Who doesn’t love the idea of working from anywhere in the world without a set work schedule?
The top affiliate marketers don’t need to fantasize about this lifestyle – they have the option to live this way.
Affiliate marketing is becoming more and more popular every day as people trade in the 9-5 lifestyle for the opportunity to be their own boss.
The only issue with this concept is that making it as an affiliate marketer is no easy feat. The rising popularity of digital marketing is making it harder and harder to build a sustainable affiliate marketing business.
1. Flippa
Flippa is essential for anyone looking to leapfrog the process of building a successful affiliate site from scratch. This site serves as a bidding marketplace for individuals to buy and sell websites (think eBay for websites). Flippa allows affiliate marketers to buy sites that have a strong backlink profile to kickstart SEO growth.
2. SEMRush
SEMRush is our go-to tool for keyword research, fixing SEO mistakes, and competitor analysis. Fair warning: I’ve been using this tool daily since 2012, so I’m a bit biased here.
This tool is a must-have for marketers who are looking to understand what content is driving the highest ROI for competitors, as well as analyzing on-page SEO issues.
3. Ahrefs
Ahrefs serves many of the same functions as SEMRush (keyword research, on-page audits, competitive content analysis, etc). However, Ahrefs places much more emphasis on backlinks than on-page SEO.
Ahrefs provides marketers with in-depth insights about new and lost backlinks, sites that are linking to broken pages on your website, and competitor backlink growth.
4. Yoast SEO
This is the first SEO plugin that we add to any site that we work on. Yoast SEO provides advanced SEO functionality to every page.
5. Grammarly
Grammarly is a must-have for those who are regularly publishing content on their affiliate site. In short, Grammarly is your average spell-checker on steroids.
Not only does Grammarly point out spelling errors. It also identifies grammatical errors such as incorrect word and comma usage.
6. PB SEO Friendly Images
It’s no secret that adding alt text to each image is a pain in the ass. PB SEO Friendly Images takes this burden off of your plate by adding alt text to every image on your site.
Our go-to option is to set alt text for any images to populate based on the image file name (see below). However, this plugin offers a handful of other options as well.
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