Things You Have to Know as a Discovery Japan Affiliate Beginner

In the age of coronavirus, we all spend more time at home than usual, the time we spend surfing the net undoubtedly getting more and more. Online shopping demand has never been more higher amid coronavirus lockdowns. It’s a good chance to earn money online!

What is Discovery Japan Affiliate?

Discovery Japan Affiliate pays you a contingency fee if you place an ad on your blog or website and the person who clicks on the ad makes a purchase on the advertiser's website.

In the age of coronavirus, we all spend more time at home than usual, the time we spend surfing the net undoubtedly getting more and more. Online shopping demand has never been more higher amid coronavirus lockdowns. It’s a good chance to earn money online!

Discovery Japan Mall, a Discovery Japan Affiliate advertiser, has a 5% commission rate on each product. For example, if the purchase of a 10,000 yen item occurs, the amount payable to you is 10,000 Yen x 0.05 = 500 Yen. The ad is valid for 30 days after the first click. For instance, if someone click today and make a purchase 20 days later, you'll still earn a commission as an affiliate ad.

This is the least stressful way and it requires zero investment to earn money from selling products on your own blog, website or even social media platform like Facebook and Twitter. Inventory, shipping, payments, customer service and returns or exchanges are all handled by the site that you’re sending customer to. Your only responsibility is educating customers and helping them learn about the products your partner is selling.

How to promote?

1. Post on the right platform

The first step in affiliate advertising success is to create a blog or a site. You can create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. It can be look like e-commerce sites with “Buy Now” buttons, or look more like blogs that use content to attract and educate readers then give them a gentle nudge to buy.

If you already own a blog, the best way to do that is to put your ads together in the relevant content of that blog. Blogs are indexed by Google and more people will read the posts if the content is engaging. Writing a lot of blog posts can increase your chances of getting more users to visit, in return of getting more ad clicks and conversion rates.

Social media is one of the most effective ways to connect with your followers. It will make it much easier for people that already “like” your site to learn about new content that’s published on your blog.

Try to spread your blog posts on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Some people put their affiliate URLs directly on Facebook, but this is not recommended. Notifying your friends and other people associated with your business that you earn tends to make a bad impression, so post only blog posts on social media first, or focus on family photos.

Some people are posting as vlogs on Youtube these days, Youtube seems to be good too.

2. Create great content

As a Discovery Japan Affiliate, your main duty is to help online shoppers to learn about the products that are best suited to solve their problems. Make your posts engaging and offer a lead that will capture readers attention and make them want to read on and learn more about the product or service.

If you are knowledgeable, you can guide them to the perfect solution based on your expertise. However, don’t worry if you aren’t knowledgeable. It’s never too late to learn.

You can better understand the products through scouting the internet to find the right information you need, such as sourcing from makers’ website or users’ reviews. Checking out the pros and cons of the products or even making comparisons between similar products will be a good try.

3. Promote products you are interested 

It is not easy to persuade readers that they should purchase something you wouldn’t be interested to buy. It is suggested to promote something that you would buy, or at least you are interested in. When you are interested in the product and are passionate about it, this will convey to your readers, they will then be engaged and lead to buy.

4. Review your own experience

A compelling article is an article about what you've actually experienced. What you've experienced is an original content. Original content has more appeal than any other content. It will be more impressive and persuasive if you have your own experience reviews related to the products you are going to promote.

Types of affiliate ads

Discovery Japan Affiliate offers 5 different types of advertising.

(i)   Text ads

(ii)  Image ads (banners)

(iii) Product ads

(iv) HTML ads

(v)  API dynamic ads (currently under development)

The differences between each ad are as follows.

(i) Text ads

Text ads can be placed in any media.You can publish it on your blog, in your newsletter, or on any social network.  It's the easiest way to place an ad. 

 (ii) Image ads (banner ads)

Image ads are limited to the webmaster who has a blog or website. Image ads copy the HTML tags and place them in the best space on your website. The ads click rate tends to be higher than text ads.

(iii) Product ads

This is an unfamiliar ad, but it's part of an image ad. Product images are used in place of common advertising images. The link is to a direct product page.

For example, it tends to be used to create content that compares product prices.

(iv) HTML ads

If you have a newsletter subscriber on your affiliate site, you are probably sending out newsletters on a regular basis. HTML ads are HTML-formatted ads that can be placed directly in your newsletter. In addition, You can also add it directly to your HTML content.

(v) API dynamic ads

This ad is still in development.  The API feature is useful if you want to compare prices with other products on your website.

By using the API, you can programmatically request a product model number or name to our server and get real-time price and inventory results. This will require programming.

How to get commission?

We created the Discovery Japan Affiliate program, you help us spread the word, make money online without investment in return. It's an easy, risk-free way for you to earn commission on referrals, and it is not difficult to set up.

We pay commissions by PayPal on a monthly basis in Japanese yen as long as the total commission balance in your account is greater than 10,000 Yen. Note that the initial 5,000 Yen of commission have to be reserved in your account in order to prevent any invalid referrals.

How to start?

Once you apply to Affiliate Program and become our affiliates, you'll get access to a variety of banners, buttons, text links tools that you can add to your site or social page. Everything you need to get started is available via the Tools section within our Portal. You can add as many affiliate ads and links as you like, and can choose to promote specific items.

To learn more, please click here - How to start an affiliate program .

Last but not least, be bear in mind that, there is no shortcut to earn money. You have to work hard. It all depends on the amount of time and effort that you are willing to put in. Your success is our success. Boost your earnings. Keep them coming and we’ll make them stay.