Affiliate Marketing Courses and Tools

Affiliate Marketing is one of few truly passive techniques for generating income. It can be extremely lucrative if done well, but quite opaque to the first time user. To help you on your journey I’ve included a selected list of twelve of the best courses and tools to help you.

 

Courses

Cut the learning curve! Don’t try and work it all out for yourself. Get the money flowing in with the guidance of one of these courses and their surrounding communities.

 

Affilorama – Affilorama has fantastic video content and lessons to get your Affiliate enterprise moving. Many students vouch for the program being the difference to moving them towards profitability.

Clickbank University – Originating from the affiliate network Clickbank, Clickbank University focuses around becoming profitable affiliating products from their network. A wide range of techniques are covered, and subscription is available on a monthly basis.

Wealthy Affiliate – Wealthy Affiliate is not just a course but an entire platform built around learning and becoming profitable in affiliate marketing. The depth of content is phenomenal and it’s an exceptional resource to get you on your way to more commissions.

 

Autoresponders

You need to build an audience to become effective in Affiliate Marketing. How do you communicate to that audience? Email! Email is one of the best options to get under the nose of your fans. There are so many benefits to collecting and communicating via email.

 

GetResponse – An affiliate friendly email Autoresponder, GetResponse offers a wide range of easy to use features at a range of affordable price points. Emails? Bread and Butter. Landing Pages? Easy. Marketing Automation? You’ve come to the right place.

 

Aweber – Aweber is also an Affiliate Friendly platform for sending out email autoresponders. Depending on your price point, it’s likely there’s an Aweber plan for you.

 

SEO Tools

Google part of your strategy? Don’t go in blind. Use a tool!

SEMRush – SEMRush is the gold standard when it comes to research on Google keywords, domain authority and all things SEO. If Search Engine Optimisation or any form of organic or paid search is part of your strategy, SEMRush is the way to go.

Longtail Pro ? As it’s name suggests, Longtail Pro is all about finding those elusive long tail search phrases to help you bring traffic to your website.

 

Hosting

You need to put your website somewhere – depending on what you want, these are great alternatives

WPEngine – If you’re using WordPress, look no further than WPEngine for your hosting. WPEngine is at a higher price point than most hosts but offers excellent performance, interface and service.

Siteground – Siteground offers exceptional value under a number of different potential plans.

Bluehost – At the more budget end of hosting, Bluehost is a great cut price offering.

 

Plugins and Themes

If you’ve gone down the wordpress route, check these out:

ThirstyAffiliate – This is a must have plugin if you have a WordPress based website. Cloak and organise your links.

Yoast – Fantastic and widely loved SEO assistance plugin for WordPress.

Themeforest – Themeforest is a great source of value WordPress themes for your site.