Your complete toolkit to grow your own affiliate marketing blog to $1,000/month and beyond.
Everyone seems to be making money these days and it just looks so easy. How can youĀ know whatās the right way for YOU? Itās difficult to know where to start.
Itās all about the mindset! Most beginners simply canāt figure it out. You want someone to show you step-by-step how to earn a sustainable side income with affiliate marketing without having to repeat the same mistakes everyone else is making.
Email courses, webinars, masterclasses… Everyone tells you something different! How should you know where to start? Whatās the best way for you to start earning an online side income?
Yes, you need to show real effort to build online income streams. And youāre busy, so you need an actionable plan to follow at your own pace. You donāt want to waste your time on outdated and poor strategies. So many people do ā donāt be one of them.
If you have been blogging for a while, itās not uncommon to feel stuck with affiliate marketing. You just donāt understand how some bloggers make so much on autopilot while you work your butt off and barely make anything. You feel like youāre doing everything right, but where are the results?
You want to earn real side income and grow it to gain financial freedom and flexibility. You want to spend more time with family and friends, and youāre serious about finally learning a system that actually works.
Yes, I started slow with my blog monetization back in the day. I made $0 for over 12 months until I realized I could turn my blog into a side hustle.
I started learning everythingĀ I could about blog monetization and affiliate marketing. Thatās just how I roll. I get all in, gather all the information I can, and try every strategy I can to weed out the ones that donāt work.
So I bought every course⦠š„
Watched every YouTube video⦠š
Read every blog post I could find⦠š
Listened to every podcast⦠š
For a while, I thought nothing would work. I just wanted to see my first affiliate commission roll in!
And eventually it happened:
I made my first $4 in January 2018.
That felt absolutely amazing! I had finally proven it was possible to make money promoting other peopleās products to my own audience.
So I wasnāt a total failure, eh?
Now, how could I grow it?
$4 wasnāt exactly going to cover my rent or my grocery billsā¦
I started paying attention to the things that did work, even though I was making peanuts.
The next month, I made $117.14 ā looking better!
I turned that into $225.59 the next month.
And then $241.45, then $318.85 the month after that.
But at this point, I felt a little stuck.
I was makingĀ someĀ money through affiliate marketing, but I saw tons of bloggers make a full-time income with it.
I wanted to be one of them!
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What I found were...
I didnāt have the right information from the get-go, so I made the wrong choices at the beginning. My mistakes still slow me down even though Iāve solved them to achieve better results.
Making money through affiliate marketing is like building a house. You canāt just start building and hope for the best. Instead, you need a careful plan, and you have to start by setting a solid foundation ā otherwise your house will collapse.
Affiliate marketing can be broken down into clear, consecutive steps you need to take. If you donāt know the right steps, how could you ever achieve your goal?
Your audience is out there searching for helpful information and the perfect products to make their lives easier right now.
The longer you wait, the more money you are leaving on the table. Itās all about starting today if you donāt want to miss out on your earnings.
After 4 months of hard work (and some tears) I had a new strategy in place.
The results?
First, $749/month. šµ
Then $990 the next month.
Then $1,253, then $1,984. šµ šµ
When I made $2,101 a month later, I knew my strategy was working.
From there, I started making $2,500ā$5,000 monthly from affiliate marketing alone. š°
I kept listening to my audience and improving what I was doing.
The best part?
Iām a part-time blogger.
I donāt have a team of VAs, SEO consultants, ghost writers, and marketing experts to help me out. This is a one-man show that I manage when I have a few hours to spare.
Why do I mention this? Because it means that you canĀ earn good money even if youāre super busy.
If youāre trying to grow your earnings and break out of the $100ā$1,000 per month range, hereās the truth:
The only thing thatās holding you back are your strategy and mindset.
You just need to take the right steps at the right time.
This step-by-step e-book for bloggers teaches you how to make money through affiliate marketing.
I show you how to become a successful affiliate from scratch, and you donāt need thousands of followers or tons of page views to start earning money.
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Introducing...
The ultimate guide for turning your blog into a profitable affiliate marketing business that brings in consistent, sustainable, and scalable income!
Take the best shortcut through all of the overwhelm and outdated information out there and build a solid foundation for your profitable affiliate marketing business.
Learn how to choose a great niche that allows you to make money, and feel confident that you are taking the right steps from the very beginning.
Discover the right affiliate programs and networks for your niche and target audience. As a free bonus youāll get my master list of 180+ legit affiliate programs for popular niches like fashion, beauty, business, e-commerce, food, finance, and more.
Regardless of your niche and competition, you will learn how to stand out and appeal to your audience with 5 proven, hands-on strategies ā even if your blog is brand new.
Understand exactly what your audience wants from you (finally!) and learn how to create the right type of content that resonates with your peeps so that you can grow your earnings faster.
Learn how to plan, write, and publish blog posts with my step-by-step blueprint for effective and efficient content that converts into affiliate sales and income.
Blog traffic = affiliate income. You will plan and implement a powerful blog traffic strategy that brings in thousands of free, organic visitors who are genuinely interested in what youāre offering.
...and much more!

Use the glossary as a quick reference for all the new terminology around affiliate marketing and blog monetization. A huge time-saver!

Discover popular, high-paying affiliate programs and networks in your niche. The list contains 180+ programs in profitable niches like finance, food, e-commerce, frugal living, fashion, beauty, travel, and more.

Your content is your most powerful tool! Use these 30+ fun and interesting content ideas for inspiration to grow your affiliate sales easily.

Maintain a clear overview and track your progress step-by-step and feel confident in what you are doing at all times.

Blog traffic = affiliate sales. You donāt need millions of visitors to make money blogging, but you need some traffic. Pinterest is one of the fastest traffic channels and this Pinterest marketing guide helps you steal my traffic strategy and increase your earnings faster.

You are wearing enough hats as it is. I donāt want you to waste your time designing your Pinterest graphics from scratch. These stunning Pinterest templates allow you to get started within minutes with a free Canva account!
This guide is the perfect roadmap to follow with your new blog. If you have started a blog and want proven information on how to start making money with it, then you are in the right place.
If you feel like hitting an invisible ceiling with your earnings, this guide shows you how to find the right affiliate products and increase your commissions without selling your soul.
If you havenāt seen any significant affiliate earnings in the past, look no further. This guide is the perfect place to craft an affiliate marketing strategy that works and gets results!
This guide is for people who are willing to put in the hard work and stay honest with their followers. If you want to see real results and grow your earnings, this guide walks you through everything you must do.
This guide will not help you get rich quick. Affiliate marketing takes time and hard work, and it doesnāt offer any instant gratification. You will have to put in your best effort to see results. Once you do, your earnings will ramp up with the system I teach in the guide.
This is not a 2āhour guide. This is not a 1āweek guide even. This guide has a ton of information that covers everything you need to start earning affiliate commissions and grow your earnings. This is not a brief overview of how to get people to click on your affiliate links. It will take time to complete, learn, and implement everything in this guide.
Affiliate marketing is about helping your audience with what you know. If youāre only interested in making a quick buck and donāt listen to your readers and genuinely help them, affiliate marketing isnāt for you.
Honestly, 95% of the āgurusā out there are teaching the same stuff. They donāt dive deeper into detail, but rather just state the obvious and expect their students to figure out the rest.
I wasted thousands of bucks on outdated courses that lacked depth. Big words. Big promises. Little substance.
What you need is a step-by-step system that you can follow at your own pace. A system that is practical and hands-on.
Yes, most courses and guides are packed with information. But they donāt start at theĀ veryĀ beginning where you must begin if you want to build a solid foundation.
My approach is different: I walk you through theĀ absolute basics and the most fundamental strategies first. Each chapter walks you one step closer to your affiliate income goal.
First of all, affiliate marketing is evolving. Lots of bloggers and experts who have been doing it for 10+ years share techniques that worked back then. And hey, thatās great.
But those strategies just donāt cut it anymore.
You need to learn from someone whoās still growing and improving, just like you will be.
When you dive into affiliate marketing, the truth is that there are no shortcuts. You need to put in the work to grow your earnings. Thatās what every successful affiliate marketer has done.
Yes, some bloggers can make $10,000/month and more through affiliate marketing. But thatās not what you should expect to make anytime soon.
I created this guide based on what Iāve learned and experienced as a part-time blogger. Iāve built everything from the ground up without hiring a VA, an SEO expert, or a copywriter. I know itās possible to earn a full-time income working part-time as an affiliate marketer and blogger.
Finding dozens of cool affiliate products is great. Linking to them is even more exciting. You may even see a few commissions roll in.
But the truth is: you can do so much more.
While tons of bloggers make some money from affiliate marketing, they mostly neglect the most important secret to generating commissions.
That secret is: you donāt need tons of visitors to earn decent money. What you need is the right mindset ā which I will share throughout the guide.
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Hey there! Iām Mikke, the creator of Blogging Explorer and your personal guide for building a sustainable affiliate income stream step-by-step.
Iām the mastermind behind the blogging success Iāve achieved by relentlessly learning, testing, and perfecting the techniques I share with people just like you on how to turn your passion into a profitable side hustle and online business you love.
I 100% love what I do and couldnāt be more excited to share what Iāve learned with you. My goal is to help you avoid the mistakes I have made along my blogging journey so that you can achieve the same results more easily and quickly.
I know itās a lot of work to launch a blog and turn it into an income source. But weāre in this together, and Iām here to show you where to start and what to do next!
You can totally do this! šŖ I canāt wait to see you inside the guide!
Not necessarily. You can get started without a website or a blog. However, I do recommend starting a blog so that you can publish the right type of content for your audience. Also, many companies will not approve you as an affiliate partner without a website.
No. The strategy I teach works for absolute beginners and brand new blogs with zero email subscribers.
Absolutely. I designed this guide to work for any blogging niche. You will get access to my master list of 180+ popular affiliate programs in fashion, beauty, food, finance, travel, and more.
Yes. If youāre not seeing the results you expect, this guide can help you audit your strategy and improve your content, workflow, traffic, and income.
This is a digital product. You will receive a download link to a ZIP file. You will need to unzip it, and it contains all the individual PDF files.
Your download link will be valid for 30 days. Please make sure you download your files immediately when you receive your purchase confirmation email. Save the files securely on your computer so that you can go through them at your own pace one by one.
There is no universal answer to this. It depends on how much time you dedicate to learning my strategies and implementing them in practice.
But one thing is for sure: you will make $0 until you start. And Iām here to help you out.
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Yes. You get a 60-day money-back-guarantee in case you donāt see real results. If you go through my guide, implement my strategies, and donāt see any results, then you can email me within 60 days from your purchase for a full refund. All I ask is that you provide evidence that youāve put these techniques into place and that they have not worked for you.
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