Affiliate Training
Find proven promotional methods and tools that you can use to get started. For any general questions, please see our affiliate support page. For new affiliates, we also recommend signing up with Affilorama, a sister company to SaleHoo, and going through the free lessons.
Table of Contents
- Action Plan for Established Websites/Email Lists
- How Can I Get More Traffic to my Website?
- Resources New Affiliates Should Read First
- How to Create a SaleHoo Affiliate Website
- Recommended Affiliate Tools & Resources
Promotional Advice for Established Websites and/or Email Lists
Action Plan for Established Websites/Email Lists
Step 1: Promote SaleHoo directly to your email list
If you have an email list, take our hard-sell email from your chosen product’s resource area, and email it to your list.
If you have an email list, take our hard-sell email from your chosen product’s resource area, and email it to your list.
Step 2: Write a review
We highly recommend writing a review about SaleHoo/your chosen product on your website. In the affiliate resources for each product, you will find an example review. You can use this as a guide for writing your own one. It is a good idea to put screenshots in your review, and you can use any graphics from our website for this
We highly recommend writing a review about SaleHoo/your chosen product on your website. In the affiliate resources for each product, you will find an example review. You can use this as a guide for writing your own one. It is a good idea to put screenshots in your review, and you can use any graphics from our website for this
Step 3: Promote your review to your email list
If you have an email list (or some other form of way of communicating directly to your followers, e.g. Facebook/Twitter) send out a message encouraging your audience to read it. We recommend sending this out 2-3 days after sending out the email from step 1.
If you have an email list (or some other form of way of communicating directly to your followers, e.g. Facebook/Twitter) send out a message encouraging your audience to read it. We recommend sending this out 2-3 days after sending out the email from step 1.
Step 4: Add our emails to your autoresponder
If you have an autoresponder, we recommend adding both the hard-sell and soft-sell email in your chosen product’s resource area to your autoresponder sequence. We suggest adding the hard-sell email in before the soft-sell email. We have a 9-day SaleHoo-specific autoresponder sequence available on request. To get this, email partners@salehoo.com and ask for it.
If you have an autoresponder, we recommend adding both the hard-sell and soft-sell email in your chosen product’s resource area to your autoresponder sequence. We suggest adding the hard-sell email in before the soft-sell email. We have a 9-day SaleHoo-specific autoresponder sequence available on request. To get this, email partners@salehoo.com and ask for it.
Step 5: Add our banners to your website
It is important to place the banners in the best spots. Here are the top 3 banner placements:
It is important to place the banners in the best spots. Here are the top 3 banner placements:
- Align our 336x280 banner to the top left of the main content.
- Place our 728x90 leaderboard banner along the header of the website,to the right of your website logo.
- Place our 336x280 banner in the top right of the right sidebar.
How Can I Get More Traffic to my Website?
- At least once a week, add a new article to it that is based around e-commerce, eBay and wholesale/dropshipping. You can take our free articles in the Seller Training Center, rewrite them and post them to your website.
- Generate traffic from search engines (Google). To do this, watch this video to help you find some keywords that a lot of people search for. Then, use this SEO SaleHoo guide to help you optimize your content for those pages.
Promotional Advice for New Affiliates Without a Website
Resources New Affiliates Should Read First
- Read our Getting Started Guide.
- Sign up to Affilorama, and watch/read all of the free lessons. While going through them, think about how you would apply this to SaleHoo.
How to Create a SaleHoo Affiliate Website
- Firstly, get your website URL and hosting through Hostgator (watch this video). We recommend choosing a URL relating to e-commerce.
- Next, install Wordpress using Quick Install through your Hostgator cPanel. Note: leave the box blank next to your chosen domain name (watch this video)
- Next, you need to install a theme. I’ll recommend finding a red/white theme with a sidebar on the right (watch video here)
- Add a SaleHoo banner to your sidebar (watch this video)
- Add a blog post (watch this video). If you don’t know what to write about, choose a free lesson from our Seller Training Center and rewrite it.
- Instead of posting a blog post that rewrites a lesson, take our example review in the resources section and rewrite it - or write your own, and post this next on your blog.
- Keep adding 1 new article to your blog each week - and watch your traffic grow. Be patient! This doesn’t happen overnight.
- Keep reading each monthly affiliate newsletter
Recommended Affiliate Tools & Resources
- Conversion Tracking: use this to track your conversion.
- Affiliate Feed Widget: use this for a low-pressure option for softly promoting SaleHoo.
- Traffic Travis: use this to monitor your search engine rankings, and to look at your competitors backlinks. You can find their best backlinks, and then use them yourself.
- The SaleHoo Affiliate Getting Started guide
- SaleHoo SEO Guide
- Affilorama: affiliated with SaleHoo. Offers over 100 free affiliate marketing lessons.
