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Make Your First Affiliate Sale with This Genius New AI Tool (Make Money Online 2026)

0h 22m video Published Dec 24, 2025 Transcribed Jul 31, 2026 R Real Money Strategies
Intermediate 11 min read For: Aspiring affiliate marketers and online business builders who want to replace traditional SEO with AI-powered GEO traffic.
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"Delivers a real GEO affiliate strategy, yet oversells "genius" and leans on tool promos — solid but not a magic sale."

AI Summary

This video reveals a 2026 affiliate marketing strategy built around generative engine optimization (GEO). The host shows how to use Semrush's AI visibility tools to find high-intent prompts, generate AI-written articles with affiliate links, and publish them to WordPress so they appear as sources in Google AI Overview. The example walks through promoting Tokyo travel activities through the GetYourGuide affiliate program.

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GetYourGuide affiliate setup

Sign up for the free GetYourGuide affiliate program to earn over 8% commission every time someone books a travel activity through your link.

[00:57]
Choosing a high-demand niche

Tokyo is used as an example because Google Trends shows a massive recent spike in flight searches, indicating strong buyer traffic for Tokyo travel activities.

[02:08]
Creating a short affiliate link

In the GetYourGuide affiliate dashboard, go to Tools > Links, paste the activity URL, select the activity, then create and copy a short URL for promotion.

[02:49]
Semrush AI Visibility research

Semrush's AI Visibility > Prompt Research shows the exact prompts people search on AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, helping you target high-intent topics.

[04:55]
Google AI Overview prompt volume

Google AI Overview gives access to over 1,100 prompts, and 20% of those searches are performed with commercial intent.

[07:59]
The shift from SEO to GEO

Google AI Overview drowns out traditional top-ranking results. Traffic and affiliate commissions now flow to the source articles cited by the AI overview.

[09:41]
Finding low-competition prompts

Sort prompts by the sources column ascending to find high-purchasing-intent searches — like "weird Tokyo attractions" — that only have about two cited sources.

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Selecting five affiliate offers

Pick five relevant GetYourGuide activities for the prompt, such as a Sumo show experience, snow monkey tour, manga drawing workshop, samurai archery class, and Tokyo street cart experience.

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Generating an AI-optimized article

Use Semrush's create-content tool, change the title to something like "Five Weird Tokyo Attractions," add each activity title as a keyword, and generate the article.

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AI SEO optimization before publishing

Click AI SEO > Improve All to optimize the article for Google AI Overview, then insert affiliate links, verify accuracy, and publish to your WordPress site.

The video presents a practical GEO strategy: use Semrush's prompt research to find low-competition, high-intent AI searches, create affiliate-linked articles, and publish them to WordPress so they appear as sources in Google AI Overview. Although heavily promotional, the method is actionable and timely for affiliate marketers.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:28 Sign up for the GetYourGuide affiliate program to get your unique affiliate link.
2 01:28 Pick a travel activity on GetYourGuide (e.g., Tokyo snow monkeys), right-click it, and copy the link address.
3 02:08 In the GetYourGuide affiliate dashboard, go to Tools > Links, paste the activity URL, select the activity, and create a short URL.
4 02:49 Sign up for free Semrush and open AI Visibility > Prompt Research.
5 03:30 Type a broad topic like "Tokyo travel," click Analyze, and review the prompts people search on AI platforms.
6 09:41 Filter by AI platform and sort sources ascending to find high-intent prompts with only ~2 sources, such as "weird Tokyo attractions."
7 10:23 Select five matching GetYourGuide affiliate activities that are likely to sell out and pay high commissions.
8 12:03 Use Semrush create-content to generate an article; set a specific title like "Five Weird Tokyo Attractions" and add each activity title as a keyword.
9 14:08 Insert your GetYourGuide affiliate links into the article text and headings where each activity is mentioned.
10 15:47 Verify activity descriptions are accurate, then click AI SEO > Improve All to optimize the article for AI search.
11 16:18 Click Publish and connect your WordPress site (create one quickly with Hostinger if needed).
12 20:10 Install and activate the Semrush Content Toolkit plugin on WordPress, connect it, then publish the article.

Study Flashcards (10)

What commission rate does the GetYourGuide affiliate program pay in the video?

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Over 8% per booking.

00:28

Where can you see exactly what people search for on AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini?

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Semrush's AI Visibility > Prompt Research feature.

02:49

What percentage of Google AI Overview searches are performed with commercial intent?

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20%.

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How can you identify low-competition prompts in Semrush prompt research?

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Sort by the sources column ascending and look for high-purchasing-intent prompts with only around two sources.

09:41

Why should you avoid generic searches like "how long is the train from Tokyo to Kyoto"?

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They are not performed by individuals with high purchasing intent.

10:07

What does GEO stand for?

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Generative Engine Optimization.

20:52

What button should you click in Semrush to optimize your article for AI SEO before publishing?

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AI SEO > Improve All.

15:47

Which web host does the video recommend for creating a WordPress site in a few minutes?

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Hostinger, with promo code "real money strategies" for a discount.

16:57

Which WordPress plugin connects Semrush to your site for publishing articles?

medium Click to reveal answer

Semrush Content Toolkit.

19:44

What makes the example Sumo Show Tokyo activity high-converting?

hard Click to reveal answer

It is likely to sell out, costs over $100 per person, has over 6,300 reviews, and a review score over 4.8.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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SEO dominance is ending

AI Overviews push traditional top-ranking pages down, and now the cited source articles capture the traffic and affiliate commissions.

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20% of AI searches are commercial

A measurable share of Google AI Overview searches are made by people ready to buy, making this channel valuable for affiliates.

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Source-count shortcut

Sorting prompts by sources ascending reveals untapped high-intent queries with almost no competition in AI responses.

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AI SEO optimization step

Using the Improve All feature optimizes the article specifically to rank as a source in Google AI Overview.

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First-mover advantage

Acting before competitors flood in lets you own AI source slots while content gaps still exist.

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[00:02] been using which has now completely changed how people can make money with affiliate marketing. It lets you see exactly what people are searching for on AI tools like Google Gemini and ChatGpt. So you can place high converting

[00:15] affiliate offers just like this directly in front of high converting buyer traffic. Let me show you exactly how to put this into practice right now. So, the first thing that you want to do is to get signed up to an affiliate program

[00:28] so that we can get an affiliate link for an offer that we can start promoting to start earning a minimum affiliate marketing commission rate of over 8% every time somebody books one of the thousands of travel activities on the

[00:42] highly popular GetYour Guide travel booking website via our affiliate link. And you can promote any one of these travel activities spanning a wide range of different cities. Now, for the sake of this particular example, there is no

[00:57] city other than Tokyo at the moment that has seen an absolute explosion in buyer traffic. As you can see over here on Google Trends, people are searching for flights to Tokyo increasingly and in the last year or so, it has absolutely

[01:13] skyrocketed. So, what I can simply do is go over to the Get Your Guide website and type in Tokyo into the search bar and select any one of these Tokyo travel activities. And if I click onto this travel activity over here, for example,

[01:28] which is a highly popular travel activity around Tokyo, where people can purchase tickets for around $500 to see these different snow monkeys bathing in hot springs and to very easily get an affiliate link for this travel activity,

[01:42] which we can start driving affiliate traffic to. What I can do is simply right click onto the travel activity itself, click onto where it says copy link address and if you sign up to the getyou guide affiliate program, which

[01:56] anybody can do completely for free, I'll leave a link to it in the description of this video. And if you click onto where it says sign up right here, once you are signed up, you can very simply click onto where it says tools on the top of

[02:08] the page. Make sure that you click onto where it says links. And if you place the URL for the link into this field right here that you just copied over and then you select that travel activity at the bottom of the page here, here you

[02:21] can see your affiliate link. If I click on to create short URL, I can then create a shortened version of that affiliate link which I can then copy and start driving high converting buyer traffic to that travel activity via my

[02:35] affiliate link to absolutely maximize those affiliate conversions. And in order to maximize those conversions using this brand new strategy and this new AI tool, you want to click onto the link in the video description for

[02:49] Semrush. And once you've signed up to Semrush, which you can do completely for free, you want to make sure that you click onto where it says AI visibility on the left hand side here to get full visibility into what people are

[03:02] searching for on tours like Google Gemini and Chat GPT. And check this out, guys. If I click onto where it says prompt research over here, I can get access to the exact prompts that people are searching for across tools like chat

[03:15] GPT and Google Gemini. The very first thing that you want to do is to type into this field a broad topic related to the affiliate offer that you want to start earning affiliate commissions with. So in our example, it is for this

[03:30] Tokyo travel activity right here. For example, what I will do is go back over to prompt research and simply type in something like Tokyo travel and then click onto where it says analyze. And if I click onto where it says prompts over

[03:43] here, I can see the exact AI prompts that people are searching for across for example chat GPT as signified by the chat GPT icon right here or Google Gemini for example. People are searching for Tokyo and Japan travel and location

[03:58] guides in chat GPT. You've also got a ton of people searching for prompts like what are the top rated accommodations and activities in Tokyo and Osaka on Google Gemini. Now, here is where the real money is made. If I scroll back up

[04:13] over where it says all AI platforms over here, I can filter down by the different AI platforms such as ChatGpt or Google Gemini. And if I click onto chatgpt over

[04:25] here for example, you can see we get access to over 515 prompts that people are searching for. However, I could also click onto where it says Google AI mode to also get access to an equal amount of prompts. As you may have realized, guys,

[04:41] now on Google, when you go over to google.com, people are increasingly utilizing the AI mode feature. But rather than selecting AI mode, if I click onto that dropown again and click onto where it says AI overview, I get

[04:55] access to over 1,100 prompts that people are searching for on Google for which they get an AI response using Google's AI overview feature. Now, 20% of those searches are being performed with

[05:09] commercial intent. That means 20% of those searches are being done by individuals who are looking to make a purchase. Now, let me show you how we can absolutely drive a ton of affiliate traffic to our affiliate link utilizing

[05:23] Google's AI overview feature via this new AI tool. So, crucially, what used to happen in the past, let's say, for example, that somebody wants to book a ticket to see the snow monkeys near Tokyo. Naturally, what they would do is

[05:37] to go over to Google and type something in like Japan snow monkeys in Tokyo and hit enter. After doing so, they would then get a bunch of these different Google search engine results, right? And typically what would happen before the

[05:51] days of AI guys is they would click onto the top of those search engine results, this one, for example. And after clicking onto that blog post, they'd read more about the snow monkeys day trip from Tokyo, for example, to help

[06:07] them make their mind up as to whether they want to actually book a ticket for that particular travel activity. Now, naturally, within that article will be a bunch of links allowing them to do exactly that. And if I click onto, let's

[06:20] say, this link over here, that will of course be an affiliate link, taking the reader of that article directly over to that travel activity via the creator of that articles affiliate link. Now, as you can see, guys, I am taken to the

[06:34] Viet travel activity website, which is a direct competitor to the Get Your Guide affiliate website. Via also have an affiliate program which you can also utilize for the sake of this video which also pays out 8% in affiliate marketing

[06:49] commissions. Now, of course, whenever anybody books this travel activity via the link placed within that article, the creator of this article would earn an affiliate marketing commission. Right? That is the power of getting your

[07:03] article to rank towards the top of the Google search engine results page. But everything has suddenly changed with the introduction of Google's AI overview feature. Now instead, what happens? People will type in the exact same thing

[07:17] into the Google search bar, Japan snow monkeys in Tokyo, and hit enter. What you'll now get is Google's AI overview, providing you with an overview of information relating to the Google search term that you typed in. This

[07:31] means that those that previously ranked towards the top of the Google search engine results page have been somewhat drowned out by this Google AI overview. But what you may notice is there are now other links on the right hand side that

[07:45] the Google AI overview provides as sources. And it is now these source articles that are generating that traffic that are generating those affiliate marketing commissions. Guys, for years, search engine optimization

[07:59] has absolutely dominated. It's been hard to rank above the competition due to wellestablished sites with high domain authority. Suddenly, we are now able to have a level playing field since this new AI tool has just come out. So, we're

[08:15] able to be found in the AI before the competition due to getting first mover advantage. Right now, I'm going to show you how you can drive a ton of affiliate traffic to your affiliate offer by ranking as a source in Google's AI

[08:31] overview. The first step in doing that is to go back over to Simrush. And here you can see a bunch of these different prompts. Right now, here's the problem. If I look at this particular prompt over here, for example, that people are

[08:44] searching into Google, things to do in Tokyo with family, we know that people who are searching for that exact type of prompt are very likely considering booking a flight to Tokyo with their family, right? Which in theory is great

[08:58] for us. We can go back over to the Get Your Guide website and we can find plenty of different affiliate travel activities that are suitable for those visiting Tokyo with their family. However, if you look over here where it

[09:12] says sources, there are already over 56 sources being shown in Google's AI overview feature for this exact search term on Google. Meaning, if we were to create an article containing family-friendly affiliate links for

[09:27] different Tokyo travel activities to rank for this particular prompt on Google's AI overview, we would very likely be drowned out since the number of sources is simply too high. Instead, what you want to do is sort by the

[09:41] sources column over here ascending and identify prompts that people are searching for on Google with high purchasing intent, such as weird Tokyo attractions or activities to do in Tokyo

[09:54] Shibuya. And these types of searches only have around two sources being referenced for each of them. These are absolutely perfect. What you definitely want to avoid guys are sort of generic search terms that people are searching

[10:07] for such as you know how long is the train from Tokyo to Kyoto or Tokyo cafe menu. These sort of searches are not being performed by individuals with high purchasing intent. So, what I'm going to do for the sake of this video is to look

[10:23] at this high purchasing intent prompt, such as weird Tokyo attractions, and go back over to the getyou guide website and find five of the weirdest Tokyo attractions that I can, such as this one over here, for example, Tokyo Sumo Show

[10:38] experience with chicken hot pot and a photo. I'll simply right click onto it, new tab. You can see this travel activity is not only weird, but it's extremely likely to sell as well. As you can see here, guys, likely to sell out,

[10:53] going for at minimum over $100 per person, which means high affiliate marketing commissions for us. It has over $6,300 over $6,300 reviews with a review score of over 4.8.

[11:06] So, what you want to do since we are selecting five weird Tokyo travel activities is to go back over to this page right here. have a scroll through and simply select four other weird Tokyo travel activities. So, the four weird

[11:20] to start earning affiliate marketing commissions with is I have included that snow monkey travel activity. I do think it's wonderfully weird. I've got a manga drawing workshop, an archery class from

[11:33] a samurai descendant, and finally Tokyo Street cart experience in Shabuya. I think they're weird enough. And to absolutely maximize the amount of conversions that we can generate for each one of these five weird Tokyo

[11:47] travel activities, what I'm going to do is head back over to Seamrush. And where it says weird Tokyo attractions, I'm going to hover over this icon right here to create content that can rank as a source in Google's AI overview for the

[12:03] prompt weird Tokyo attractions. If I click onto where it says create content right here. And before I click onto where it says generate article with SEO boostup and AI generated images selected. I'm first going to change that

[12:16] title from weird Tokyo attractions to five weird Tokyo attractions. And where it says keywords. I'm going to click onto that edit pencil icon. And in addition to the keywords that are already included, which will help us to

[12:31] rank as a source for that AI overview feature, when anybody types in weird Tokyo attractions, what I'm going to do for each one of those travel activities, I'm going to highlight the title for each of them, simply copy it over, go

[12:45] back over to that keywords field, and simply paste it in. And I'll repeat the remaining four travel activities. And with word count set to 1,00 with one click I'll go to where it says generate

[12:58] article. It will then say preparing article which can take a few minutes. You will get an email when the article is ready. Now not only are these articles of incredibly high quality, but they can also rank in Google's AI

[13:12] overview feature as a source when people are searching for those exact prompts with high purchasing intent. So, what we're going to do, guys, is click onto And once your article is ready, you'll be able to give it a preview. Here it

[13:27] is. Five weird Tokyo attractions. All images included. Why explore Tokyo's hidden gems? If I scroll down, because we inserted those keywords into that keyword field for the different travel activities, it's literally included them

[13:42] as each one of those different five weird travel activities in Tokyo. Here you can see guys the street cart experience in Shabuya with highly relevant photos. If I scroll down even further, we've got the snow monkey

[13:56] private day tour. We've got the sumo show experience and so on. So at this stage, what you want to do is to get the affiliate links and insert them into your article so we can start driving traffic to those affiliate links to

[14:08] start earning those affiliate commissions. So for example, I'll go back over to get your guide and select this travel activity right here. that snow monkey private day tour. Copy over the URL for that private day tour.

[14:21] Again, going into my affiliate dashboard in get your guide, clicking onto where it says tools at the top and then links and simply pasting in that link as we did earlier and then clicking onto that travel activity create short URL,

[14:35] copying over that affiliate link, going back over to my article, and placing your affiliate links over any text that sort of mentions the tour specifically. So, for example, here it says the private data. I'll simply highlight

[14:48] that, click onto this link symbol over here, paste in my affiliate link, click recommend that you do this for each one of the titles as well. In a similar paste it in, and simply click onto where it says save. And do this throughout

[15:04] your article for each one of those five weird Tokyo travel activities. So once you've inserted those affiliate links throughout your article, what you want to do is to make sure that each one of the affiliate travel activities being

[15:18] mentioned is accurate. What I mean by that is to go back over to each one of those travel activities. Simply read the descriptions and make sure that what is mentioned in your article does actually reflect what those travel activities are

[15:33] about. If there is any mismatches or discrepancies, I do recommend editing your article manually to reflect exactly what those travel activities are about. And make sure before you click onto where it says publish. This part is

[15:47] super important, guys. Click onto where it says AI SEO over here. And then click onto where it says improve all. that will optimize your article for AI SEO so that your article does rank as a source in Google's AI overview feature and

[16:02] place directly in front of those high converting searches that are being once you've inserted those affiliate links into your article to actually start generating those affiliate conversions, you want to make sure that

[16:18] you publish your article for it to start ranking on Google's AI overview feature. Now, in order to do that, you want to click onto where it says publish on the top right over here. And crucially, you want to make sure that you publish your

[16:31] article to a WordPress site. Now, if you don't already have your own WordPress account, by far the easiest way to create a WordPress site in literally only a few minutes using AI, which I'll show you exactly how to do step by step

[16:44] right now, is by using my favorite AI website creation tool, which is Hostinger. And I'll leave a link to Hostinger in the video description. And if you click onto that link and select the business plan and type in the promo

[16:57] code real money strategies in all caps, you will get a discount on the business plan. Now, once you're signed up and you are logged into Hostinger, you simply onto websites on the left hand side and you want to click onto where it says add

[17:11] a website. I'll click onto where it says WordPress. And to very quickly set up that WordPress site that we can publish our articles onto, I'll select create a another reason why I recommend Hostinger for setting up your WordPress site in

[17:24] literally only a few clicks is because you can also claim a completely free web address or domain for the first year. I can simply type one in right here to see if it's available. Let's see if tokyotrast strategies.com is available,

[17:36] is completely free for the first year. Again, click onto where it says next. installed. This might take a few minutes, as you can see right here. So, I'll pause the video. And finally, to create your site in literally only a few

[17:49] seconds, you want to give your site a brand name. I've typed in Tokyo Travel It will contain those different articles that we can rapidly create on Simrush utilizing their content toolkit. And the type of WordPress site that I want to

[18:04] publish those articles onto, I'll simply type into the description in one line. different travel activities that you can do in Tokyo. Now guys, if you are wellversed in WordPress and sort of editing your own site, feel free to

[18:19] click onto where it says block editor, otherwise I strongly suggest keeping Elementor selected, which allows you to sort of drag and drop and very easily edit your WordPress site. And with one click, I'll simply go to where it says

[18:31] WordPress site for me right here, which is perfect. It's super minimalistic. It's literally just a banner image of Tokyo in the background, a bit of text, sort of brand at the top over there, Tokyo Travel Strategies. And if I scroll

[18:47] down, it's got a placeholder article right here showing you how your articles will look once they are published onto your site. It's extremely easy to edit image, change the size of the text and so on, if you click onto where it says

[19:01] edit site right here. But to rapidly start publishing those high converting articles containing your affiliate links onto your WordPress site, you first want Here is where we're going to connect Simrush to our WordPress site so we can

[19:16] seamlessly start publishing those articles onto our WordPress site. So to where it says plugins on the left hand side here and then click onto where it guys, all of these instructions are available. If you go back over to our

[19:31] site, and again, guys, when you click onto where it says publish, you can then connect under where it says WordPress, and it will tell you exactly how to do that right here. I'll go through these exact steps. So, the first thing that

[19:44] you want to do is go to where it says Seamrush Content Toolkit, or rather search for Seamrush Content Toolkit in this search bar over here. Hit enter. And when you find it, you simply want to click onto where it says install now and

[19:57] then click onto where it says activate. Semrush content toolkit will then appear here. You then want to click onto where it says settings. Hover over it and then again click onto where it says content toolkit. And you'll then be taken to a

[20:10] simply click onto where it says connect content toolkit. It will then ask you to where it says allow. And that is it. We are now connected and I can very easily start publishing my articles over to my WordPress site. So, I'll simply click

[20:24] created with my affiliate links included. And you literally just want to top right here. And then click again onto where it says publish article. And now your first affiliate article will be published directly onto your WordPress

[20:38] site, allowing you to drive buyer traffic to that article to your affiliate links, not via the traditional SEO or search engine optimization methods which previously worked, which have now been completely flipped on

[20:52] their head, but via the brand new what they're now calling GEO, generative engine optimization, allowing you to appear in the responses generated by AI powered search engines. Whether that be as a source in chat GPT, Google Gemini,

[21:08] Google's AI mode, or in this example, via Google's AI overview. Now, it's a Serush's AI features, collectively known as Semrush 1, has got to be the most

[21:20] important AI tool when it comes to earning money with affiliate marketing from this point forward. GEO is literally the future. It is mainstream. It's already here. And this tool having just been released allows us to get a

[21:33] first mover competitive advantage. I strongly recommend getting in early and taking advantage of this strategy while there are still so many content gaps as can be identified by the lack of sources being shown in their prompt research

[21:47] feature, especially for searches being carried out with high purchasing intent. Again guys, links in the description of this video. You can get signed up to Samrush One completely for free for the first seven days, hosting up super

[22:01] affordable, extremely easy to get set up, and they also have a 30-day money back guarantee. Now, if you got value from this video, please make sure that the channel, and hit that bell notification so that you get notified

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