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Affiliate Link Placement Guide: Proven Spots to Skyrocket Revenue

All across the web, you must have seen links to products and services. On blogs, in YouTube descriptions, browsing forums and while reading articles on public websites like Medium. 

All the links that you see are nothing but affiliate links. 

In this article, we’ll cover everything about affiliate links; we’ll also cover how to partner with affiliates, get custom deals, and more. Finally, we’ll see some real-life examples of great affiliate link placements. 

Alright, so without wasting any more time, let’s get right into the article.

What is an Affiliate Link?

The purpose of an affiliate link is to give a unique ID to the creator or influencer promoting a product or service. 

Everyone gets a unique link after signing up for the affiliate program. This link contains a unique affiliate ID that the brands use to pay the creator their commission for referring the user. 

If any user or customer clicks your affiliate link and buys a product/service, the brand can track it in the backend using a unique affiliate ID. All of this is system-generated and doesn’t require any human intervention.

Examples of Affiliate Link

Before we get into understanding the benefits and proper placements for affiliate links, let’s first look at the types of affiliate links we have. 

1. Text Links

As the name suggests, a text affiliate link is typically found in a blog post or on a forum. It contains a link under a bunch of text or a single word. 

Example of a text affiliate link

2. Button Links

Button links are also a type of text link, but they have a beautiful-looking button on top. Button links are colourful and often have a higher CTR than plain text links, which can drive higher affiliate sales. 

Example of a button affiliate link

3. YouTube Description Link

If you click under the video of any big YouTuber, chances are you will find an affiliate link in the video description. We call these links YouTube description, affiliate links.

Example of YouTube Description link

4. Image links

Image links are images with an affiliate link behind them. If you click the picture, you get redirected to a website with a unique affiliate ID.

Example of an Image affiliate link

How to create an affiliate link?

In this section, we’ll quickly see how you can create your unique affiliate link in four simple steps.

Step 1: Head over to the website which you’d like to join as an affiliate. Scroll to the footer area of their website and search for “Join as an Affiliate”

Step 2: Click on it and follow the steps. Once done, make sure you get your unique affiliate link.

Step 3: Create custom links if you need them to run it for multiple campaigns. Only required if you want to track data from numerous sources. If not, a single link is completely fine. 

Step 4: The Final step is to test the link by using it on the website and clicking on it. Check whether the click data is being tracked in your affiliate dashboard. 

How to Promote Affiliate Links The Right Way (7 Best Ways)

Oftentimes, you must have seen people randomly promoting links in the comments section or on forums like Reddit or Quora, which spoils the brand value of the business. 

To avoid that from happening, here’s a systematic way to promote affiliate links that gets you noticed. 

1. Write Product Reviews 

A detailed product review is one of the easiest ways to place your affiliate links and get sales. Most importantly, you don’t need to push the users to buy from your affiliate links. If the review is good — where they learnt something new or found the answer they were looking for — users will be more than happy to click the affiliate link and buy from you. 

Make sure you share your personal story of using the software or a product. Discuss things you like, but also discuss things that you don’t like. Use screenshots of you using the product. Also, add some examples of how a particular product or software made your life better.

Doing this will give you the authority to openly promote the affiliate product, as you’re genuinely trying to help your users after using it yourself, not just blatantly promoting it. 

Sharing personal experiences with examples is always more powerful than using generalised statements.

2. Create Product Comparisons

Users prefer to show online these days, and before making their final decision, they often head to Google to search for product comparisons. 

As a blogger or even a YouTuber, if you generate content around product comparisons, you’re bound to make a lot of affiliate sales. 

Usually, when a user is looking to compare products, they’re already ready to buy and just need that final confirmation. If your article or video helps them in making that final decision, they’ll be more than happy to buy from your affiliate link. 

In your content, when comparing two products or software, make sure to cover both products’ pros and cons. Furthermore, break down the features that readers really care about the most. 

Cover key topics like pricing of the products, specific features and ease of use. 

The best comparison post always gives a brief overview of both contenders. It should never be about promoting just the product that pays you the highest commission as an affiliate. Your job is to discuss things that readers care about – and leave everything they are free to decide. 

3. Email Promotions

We all know how important an email list is in 2025. If you’re not already building one, you’re missing out on a lot of free money opportunities. 

Having an email list is such a blessing if you wanna promote both affiliate and your own products. 

The rule for email marketing is very simple. Send two emails weekly that have nothing but value, with no links or promotional content in them. 

Build trust initially, then promote your affiliate product once a month. As your audience trusts you, they’ll be more than happy to buy from your link. 

Your job is to help your users make better buying decisions, and in doing so, they can buy through your affiliate link. That’s all. 

Another way to include affiliate links in emails is to use them at the bottom after you have delivered the value you’re free to promote. 

4. Create A Resource Page

Having a one-stop resource page can drive in more affiliate sales than you can imagine. The logic behind having a resource page is to have all the products you recommend under one page. 

Your job is not to be salesy, but to help users find genuine product recommendations. 

The resource page should include everything from free to paid resources, with paid resources attached with your affiliate links. 

To increase the authority of your website and the resource page, write a brief overview of the tool and explain why you recommend it, with proper reasoning. Doing this will help you position yourself as an expert, build more trust, and drive higher affiliate sales.

5. YouTube and Podcast

YouTube is the second biggest search engine after Google. 

Let’s take an example of a 45-year-old woman looking to buy a weight-loss supplement to lose weight over the next 6 months. She searched Google for a product to solve this problem. 

If your video comes first for the keyword “weight loss supplements for old age”, how likely do you think the possibility is of them checking the video description and buying the product from your link? Very high, right?

Well, that’s the power of creating content on YouTube. You already have a highly targeted audience who is almost ready to buy but needs one last confirmation before making that decision —and your video can help them make it. 

The key to getting views on YouTube, however, is consistency in your niche. Once you build an audience in a niche and have strong brand positioning, getting affiliate sales won’t be a walk in the park.  

6. Taking Part in Forum Discussions

Another simple yet unconventional way to place your affiliate links is to engage in community forums like Reddit and Quora. 

Oftentimes, people spam affiliate links without delivering any value in return. The moment they see an opportunity to post an affiliate link, they do it. 

Instead, being smart, you shouldn’t do this at all. The most effective way is to first share knowledge for free. Solve the actual problem with free knowledge, without any promotional content attached. Later, if someone asks for a link to a product that solves a specific issue, share your affiliate link and give it to them. 

Converting such users into an affiliate sale is very easy cause you’ve already proven your worth by providing value first.  

7. Create Your Course

This is the easiest of all seven ways to promote affiliate links. 

Why?

Because someone who has already bought a course from you will highly likely buy all the products you recommend to them.

I have seen countless course creators make videos about a particular tool or software required to progress on their journey, and at the end, they promote the product through their affiliate link. 

As an end user, you get value without paying any extra money for the tool. As a course creator, you also make money by teaching and guiding others to make the right decisions. In my eyes, that’s a win-win situation for both parties. 

Things to Keep In Mind While Using Affiliate Links

In this section, we’ll cover things that are required for you to learn so you don’t make any silly mistakes and get banned from the affiliate network. 

1. Read Affiliate Policies

When partnering with an affiliate program, the first step is to read their affiliate policies. Many companies don’t like you using certain things when promoting their products. If you, by any chance, dont read the policies and go against their guidelines, you may get banned.   

2. Use Affiliate Link Usage Disclosure

A lot of product companies want you to mention that you use affiliate links in the form of an affiliate link usage disclosure. Be sure to use it in the footer of your website or under your article. Never ignore this simple thing, or you’ll simply get banned forever from the platform. 

3. Keep your link clean and easy to read 

Never make the mistake of simply pasting the provider’s link directly onto your website. Always mask affiliate links under a chunk of text, video or an image. Clean links often get more clicks than direct ones, which look outright scammy.

Affiliate Links Placement FAQs

Let’s cover some basic and advanced questions users might have about affiliate links.

Q. What are affiliate links?

A. Affiliate links have a unique ID attached. Every affiliate gets a unique link which the affiliate program can track from the backend.  

Q. How much can I earn from affiliate marketing?

A. There’s no upper limit on how much you can earn from affiliate marketing. Some creators earn more than $10k per month from affiliate marketing alone. That’s $120k/year. 

Q. Are affiliate links free?

A. Yes, absolutely. Joining any affiliate program is free. Just join the program, get the link and start promoting. 

Final Thoughts

That’s all about using affiliate link placements the right way. I hope you learnt something new from this article. If you did, please don’t forget to leave a comment below sharing three key learnings. 

Also, do share this article with your friends and help spread the word. If you have any suggestions for me, don’t hesitate to leave them in the comments below. 

Thanks for taking the time to read the article.