as well so we want to make sure to look at each of our pages and make sure it's optimized for a smaller screen size so let's start with the homepage let's go back to the WordPress dashboard click on pages and then look for the homepage here let's click on edit with Elementor and then here we want to go down to the left and click on on responsive mode this will open up this tab here at the top where you can change how your website will be displayed now we're on the desktop view we can change to the tablet View and then also to the mobile phone view as you can see here and right off the bat we can see that we need to do some changes here so that it looks great on a smaller screen size as well so we're going to start here for the tablet View and what I noticed is that text is a lot is way too big so I'm going to click on the pen icon here and then under style I'm going to go to typography and then just decrease the text size a bit maybe kind of like this and then here I also need to change the line height so for the line height I'm going to go down to something like this and that already looks a lot better that text is fine that image is fine as well and when we scroll down we have the blog posts here that looks all good so we're already done with the tablet version then let's move on to the mobile phone version here we can see the text was now also changed the size was taken from the changes we've done on the tablet view so the changes are kind of trickling down from desktop to tablet to mobile phone but everything we change on let's say on tablet it doesn't affect the the desktop version so you don't need to worry you can change the sizes the gaps and everything um also on mobile phone this won't affect the tablet version so here the mobile phone version looks quite good actually so we don't need to do a lot here but what we notice is that the logo is kind of too large and kind of pushes the manual link here to the bottom so we need to take care of the header and we can't actually do that here in Elementor we need to do that in the WordPress customizer so let's click on update to save the changes and then let's go to our website and click on customize then click on header mobile menu and then here we can add a separate logo for the mobile version which is what we want to do so let's click on select image then I'm going to choose one of the images of the logos I'm going to choose this one here choose image and then for the maximum height for the logo I'm going to change this to 35 pixels and now when we click on publish and then go back to Elementor in the phone portrait mode then when we click and reload the page we should see that the logo size has now changed we actually need to go back to responsive mode click on the mobile phone screen and there we go now we can see the logo is smaller so another thing you can do to see if the logo works is you can open up your website on your mobile phone and then just play around with this value here the logo maximum height um and make sure you enter an amount or a value that will end up in the logo looking R and not pushing away this menu here and then there is a few more changes I want to do to the mobile menu which is I want to get rid of the text here I just want to have this hamburger icon so I'm going to deselect the display menu text and then when we click publish and reload here responsive mode click on the phone screen then we can see the menu text is now gone and I also want to for the hamburger button I want to change from default icon to 3DX because I think that's a a nicer uh animation design and click publish and then the last thing I want to also do is get rid of the search function so when we click on the menu here we can see that there's a search bar and we I want to get rid of this so I'm going to deselect the mobile menu search and then again click publish then to see if it worked reload the page go to responsive mode and click on the mobile phone screen again this would be faster if you just use your phone and then reload the page there so you can see the changes and now you can see the search bar is gone and that's already it for the homepage it now looks good on every screen size that we have now we want to go back to the dashboard and also look at the other pages so let's go back here and the next page we're going to look at is the about page so let's click again on edit with Elementor and then let's go to responsive mode go to the tablet first and I think this looks fine we can actually make this um a bit wider here for the tablet screen kind of like this that looks good image size is good as well let's go to the mobile portrait mode text looks good heading looks good and here I notice the image is a bit too small so let's just click on the pen icon here go to style and then let's go to width and then change the width just a little bit so we can increase the image size and maybe let's go back here and maybe increase the image size here as well a bit let's go to width and then do it like this and that's everything we need to do for the about page now I've already went through all of the other pages to see if we need to do some adjustments but they're already optimized for mobile so there's nothing we need to do but to be absolutely sure for your website you want to go through each of the page go to the responsive mode and then see if everything look looks good on smaller screen sizes you can also open up your website on your phone and then go through all of the pages there just to make absolutely sure so one thing we haven't covered yet is how to connect your website to an email marketing provider so that you can send out email newsletters and email marketing campaigns to whoever signs up here on your homepage with their email address or when they read a blog post and then sign up through the sidebar right here or maybe you also have sign up sections inside of the blog post itself so what we're going to do is we're going to connect our website to an email marketing software called MailChimp MailChimp is one of the most popular email marketing tools and they also have a free plan that you can use if you have under 500 contacts and that allows you to send up to 1,000 emails per month now I do have a complete MailChimp tutorial that I'll link Down Below in the video description so you want to watch that if you want to really get into how to set up your campaigns how to set up your MailChimp account but for now I just want to show you how to connect your account to your WordPress website so I've already created a new account here on MailChimp so you want to make sure to have your account created then we want to log into our account and go to our uh account icon here at the top right click on profile and then we want to click on Extras and then click on API Keys now to connect our website we need to create a new API key so let's scroll down and click on create a key and then to name this key I'm just going to name it by the website I'm I'm going to connect so let's say medic reviews website and click on generate key and now I'm going to copy this key right here and go back to the WordPress dashboard and now to connect our website we're going to use uh the the ocean WP menu here click on Ocean WP and then we're going to scroll down and click on integrate s right here and then we can see here MailChimp so what we need to do is just copy and paste that API key in the into this field and then we also need the audience ID so let's go back to the MailChimp account and now let's go to audience and go to all contacts and then from here let's click on settings audience name and defaults and then you should be able to see your audience ID right here so this is the ID we need to copy so rightclick copy and then go back here and paste that into this field as well paste and then click on Save changes and now to test if this works let's go to our website and type in a random email so Random email gmail.com click on join now thanks for your subscription now let's go to our MailChimp account go to audience all contacts and now we can can see we have the new email we have just typed in in our email list and we can now start to send them newsletters or send them an email automation campaign whatever you want again if you want to learn how to set this up step by step I'll leave a complete mail CH tutorial Down Below in the description and now the last thing I recommend you do is install a security plugin called word fan security so let's click on plugins and add new then we're going to search for word fense security and then we're going to install this plugin right here just click on install Now activate and then here you can see we need to get our word fence license so let's click on this button and then we're just going to go with the free plan let's get a free license then click on this link here type in your email address then here I'm going to choose yes and then take this option and click on register now let's go to our email inbox to get the license key so I already opened it up it's this email right here so let's click on it and then I'm going to click on install my license automatically and this will take us back to Wordpress where we just need to click on install license and that's all we have to do now we have the free security plugin word fence which just makes sure our website is secure now let's go back to all of our plugins and then make sure everything's activated so the one thing we can Now activate is Light Speed cache this this will then make sure our website is faster because it will enable caching so let's click on activate and now the caching is activated we also want to make sure that your auto updates are enabled everywhere so I'm going to just enable it wherever it's disabled and here Qi add-ons and then also word fence make sure all the auto updates are enabled all right so now I'm going to show you how to actually make money with your affiliate marketing website by creating high quality and search engine optimized blog posts that rank on the first page of Google and that are optimized for transactional keywords that actually make you money through affiliate marketing but first I want to give you a quick presentation that will teach you how to think about affiliate marketing and creating content to actually maximize the revenue you can make with your affiliate marketing website and you want to make sure to stick around for this because if you don't understand what I'm about to show you here then you don't have any chances of making money with your website so first of all what is the goal with affiliate marketing many people tend to over complicate the entire process but it's actually quite simple and this is what you have to keep in mind whenever you make decisions about creating content and optimizing your site so first of all how do we actually make money so the first thing that needs to happen is people have to see your blog post on a search engine like Google they have to click on that blog post and then they have to click on one of your affiliate links in side of that blog post so that's the first thing that needs to happen and then the second thing is that after they click the affiliate link then they actually need to purchase something that's something that many people seem to forget it's not all about getting clicks on your links it's also about actually people who click on those links buying something at the other side and the product that you're promoting and that or that you're recommending otherwise you will not make any money so the goal is to make sure we increase each of these two elements which is we want to get as much clicks as possible onto our blog posts because people are not going to just randomly find your website people are going to find your site through your blog posts that are optimized for specific keywords that people are actually searching for and then obviously people need to click on those links you want to get as many link clicks as possible but we also want to make sure that uh the people who are actually visiting our site and click on those links that these are actually people looking for a specific product and they are ready to make a purchasing decision which will then happen here and at this stage you want to make sure we increase the potential of money we can make per single click or per lead we send to that product and then also we want to make sure that people actually convert to a customer it doesn't make sense to have a thousand clicks but none of them actually buy something that will just make a zero money so keep that in mind at all times now to look at this a bit more closely what do we actually need here to increase this part of the equation so the first thing we need is traffic meaning we need people to be actually interested in what we are posting the content that we create and then we also need to look at competition which is also something many people under estimate or they don't even look at it which means that obviously when a lot of people look for a specific search term then we're not the only ones that create content for that search term so there are already tons of website trying to rank on the first page of Google for a specific search term with their blog post so we can just look at okay what people are looking for what actually makes money let's create content about that because then we probably will end up on on page 30 on Google and we will not get any clicks on our blog post and no clicks on our affiliate links means we make no money so we want to keep in mind we need to look at the traffic because if there's nobody looking for the the content then we also don't get get any clicks but if there are people looking for for it but there's too much competition we also don't get any clicks so you want to always keep in mind traffic and competition these two things always play against each other so and then for this part here we want to increase the revenue potential I would say this is the part that most people tend to forget and they and they just create an affiliate marketing website promoting Amazon products where they make like I don't know like 1% commission so a couple of cents every sale where they could actually make hundred or more dollars per sale if they would just go in a different Niche or maybe promote different kinds of products where they get a higher percentage or a higher one-time payout so this is consistent of three main things so the first thing and this is one of the most important things is you want to publish transactional content meaning you don't want to just publish something I don't know ideas for creating something weird I don't know um you want to make you want to create something where people are actually people are search that specific term like for example best camera gear or best website builder people will search that topic and click on the blog post they're in the market to actually purchase a product and this is what we want to create content about because when those people land on our blog post and click on those links these people are actually very likely to make a purchasing decision this is why we need to tra create transactional content I'm going to show you exactly how this looks like but always keep in mind the content needs to be transactional meaning it needs to be a Content that somebody would read that is about to purchase something then we want to have a high conversion rate now this is really hard to judge when you're starting out because you don't have any experience with products but you want to make sure that the product you are recommending actually converts and makes you money it doesn't make sense to send clicks to a product that is actually not good and that doesn't convert and doesn't make you any money now you can really see how this really works in the beginning but once you get some traffic once you get some conversions or just traffic you can see if people convert or not and then you might want to move on to another product and then here at the bottom this is um you can't really see it but it says High commissions we we want to make sure to promote products that actually pay out High commissions and not just a couple of cents so there's not even that much traffic we need to send in order for us to make a lot of money so this is key as well so again these are the three things you want to keep in mind when deciding what content we want to create so the the search term we want to create our content for needs to have some traffic volume meaning people are searching for that specific term then we want to look at competition if there's too much competition meaning there's too many high Authority sites that already rank for that term um that we can't compete against then it doesn't make sense for us to create content about that term and then we also need to make sure that that search term actually has Revenue potential meaning people are searching for that term are about to make a purchasing decision so just to make this absolutely clear we want to make sure that every one of these three things is actually in the green so for example if you have a lot of traffic and there's no competition but there's no Revenue potential we don't make any money we would get a lot of clicks but none of these clicks convert into a customer so we don't make any money then if we have a lot of traffic and there would be Revenue potential but the competition is too high we would end up on page 20 or 30 on Google and we wouldn't get any clicks we wouldn't make any money then if there's High competition or if there's no competition or little competition but and there's also Revenue potential but there's no traffic so nobody's actually looking for that term that means also we don't get any clicks we might be on the first page of Google but nobody visits that first page because nobody types in that search term meaning we don't make any money so only when there is traffic when there's not too much competition and when there is Revenue potential this is when we make money so on a more practical level how do we actually find out how much traffic there is how much competition there is and what's the revenue potential for a specific keyword so for the traffic and the competition we can use a tool called semrush this is going to tell us exactly what the traffic volume is for the keyword what the competition is and we get a lot more data inside of this tool which I'm going to show you how to use in a bit then for the revenue potential want to First think about if that search term would actually lead to somebody purchasing something so whoever searches that term is that person in I'm just about to make a purchasing decision and then we also want to think about the niche so there are niches that are more profitable than others and um I'm going to leave you a document Down Below in the description giving you a list of the most lucrative niches in my opinion uh but when you uh look at different niches what I would recommend you do is just look at the top websites in that that Niche look at what products they promote and look at the affiliate program for those products and look at the payout they're getting then when you look at the traffic that the website gets then you can estimate how much money they're making based on the commissions they're getting for the products they're promoting so look at your Market um before you decide to go into a niche but there's no shortage of niches you can go into you just have to do some research before you actually um commit to one and then in my personal experience I have to say that I find it a lot easier to make a lot of money with digital products compared to physical products and I also see other people in in affiliate marketing and that make a lot of money most of them are promoting digital products now there are major sides promoting physical products as well but the amount of traffic you need to make a lot of money with physical products is actually insane so for beginners I would highly recommend to focus on digital products and so those could be like online courses platforms softwares things like that where there's not actually a physical product being shipped when somebody purchases something and the reason is because those companies are able to pay you a much higher Commission because they have a lot lower overhead so when somebody signs up let's say to Wix then they don't really need to ship out anything they're just allowing that customer to now use their site so that's why they're able to pay you a high commission so usually it's between 10 and 40% of the sale or of the recurring monthly payment of the customer or you just get a onetime commission between $50 and $300 that's kind of what I've seen in the industry obviously it depends on the niche as well but with physical products because there's so many costs involved like the production cost the shipping cost and all that stuff they're only able to pay you like a 1 to 3% commission which like again like I've said you're going to have to have tons of clicks and traffic to actually make a few dollars that's why I would recommend to focus on digital products and then when it comes to choosing your Niche what I recommend is to start with a broad Niche and kind of make your website about that broad Niche but make sure it's also a profitable Niche and again I'm going to leave you a list of the most profitable niches Down Below in the description and then you want to test different sub niches within your broad Niche so an example this could look like is for example you choose the tech niche this is going to be a website or an affiliate marketing website about tech and then you're going to test the cyber security sub Niche and you're going to create blog posts about uh topics in that Niche or you could even um Niche down and go with web application penetration and this is just a sub niche of um cyber security depending on how the competition is within that Niche if the competition is too high in the parent Niche then you want to Niche even further down and build your Authority with with Google inside of your Niche now usually you're not going to be able to just choose your Niche with your website you're probably going to find it meaning once you test out different sub niches you're going to notice that Google kind of rewards content in a specific sub Niche more than the other and this is the content or this is the niche you want to lean into so Google will kind of determine where you're an expert in and kind of give you Authority in that specific topic so what what you have to do is just continue posting content then you want to read the data so what content actually ranks what content gets clicks and what content makes money and then adjust based on that data and then what you also want to keep in mind is probably the most important thing when it comes to affiliate marketing which is that it's a marathon and not a Sprint affiliate marketing is really a long-term game and in the first couple of weeks or even months you're not going to see M much results or even money rolling in that's why you need to be committed and you need to be willing to do this for at least 6 months until you make a decision if this is for you or not and this is also a reason why you want to choose a niche you're at least somewhat interested in otherwise it's going to be very hard to just continue working when you don't see many results in the beginning and that's the biggest risk of your affiliate marketing business which is you giving up too early before you see your first commission your first result results so just keep that in mind when choosing your Niche now we're almost done with the presentation here I just want to go over two or three more slides um before we start with the tutorial I just want to get everything out of the way um before we start so that you have the highest chances of actually becoming successful with your site so what is actually content that makes money what do the blog posts looks look like so these are the four main posts that I would focus on if the goal is to increase your Revenue to make money the first one is best X for Y which for example could be the seven best website Builders of 2023 or the seven best website builders for small businesses people are looking for this search term are in the market for a new website builder that they want to use so it's a perfect transactional content then we have how to do a specific thing so how to let's say create a website people who do a specific thing they probably need a tool to do that thing and you're going to be the affiliate um promoting or recommending that tool now for building websites obviously it's going to be website hosting or a website builder so you can make commissions through that and uh then we also have a specific review so if somebody's looking for a review of a specific product this person is really close to actually purchasing that product or an alternative of that product which is why this is a great type of article to create if you want to make money then we also have X versus y so for example Wix versus Squarespace people who are comparing different products against each other they're also and just before a purchasing decision and they're highly likely to go ahead and pull the trigger once they read your article and then make the decision and click on your affiliate link and then you get the referral commission so here is my personal strategy that has worked quite well for me and what you're going to notice is when you do some keyword research is that posts that are how to do something or best um X for y these posts for most niches usually have a lot of traffic but also have a very high competition meaning in the beginning it's very hard to rank for these terms so in the beginning I would focus on these terms right here which is a specific product review then another product review and then another product review all in the same Niche and then once you have done all these you can go ahead and compare these products against each other and create separate blocks posts for these comparison content posts and then once you have done all these you have a lot of knowledge and also posts about this topic and this is when you can create a post like this so this would be like a pillar post um that has high traffic potential and then you can link to all of these other posts here and you can have these posts linked to this post so this is basically how I would build Authority within a specific Niche and again I would start with these Search terms that are either a review or that are a comparison between two different or even three different products because usually these have a lower competition compared to these kinds of posts here so for example for the website builder Niche this could look something like this like you would create a Wix review a webflow review and a Squarespace review which are all website Builders then you're going to compare Wix versus webflow Wix versus Squarespace webflow versus Squarespace and so on and then once you've done that you can build your pillar content how to build a website using Wix or how to build a website for a small business or the best website builders for small business seven best website builders for uh photographers stuff like that perfect you did it that's all the theory out of the way now let's get practical and start with the tutorial and the first step is going to be setting up rank math this is a free plugin that we're going to use to optimize our blog content and this will also automatic install the Google search engine uh sorry Google search console and also Google analytics then we're going to spend some time finding profitable topics for our Niche and then we're going to do some keyword research using the tool Sam rush and then once that's done and we found our keyword that we want to create a a blog post for I'm going to show you how to create an optimized blog post for that specific keyword step by step all right so now we are back in the WordPress dashboard and before before installing the rankmath plugin we want to go ahead and click on posts and then here we can see all of the dummy posts that we have just created to make sure we can build our website and see how it will look like but now before we actually index our site um we want to make sure to delete all of that content because we don't want to confuse Google with just fake content uh That Is Random on our site so make sure we make sure to select all of them by clicking here then let's go to actions move to bin apply and then let's go to the bin here and click on empty bin and that's it now let's go to plugins then click add new and in the search box we're going to type in rank math and it's just this plugin right here so let's click on install and activate then it automatically prompts us to connect our rank meth account so let's click on connect your account here now because I've already created a rankmath account it kind of wants me to activate it for the old account but I actually want to create a new account here so I'm going to click on log in here and then you probably don't already have a rankmath account so what you're going to do is click on register now here at the bottom and then you can sign up for rankmath using Facebook Google WordPress or you can just use an email address so I'm going to click on use email address then type in your name and email address and click on register activate now then make sure Advanced is selected here and click on start wizard then we can say what kind of website we have so I'm just going to stick with personal Blog then the website name is fine uh we don't need anything here this is also fine then logo for Google you want to upload a square version of your logo so I'm going to do that quickly now there we go and then for default social share image this will just be displayed for when somebody shares your blog post and you don't have a featured image but as I always add a featured image for the blog post I'm not going to add anything here then let's click on Save and continue and now in The Next Step we're going to add our website to the Google search console and also to Google analytics so let's click on connect Google services and here we want to choose our Google account that we want to add our website to as a property once you're logged into your Google account we want to make sure to click select all here to give rank math access to all of our data and then let's click on continue and then here if everything worked correctly rankmath has now added your site to Google search console and Google analytics so you should be able to see your site here and also your Google analytics account that they have created for you right here now the first few times I've done this I ran into some issues where I didn't see my website here so I couldn't choose it and if that's the case what you want to do then you want to First wait like 30 minutes to an hour sometimes it takes some time until they can add your s to to these Services if that still doesn't work then you might want to use another browser as you can see here I'm in Safari and not in Chrome as I usually am and that's what worked for me actually but if that still doesn't work you have two more options so the first one is to add your site manually to search console and analytics I'm going to leave some instructions in the video description down below to show you uh step by step how you can do that um or you can also reach out to rankmath report and basically tell them that you need some help uh adding the Google services for your website but this is how it should look like if everything works correctly so choose your side here make sure enable the index status tab is enabled and then for Google analytics we want to choose the account here that they've created for us then for property we want to choose create new ga4 property that stands for Google analytics 4 um so let's click okay here and then here we want to choose website then let's scroll down and click on Save and continue then here for sitemap we're going to leave everything turned on and click on Save and continue and here as well keep the default settings and click save and continue and that's it so let's click on return to dashboard so now our website is successfully connected to all the Google services that we need and now when we go to rankmath and go to analytics we should be able to see uh the data for our site like search impression total keyword search clicks and so on that will be imported directly into this dashboard here from all of the Google services data that is directly fed into the rank math plugin we can also go to site analytics here and SEO performance to see every data that is interesting for our website but it it does take a couple of days the first time you set this up until the data will actually be visible here in the dashboard so now it's time to do some research to find a good topic and eventually a good search term that we can create an optimized blog post about and one of the best tools that I find to get some ideas is to use the AI tool chat GPT you've probably heard of this tool and it's actually free to use for the basic version I do have a tutorial about this tool Down Below in the description if you want to see exactly how to set up your chat gbt account it's very easy I'm going to leave this link down below in the description you can just click on try chat GPT then you want to sign up with your account I'm already signed in here as you can see and then with the basic version you just get the GPT 3.5 at this moment and then if you upgrade to the pro version which I think is like10 or $20 a month and you get access to gbd4 which is a lot better in my opinion and we're going to use this one later as well to create our blog content but for now we can just stick with 3.5 because forg getting ideas this is going to be enough and now we can just talk to chat gbt as if it was a person that's kind of the idea of AI so to get some ideas for Content I would just type in um I'm starting an affiliate marketing website in the niche uh online marketing so just tell Chad jbt what your actual broad Niche is and then let's say what would be some good sub niche es so we want to get some some sub Niche topics that I could write about if my goal is to make money uh through affiliate marketing then hit enter and then as we can see we already get a lot of ideas about what we could write about like social media marketing SEO content marketing email marketing affiliate marketing PPC advertising and so on so you could just go and do some additional research search for these topics look at the different products you could promote um let's say we want to go into the email marketing space so then we can follow up and ask for some the best like affiliate programs for email marketing so let's type in something like I would like to write about email marketing tools what email marketing tools have the best affiliate programs in terms of of how much money you can make hit enter and this will give us a list of some good email marketing providers that have an affiliate program like for example convertkit they pay out 30% recurring Commission on referrals which is great then we have get response they pay out a 33% recurring commission so that's very common with email marketing providers that they just pay out a percentage Commission on basically forever as long as the customer stays with their platform now to do some additional research and see if this actually has Revenue potential I would actually look up all of these email marketing providers like go to their websites for example let's go to active campaign just copy it paste it in the search bar then go to the their website here and then look at the pricing here and then see what people actually pay for using this software so here for example you can say you can see that there's for the marketing plan it's like $49 per month $149 per month and as we can see here what do they say here office a commission for referred customer so they don't actually tell us what the percentage is so to really see what they offer for the affiliate program you want to go to the actual website of the product then scroll all the way down and then you want to look for something like partner program affiliate program and so here let's see it's actually become a partner and then here is affiliate so let's click here and then we can see they first of all they say earn an average of ,350 per referral which is insanely high and they actually pay out 20 to 30% recurring commission per a paying customer that you bring to the company so just by looking at this I can already see that there is definitely Revenue potential with uh this provider I would also go to the other providers here like for example convert kit get response and so on and see if it would make sense to write about email marketing providers and if it has a revenue potential but based on what I've seen here so far it does definitely have Revenue potential and now just to show you that this assumption would actually be correct I'm going to show you my dashboard because I am actually an affiliate with active campaign I'm actually in the highest tier so they pay me 30% of every sale they make and for the life of the customer so as you can see here this was actually today I got a payment of 31 Australian dollars then yesterday $229 Canadian dollars this was the day before $21 and also same day $86 $21 $55 so these are recurring commissions as you can see here so far the total commissions have been $71,000 so this is kind of what I mean when I talk about digital products over physical products the revenue potential and looking at uh how much money you can actually make with a specific product and an affiliate program before you invest a lot of time into promoting it or into promoting this type of product in general so here for example when I go to paid accounts here you can see every new customer that has signed up and then the estimated annual commission that I will be getting every year for the lifetime of this customer so as long as this customer days with active campaign I will be getting this amount every year for the customer that I bring here for example somebody has purchased a professional plan and every year I will be getting $1,735 as long as this person stays on this plan so after doing some research and looking at the affiliate programs of these email marketing tools we can find out that email marketing in general can be a very lucrative topic or Niche to create content about so the next step is to actually choose one of these products here after we've looked at some of them to create some content because when we go back to this overview here where I talked about my strategy I told you that most of the time like posts like these where it's just like let's say active campaign review or active campaign versus MailChimp or convertkit these usually have a lower competition compared to these main topics like how to set up email marketing or what are the best seven email marketing tools for small businesses these usually are very hard to rank for in the beginning when your site doesn't have a lot of traffic yet and a lot of authority so I like to start with these so now we're going to go further into some keyword research to finally narrow down the search term the keyword we want to create our blog post about so let's come back to our list here and then let's say we want to look into the mailer light Search terms sear terms that have mailer light in the term so we're going to use a tool called semrush which kind of looks like this this is a keyword research tool um to find out what the traffic is and what the competition is for each of these keywords now I do have a special offer or a special link you guys can use which will basically give you a 14-day trial of the pro version of this tool um instead of the regular 7day trial so by using the link Down Below in the description and signing up for Sam rush you can get a 4 day trial instead of a 7-Day and you can actually just find all of your keywords that you want to write about for the next couple of months in in your 14-day trial period and then you can upgrade to the paid version once you are making some money so if you want to get some additional days in your free trial make sure to use the link in the description below then once you signed up for your trial and you're logged into your semrush dashboard you want to go to the left side here and click on keyword magic tool then then here in the search bar you want to type in the keyword that you want to do some research on in my case this is mailer light which is the email marketing software we might want to do some content about then let's click on search and now we can see all of the related keywords and we can also see how many people approximately are searching for that keyword under volume so for the keyword Mele or light there's approximately 27,000 people searching for that keyword however we can also see the KD which means keyword difficulty telling you how hard it will be to actually rank your site or your post for that keyword so here we can see it's 79 meaning you'll need lots of high quality referring domains and optimized content in order for you to rank on that page now for a new website this is almost impossible this is why we don't want to go for keywords that are this hard so to only see the keywords that are like easy or or that are doable to actually rank your post for is we want to go to the filters here and then under KD um keyword difficulty we're just going to uh look at the easy and the very easy Search terms so to actually see both of them we're going to use the custom range we're going to type in zero and then here we're going to type in 29 this is just a percentage number for the KD the keyw difficulty and then for the results you want to make sure to sort this by volume here as it's already done you can see the highest volume here is at the top and then you just want to go through this list here and look at what are some keywords that are actually transactional meaning that when people type that in they're very likely to make a purchasing decision and go for one of these options that you can see here or maybe for m a light which is the platform we write content about so here the first thing we can see is mailer light versus convertkit this is actually a great keyword to write content about because this is a transactional keyword somebody who's looking to get an email marketing software they know both of them or they've seen both of them and now they want to know which one is the right one for them and then you basically give them the answer with your blog post so there's 390 people looking or typing that keyword into the search bar a month now that's obviously less than what we've seen before like 27,000 searches a month but because we're going for affiliate programs uh that actually have high commissions we don't need that much traffic to actually start making money so we need to start out with these lower difficulty keywords to start building up the authority of our website so this would actually be a good keyword to go for we can see keyword difficulty is 21 so it says you need high quality focused content focused on the keywords intent this is what we do anyway so we still have a chance of ranking then we can go down and also look at even easier ones so for example we can see this one here flow desk versus m a light this is actually a keyword difficulty of zero meaning it's probably going to be very easy to rank your blog post on this uh for this keyword however there's only 30 searches a month so we might want to go with something that has a bit of a higher volume but still a low keyword difficulty like for example Mele light versus active campaign 320 searches a month with a keyword difficulty of 17 so that's lower than and the this one here the um versus convert kit and we've seen that active campaign also has a very lucrative affiliate program so this might be a good keyword that we want to look into now here you can see CPC this is basically what advertisers are paying to display ads on people who type in that uh keyword and the higher the number is here or if you see a high number here that's also a good sign that this is actually a valuable keyword to create content for so to further check out this keyword we can just click on it here here we can scroll down and look at the Ser analysis this will just kind of show you the websites that are currently ranking for that keyword we are looking at so the top ranking website is this one here the digital mer. comom so we can also check out how the site looks like or how that post looks like by just going to the link as you can see this just a regular blog post nothing special and um then what I also like to to look at is the authority score so this will tell you how much Authority this website has with Google and it goes from zero to 100 so the closer to 100 the higher the authority is and just by seeing that this is only six this tells me that it's quite possible to rank um for this specific keyword and because all of these websites they don't really have a high Authority score like this one even has a zero Authority score then this one as well zero this one is Z so this number 10 search result has zero Authority score zero referring domains zero backlinks and is still at page 10 of Google so this just again tells me that it's quite possible to rank for this keyword which is why I would actually add this keyword to my keyword list so let's scroll up and then here next to the keyword let's click on the plus icon and then let's create our first list so let's just name this list email marketing tools and then hit this check mark and now when we want to get to our keyword list we simply go to keyword manager here and then we can see our category email marketing tools we click on it and then we can always see the keywords that we store here mail light versus active campaign is the keyword that I want to create some content about great so now that we have our keyword that we want to optimize our blog post for it's time to create the actual post so here in the dashboard let's go to posts and then click on add new and this will take us to the editor that we're going to use to create our blog post now first let's clean up a bit by just hiding these windows here by clicking on this arrow and this will just give us a blank canvas Now using this editor is actually quite simple so as you can see we can add a title here we can add some content here and it's just like using or creating a Word document but there are some things that you have to uh know in order for for you to have a good structure and in order for you to have a perfectly optimized blog post and what's really going to help us with that is using the rank math checklist so when we click here on the top right on this button then we can see because we have added the rank math plug-in we can see a checklist so it says add a focus keyword uh to the SEO title and that will just help us to make sure we tick all the boxes when it comes to optimizing our blog post so we're going to go through all the things here in the checklist so to eventually have the highest possible SEO score the SEO score will be visible here at the top So currently we have a 7 out of 100 which is quite bad but obviously we haven't added any content and we haven't optimized anything and you're going to notice that when we add content and optimize it the score here will increase and this button will actually turn green which will show us that um it's going to be a good a well optimized blog post another thing that we have to understand before creating our content is how a blog post is structured and to make it easier for you to create your blog posts especially for an affiliate marketing site I've given you a few templates that you can use so when you go to the link in the description and click in the Google drive folder you should get to this place here where you can click on affiliate blog post templates and then here I've added four templates of the most commonly used posts for an affiliate marketing site or a affiliate marketing blog so this would be best X for Y which is like seven best website Builders of 2023 then we have how to do something a guide post uh a review post and a comparison post so let's say Wix versus Squarespace then when you click on those this is just a Google doc and then here you can see a structure that you can use for your blog posts so this would be the title uh number best product type for Target year or Target customer so for example seven best email marketing tools for 2023 or four small businesses and then you would have an intro here then you would have uh the first H2 so here you can see it says H1 H1 is always what you type in here so this here is the H1 these are title tags it helps Google to see the structure of your content and it's easier for Google to understand it and it's also determining what will be displayed in search engin so you absolutely have to use these title tags and use them correctly and just by using these templates here you can see a good structure that you can use so for example here it goes on by first of all the age2 what is the best email marketing tool then you give some information about how you came up with the this decision to add these products and then you list each of these products as an ag3 and you can also add affiliate links here for this text and then you describe them and and then at the end you have a summary which which is an H2 again so to add these title tags in your post so let's say we add um let's say just intro or let's say title and then we can just highlight the text here go to this icon here and change it from a paragraph to a heading and then once that's done we can choose what type of heading it is so you can see H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 so this is kind of a hierarchy so here on this website sam.com they kind of explain how this works quite well here you can see H1 is most important then we have H2 H3 so these are just kind of subtitles so as you can see here down below this would be the title search engine optimization then we have what is SEO this would be the subtitle of this main one and then here the H3 would be a subtitle of what is SEO so this is just how you structure your blog post so this is something that you have have to be familiar with now in this video we're going to create a comparison post which would be X versus y so when we click on this template here we can see that it is just first product name versus second product name so in my example mailer light versus active campaign 2023 which is the best product type email marketing tool which is the H1 and then we just move on with um different categories that we use to compare these products in so usually I like to give a quick comparison for people who don't have time or don't want to spend the time reading everything and then we go into the categories like features my personal experience pricing and so on now these aren't set in stone so obviously you can just change them however you want to whatever is the most relevant for um the reader and then at the end we just give a conclusion as well now if you want to you can just copy and paste that into your blog post and create drafts or templates for your blog and then by copy and pasting it from this document it will also be formatted correctly so this will be a H2 and so on so just to show you how this would work is let's just delete this and let's Also let's just delete the heading and also delete this and then we can just uh right click and paste and this will just give us the basic structure so this would be an H1 this is a paragraph then when we click here we can see this is already an H2 this is an H2 and so on so this is this is a quick way how you can basically import a structure to your blog post that you're about to create so now let's actually start creating the content for this blog post the first thing you want to do is go to the rankmath checklist here on the top right by clicking here and then under Focus keyword here we want to enter the keyword that we want to optimize this blog post for this is the one that we found using Sam rush so in my case this would be mailer light versus active campaign these are the two email marketing tools that we are comparing so let's just type that in here and this way rankmath knows exactly what keyword we want to optimize it for and it can give us uh suggestions and instructions on how to do that so then the next thing I do is basically add the title which should be already optimized so we're already going to use the uh search term here in the title so I'm just going to replace this mailer light versus um let's just delete this and then let's just add active campaign then the current year would be 2023 and then which is the best e product type is email marketing tool and then we can delete the H1 and there we go now we already have the title and when we look at the checklist we can see for the basic SEO we already have the first one checked which is your focus keyword is in the SEO title now we're going to move on to to create the actual content of this blog post and I'm going to show you how to use a method with chat GPT the AI tool and this is going to make creating the blog post very very easy and very very quick at the same time and don't worry we're not just going to ask chat gbt to create a blog post and just copy and paste in the entire post we're going to do this step by step for each of the topics that we want to add and this way we still have a lot of control over the blog post and a lot of quality control as as well and we can change whatever we don't like but we more so use chbt as a writing assistant as just a copy and pce Tool so I'm going to show you the method that I use and the prompts that I like to use to create the blog content so we're going to go to chat GPT and the first thing that I would highly suggest you do is get the chat GPT plus version which is like $10 or $20 a month but it's going to be so worth it in the end because that's going to be enable you to be able to use chat GPT 4 which is so much better compared to chat GPT 3.5 which is the free version I've been using both of them and I've noticed that the content output of the gp4 is so so much better the quality is so much higher that it's totally worth it to spend a bit of money now maybe when you watch this video the gbd4 version is going to be free already or this already going to be GPT 5 so probably this would be then even better but for now I would upgrade and then use gp4 uh for creating your blog content as a writing assistant and then what I've also done is in the folder the Google drive folder that you find in the description when you click on affiliate blog post templates and then go to chat GPD prompts I've created some prompts um that you can use for creating a comparison blog post so when you click on this Google doc you can see the first prompt second prompt and so on so this is just a step-by-step um checklist basically how you can start creating your content I'm going to show you exactly how I do this so to first of all we want to create the post outline which is what you can see here so let me just delete all this we keep this in mind that this is kind of the structure that we want to use so let's just delete all this all right and then let's first copy this first prompt and here what you see in these brackets in yellow this is what you want to replace with your focus keyword your Target keyword so let's just copy this and then we're going to go to chat GPT choose gp4 then we're going to paste that in here and before we hit enter we want to replace the placeholders so let's go here and um we're going to go to our Focus keyword so this one here a mail light versus active campaign so this is our keyword so I'm just going to copy it from here and then paste that into to the Target keyword here and then also here and then hit enter and this will give us all of the categories that we can compare these two email marketing tools with and based on my own experience these are actually great topics to compare email marketing softwares like pricing email marketing features Automation and design and user interface templates landing page builder these are all things that people are actually looking for when deciding what email marketing tool to use and that's why you should use gp4 because it's a lot better than GPT 3.5 in my opinion now you can either just copy and paste all of these um categories that you want into your post and then format them as an age2 now I'm going to experiment something here so I'm going to ask chat gbt to actually do that for me so I'm just trying something here I'm going to ask chat gbt to just give me the titles so this here uh and then format them as an H2 so I can just copy and paste them into my WordPress blog post editor now I've never tried this before so let's see what happens all right so it actually works um but I had to give it another prompt so the first thing that it came up with is just the H2 formatting here but it still had these numbers in front of it so it didn't work so I just asked chat gbt please remove the numbers in front of the titles and then I it came up with this here so I can just copy all of these titles here then copy and then paste that in here and there we go now we can see when we click on these titles it's already formatted as an H2 which again saves us some time so the next thing I would do is just look through all of these titles and that they're actually relevant and make sure I'm going to delete the ones that I don't want to cover in my blog post but um just to save some time I'm going to skip this step and to be honest this all looks quite well anyway so I'm going to leave it the only thing I'm going to do is delete the introduction part because we're just going to add the introduction after the title right here as a paragraph without an H2 title and in The Next Step we're going to create the content for each of these H2 titles and we're going to start with pricing structure so um let's go back to our prompts here and this would be prompt three there's also a prompt two asking for potential titles for this blog post I've already set the title as you can see here because it's pretty obvious the title that I'm going to use so I don't need this for now but I'm going to use this um prompt here and you can experiment with these prompts you don't need to just type in exactly what I give you here this is just an idea so you know kind of how this would work and then you can refine it to your own um process but I'm going to just copy this one and then paste that in here it's basically asking for the content for a specific topic and then I'm going to paste in that topic here so copy paste that in this bracket and and then I also always ask to make sure the focus keyword is included um so that it's actually optimized for this keyword then click enter and I also asked chat gbt to tell me where it would make sense to add images or Graphics that would increase the quality and readability of the actual content now here we can see we have a network error that sometimes happens with GPT or chat GPT so all we got to do here is click on regenerate response and hopefully it will work okay great so it worked on the second try and as you can see here is the content that it has written up for us for the pricing structure for Mele light and active campaign now what I would suggest you do is actually read through the content and see if it's actually good in my experience it's actually quite good and it's mostly accurate um you want to check if all the numbers are true like for example here it says this plan allows up to 1,000 subscribers uh for essential features you want to make sure that this is actually true because sometimes it can be wrong and or it can be outdated so you want to make sure it's actually up to dat but let's say we've done that so let's just copy all this content and copy and then paste that just below the actual title here and we can see um it's automatically using an H3 for the subtitles here when we click on it it says H3 and the rest is a paragraph and we can also see right here in a this is where the image suggestions will be because we've asked chat gbt to give us some suggestions of what images we could add what uh Graphics we could add to improve this uh content and this is really useful in my experience because it's just making the entire process far easier and more streamlined so I actually add all of the uh graphics and images at the end the first thing I do is just add all the text so now we can move on to the second category which is EMR marketing features Showdown so again we do the same thing we go to the prompts and copy this prompt right here copy paste that in here and then we want to replace the topic so now we're going to use this topic here actually this one and paste that into the topic and then just again hit enter and it will start writing up the content for the SE second category now for the sake of this video I'm not just going to copy in all of the content for all of these titles here um let's just say we've already done that and we're ready to add the conclusion in this case I would move on to prompt four which is pretty simple you can just also type it in now write the final part of this blog post the conclusion so I just paste that in here and hit enter and what you also want to make sure is to keep the same window open here on chat gbt just because this tool remembers everything that came before so it's kind of like talking to a person that remembers what you're saying and um it's going to make everything a lot more coherent in case you get back go back and forth with chat jpt like you say maybe rewrite this in a more casual way and stuff like that so make sure you do everything here in one tab to make sure all the content is coherent great so now we have our conclusion again proof read it and then copy and paste that in and make the changes that you want to make and next thing we're going to do is go to the prompts and this would be the intro so I always go with the intro last because I want to have like I want chat to have all the information and before first of all writing the conclusion we have to cover all the topics first and then uh the intro at the end so I'm going to copy this part and then paste that in here so please write the intro and here I also asked to make the focus keyword to add this in the first part for SEO purposes great so let's copy and paste this intro and paste that just below the title so just below here and this will also be the part that Google reads as The Meta description for this post so when we look at this preview here we can always see the preview uh content which is right here choosing the right email marketing platform and then that you can see this is the part of the intro that we have added now we can also click on edit snippet and change that here under descript ion but um what we want to make sure is to use our Focus keyword in the first sentence basically so that we can actually get a creen check mark here the focus keyword uh was not found in the SEO meta description this is why in this case I would go back to chat GPT and tell chat GPT please use the focus keyword in the first sentence um just for SEO purposes and then chat GPT will will rewrite this for you to add the focus keyword in the first part as you can see here it adds it Mele light versus active campaign so let's replace the intro copy and then paste and now we can see this now turned green the focus keyword was used inside the SEO meta description and you can also see um for the SEO score here we are at 61 out of 100 so we're definitely on the right track we have now also added all of the text content and the next step would be to add a few images so in this case what I would do is um just look at all of the image suggestions that chat TBT gave us usually they do make a lot of sense so for example here under Mite pricing it gives is gives us the suggestion to add a breakdown graphic of melee lights pricing tiers what we can do here is just do a screenshot of melee lights pricing so let's go to mailer light and then just go to their website then go to pricing and then we would just take a screenshot of the pricing here accept cookies then take a screenshot then let's go back to our editor here and we can just drag in that image just below where it says right here and now we have the image inside of the blog post now we can actually delete this suggestion here and now when we go to the SEO checklist and look at the additional uh points then we can see here add an image with your focus keyword as an ALT text so this is what you always have to do when you add an image so I'm going to show you how to do that so let's go and click on this icon here go to settings and then we're going to click on the image and then here is the box where you can add the alt text which is where we want to add our Focus keyword which is mailer light versus active campaign and I usually do um the actual image so this would be mailer light pricing but still we do have the focus keyword here in the alt text which is important for SEO and you would do exactly the same thing for the other images so here we could add a breakdown or a screenshot of the active campaign pricing also go to the all text and change it to Mite versus active campaign active campaign pricing now let's save the changes we've done so far by clicking on Save draft we don't want to publish it just yet because it's not finished and then let's go back to our rank math checklist we are currently at 65 out of 100 points for SEO so we do still have a few things to look at uh under basic SEO we can see the only thing that is not perfect is the content length but that's just because we haven't added a Content here for the other categories so this would be fine if we add all those then under additional um we can see the keyword density could be higher now keyword density just means how often you use your uh Focus keyword in your um blog post I wouldn't worry about that too much because if you use your keyword too often then it can be classified as keyword stuffing and you'll get penalized by Google for doing that so I would just use it naturally and don't worry about it too much um but still make sure you use it wherever it is applicable then we can see the URL is 98 characters long so that's definitely something we want to fix so let's go scroll up click on edit snippet and then here we want to make sure we have a nice Perma link so as you can see here Mele light versus active campaign 2023 and this is far too long so what I would recommend is to even uh get rid of the 2023 because you want this blog post to basically live on as long as possible forever optimally and you don't want to have an old date here in the URL when let's say it's 2025 already because once you've published at blog post it's it's very like it can't really change the url here so what I would suggest you do is just mail aite versus active campaign and that's going to be the entire peral link then let's close this window and scroll down again and now we can see the URL is 54 characters long which is great then the next thing is link out to external resources now usually that happens naturally inside of your content whenever it makes sense to link out to another resource then you can you can put in those links make those do following so when you for example here add a link and then you just paste in that link now whenever you add an affiliate link which is what we're going to talk about just in a bit then you want to set this to uh a no follow link that's also just for SEO purposes um but if you just uh link out to other valuable resources you can just paste in the link and then hit enter and then this will also turn green here and this is basically the same thing add do follow links pointing through external resources and then the next one add internal links in your content and this would just be links to other blog posts which also naturally happens once you have some more blog posts for example for this article at the end we could like talk about Alternatives and then link to our other comparison post or our other email marketing tool reviews and to our other blog posts and then this will turn green as well which also helps SEO at the focus keyword um is fine then we have content AI now this is a tool you could use with rankmath so this is just this over here we could just click on research and here it just gives us some more suggestions of keywords that we could use like for example here it says that we should be using also the keyword active campaign versus mailor light which definitely makes sense because that's the same content it's just the words or the terms here switched so this could be useful um suggest suggestions as well so here you would just go in and then just turn around the words so you also cover this and when people search active campaign versus m light rather than made a light versus active campaign your content has a higher chance of actually showing up in the search results then you also have some other things that people are searching that you could Implement naturally in your content great so let's go back to our SEO checklist and then let's go to additional we've talked about all these we've used the content AI title readability everything looks good here then content readability and here they suggest using a table of contents plug-in this is just um especially useful for longer posts which this one definitely looks like it's going to be a longer post and what you could do is just um hit enter here and then you could click on the plus icon here and then type in rankmath or uh table of contents and then if you have installed rankmath you're going to have access to this year click here and this will just add a table of content for your um blog post and then when people Click on each of these links here it will go directly to the content uh just below here and you can also hide specific links so for example here I would only show the H2 headings so for all the h3s I would just hit this I icon and make sure this is disabled so then people will only see the H2 headings otherwise it will just be uh too large this entire section and the last point on the checklist is your content contains images and or videos so once we add a few more images then this would definitely turn green as well and along with some links and also some more content we would be pretty close to an SEO score of 100 and now in order for us to actually make money with this blog post we also need to add our affiliate links now you don't absolutely need to add your affiliate links just when you're starting out with a new site and new posts because you probably don't get any traffic yet so what you can do is just wait until you get some traffic and then spend the time signing up to the affiliate programs and adding all the links but I'm still going to show you how to actually do it so the easiest way to find the affiliate programs for the tools or products that you are writing about is just to go to the product itself so for me this would be mailer light mailer light and then go to the official website and then you always when you're on the website for whatever product or tool you just want to scroll all the way down and that's usually where you can find a link saying affiliate or partner so here it says become a partner so we're going to click here and then we can see they have affiliate partners and you can get a 30% commission for every sale that you make then you want to just click here click on get started and this is where you want to basically click on register so sometimes it's going to be hard to get accepted into affiliate programs if you don't already have an established website that at least gets some traffic so you might need to wait until you have a site that is a bit more established until you get accepted to all these programs but if you send them a good message and say that show them your website and show them that you have quality content they're going to be very likely to accept you into their affiliate program now personally I am an affiliate for mail a light so I already have a dashboard with them and so this is going to be what it looks like once you are in affiliate with them obviously this is just an example I don't uh suggest you promote melee light necessarily but it's going to be a dashboard for any affiliate program that you're in sometimes it's also an affiliate Network where there's multiple affiliate programs in the same dashboard but for Mele a light it's just a separate dashboard so usually what you want to do is just look at where your affiliate link is so here it says share your link to refer people to mail a light so here you can see this is my personal affiliate link so here we just want to click on copy URL and by the way you can always see that it's an affiliate link when it just have these weird characters here so here you can see for/ a and then you can see this code here this means that this is a tracking link and whenever somebody clicks on that link and signs up to mail a light I will get credit and as you can see I already made uh over $26,000 with this particular affiliate program uh with over 6,000 um users that I referred to this email marketing tool so let's copy the URL here and then let's go back to uh WordPress and then what I recommend is before you add the affiliate link by just highlighting the word and then adding the link here um I would suggest you actually use a plugin called thirsty Affiliates to cloak your affiliate link to make it look a lot nicer than what you can see here um so what we're going to do is first save draft then we're going to go back to our WordPress dashboard here and we're going to install this plugin so we're going to click on plugins and then click on add new then we're going to look for thirsty Affiliates and it's just this first one here so let's click on install now and activate close this and now we can go to Thirsty Affiliates here click on add new affiliate link then I'm going to name this mailer light and then under destination URL we're going to paste in our affiliate link then what we also want to do is go to link options and then we want to make this a no follow link so we're going to uh turn this to yes no follow this link and then also make this open up in a new window yes right here and then click on save link and now we can actually use this cloaked URL which is a lot nicer it says IX reviews.com reccommends SL mailer light so let's just copy this link then go back to our blog post go to posts click on the blog post and then in terms of where you want to add your links you don't want to add them every time you mention mailo light what I like to do is just add them like the first time I mention it so for example here I want to um add the link so click here click here and then I usually also set this to no follow and open in a new tab and then hit enter and there we go now we have this as a link where the first time we mention uh this platform and the second way to add your links is to add them as a button wherever it makes sense so definitely at the end of your article for example you want to add the buttons so let's click on the plus icon here and then type in button and then we just click click on the button and then we typee in let's say try mailer light and we're going to click on link and we're also going to paste in our link from thirsty Affiliates there we go and then we can also make this text or actually let's align this in the center items in the center like this and then we can click on the plus icon again and add also a Tractive campaign button and then obviously also add these affiliate link for the active camp paint tool here now if you're wondering how to change the color of this link right here I'm also going to show you how to do this so first of all let's click on Save draft and then let's go to preview preview in a new tab and this will show us how the blog post currently looks like on our page and to change the color here we want to click on customize then go to General options General styling and then here under link color we can change the actual color so let's change this to to let's say an orange maybe a bit darker kind of like this and then I'm going to make the hover color just the same as the the normal one so I just paste in a color code and there you go now we have these kind of orange links in the blog post let's click on publish and then we can close this page and go back to this editor now we when we reload the page we should be able to see the changes here as well and now there's a few more things we need to do to finish up the this post like for example we need to add a featured image which will be shown just above the title here and we can add that right here when we click on this icon and go to post and then just below here under featured image this is where we can add our featured image now you can go to sites like pixels um here to get some copyright free images or you can also go to unsplash I'm going to leave all these links in the description below um here you can also get get some free images that you can use make sure to download the medium um option here otherwise it will just take too long to load your blog post which will um hurt your SEO rankings you always kind of want to make sure that your image files aren't too large on your page but in case of in terms of this post here I would actually create a custom image uh feature image for this like a Mele light versus active campaign image just to show visually what this blog post is about and the best best tool to use to create this image is actually canva.com so I'm going to quickly show you how I would create a featured image that I'm going to use here so I usually type in whatever I want to create here so for example this would be a versus uh image so I'm just going to type in versus here and then I already get some the pre-made designs that I could just use so let's just take this one here click on customize this template then the size or the the format that I use for the featured images is an 800 * 500 pixels image so I click on resize here and then I change that so I'm going to go to 800 and then 500 here and click on resize and this will resize the the ratio of this image then I obviously want to just delete all of the images here all of the graphics and add a melee light graphic and then an acve campaign graphic at the bottom so first let's just turn this make this horizontal drag this out and then I usually download the logos I've already done that to just speed up this video a bit and I've downloaded a mail light logo I'm just going and put that right here and I've also downloaded an active campaign logo going to put that right here and now we obviously also want to change the colors so what I like to do is just go to the website and then to get the exact color of the website that I'm on I use a tool called colorzilla This is a Chrome extension you'll find the link also in the description below and once you install this you get access to this icon here then you can just click on pick from page and then you can hover over any color that you see on the page so I just use this green that I can see here in the logo that then it will copy the color code to your clipboard which then I can just come back here click on the the color I want to paste that in go to color and click here and then I just paste in the color code in right here and that will put in this branded green to the background then for this background I'm just going to change it to this blue and with canva you already get the colors that are in your graphic so I can just choose it from here and there we go so this is how I really quickly create a featured image for this kind of post now to download this image I just click on share on the top right go to download and then just click download here and then we have it saved in the download folder and now to add it to the featured image we're going to click on set featured image here and I'm just going to drag this in the image that I've just created click on set featured image and there we go now let's click on Save draft and to see how this looks like we can click on preview preview in a new tab and now we can see we have the featured image here at the top and and then we have the content just below what we also want to do is add a category for this post and we can also do that here when you click on this button and then go to post here under categories we can see currently it is under uncategorized so we only have one category so far which is affiliate marketing so I want to add a new one for email marketing so I'm just going to add this here email marketing and then click on add new category and then I'm going to untick the uncat categorized option click on Save draft and an additional way to organize your content is by using tags so when you go to tags here you can basically add relevant tags like let's say email marketing or also email tools so whatever is applicable to the type of content so now we're pretty much ready to publish our new blog post one thing I like to do is go back to the SEO checklist and go through all of the checkpoints here and make sure everything is optimized before I go ahead and publish the post and then another thing I like to do is first of all save this as draft and then click on preview click on preview in a new tab and then just read through the blog post again myself make sure all the images are correct make sure everything is displayed correctly make sure all the links here work and go to the correct page and once that's done we are pretty much ready to publish this post to publish the post we just need to click click on this button here publish and then confirm publish and now the post is live on the website and you also notice that the publish button has changed to an update button so we can always come in here and make any changes and update our blog post then we can click on update and then the changes will be visible on the actual website so let's quickly go to our website so let's go back to the dashboard click on visit site here and then we can see now this blog post is live on the website it's visible right here it's also visible here under blog this is the first blog post we can click on it and then we can basically read it now before you click off this video there's one more thing I need you to understand so that you can maximize your chances of becoming successful with your affiliate marketing site and that is not just need to post more blog posts in order for you to get more rankings and more Authority the other thing you need is links from other webs sides linking back to your website and your blog posts so that's the two main things you need to care about more blog posts more high quality blog posts so you could maybe do a schedule for yourself to publish two to three blog posts per week so you want to actually take this seriously if you want to make money with your affiliate marketing website now you know how to create highquality blog posts and how to optimize them for the right keywords but then you also want to uh work on you on building relationships with other websites that already have authority so that they can link back to your blog posts which um Google uses as a metric to see what websites have quality content they basically look at the links and the websites those links come from and determine if your blog post or if your website has some Authority within a specific topic so again next to publishing blog posts you want to reach out to other websites like for for example we've published a blog post now about m aite versus active campaign now I could reach out to M aite and ask them if I could do a guest post on their blog in exchange for a link that links back to one of my blog posts that way I get a high quality backlink to my website which will increase the authority of my domain of my website which will help our rankings so that our blog posts have a chance of ranking on the first page that's the part that most most people neglect when starting a blog because to be honest this is the part that can be like uh quite hard especially in the beginning when you don't have any Authority yet but actually that's good news for you because if you do put in the work to build these relationships with these other websites and get back links to your own blog posts then it's going to be very easy for you to outrank all of these other sites that don't put in the work to build these relationships and to get these links so again in the beginning you're going to be reaching out to other websites in in your Niche offering them to write a customized blog post a valuable blog post so that they can publish on their website so they get basically free content but in exchange for a link linking back to your own blog post so keep in mind there's two things you need to focus on which is publishing more highquality blog posts on a regular basis the more the better and then building relationships with other websites in your Niche and get back links to your own websites to your blog posts which will increase your Authority which will increase your rankings which will increase your traffic which will increase the money you're going to make