Ready to monetize your must-haves in 2025? Get started with affiliate marketing, a simple yet lucrative way to turn product recommendations into real dollars. With Linktree Shops, it’s easy to set up your Shopfront, sell products and start earning affiliate revenue in record time. 

Affiliate marketing 101

Affiliate marketing is all about promoting products or services from other brands and earning a commission for every sale made through your unique affiliate link.

Businesses choose to work with affiliates because it’s a foolproof, win-win arrangement. 

Brands gain instant access to the engaged audiences of creators and influencers, while creators can earn affiliate revenue from promoting the products and services they love. 

The top affiliate marketing trends to watch in 2025

It always pays to stay ahead of trends. Here’s what’s shaping the affiliate marketing landscape as we know it: 

• AI-powered product recommendations: Personalization is key to cutting through and converting viewers into customers. With AI, brands can deliver targeted product recommendations to potential customers—drawing on their browsing behavior or past purchases to customize the affiliate content they’re served.
  
  
• Rising micro-influencer demand: Micro-influencers (typically creators with 10k to 100k followers) run the social media landscape at the moment. These creators have fostered a niche audience that drives stronger engagement than the big stars.
  
  
• Trust-based marketing: Building trust is the most crucial part of affiliate marketing. Creators can monetize the trust they’ve built with audiences by offering handpicked recommendations (backed by shoppable affiliate links) to viewers, earning commission and income along the way. 

What is Linktree Shops?

‍Linktree Shops lets you promote products from the brands you know and love to your followers. Just add affiliate products to your Linktree and get paid with industry-leading commissions.

Not only can you browse from Linktree’s existing range of affiliate products, but you can also add links to any affiliate program (as long as it meets Linktree’s Community Standards). The result? You can start monetizing product recommendations in a couple of clicks. 

With one consolidated place to house all your links (and a dedicated Shop tab to curate your recommendations), you can make it easy for your followers to find and purchase your favorite products.  More clicks equals more cash in your back pocket. 

Why use Linktree Shops? 

Whether you’re a seasoned creator or a beginner, Linktree Shops is a helpful tool to bring you closer to your income goals. Here’s why: 

• Quick, easy setup: Linktree Shops makes searching for and uploading products a super simple task. No need to sign up for various affiliate programs; just browse your favorite products, add to your Linktree Shop and start earning commission! 
• Curate recommendations with ease: Create Collections to improve the shopping experience and curate like-minded products together—from running essentials to your morning skincare routine. 
• Centralized links: Linktree Shops is a one-stop shop for converting your audience, featuring clickable products powered by your affiliate links to make driving sales easy.
• Customization options: Linktree Shops are super customizable both aesthetically and functionally. Change your colors, add your photos or personal branding and set your Linktree to automatically open to your Shop tab, too. 

How to get started with affiliate marketing using Linktree Shops

Let's get you one step closer to earning with this guide to displaying and driving traffic to your affiliate links using Linktree Shops. 

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Option one: Use a pre-existing affiliate link

If you’re already part of an affiliate program and have affiliate links handy, here’s how to display it on your Linktree: 

1. Visit the My Shop tab of your Linktree. 
2. Add your first product by clicking ‘Add’ then ‘Product’. 
3. Paste in the product URL with your affiliate link. 
4. Using online metadata, we’ll generate the product image, title, and price for you.
5. Click the arrow to proceed, then click ‘Add to Shop’. 

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Option two: Browse Linktree’s selection of products

New to affiliate marketing? Get started by following these steps: 

1. Visit the My Shop tab of your Linktree. 
2. Add your first product by clicking ‘Add’ then ‘Product’. 
3. Search for a retailer in the menu bar, then click the icon to go to their product listing. 
4. You’ll be able to see the commission each store pays displayed in the store and product information. 
5. Click on a product to select it, then click ‘Add to Shop’. 

What to consider when selecting an affiliate program

When joining an affiliate program, there are a few things to consider:

• Brand and product affinity: The best affiliate content promotes products you genuinely love. Ensure the affiliate program you select offers commission on items that you actually want to use and would feel comfortable encouraging your audience to buy. 
• Barriers to entry: Some affiliate programs are tougher to qualify for than others, as they require minimum follower counts or engagement rates. These barriers to entry will help you decide which affiliate programs are right based on where you’re at in your social media journey. 
• Commission rates: The whole aim of being an affiliate is to make money – so don’t pick a program that skimps on the commission rate.
• Ease of use: Getting paid for your product recommendations should be easy. But some affiliate programs require you to jump through hoops to get set up. Unless you’ve got boundless time and patience, select one that’s easy and intuitive to maintain. 
• Additional benefits: As well as financial compensation, many affiliate programs have extra benefits for referring a certain number of people or hitting specific targets – think boosted commission percentages or free products. 

When you use Linktree Shops, you get your pick of millions of products with unbeatable commission rates and a quick setup process. It’s the perfect platform regardless of where you’re at in your affiliate marketing journey. 

Best practices for affiliate marketing success 

To ensure you’ve got the best chance of hitting your goals as an affiliate marketer, follow these best practice tips: 

• Build trust with your audience: A loyal, entertained audience is more likely to convert than a disengaged one. Post consistently on your social media channels, be authentic where appropriate and don’t promote products you’re not 100% behind.
• Optimize your Linktree Shop: Once you’ve cultivated an audience, you need to make it foolproof for them to purchase using your affiliate link. Keep your Linktree Shop up to date, intuitive to browse and customized to your liking. Collections are your best friend!
• Link your products on social media: As well as adding your Linktree to your bio across your platforms, sell specific products in Instagram Stories and other posts where you can add clickable links. 
• Drive traffic with marketing: As well as linking it in your social media bios, include your Shop as a call-to-action (CTA) in email campaigns and refine your chosen keywords to improve your search engine optimization (SEO) ranking.
• Track performance over time: Like with any marketing channel, it’s important to evaluate your performance and make changes to align with trends that emerge. Measure your clicks, views and earnings for your Linktree Shop by visiting the My Products tab. 

Ready to start making bank through affiliate marketing? Set up your Linktree Shop today and start earning!

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