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title: 'Copy This Affiliate Marketing Strategy for Real Results in 2025 (Full Tutorial)'
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date: 2026-07-31
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# Copy This Affiliate Marketing Strategy for Real Results in 2025 (Full Tutorial)

> Source: [Copy This Affiliate Marketing Strategy for Real Results in 2025 (Full Tutorial)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QlPa5XTwaUw)

## Summary

Justin presents a complete affiliate marketing tutorial that shows how to turn paid native display ads into affiliate commissions. He demonstrates the workflow using an under-desk walking treadmill, walking viewers through product selection, joining the Impact affiliate network, launching ads on the Realize platform, and building a lead-capture landing page with Kit (ConvertKit). The video is practical and includes real earnings data to illustrate the conversion math.

### Key Points

- **The strategy revealed** [00:28] — Justin promises a step-by-step setup for earning affiliate commissions by placing display ads on well-known websites.
- **Pick a high-paying product** [00:43] — He recommends an under-desk walking treadmill, a popular product trending on Google since 2022, and notes he personally uses one for 4-5 hours daily.
- **Join Impact affiliate network** [01:35] — You can sign up free at app.impact.com and get access to thousands of affiliate products, e.g., sports and exercise equipment.
- **Apply to the brand program** [02:41] — After choosing a product, click 'Apply' to join the brand's affiliate program; approved brands appear under My Brands in Impact.
- **Generate your affiliate link** [03:08] — Use Impact's 'Edit Link' feature to paste a product URL, or copy the tracking link from Assets to create your custom affiliate link.
- **Launch ads through Realize** [04:57] — Realize is the native ad platform used; first create a campaign with a descriptive name and a brand name matching the product.
- **Campaign setup essentials** [05:34] — Set the marketing objective to 'Online Purchases', run the ad 24/7, and keep status 'Active'.
- **Match shipping locations** [07:32] — Check the vendor's shipping policy; for WellFit, target only the US and exclude Alaska and Hawaii.
- **Contextual and audience targeting** [08:52] — Place ads on health & fitness articles and layer first/third-party audiences — the intersection of 'work from home' and 'home workouts' is the sweet spot.
- **Real earnings example** [12:25] — Justin's dashboard showed $18,900 earned from 396 purchases out of 5,657 clicks: roughly 7% conversion and $3.35 earnings per click.
- **EPC vs CPC** [13:44] — Profit comes when earnings per click (EPC) exceeds cost per click (CPC); Realize charges only after clicks happen.
- **Ad creatives and AI variations** [15:51] — Upload 2-10 images, generate a 1200x674 image in ChatGPT, and let Realize's AI create further variations; AI also drafts headlines, descriptions and CTAs.
- **Add a landing page** [19:38] — Rather than sending clicks directly to the affiliate link, build a Kit landing page that captures email and redirects to the affiliate URL, improving conversions.
- **Preview and submit** [23:08] — Paste the landing page URL into Realize, preview placements on sites like Yahoo, then submit the campaign.

### Conclusion

The strategy combines native ads, precise targeting, and lead capture to turn cold traffic into affiliate sales; the key to profitability is keeping EPC above CPC.

## Transcript

money with affiliate marketing on this channel, but placing ads just like this onto well-known websites has got to be one of the most effective ways to actually make money with affiliate marketing commissions. You see, every
ads and makes a purchase, that's when your earnings per click can really start to blow up. And by watching this video right to the end, I'm going to show you step by step exactly how to set up this highly effective affiliate marketing
strategy. And before I show you exactly how to set this up, all I ask of you is subscribe to the channel. My name's Justin. Let's get into it. Step one is to find a high-paying, highly popular affiliate product that we can start
earning affiliate commissions with, such as this product right here. This is what's known as an under desk walking treadmill. You can literally get work done and walk to stay fit at the same time. Now, this is an extremely popular
product. It's been trending on Google search since around 2022, and it's showing no signs of stopping. I've actually got one of these under desk walking treadmills myself. I walk on it for literally around 4 to 5 hours every
single day to get work done while staying fit. And there are a wide range networks that you can get affiliate links for these exact type of products including Amazon. If you sign up to the Amazon Associates program, you can very
easily get a link for an affiliate product just like this one right here and earn a commission every time somebody purchases that product via this link. Now, in today's video, I'm going to show you how to sign up to the Impact
affiliate program. If you go to app.impact.com, impact.com. You can literally sign up completely for free to start earning money with a huge products. And once you're signed into Impact, you'll get access to the Impact
to thousands of different affiliate products that you can start promoting to start earning affiliate commissions with. Now, for the sake of this video, I am going to be showing you how to promote that under desk walking pad,
which falls into the sports and exercise equipment category. So, I'm simply going equipment under categories on the lefth hand side here. And this method can work for any product that you so choose, guys. This is just an example in this
video, but let's say that you want to start promoting this brand, these which I believe is some sort of educational fitness product. If I click access to an affiliate link, which I can promote with this strategy. And anytime
somebody clicks onto that link and makes a purchase, I'll get paid a cut of 20%. Now, when you do choose the affiliate product that you want to start promoting with this strategy, again guys, this works in any category for anyone of
click onto where it says apply to sign up to their affiliate program. And once you have signed up, it will appear in the my brands category, which you can access by going over to brands and again clicking onto where it says my brands.
And here you can see some of the brands that I'm promoting, which ranges from golf equipment to educational content to this brand over here, which is WellFit walking pad and treadmill, which is the website I showed you earlier selling
there are a few ways that you can get the affiliate link for these products that we can start promoting to start earning those affiliate commissions. One way is you can simply go over to the website, which is wellfittread.com in
website, which is wellfittread.com in this example. simply copy over the URL, go back over to Impact, click onto these three dots right here, and go to edit link. And I can simply paste in that URL into this landing page text box right
and there is my affiliate link, which I can start promoting with this strategy. where it says assets over here and click onto any one of these images that the vendor has provided us as promotional content to help drive sales to our
click onto this image over here, for example. I'll click onto it again, and as you can see, it is a product image of somebody walking on an under desk walking treadmill. And I'm actually going to download this image by clicking
onto where it says download right here to use for our ad which we're going to place in front of a huge amount of traffic and audience that are highly likely to be interested in purchasing this exact type of product. I'm going to
show you exactly how to set that ad up to absolutely maximize the amount of clicks and conversions that you can get via your affiliate link. But before we do that, once you've downloaded your image, I'll simply head back over to
where it says tracking link right here. And here is another way that you can get a link to the product displayed in that image. For example, this link links directly to the product page via our affiliate link. So, whenever anybody
purchase, that's when we're going to earn an affiliate marketing commission. Now, the tool that we're going to be using to launch our ad and drive those clicks and by extension earn those affiliate conversions is the realized
platform. Now, I'll leave a link below, but first let me show you exactly how to set your ad up step by step. So, once you're logged in to the realized platform, you'll be taken to this campaign dashboard. And here is where
clicks, the amount of impressions or views, and the amount of conversions that your affiliate marketing ad has generated. Before we get to that, the first thing we've got to do is actually create our ad and place it in front of
the exact type of people that would likely be interested in something such as an under desk walking treadmill in our example. To do that, the first thing hand corner, click on to where it says
campaigns. All right, first up, you want to give your campaign a name. I'm going to call it affiliate marketing under desk walking pad. This is for your ad, which will help you track it. Now, you then want to give it a brand name.
Now, this name will actually appear on your ad below the title, and it needs to match the brand name for the product that you're promoting. In our case, it is this foldable treadmill with desk from the WellFit website. I'll simply
paste that in over here. Now, this part, the marketing objective, what are we looking to get out of our ad? Well, we know that we want to maximize the amount of those affiliate marketing commissions that we can earn. And the way that we do
maximize those commissions is by maximizing the amount of online purchases that happen via our ads. So, I'm definitely going to select online purchases right here for the conversion goal. Just keep that on account default.
Next up, I'll scroll down and I'll set my ad schedule. Now, we want our ad to run as soon as it's been approved. And we also want it to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as long as it's being put in front of those who are interested
in placing an online purchase as we selected for the product that we're promoting. I'm also going to keep active selected as the status. Next up is campaign targeting where you're able to tell the realized platform exactly who
you want your ad to be displayed to. And first up is which country do you want your customers to be located in? Now, in order to answer that, the first thing that you want to do is go back over to the website for the affiliate product
that you're promoting via impact. In our case, it is wellfittreadmill.com. And you want to figure out which countries that they ship to. There's no point promoting this affiliate product to somebody in New
Zealand, for example, if the vendor does not ship these products to New Zealand. can scroll to the bottom of these different websites and they usually have a shipping policy which you can click onto. So, these particular products only
sell within the United States specifically, but not to either Alaska or Hawaii. All right, perfect. So, we'll head back over to the Realize platform and where it says location, we first want to select the country that we want
to include. So, we'll say include the United States, but you then want to go over to where it says region state over here and click onto this dropown. And rather than clicking include, you want to go over to exclude. And we don't want
to show our ad to people in Alaska or Hawaii. So, let's first type in Alaska and select it. And again, we'll type in Hawaii and do exactly the same. All the platform that you want your ads to be displayed onto. Do we want our ads to
be displayed to people using their desktop computer, their mobile, their tablet? Well, it's typically recommended for best practices that you run each ad campaign per device type. So, for the sake of this example, we're going to
keep desktop selected. It helps with things like tracking and optimizing your even further. Now, for operating system and browser type, we're going to leave those empty. We're happy with targeting people all operating systems and using
all browsers. And here, this is probably the most important part, guys. Contextual targeting and audience targeting. This is where we're going to specify the exact type of audience that we want our under desk walking pad to be
displayed to in order to segment that audience in such a way that we can affiliate conversions that we can generate. First, let's cover contextual targeting. Contextual targeting is where you can place your ad onto contextually
relevant articles. So, we know that somebody who sees an ad for a product just like this on a health and fitness article would be far more likely to want to purchase it as opposed to somebody who sees an ad for this product on an
article that talks about renovating their home for example. And if I click onto this dropown right here and I can select a category related to the product that we're promoting. So, for example, here I can see the health category. If I
click onto the dropown next to where it says health, and then click onto where it says health and fitness, audience size of over 248 million, spanning over 341,000 articles, we're able to place our ad onto contextually relevant, in
this case, health and fitness articles to start driving those clicks to our affiliate link via our ad. But by utilizing the audience targeting feature and the realized platform's first and third-party data, we're able to place
our ad in front of people who we know work from home, have an interest in exercising, home gym equipment, regardless of the article they're if I click onto firstparty tab to audiences, for example, we're able to
target people with our ad based on their behavior and interests, demographics such as their education level, gender type, household, and so on. And if I click onto behavior and interest, let's say we want to target people in the
health and wellness category. So, you can target people based on those who are interested in weight loss, for example, exercise videos all the way down to sleep improvement. So, for example, people who might be interested in
improving their sleep, would also have a high likelihood of being interested in perhaps purchasing a sleep tracking ring just like this, which you can get over on Amazon, which we can get a link for and promote via the Amazon Associates
program. But for our example, with this under desk walking treadmill that we're promoting, let's figure out if we can find an audience who we know perhaps work from home and are interested in home equipment. So, heading back over to
the realized platform and clicking again onto where it says marketplace audiences under audience targeting. Again, I could click onto first or third party audiences and look through the different demographics, behavior, and interests.
Or what I can do is utilize their search bar. So, I'll simply type in work from home and see if anything pops up, which it does. Behavior, work from home with an audience size of over 17 million. This is perfect. So, I'm definitely
who works from home is too concerned with exercising or staying fit, right? So I'm going to click onto where it says and over here. And I want to search for an audience type who is also interested in maybe home workouts or home
exercising. So let's type something in such as home. And then I'll type in such as home. And then I'll type in either exercise or maybe workouts. And that is perfect. Home workouts audience size of over 23 million. and I'll click
onto that giving us an intersection of both people who work from home and are interested in home workouts. That is the sweet spot and that is the exact type of audience that would be interested in a product just like this. So, I'm now
over here. Next up is to specify your bidding strategy. Now, this part is super important and I want to explain it by showing you a real example. What you can see here is one of my affiliate marketing dashboards where I've earned
over $18,900, right? That is $18,900, right? That is $396 purchases have occurred via my link out of 5,657 clicks. That is around 7% of
people who clicked onto my link actually went ahead and made a purchase, which went ahead and made a purchase, which means my earnings per click was around means my earnings per click was around $3.35. So if we say
that affiliate link divided by the number of clicks which is 5657 that comes to $3.35 which is my earnings per click. this strategy our goal should always be to maximize our conversion rate. And we
do that by placing our ad in front of the exact type of people who are likely to purchase the product that we are advertising. The more relevant our audience is, the higher that conversion rate can be. As long as that ad is
placed in front of those who are looking to place an online purchase. And we also know that when our conversion rate increases, so does our earnings per click. Now, on the flip side, you also have your CPC as opposed to your EPC.
Your CPC is your cost per click. And as long as your earnings per click is more than your cost per click, you're earning money on average for every single click Realized platform is you don't pay a single scent for any click up front. You
only pay for the click after it's occurred. And again, as long as you're making money where your EPC is more than your CPC, you're earning money on average for every single click that you get. So, going back over to the Realize
platform, you definitely want to keep maximize conversions CPA selected. This is to allow the Realize platform to adjust your CPC based on your ad engagement to give you every chance of your EPC being more than your CPC, which
where it says budget, let's say that I want to set my monthly budget to, let's just say, $50 for the sake of this tutorial. And let's say that my cost per click, my CPC, is $1. That means I'm charged $50 for 50 clicks. And we don't
get charged a single cent until the click has occurred. And let's say that my EPC or my earnings per click is $5, right? That would mean I earn $4 profit to scroll down and I'm definitely going to keep ad optimization optimized
selected. This really helps with testing out different ad designs and can earnings per click. I'm going to touch more on that in the next step when I show you exactly how to create your ad. I'm also going to keep spend is active
selected. This makes sure that your ad isn't displayed on underperforming websites which can hurt your conversion rates, the click-through rate onto your ads as well. Now, for custom rules, we're not going to be using these for
this video. And also for tracking, this is basically where you can enable performance across other platforms. Right, we're going to skip that for the sake of this video. And I'm simply going to click onto where it says create and
add ads right here. And here is where I'm going to show you exactly how to create and launch your ad. You'll then see the campaign that you just set up. different ad formats that we can choose from. For this method, I'm going to
scroll down to the bottom first and under where it says media, here is where going to upload that image that we downloaded from Impact under the affiliate product assets section as you
showed earlier. So, I'll simply drag that image in over here. And you want to upload anywhere from 2 to 10 images for your ads. That's because Realize will which of them are getting the most clicks, driving the most conversions,
and the winning ads, the winning images will be displayed to the majority audience, maximizing the amount of those affiliate marketing commissions that you can earn. Now, one thing that you can do is head straight over to chat GPT. And
before I do that, guys, it's very important to note the image dimensions that you should go by. Right. If I click onto this question mark right here, it does say the image ads recommended image size is 1,200
* 674 pixels. So I can go straight over to chat GPT and say generate an image to chat GPT and say generate an image with dimensions 1200x 674 of a person walking on an under desk treadmill at home while getting work done on their
laptop. Then hit enter. And chat GPT has given us this image right here which I love. Super realistic, perfect for our ad testing. I'm simply going to save it by clicking onto this icon over here. Head back over to the Realize platform.
this out, guys. If I click onto these three dots right here, and click onto where it says generate variations, realize has utilized AI to generate variations of our images. So, I'm going to select this one over here, for
example. Click onto where it says select image, and then click on to apply with 16x9 selected. And we now have three images which can be tested out for our ads. And you can generate as many variations as you like, guys, up to 10.
Once you've done that, you simply want to scroll down and here is where you want to add a headline, description, and CTA to actually launch your ad. And again, we're going to be using the help of AI to generate those for us. I'm
says, "Help me right over here." And under where it says, "What services do you offer?" I'm going to say, "Underes treadmills." For the target audience, I'm going to say that we want to target fitness enthusiasts who work from home,
are time poor, and need to get exercise done while they work. So, next up, our USP or our unique selling proposition. What is so special about the product that we're promoting? Well, the product enables people to stay fit while they
work at their desk. So, I'll state that. I'm going to keep the target audience language at English, and I'm then going to click on generate with AI. All right. suggestions and you want to make sure that you pick two or three and you can
show more if you don't like these three. So, let's have a look. It's great for my work routine. Read more. Get fit while you work. Shop now. Stay fit while you work. Learn more. Really happy with all of these. So, I'll select all three. And
you want to pick one of these for your ad description. Either stay fit and productive with our easy to use under treadmill. Ideal for busy professionals. Start now. or our under desk treadmill helps you stay fit without leaving your
desk. Perfect for home workers. Try it today. I really like the second one. So, call to action button, I'm going to click onto where it says shop now. that we're going to be driving traffic to via our ad, which is how we're going
commissions each time a purchase is made, I want to actually drive them to the broad walking pad section of this website rather than any one particular product. Now, to do that again, I'm simply going to copy over the URL for
this walking pad section. Head back over to Impact and where it says landing page, I'm going to paste it in and again click onto where it says create. And there is my affiliate link which I will copy. And the last thing that we need to
do to launch our ad, which we're going to also preview in just a second, is to paste our link into where it says landing page URL. However, it is not best practice to paste in that raw affiliate link. Instead, what you want
to do is make sure that when people click onto your ad that they're taken to a landing page that looks something like this with our hero image, which says stay fit while working, for example. upgrade your work from home setup with
movement that boosts results. And the CTA will be something like subscribe and feel better while you work. And when they click on to that CTA, a form like this will pop up prompting them to enter in their first name and email. And when
they enter those details in and click onto the call to action here, which is start moving while you work, for example, not only will we collect their email address, which is gold since we know they both work from home and have
an interest in home workouts, allowing us to provide value to those leads by sending them follow-up emails into the future containing affiliate links for products that we know aligns well with both their lifestyle and interests. but
it also takes them directly to this page for these walking pads via our affiliate link. And whenever they make a purchase for anyone of these walking pads or any product on this entire website, that's when we'll earn an affiliate marketing
how to very easily and very quickly create a landing page just like this, which we can generate a link for and place that link on top of our ad by pasting it into this text box right here. Once we've done that, we'll be
able to preview and then launch our ad to actually start driving that traffic with this highly effective affiliate marketing strategy. The first thing that you want to do is click onto my link in the description of this video for a
landing page builder called kit. Once you've clicked onto that link, you want where it says grow and then click onto where it says landing page and forms. And you then want to click onto landing page to select a template. I typically
go with this template right here called Devon. I'll click onto where it says to do is to replace this hero image. So I'll simply click onto it. Click onto replace and you can simply upload an image to replace it with either that
image that we downloaded earlier from the impact platform or from that realized variation or from the image that we generated using chat GPT. And for the placeholder text you can simply click onto it delete it start typing to
that you replace it with something relevant for the product that you are promoting, which I've done. Little bit of creativity required here. You can always use chat GPT to help you do this guys if you do get stuck. You then want
edit the form, which I've also just done, keeping the text highly relevant I'm then going to click onto where it says save over here and click onto this X. And I'll scroll down and I'll simply delete these sort of social call to
actions which we don't need for this strategy. I'll click on to follow me on Twitter for example, click onto this X and do exactly the same for the rest. And crucially, we want to make sure that when people enter in their details and
click on to start moving while you work in this example, they're taken to our affiliate link, which is how we're actually going to get paid. Now, to add onto where it says settings, and you want to click onto not show a success
message, but redirect to an external page and simply paste that link in from click on to save and then click onto where it says share and there is my link to that landing page which you want to copy. Go back over to realize and you
simply want to paste it in where it says landing page URL. And with that added in on the right hand side you'll now see a preview of all of your ad variations which realize will launch and optimize maximizing the effectiveness of those
ads and in turn maximizing the amount of those clicks and affiliate marketing commissions that you can generate. And if I click onto where it says advanced preview over here, we're able to get a preview of exactly how our ad will be
displayed. So here is an example on the Yahoo homepage. There it is. Looks this dropown to preview another one. Let's say, I don't know, the independent UK. There it is. And once you're happy with your ad, you simply want to go over
to where it says submit. And we know by leveraging that first and third party audience data from the realized platform, our ad will be displayed in front of the exact type of audience who we know at least have somewhat of an
interest in the product that we're promoting. And they'll also be a subsection of that audience that would also likely have an interest in actually purchasing the product. Those are our conversions. And the Realized platform
does everything it can to maximize our conversion rate and our earnings per click. And to get started with Realize, I'll leave a link in the description of this video which you can click onto to contact a Realize expert or sign up with
your own account. This is one of the most effective ways to make money with affiliate marketing and I strongly recommend getting started with this strategy. And if you got value from this video, please make sure that you smash
that like button, subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you very shortly in the next online money making video. Take a