The Zara Affiliate Program | Does It Exist?

In this post, I’ll take a look at the Zara affiliate program. I’ll examine some Zara keyword research and different traffic generation ideas to monetize with this and other fashion affiliate programs.

About Zara

According to Wikipedia, “Zara is a Spanish fast fashion (clothing and accessories) retailer based in Arteixo (A Coruña) in Galicia. The company was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is the main brand of the Inditex group, the world’s largest apparel retailer. The fashion group also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home, and Uterqüe. Zara as of 2017 manages up to 20 clothing collections a year.”

Watch My Video Overview

Does It Have An Affiliate Program?

Unfortunately, at the present time it doesn’t look like Zara has an affiliate program. According to this Q&A Forum post which was recently updated in April 2019, no one can find it.

Forum posters suggested these alternative affiliate programs:

• Old Navy
• Gap
• UNIQLO
• ASOS
• Forever 21

You can also check out Macy’s- I did a review of their affiliate program.

The advantage there is that it houses dozens and dozens of different fashion brands. So while a fashion brand like Nike may not have a robust affiliate program, particularly for American traffic, you can promote Nike products from within Macy’s affiliate program.

Knoji also offers an even bigger list of fashion affiliate programs you can join:

1. Rue 21 affiliate programs
2. H&M affiliate programs
3. Elie Tahari affiliate programs
4. ShopStyle affiliate programs
5. Hollister affiliate programs
6. SCOTTeVEST affiliate programs
7. C&A Company affiliate programs
8. Jane affiliate programs
9. Boden affiliate programs
10. Gap affiliate programs
11. Yoox affiliate programs
12. Volcom affiliate programs
13. Scotch & Soda affiliate programs
14. HypeBeast affiliate programs
15. Dockers affiliate programs
16. Pendleton affiliate programs
17. MLTD affiliate programs
18. Caliroots affiliate programs
19. Simons affiliate programs
20. Urban Outfitters affiliate programs
21. Club Monaco affiliate programs
22. Cath Kidston affiliate programs
23. Claire’s affiliate programs
24. Culture Kings affiliate programs
25. Revolve affiliate programs
26. Footasylum affiliate programs
27. Banana Republic affiliate programs
28. Dolls Kill affiliate programs
29. Grunt Style affiliate programs
30. Zalando FR affiliate programs
31. Next affiliate programs
32. Alpha Industries affiliate programs
33. Cotton On affiliate programs
34. Forever 21 affiliate programs
35. Roots affiliate programs
36. Lamoda affiliate programs
37. DrJays.com affiliate programs
38. Adidas Canada affiliate programs
39. Buckle affiliate programs
40. Roots USA affiliate programs
41. HBX affiliate programs
42. RVCA affiliate programs
43. Zaful affiliate programs
44. Vineyard Vines affiliate programs
45. Betabrand affiliate programs
46. Romwe affiliate programs
47. East Dane affiliate programs
48. Lands’ End affiliate programs
49. Abercrombie & Fitch affiliate programs
50. Shinola affiliate programs
51. Karmaloop affiliate programs
52. Glue Store affiliate programs
53. UNIQLO affiliate programs
54. TSC affiliate programs
55. Newchic affiliate programs
56. Tictail affiliate programs
57. Tilly’s affiliate programs
58. Sundance Catalog affiliate programs
59. MANGO affiliate programs
60. Tu Clothing affiliate programs
61. American Eagle affiliate programs
62. PacSun affiliate programs
63. Boohoo affiliate programs
64. Charles & Keith affiliate programs
65. Mango affiliate programs
66. Guess Factory affiliate programs
67. Tommy Bahama affiliate programs
68. Brooks Brothers affiliate programs
69. American Apparel affiliate programs
70. Cole Haan affiliate programs
71. Matalan affiliate programs
72. River Island affiliate programs
73. Valentino affiliate programs
74. Vau.lt affiliate programs
75. Aeropostale affiliate programs
76. Rosegal affiliate programs
77. Garnet Hill affiliate programs
78. Forever 21 UK affiliate programs
79. City Beach Australia affiliate programs
80. Shopbop affiliate programs
81. Justice affiliate programs
82. Belk affiliate programs
83. Missguided UK affiliate programs
84. Route One affiliate programs
85. Newegg Canada affiliate programs
86. Express affiliate programs
87. Old Navy affiliate programs
88. Hot Topic affiliate programs
89. ASOS affiliate programs
90. 6PM affiliate programs
91. Boden UK affiliate programs
92. Desigual affiliate programs
93. Lands’ End Business Outfitters affiliate programs
94. Zulily affiliate programs
95. ASOS UK affiliate programs
96. Nordstrom affiliate programs
97. Myntra affiliate programs
98. Ariat affiliate programs
99. Life is Good affiliate programs
100. Forever 21 Canada affiliate programs

Fashion Affiliate Earning Potential

Zara Keyword Research

Even though they don’t have an affiliate program, it’s always fun to take a look at what a large site like this ranks for.

Below, I extracted 1,000 of their top-performing organic keywords just to see the sort of terms they rank for and get traffic from.

You can see there’s a variety of different, high-value terms that they’re getting millions of unique site visits from a month:

1. accessories
2. mens suits
3. faux fur coat
4. culottes
5. girl
6. leather jackets
7. ankle boots
8. bomber jacket men
9. bomber jacket
10. trench coat
11. high waisted jeans
12. mens dress shoes
13. maternity clothes
14. mens fashion
15. jumpsuits
16. mens bomber jacket
17. zaea
18. bag
19. girls dresses
20. maxi dresses
21. midi dress
22. midi skirt
23. bags
24. zarausa
25. mens trench coat
26. mens vest
27. parka
28. palazzo pants
29. women’s suits
30. women’s suits
31. mens shirts
32. platform sneakers
33. blouse
34. mens leather jackets
35. belt bag
36. plaid pants

SEO Content Ideas

If you run a fashion blog, it’s not a bad idea to use SEO software like this to conduct keyword research for content ideas.

For example, if you’re really into SEO, you can see that “leather jackets” have a keyword difficulty score of 0.

It also has a pretty high search volume of 34,000 searches a month. It definitely doesn’t mean that any random page optimized for “leather jackets” is going to rank, but it’s definitely a keyword I would look at if I was trying to drive traffic to a fashion blog.

Although Zara itself doesn’t have an affiliate program, there are obviously many different affiliate programs in the fashion niche that have pricey leather jackets you could promote.

If I were going after this keyword, I would figure out a massive listicle with a BuzzFeed-like title targeting the term “leather jackets”.

There might be 25 different leather jackets, each would get a 100-word blurb, with the entire post clocking in at close to or over three thousand words.

They don’t all need to be affiliate links- just showcase some gorgeous leather jackets from Instagram like this one:

View this post on Instagram

Two £50,000 Python skin billionaire jacket at Karla Otto press day. @billionaireinternational @karlaotto #leatherjackets #leather #leatherjacket #jackets #leatherjacketseason #leatherjacketph #fashion #mensfashion #menswear #snakeleatherjacket #leatherworks #leatherfashion #leatherjacketweather #style #leatherjacketclub #jacketstyle #bikerjacket #bikerleatherjacket #leatherjacketgang #motorcyclejacket #billionaireinternational #billionaire #luxury #luxurywear #python #luxurylifestyle

A post shared by Fashion Thirst (@fashionthirsts) on Apr 10, 2019 at 12:33pm PDT

Long Tail Volume

While the primary key where you’re going after is leather jackets, you’ll find that writing naturally about leather jackets over and over again you’re going to capture hundreds and even thousands of longtail variations – for example, cheap leather jackets, black leather jackets, suede leather jackets, etc.

It might be that you never rank for the term leather jackets itself because it is an e-commerce search term and you might be running a content website, but you’ll find that there is a ton of traffic to be had capturing the near-infinite amount of long-tail, keyword variations around this and other terms.

You could also take to a platform like Pinterest and create Pins promoting your leather jacket content.

Or even directly linking to the leather jacket affiliate program that you are a part of. Leveraging third-party social media platforms like Pinterest is a smart strategy to feed more traffic onto your site – this is especially shrewd when keywords are very competitive.

Site Example

Who What Wear has a great Zara listicle you can use as inspiration:

Affiliate Links

One thing that can be somewhat troublesome- if a leather jacket goes out of stock or is discontinued, depending on how the particular company website handles this, the affiliate link may be broken or it might be redirected to a product category page. It’s important to keep tabs on your different affiliate links especially in something that is so seasonal like fashion.

One of my primary websites focuses on evergreen products – products that don’t come and go seasonally like fashion does.

So it’s a lot easier to manage.

With something like fashion, every season fashion is changing and the products are cycling in and out so you have to be on top of that if you are in the fashion affiliate space.

The way I manage things like this, I use the ThirstyAffiliates WordPress plugin to track and manage all of my affiliate links.

Summing Up

While Zara doesn’t have an affiliate program at the moment, there are tons of different fashion brands that do. Including fashion affiliate programs like Macy’s or H&M or Nordstrom that house a number of big name brands that you can tap into.