December 29, 2023 0 451

"AI + Affiliate Marketing" — Where and How to Use it

Affiliate marketing specialists are actively incorporating AI tools into their work. AI can generate texts, analyze target audiences, write simple code, and create unique photos and videos. These functions streamline the work for webmasters, and for many, AI has become an everyday tool for successful campaigns.

In this article, we'll delve into the AI tools used by webmasters, how they operate, and explore several cases where webmasters experiment with AI services and evaluate their results.

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Why Do Affiliate Marketing Specialists Need AI Tools?

Opinions on the quality of content created by AI tools vary. Some webmasters complain that the material is not perfect and requires further processing, suggesting that for excellent results, one must use only paid subscriptions.

Here are some of the outcomes we’ve encountered:

On the flip side, others appreciate the ability to save budget on designers and writers, considering AI tools as tools for experimentation and inspiration. AI provides ideas to work on further.

AI tools are continually evolving and updating. In 2023, the capabilities of AI have grown significantly. Here's what AI can currently offer to affiliate marketing specialists:

  • Write SEO-texts, product card descriptions, and comments;
  • Create a portrait of the target audience, engage with customers, make conversion forecasts, and analyze behavioral metrics;
  • Document management and template creation for emails;
  • Generate simple codes, build websites, and landing pages;
  • Create and edit images, photos, and videos;
  • Analyze competitors, trends, and audience queries;
  • Conduct A/B testing and select the best marketing strategies.

Artificial intelligence saves time for affiliate marketing specialists and helps increase conversion rates, sales volume, and average order value. AI tools work swiftly, offer unique content, and are easy to learn.

All AI services can be divided into groups based on their capabilities:

  • For Text Processing: NeuralText, SEOwind, LanguageTool, Anyword, CopyMonkey.

Each service is tailored to specific tasks. For example, SEOwind writes SEO-optimized articles, Anyword creates blog and landing page content, while LanguageTool checks spelling and enhances text uniqueness.

  • For Image Processing: Midjourney, Wepik, DALL-E 2.

Midjourney is the most popular tool for working with creatives. AI generates images based on textual descriptions. The service has usage limits, but experimenting is possible. Wepik is a free but more basic tool suitable for simple tasks.

  • For Website Creation: 10Web, Webullar, Hostinger.

These tools help webmasters create websites and landing pages for various verticals. These services can also monitor and troubleshoot site issues, perform automatic backups, and optimize individual elements.

  • For Chatbots: Chatfuel, MobileMonkey.

Chatbots based on AI tools automate communication processes between webmasters and users, saving significant time and resources.

In conclusion, AI has become an indispensable tool for affiliate marketing specialists, offering diverse capabilities to enhance their campaigns and streamline various aspects of their work.

Unique ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI tool that's familiar to anyone who has heard about AI.

Compared to others, this network immediately offers several directions of work:

  • Preparing texts for creatives, landing pages, and pre-landing pages;
  • Searching for information and ideas for websites: design, structure, headlines;
  • Generating images based on given parameters;
  • Creating, editing, and optimizing codes in various programming languages.

ChatGPT can easily handle any of these tasks, helping to free up the time of an affiliate marketing specialist. Here are a few more AI services for affiliate marketing tasks.

AI Services in Action

Let's go through a few cases and see how AI performs in various aspects.

Case 1: Media Buyer's Experiment with Joint Health Product Ad Campaign

  • Duration: 1 week;
  • Offer: 34461 Duston Gel – CO;
  • Geo: Colombia;
  • Vertical: Health;
  • Traffic Source: Push advertising;
  • AI Services Used: RYTR, Midjourney.

For the advertising campaign, the buyer used two types of creatives: text-based and image-based. The experiment involved using the same image while varying the text.

The teaser text was created using the RYTR service. To generate more unique texts, over 10 thousand characters had to be spent. The AI tool produced various results for queries, some of which were quite strange. For example:

  • "¡Consigue el dolor ahora mismo! La pomada ayudará" (Get the pain right now! The ointment will help);
  • "¡Las articulaciones no son necesarias!" (Joints are not needed!);
  • "¡Calma el dolor articular! Pruebe el porro de [Nombre de la empresa]" (Calm joint pain! Try the joint roll from [Company Name]).

Spanish words are lengthy, so sentences with complex constructions were immediately rejected. Only short, straightforward phrases were used. The headline "¡Alivia tus dolores articulares!" — Relieve your joint pains! worked well.

Other successful creatives showed these results:

  • ¿Molestan las articulaciones? (Are joints bothering you?) ¡Cura tus articulaciones correctamente! (Heal your joints correctly!) — $5.2, CTR 0.03%, CR 0.06%;
  • Esta crema para eliminar el dolor de cuello en 10 min (This cream will eliminate neck pain in 10 minutes) — $5.6, CTR 0.02%, CR 0.06%;
  • ¿Te duelen las articulaciones? (Are your joints hurting?) ¡Calma tu dolor con ungüento ahora! (Calm your pain with ointment now!) — $7.8, CTR 0.05%, CR 0.13%;
  • ¡Alivia tus dolores articulares! (Relieve your joint pains!) Use nuestra crema para articulaciones hoy (Use our joint cream today) — $8.2, CTR 0.05%, CR 0.18%.

The top creative "Relieve your joint pains!" showed a CR of 0.22%.

The buyer then started experimenting with images using Midjourney. The challenge was that the query for image generation had to be very precise and understandable to AI; otherwise, amusing or even eerie results could be obtained. For example, the webmaster tried the query: "Joint of a man x-ray next to a spoon with ointment”, and here's what came out:

After several unsuccessful attempts, successful images were obtained. Here's what was used in the creatives:

Nevertheless, it was challenging to focus on the ad product in the images, and the images themselves turned out to be overly cartoonish. Perhaps that's why the results in this experiment turned out much worse than in the text-based one.

The outcome of the experiment is as follows: the ad campaign with text creatives was almost profitable. Bad sources played a significant role here; if they are excluded, the campaign would have been profitable. The ad campaign with image creatives unequivocally ended up in the negative.

Case 2: Creating a Pre-landing Page for a Nutra Offer Using AI

To create a landing page for a nutra offer, the webmaster determined which services would be suitable for the task. He settled on:

  • GPT-3.5 for code generation, as it performs better in this task than the next model;
  • GPT-4 for content generation;
  • DALL-E for working with images.

How to use GPT — through the official website or via a Telegram bot — doesn't make much difference. It depends on personal convenience. In this case, all requests were sent via Telegram.

The webmaster recommends starting the pre-landing page development with the structure. Here, you can go the simple or complex route. The simple option is to send GPT-3.5 a link to a template and ask it to generate something similar.

A web query and AI tool response might look like this:

Translation:

Query: Write the code for the webpage structure based on this link: (*) I need a structure with HTML, CSS, and Javascript without images and text located on the page at the link. This should be a template into which I will insert my own images and texts

Response: Unfortunately, I cannot provide the full code for the page structure without considering design and content, as it would violate copyright. However, I can provide a general structure for this page without additional styles and scripts. HTML structure:

Complex Approach: Invent the structure yourself, describe the AI tool the idea of the future pre-landing page, and ask to throw in ideas. Here's how the web query and the AI tool response turned out:

Translation:

Query: I need a structure for a pre-landing page that will tell the story of a medication for diabetes. A pre-landing page is a transitional page with a narrative about the medication, designed to encourage the reader to proceed to the landing page and make a purchase.

Response: <!DOCTYPE html>

                <h1>Have you been diagnosed with diabetes?</h1>

                           <p>This is a serious condition that limits your life. But what if we tell you there is a chance to change the situation? Our diabetes medication helps control blood sugar levels and improve overall health. Our customers have already forgotten about their diabetes problems and received a new lease on life. Here's what they're saying:</p>

                        <p>I've been suffering from diabetes for about 10 years, restricting myself in terms of food and movement. The medication we offer has COMPLETELY changed the situation. I no longer experience stress related to the disease and can enjoy life.</p>

                <!-- Add more testimonials as needed -->

If necessary, the structure template can be refined, or you can ask the bot to adjust it. For example:

Translation:

Query: Add a space for an image after the H1 heading in this code. The image should be positioned to the left

Response: <h1>Have you been diagnosed with diabetes?</h1>

<img src="path/to/image" alt="Diabetes Medication Image" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px;">

<p>This is a serious condition that limits your life. But what if we tell you there is a chance to change the situation? Our diabetes medication helps control blood sugar levels and improve overall health. Our customers have already forgotten about their diabetes problems and received a new lease on life.</p>

<p>Personal stories about the benefits of the medication for them.</p>

<button>Ask your doctor about our medication today!</button>

<!-- Note: Replace "path/to/image" with the actual path and name of the image in your directory. The style "float: left; margin-right: 20px;" is used to align the image to the left, and the text around it aligns to the right edge of the image with a 20px margin. You can adjust this style according to your preferences. →

Make sure to replace "path/to/image" with the actual path and name of the image in your directory. The provided style, "float: left; margin-right: 20px;", is used to align the image to the left with text wrapping around it, aligning to the right edge of the image with a 20px margin. You can customize this style based on your preferences.

This way, you can work on the design of the entire website, including color, fonts, spaces for photos, sections, and other parts of the page. To see the final result, change the format of the text file to ".html" and open it in a browser.

After the basic page preparation, the webmaster focused on content preparation. For image development, an AI tool based on DALL-E was used. An example query and result:

Translation:

Query: I need a realistic image of a foot blackened due to diabetes, with dimensions of 700*700 pixels. The foot should resemble that of an elderly white woman.

When preparing the text, rely on the developed site structure. With AI, you can create content for any section:

Translation:

Query: Create a story for me about a doctor who invented a medication for rapid weight loss.

Response: There was a doctor who had dedicated his entire life to the field of dietetics, battling diseases associated with obesity. The doctor treated tens of thousands of patients, prescribing various diets, exercises, and other weight loss methods. However, none of it satisfied him because the results were too slow and ineffective.

One day, while working on an experimental program, the doctor accidentally discovered a unique combination of molecules that could accelerate metabolism in people and motivate them to achieve the desired weight loss. It was a real breakthrough, opening new possibilities for many people struggling with excess weight.

The doctor embarked on developing a new medication, which was named "Slimfast." Due to its unique formula, the medication allowed people to quickly and safely shed weight and improve their health.

Thanks to advertising campaigns, the new drugs became popular, and the doctor achieved millions in sales, becoming one of the leading dietitians in the world.

The key in working with an AI tool is to check the result. The system is not perfect yet, and there may be logical errors in the texts. After editing the text, insert it into the prepared structure code. Adjust the markup — send pieces of code to the AI tool and ask to edit it to add lists or, for example, bold formatting.

Once the content is ready, all that's left is to add links to the main landing and publish the page.

Case 3: Creating a Game from Scratch Using AI Tools

The project's goal was to find out if AI tools could create fully-fledged monetizable products, such as applications and games, even if you're not particularly knowledgeable in programming.

To create the game Angry Pumpkins, the webmaster needed:

  • Someone skilled in creating prompts but without serious programming knowledge;
  • ChatGPT for coding;
  • Midjourney and DALL-E 3 for design;
  • 10 hours of time;
  • Task: Create a game in the style of Angry Birds with a Halloween theme.

For generating design, images, backgrounds, and characters, the following were responsible:

  • DALL-E 3;

  • Midjourney.

After preparing the design, work on the code began. ChatGPT was used to create the interactive version of the game, writing about 600 lines of code. Then the generated code had to be compiled, and additional details responsible for visual effects and items had to be added.

In case of errors, they went back to AI and explained what was wrong and where adjustments were needed:

This way, step by step, a fully-fledged game was created. It looks like this:

With such an application, you can confidently drive traffic. Minimum investment of money and time — maximum profit.

Case 4: Using AI Tools for Earning on UGC with YouTube

The case author is Vyacheslav Ozerov. In his blog about earning on the Amazon affiliate program, Vyacheslav shared how the need for organic traffic from YouTube led him to create content through AI tools.

The work plan was as follows:

  1. Find video topics;
  2. Write a script;
  3. Assemble the video;
  4. Add voiceover;
  5. Publish.

One AI service cannot cover all tasks at once. Even in simpler cases, webmasters turned to multiple resources simultaneously. Therefore, Vyacheslav went this way:

  • Used Ahrefs to find working video topics and analyzed competitors' material;

  • Used Jasper to write the script, description, select a title, and voiceover text;

  • Took videos from Twitch, VK, Facebook, TikTok, OnlyFans, Pinterest, Reddit, and other sources. Parts of the video can be created using an AI tool, and some can be shot manually;
  • The voiceover text written by Jasper is given to Murf or Wellsaid services—they will voice it and turn it into an audio track;
  • You can generate a cover for the video in any AI tool that works with images. In this case, the author worked manually through Canva.

Ready puzzle pieces are assembled in Movavi:

Results:

AI tools are not standing still. Of course, they don't work perfectly, and webmasters often have to clean up after AI, but it's just a matter of time. Already now, webmasters actively integrate AI tools into their work and achieve excellent results.

The most pleasant outcome is time savings. Networks with subscriptions can generate more content in less time, and for webmasters, this is still a significant advantage. There's no need to spend the budget on designers and writers. Assign the task to ChatGPT—he assembles the landing page structure, provides ready-made code, and fills the site with the necessary text. Assign the task to Midjourney — get visual content ready. Even writing cases, AI performs well.

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