How to Create an Affiliate Marketing Post in WordPress

Beasley Digital

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00:00Hi everyone! So today I'm going to be teaching you how to put together an affiliate marketing

00:13post in the WordPress pages. Now typically we build these at the Content Factory level,

00:19so right now we are in the Content Factory WordPress, and on the left-hand side we are

00:24underneath the affiliate marketing tab. The affiliate marketing posts are a little bit

00:29different than the regular post templates that we've created. This particular post template allows

00:37us to have individual items that are kind of features in the middle of the articles, and they

00:43also calculate a page view for every time you scroll down to the next item. So we've customized

00:50the template to look a little bit different than your regular post template, so I'm going to do a

00:55walkthrough of the things that you need to do to implement an affiliate marketing post. A couple

01:04things you're going to need to know is that we're going to go into individual item parts in the next

01:10couple of videos, but for this video we're going to show you how to do the standard setups and closing

01:17pieces for the post. So you're going to want a Word document up that you would be using as an example.

01:24So for this one we're going to be using one that we're recently creating on Fidget Toys. And

01:32the first thing you need to do is, of course, put in your title. So we're going to take a title

01:36and add it in at the top here. And the next thing we're going to do is take our description or intro

01:44paragraph and our disclosure. Now the disclosures are incredibly important. There should be one at

01:50the beginning and one at the end of each of your articles. So for this you're going to start by

01:57putting the first disclosure and introductory paragraph into the first WYSIWYG that you're seeing

02:03here. So we've copy and pasted that in. I always leave a space in between here so this kind of

02:10offsets each other when it's in the visual form. You won't have these two pieces of copy paragraphs

02:17bumping up against each other. So the next thing I always do is I make this disclosure a

02:27headline six. So right now it's coming into paragraph. We want this to display as a headline six.

02:32So it's a little bit smaller, looks more like a disclosure on the page. This can stay a

02:40paragraph. And once you've completed this, you get to move on to the fun part of adding the items.

02:46Now, as I said, we're going to be covering how to add each item in in the next few videos. So you'll be

02:51seeing all of this in action in the next pieces. But when you finally finished adding all of your items

02:58in, you will need to add your description for the closing paragraph and the closing

03:08disclosure. So for this, I'm actually going to take a different article and show you what it looks like,

03:17because this one is not completed yet. So in your

03:29article, you've already completed all of your items. And at the bottom here, we are

03:35we're going to see the disclosure and the closing paragraph. So as you can see here,

03:46there's the closing paragraph. It is bigger than the copy for the disclosure. Once again,

03:52we go down here and make sure that this copy can be selected as a headline six. So that's what it's

03:59displaying as now. You're also going to put in your SEO. So this is where you'll put that in. It's at

04:07the bottom of the page. And you can also select the author for the article at the bottom. So everything

04:13can be adjusted right from this particular template. You don't have to go out and do like a quick edit

04:20on the actual page itself. You can do it right here to do the author. And then a couple other things

04:28that need to be noted for before you finalize and publish your article is you need to select the

04:34shopping category underneath the categories tab here. We want to add tags. So in this case, we want

04:42to add home decor in college for a fidget article. We'd add fidget toys or toys. We only want to have

04:49one to two tags. You don't need to overload it with tags. Just things that would be the most relevant for

04:55your article. And then we want to add our collections. So for our collections, we have

05:01one for each individual format. And we also have a shopping all. So shopping all goes down to our

05:07must-haves and funfinds.com website. So we want to select this for every single article. And then

05:14depending on what your article's audience or target audience is, we select what the formats are. So right

05:19now, this one can go to everybody. That's why you're seeing throwback and hip hop and urban AC.

05:25We're seeing the shopping for AC and top 40. And this one's not supposed to be in here. So we're

05:33going to remove that. And we want to select news and sports. So here's all of our formats. We're just

05:43going to click update at the top and make sure that that's all good. So it's a good thing we came in

05:49here to check this one. And one last thing, you're going to want to make sure you have your cover photo

05:54and of course the attributions that need to go on top of that. So once you've done everything for your

05:59article, when you preview it, you'll see a lovely name of the person who wrote the article, who at the

06:08date of the publishing is going to be, and you should be able to see your disclosures. As you can see,

06:12that space that we talked about here in the beginning, super helpful for again, offsetting

06:16the different texts. And then each individual item is being displayed here. So as you scroll

06:22through, you get to the bottom, and there is our closing paragraph and our final closing disclosure,

06:33as well as the newsletter. So this is already built into the template. You don't have to do anything

06:38additionally. And the last thing you'll see down here is the category and the tags. So that is going

06:45to do it for your affiliate marketing post. If you need any help with that, you can reach out to me,

06:51Nicole Basio, at Nicole.Basio at bbgi.com. And we're going to be covering the individual

07:00product links for Impact, ShareASale, Amazon, and AWIN in the next four videos. So I look forward to

07:08talking to you then.

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