Hi - you are dropshipping rather than affiliate marketing?

I personally believe it's much more difficult, as you need to deal directly with customers, sorting out their problems, refunds, complaints, returns, etc.

Whereas, with affiliate marketing, you simply send the customer to the merchant and receive a commission.

Plus, it will be a challenge to rank a Shopify site highly, even if you have lots of blog content, as essentially, it is still a shop rather than a helpful, informational site. Love Your Niche

You could write about why people should purchase from your online store instead of the big retailers.

What are the benefits from shopping with you?

Do you deal with all animals or just cats and dogs?

What can you offer your shoppers that’s better than other shops?

Will they get any free samples with their purchases? Etc.
Hope this helps.

It would be good to find out what your target audience is asking in questions and then try to answer them in your posts to the best of your ability.

You update it with regular posts to drive organic traffic to your shop, or merchant's websites and stores.


I don't know where you are in training, but you need to follow up to the tee and do the tasks and activities asked of your bottom of the lessons to help you set up properly and guide you through the process.

You may transfer or point to WA servers (if transferring domain has to end in .com, .net or .org.

To update your domain DNS settings to point to WA. Here are the DNS settings.

ns1.mywahosting.com
ns2.mywahosting.com

These settings will be updated within your domain registrar (where you purchased your domain) after the transfer has taken place. How to Transfer a Domain Name to Wealthy Affiliate How To Point Your Domain Name To WA NEW Go Daddy DNS details to make it work: To transfer your domain here you need login current registrar and fetch the EPP code, there's a one year charge of $15, privacy included. One year more will get added to your domain.

Also it has to have passed the grace period of 60 days.



If your site has content you need get in touch with site support for further instructions.

They will typically ask you for FTP info and your domain name, they'll set up a siterubix subdomain and upload files then you can check everything is okay before you point your domain to WA servers.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support

This might help: When Your Domain Is Hosted Somewhere Else Note that you can't transfer a Shopify domain to Wealthy Affiliate as it's not built on the WordPress platform.

You need aim for ONE focused niche with a specific group of people, I'd go with what's best resonates with me.

Which of the two are you most passionate about?

When deciding on a niche try narrow it down to a more specific niche, you can ask yourself the following question:

So I want to help people with ____________________ ?

Fill in the blank and you are going to get closer to a specific audience. A Niche is A Group of People Looking for Stuff

Hi - take a look at my post to see what they expect. Are You Ready for AdSense The main reasons for being rejected are not having an Affiliate Disclosure, not having enough content to attract visitors, and having any copied and pasted content.

You will never be accepted for AdSense if you have any copied content because Google will not rank your site high enough to be found by anybody.

And, of course, if you have no visitors, the advertisers will not make any money.

Resource Google Adsense - 9 Tips to Help You Get Accepted

Affiliate marketing is a much more straightforward way to grow your online business. Nothing against e-commerce, but for that to work you need your own products.

Without those, not only do you have to figure out how to get them, on top of that have to set yourself up for shipping, dealing with returns, etc.

Meanwhile, the training here sets you up for success with affiliate marketing where you don’t need your own products at all.

Definitely something to consider.

Ok thanks

You need to look up dropshipping businesses in line with your niche. Or you can stock your own however you would need a working capital for your inventory.

You also need to be cautious when you sign up with merchants as not for them to use your customers for their marketing campaigns. You need to include a clause in your contract not for them to retain your customers. You want to ask them to deliver packages without their corporate identity on the packages.

I would be very wary and do my due diligence.

You need to pay upfront for them to drop ship. Some may require prior banking | credit card approval before business is conducted.

You may use PayPal and Stripe gateways to process transactions, however if you are expecting large cash intake, I would sign up to the latter as PayPal would freeze newly opened accounts.

Profit margins won't be as high because you are not making the goods, it requires dropshipping. Therefore, there's an extra cost associated.

And you still have to deal with customer services and respond to their inquiries, providing succinct transparency throughout.

And the most essential of all businesses is marketing, you still have to find a way to market your dropshipping business. One way is via Facebook Ads, however that can be costly if you do not know what you are doing.

The other way is to incorporate a blog and have it SEO optimized, whereby you regularly update it with relevant content pertaining to your niche, to drive organic traffic to your dropshipping store.

The latter is no different to affiliate marketing, except then you would be diverting traffic to merchants' stores pending your visitor making an informed decision go ahead click your links go purchase the item/s you proposed to solve their issue.

However, you don't have to deal with your visitor as then this is the merchant's responsibility, or drop shipping goods, lateness etc.

I hope this helps.