AI-Powered Affiliate Marketing — Full Course for Beginners (2026)

Let me show you something quickly. Last

month, I got 1,567

clicks. My EPC earnings per 100 clicks

is $62.7.

Let's get the calculator. $62.7ide

by 100. It is $0.627

per click. My total earnings $982.

In this video, I will show you the real

legit way to make money online per

click. Real method, real strategy and a

real case study live now in this video.

Okay. So, I will go with you step by

step totally from scratch till you reach

your first clicks online and your first

income. But before that and before

jumping into step one and in just one

minute, let me show you the three

available methods online that we can

make money per clicks. The first method

that we don't want and I believe it's a

waste of time is websites like Neobox

and similar websites where you can click

on some ads and do some microtasks to

earn few cents. One time I heard someone

to work eight hours on such websites to

see how much we can earn and we made

like three $4 in eight hours of work.

Today in 8 hours we can build a full

business. I believe it's a waste of

time. I don't recommend and I'm not here

to tell you go click on ads. We want to

build something stable and real in this

video. The second method which is also

not my recommendation for today which is

monetizing your website with ads. For

example, using Google AdSense, buy sell

ads or any ad network you want. You put

ads on your website. And for example,

here we can see Google AdSense, we got

11,000 views. We got 43 clicks. And the

CPC cost per click is $012.

It's like $5 in total. That's fine. Many

people make thousands of this method.

But again, today we are not here to

monetize with ads. You want something

more professional, more stable,

something like this one here. Like

yesterday I made around $100. This month

around 859, last month around 982. So

it's like stable income every month or

at least additional income source. And

what's really nice, you can do this for

like 2 hours a day beside your main job

or if you are a student. So what is the

third method that we are going to talk

about in this video? It is simply

affiliate marketing but not the old

spammy way. We are talking about

affiliate marketing 2.0 in the AI era.

Many things have changed and you will

see now what I mean with real examples.

Now in case you are a beginner in just

one minute affiliate marketing is about

picking a product online. not your

product. You pick something online. It

can be a physical product or maybe a

digital product like a software

application or a course whatever and you

promote it online and when someone

clicks on your affiliate link and buy

the product you will make a commission.

I will show you today the full journey

from picking your product, promoting it

and getting your first income. The great

thing in this strategy is that you don't

need to have a website. You don't need

to build a product yourself. You don't

need money to start. You don't need

audience. All you need is to invest 2

hours a day and follow exactly what I'm

going to show you in this video. But why

I said affiliate marketing 2.0? What is

special today? What is new? Let me show

you. Affiliate marketing 2.0 0 has

mainly three pillars. Number one is

genuinely help people. Number two, we

will use free platforms that already

have millions of users. And number

three, we will use the power of AI all

through the journey. If you combine

these three pillars together and follow

up exactly what I will show you, there

is a little to no chance you fail with

this strategy. Okay, so the first step

is to pick your affiliate product. Let

me show you quickly three methods to do

so. Number one is to use affiliate

marketplaces like impact.com,

like Awin, like CJ. This my dashboard in

CJ. You can go for example to partners

and then file advertisers. And then you

can filter out hundreds and thousands of

affiliate programs. You can see here you

can click on category and select

whatever you want like books and media

and then filter or search and then you

get all services in this category and

you can see here the network earnings.

This is a good sign for each product if

you want to join or not. Also, if you

want to search for software products,

you can use product hunt and see what

products are there available or you can

use something like appsumu to browse

digital products like software, courses

and so on. So, this is the first method

which is using marketplaces and

directories to find product. But I don't

recommend doing this just randomly

finding a product. we have a better

approach which I think is the best and

is simply picking the product that you

are using. For example, if you use a

hosting service that you are comfortable

with, you can promote it. An AI tool, an

email marketing tool, whatever you are

doing, a physical product, anything, you

can recommend what you tested. This is

the best way I think to pick an

affiliate product. In case you have a

product and you don't know if they have

an affiliate program, just go to Google

and search for something like the

product name affiliate program. Like for

example, in my case, I'm promoting

Contabo, which is a VPS company. You'll

see here Contabo affiliate program. I

get directly the link to their affiliate

program. So I can join and promote them.

So this is how you can check for

affiliate programs for any product you

have. Now the third method which is in

you today the AI hack to find affiliate

products to promote which is simply

using tools like Chip PT with web search

or perplexity. The new integration

between AI and web search allows us to

find winning products easily with AI.

Let me show you this. In Perplexity for

example you can say list 10 products in

home and fitness and workout have a flee

programs with good commissions. So this

here the variable or your interest just

change this part and then it will search

the web and return back maybe the best

products in this niche that you can

promote like live fitness. It has a high

commissions up $3,000.

We have Verizon fitness cy bike all

these are services it has an affiliate

program and you can promote in the niche

you selected. Another example you can

use another prompt. You can simply say I

use a product daily. What similar

products have better affiliate

commissions? For example, I use Contabo.

And now Chip will search the web and

suggest similar affiliate programs to

the products you are using. You can find

for example Cloudways, Hostinger, WP

Engine, Kinsta and so on with details

about each program. This way you can

discover hidden affiliate programs you

didn't know about. So the first step is

to pick the affiliate product you want

to promote. In my case, I picked

Contabo. Why? Simply because member

method number two, I have been using

Contabo for years. I love this service

and they have good pricing compared to

other VPS services with the same

resources. So my product is Contabo. Now

if I get this link here and I share it

with someone and they bought the

service, I would earn nothing. Why?

Simply because the company Contabo will

never know that I promoted their product

with this link. It's a generic link. So

here where it comes, step number two, we

need to generate our own affiliate

trackable link. And please focus very

well. There's a very important trick

here you need to do otherwise you may

lose money and fail promoting this

product. So how to get this affiliate

trackable link? Usually each company has

its own affiliate system or management

system and some companies like Contabo

are managed by affiliate networks like

CJ. For example, Contabo is managed by

CJ. So if you go here to my advertisers

and you see here we have Contabo. I open

this. You will see here we have the get

links button inside CJ. I will click on

it and you will get a list of links you

can use to promote this product. Also,

you can get some ads. So, for example,

you see this is a banner ad with this

link and each will take you to a

dedicated page. For example, this one.

If you click on it, it will open like

the VPS page. And if we go back to

links, you will see if I open this get

code button here, we have three types

HTML, we have click URL and a QR code.

So I can grab this link and this is my

own private link. I can copy it and this

link allows contabs to track that I got

them traffic and new customers. This is

how they pay me based on this trackable

link. For example, another company I

promote which is digital ocean. If you

go there refill affiliate program, you

see here this is my own unique URL for

this company. If I'm promoting digital

ocean, another program I promote is

TubeBuddy. And you can see this is my

private or my unique affiliate trackable

link. So you need to get your own link

from the product you are promoting in

order for the service to track your

links and your clicks and pay you based

on your referrals. But that's not

enough. Never ever use this link

directly. Please focus here very well.

Imagine this scenario. You got this link

and you start promoting it and you share

it in multiple places online. You get

some clicks. You get some conversions.

Perfect. After one week, CJ or Contabo

or whatever company you are promoting

decided to disable this link or change

it for some reason. What will happen

now? You have two choices. to lose the

clicks and conversions because this link

is broken now or to go everywhere you

share this link and change it and update

it and this will be a very tough task

and sometimes you can't do so this is

why you need to create your own managed

trackable link for example you get this

link in my case I am I have a WordPress

website if you have one it's great you

can use a plug-in like called pretty

links which is free And here you can

simply create your own trackable link.

So for example I will call this contabo

anything and here we have the target URL

and here you can say refer contabo

product anything and then update. Now

what happens is you will share your own

link this new link. You see this one is

now your referral link that will

redirect internally to this affiliate

link. Now in case the company change

this one, you simply go here edit and

you just change this link here and all

the links you should on the internet

will not get affected because you are

sharing your own managed link. You got

the point? So it's very important to

create this brandable link or your own

managed link when sharing affiliate

links online and promoting affiliate

products. Now in case you don't have a

website, don't have WordPress, you can

simply use short link services like

short.io, I think is a free service.

There are many out there. Just go here

to Google or AI and search for top free

short link services and you will get a

lot of options here like this website

here. Anyway, so for this example, I

will be using short.io IO and you can

see in the pricing section it is free up

to 50,000 clicks. It's way more than

enough for you. So simply you get this

link and you paste it and then you will

get your own short link. You see this

one here is then you trackable link. In

case anything happens, anything changes,

you can simply click on edit and then

edit this link from only one place. So

you have full control over your links

before jumping and start promoting and

sharing online. This is very important.

Okay. Perfect. So now you have the

product, you have your own managed link.

We are ready to move on to step number

three. And here where everyone struggles

which is promoting the product and

getting clicks and conversions. But

before I jump into this part which is

the main and maybe the hardest part to

be honest in this journey, I have a

small note to mention about affiliate

products which is also very important in

case you are a beginner. A lot of

programs maybe like if you join CJ or if

you join Impact and other networks and

some maybe affiliate programs may

require you to have a presence online

like a website like a social channel or

whatever if you have one even if you

have an Instagram page anything it will

help you join and get accepted. But in

some cases they some programs they have

strict conditions to accept new members

into their affiliate program. So the

idea here is you can find alternatives

that accepts beginners or accepts people

with no presence. For example, when you

search here on Perplexity, you can tell

AI here that I am new to affiliate

marketing and I want to filter out

services that accept people with no

presence or a website online and then

perplexity or chip or whatever AI you

are using will start searching and

filtering specific programs that are

good for you as a beginner. I'm just

talking here in case you have no

presence online, you have nothing to get

started and you want programs that auto

accepts anyone into their affiliate

program. There are many out there. So

don't take this as an excuse. I know you

may read in the comments below some

negative thoughts about this that you

can't join anything and it's a blog.

It's not for beginners. Forget about

these negative thoughts. With a few

searches online, you can find product

that fits you as a total beginner and

you can get started with just this one

note before we jump into our main part

which is step three promoting the

affiliate product. Okay. So coming back

into step number three and the most

difficult part where everyone struggles

which is promoting the affiliate

products getting clicks and conversions.

Look, I want to be transparent here and

honestly, yes, this part is hard. I'm

not going to tell you it's very simple

and you'll get rich in one week. That's

impossible. But at the same time, if you

follow the right steps and the right

directions, you can do it. And this is

why I'm here. Other thing I want to

reveal here and I know many may be

thinking about and I'm sure I will see

these negative thoughts in the comments.

They will tell me hey you have an

audience you have a YouTube channel you

have websites you have established

audience whatever these comments they

are right I have been working online for

10 years now I have a YouTube channel I

have thousands of visitors on my website

I have an email list that's correct but

in this video I'm trying to put myself

as someone who is starting today with no

audience and I'm trying to share with

you my experience experience and put as

if you are starting now. So you don't

need to waste time on things you don't

know and probably will fail. So I want

to give you the right direction to

promote affiliate products the right way

and to get your first clicks and

conversions as fast as possible and to

be more transparent because number one

rule in life I believe is honesty. The

most conversions I got this month and

last month is simply from one video on

my channel which blew up. And if you

notice this, please focus on these

words. You see the videos after and

before this video didn't get much views.

So this one blew up. And this is a small

indicator that if you follow the right

directions and you do things correctly,

you can even blow up with no audience

online, especially with the strategy I'm

going to share with you right now. Okay,

enough talking and let's say now I want

to start from scratch. I have nothing

online. I have no YouTube channels, no

websites, no presence and I want to

promote my first affiliate product. what

I would do. Two things you have to think

about. Number one is to believe that you

can do this and it's possible. And

number two, you need to do this big mind

shift on how you think about making

money online. Instead of just focusing

on sharing links here and there to get

some clicks and get some money, think

about helping people. change your

mindset and reprogram your brain into

helping other people. And while you are

helping, you will be sharing the

products you use in the solutions and

how you are helping them. Believe me,

this will be one of the best things you

will ever do in your life to shift your

focus into helping instead of money.

When you focus on helping rather than

selling, something magical will happen.

People will trust you, will love to hear

from you and will trust your

recommendations

and they will be happy to buy through

your links. That's number one. Let's now

move into our action plan. You don't

have a website. You don't have money.

You have no presence online. Just you

just have nothing online and we want to

start. What do we do? The good news is

we are in 2025.

We have platforms like Substack, like

Medium, like YouTube and other platforms

where millions and maybe billions of

users are there every month consuming

content. And this is a great opportunity

for you to just take a piece in helping

people in these platforms and you can

promote your products easily. So if you

love creating videos, YouTube is a great

place. If not, that's totally fine. You

can go with Substack, which is a great

platform today and a great opportunity

to get started on especially for sharing

your thoughts, your experience, helping

people, creating guides, sharing your

journey, anything. Substack is a great

new place and they have builtin email

marketing and newsletter system and

totally for free. Or you can go with

medium, another place, another great

place. Don't listen to anyone who tells

you that written content on medium or

Substack is dead. It is totally the

opposite. Today people will love to

connect with others, ask each other in

the AI era. So we have Substack, we have

YouTube, we have Medium, we have

LinkedIn, we have other social

platforms. They are a great place to

share help and promote. So you don't

need a website. You can use these

platforms directly. You don't need

audience. You don't need money. These

platforms are free. All you need is to

invest two hours a day and invest in

yourself. And you don't need an audience

because simply when you share value,

when you help, remember the mindset.

When you help people, these platforms,

the algorithms will push you and show

your content to other people. For

example, here my stats on Medium. I

publish almost every week. I write on

medium. These are my stories here. You

can check them out if you want. Also, I

have started recently on Substack. But

on Substack, I start a different niche

which is related to self-hosting and

some technical stuff. You can follow up

if you want if you're interested. I have

a new series on one of the best skills

for 2025 and beyond which is ML and AI

ops. Anyway, so I'm also publishing on

Substack and of course on my YouTube

channel. So you don't need an audience

to get started. You don't need money and

you don't need a website. You just need

to join two platforms you feel

comfortable with and start helping

people on these platforms. Now I know as

a beginner you may face a problem in the

content strategy. You may ask okay how

to find content ideas, what to publish

about, how to create this content. Let

me help you. Let's say you are promoting

a hosting company. You can create a post

about how to create a website in 30

minutes. Did you notice the idea here?

I'm not pitching any hosting company.

I'm sharing a tutorial on how to build a

website. And through this tutorial, I

will be sharing a hosting company. So,

anyone following this tutorial will join

through my link. The same thing happened

in this video where I was sharing step

by step how to create your own hosting

server and host your websites somehow

for free. This is why people following

this video joined using my affiliate

link. You can see here my affiliate

Contabo link. So the idea is to

brainstorm helpful guides that not

directly pitch any product but instead

naturally you list or you mention the

products you want to promote through the

full guide. Again what's nice we are in

the AI era and the faith marketing 2.0

we can brainstorm and create these

content ideas with AI. Let me show you.

So here I am in charge GPT. I will paste

this prompt. Don't worry about the

prompts or anything in the video. I will

share everything with you. Please focus

and understand the concept first. Then

you can get whatever you want. So here

I'm promoting content an affiliate. I

share some details about the product and

I set my target audience and then I will

create for me 10 tutorial ideas where

this product is naturally mentioned as a

solution. Five problem solution, five

comparison ideas, the best platforms to

promote and so on. Then enter and now

Chad GPT or any AI you are using will

give you like a full content ideas or

strategy to follow and create about for

example how to install Docker and run

containers on a VBS. It's nothing

related to Contabo but naturally you can

pitch the product or promote the product

in the guide self-hosting email with

postfix. Perfect. A lot of ideas here

you can get and brainstorm easily with

AI. So this is the first example prompt.

Let's delete this again. The same prompt

now but I am promoting some fitness

product. You see dumbbells the price

create for me the same prompt with

different product and different audience

and again it will show you and generate

for you a full content plan or ideas

that you can create content about

easily. This is the power of AI and how

to integrate in any workflow is one of

the most powerful things which is

brainstorming and planning with AI. Now

after you get some ideas, you can also

use AI to create the content. But here

focus very well. So we can create honest

and really valuable content with AI. The

first thing you do is you can use a

prompt like this one. If I'm promoting

for example Blue Yeti USD microphone, I

can use such prompt to create a full

content piece about this idea and

promoting naturally through the blog.

Let's go. I'm using here clothes just as

another example how to record

professional sounding podcasts from

home. So we are sharing and telling

people how they can record at home

professional podcasts and throughout

this blog post or content piece. You can

see here we are mentioning Blue Yeti and

how to place it and how to use it and so

on. But do we copy this and go and

publish as it is? I don't recommend

because people today are not looking

just for AI generated content because

anyone can do this in seconds as you

saw. So how we can use AI effectively to

create content? Let me show you another

example. Here is one of my projects I

created and I use it for my substack

blog posts. Let me show you this in

action to understand this one. MLOps for

beginners. What I did here we have part

one, part two, three, four, five, six.

Let me open Substack and show you this

in action. So I created one, two, three,

four, five, six posts. So the first one,

this one I created with the help of AI.

This post here, I create with the help

of AI and using my own tone. I edit

this. I worked hard on the first blog

post to make sure it sounds like me. I

share real value and share exactly what

I want. So it's like a blog post I wrote

with the help of AI. Then what I did is

I added this post as a context to close.

You see here is the blog post I added

and inside the instructions I share

exactly what I want and I ask it to use

the same style in chapter one and two.

Now at the beginning it was only one. So

it wrote post two, three, four, five and

six exactly the way I want. This what I

call the pattern technique when

generating with AI and works also in

coding. I will explain this later in

dedicated video. But the idea here is to

create something that you are happy with

and then ask the AI generate based on

that. For example, if I ask now CL just

to create post number seven. Just like

that, it will create the full blog post

for me in my own style, in my own way,

exactly how I want it. Exactly. You will

see this part part one. And if you read

this now, you will see it's almost exact

same way I use here. We have a story.

Then we explain step by step and so on

with the code snippets. And again after

I finish this, I don't just copy and

paste and publish. I read it. I do some

tweaks. I add some images. I test that

everything in the blog is correct. Like

testing the snippets, testing the codes.

In my case, we have codes here. So I

make sure everything is perfect. Perfect

in some sense before posting it before

AI maybe some blog post used to take me

like two days to write now I write it

with in 3 minutes or maybe 1 hour and

publish it on substack and on medium and

my blog everywhere even you can do this

creating YouTube scripts and much more.

The idea is by creating a project

whether in code or chip or whatever and

passing the right context so the AI can

know exactly what to generate and how to

generate your content. I use this not

only for Substack. I have my own YouTube

show script writer. I have my full

YouTube script writer. I have my expost

writer. I have my website blog writer

and so on. You can do the same to create

any piece of content online. But it will

be valuable. It will be helpful. It will

sound natural in your style in your tone

and something you are proud of and not

simple blind AI generated content that

everyone will hate. Okay. So we picked

the product, we got our affiliate link,

we picked the platforms, we brainstormed

ideas, we start creating content and

naturally promoting our affiliate links.

Now what? Again, let me be honest with

you. Your first piece of content may get

0 to 10 views. Your second may be 20,

30, 50 views. You may not get any clicks

or conversions with your first two,

three piece of content. And most people

literally like 95% of people will quit

before they see any result before they

get even their first clicks. But here

what's they miss and what you should

understand. Every piece of content

helpful piece of content you publish

online will be an asset that works for

you 24/7. So, this video here I

published turned into a passive income

machine that works 24/7 and gets me

clicks and conversions. The same for my

Substack posts, my Medium posts and so

on. So, stop thinking how I can make

more money and start thinking how I can

help more people. When you do this,

money will become a byproduct of being

helpful. You will do something you love.

you will be helping at the same time

you'll be making money and extra income

online. Look, you can close this video

now and forget everything I said and you

learned or you can realize that you have

something to share. You have knowledge,

experience, and the ability to help

people right now. Again, you don't need

your own product, your own website. You

don't need a budget. You don't need

money. You don't need an audience. You

just need to shift your mindset into

helping people online. Grab your

affiliate product. Start creating

helpful content naturally promoting the

products and you'll be doing the best

thing you ever did in your life, which

is helping people and building a

business online. If you learned

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