Taobao is almost a household name. Since Taobao launched its affiliate program, online shopping has now become a fashion. Countless affiliates have flooded in, and it will be a long and arduous journey for affiliates to carve out a path among them. Therefore, being a Taobao affiliate is both an opportunity and a challenge, and only time will tell who will laugh last. I estimate that many netizens are not unfamiliar with Taobao affiliates. Because now you can see all kinds of Taobao promotion ads, Taobao shopping guide websites, and Taobao cashback websites everywhere on the Internet. Moreover, more and more netizens and webmasters have joined the ranks of Taobao affiliates.
The entry threshold is low. Why do so many people rush to become Taobao affiliates? There are two main reasons. First, anyone can join. All you need to do is register on Ali Mama and get your own PID, then you can promote Taobao products anywhere and earn commissions. Whether it's QQ, MSN, emails, forums, blogs, personal websites, etc., etc. Second, the income is high. You can see posts and articles everywhere online about how Taobao affiliates can make tens of thousands of yuan per month. Take a look at the Ali Mama forum, and such posts are highlighted, marked as excellent, and pinned to the top. For example, someone earns several thousand yuan a month, or someone makes 100 yuan in commission from 10 IPs. Thus, every day on the Ali Mama forum, you can see N number of people posting "I just started a Taobao site" and other similar statements.
Networking, and even personal branding. Especially after Taobao blocked Baidu, can Taobao affiliates really make money? Perhaps some may doubt whether the weekly income leaderboard on the Ali Mama community homepage is fake, but I believe it is real. These people should be those moderators of the Ali Mama forum, forum veterans, early entrants into Taobao affiliates, webmasters with rich marketing and SEO skills, etc. They have their own diverse methods. Blocking Baidu from clearly finding Taobao through SEO brought a large amount of traffic to some early Taobao affiliates. Successful SEO allowed their websites to seize Taobao-related keywords on Baidu. But among all the Taobao affiliates flooding in, what is the proportion of those who can achieve this? That's why you often see people who have been doing Taobao affiliates for a while complaining that they can't make money. Many excitedly join, only to leave disheartened.
Let's focus on analyzing the promotion methods of Taobao affiliates: The method that most people use would be through forums and chat. This way can be said to be the simplest and easiest. Anyone with internet experience can adopt this method because it's simple. To make money, one must invest a lot of energy and time. Of course, those who already have a certain level of prestige in forums and groups will find it relatively easier. However, as Taobao affiliates become more and more common, the difficulty will increase.
Then let's first increase the traffic! Through blogs and personal websites. This method relies on the high traffic of existing blogs and personal websites to achieve the purpose of making money, so it is only suitable for bloggers with high-traffic blogs and webmasters of personal websites. If you're a new website or blog, it's better to seek advice from those who specialize in this area than to blindly try to increase traffic.
Because the technical threshold is relatively low, self-building Taobao shopping guide sites is suitable for netizens with website building experience. Although there are still a large number of Taobao affiliates using this method, doing a good job with a Taobao affiliate site requires certain programming abilities, SEO technology, and website operation capabilities. Look at the current Taobao affiliate sites; most of them are repetitive copies. How many people aren't just picking up random code from the internet and considering themselves part of the Taobao affiliate group? The most important thing for Taobao shopping guide sites is operation, and only by creating your own unique features can you attract more users.
Most Taobao affiliate sites fall into this category. Taobao shopping guide sites are mainly divided into two types: one is pure shopping guide websites. Earning commissions from users purchasing Taobao goods through the site, these sites mainly rely on traffic. The other type is shopping guide and cashback websites. There are currently quite a few of these sites. They return the commission earned from users purchasing Taobao goods through the site back to the users. For these sites to succeed, they rely on trust, and the returns due to users must be given.