As of 13 August 2026, AI can plan content for your UK affiliate marketing side income.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a spreadsheet and record each affiliate product, its official URL, current features, price if shown, commission terms, permitted claims and any content restrictions.
   2. Write down your UK audience, niche, available hours, channels, existing content and the commercial action you want readers to take.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the 12-week plan, including the evidence and fact-checking column.
   4. Copy the proposed calendar into the spreadsheet and remove topics that do not match your expertise, audience or available production time.
   5. Open each official product page, affiliate programme rule and relevant platform policy, then compare them with every product claim, link, recommendation and disclosure in the draft.
   6. Check the current ASA and CAP guidance for affiliate advertising, revise the disclosure approach where needed, and publish only the items whose facts, links and compliance checks are complete.

   Prompt

   Act as a UK affiliate-content planner. Build a practical 12-week content plan for this side income project.
   
   Niche: [describe the niche]
   Target audience in the UK: [describe who they are, what they need and their buying stage]
   Affiliate products or programmes: [list each product, official URL, commission information if known, and any advertiser restrictions]
   Content channels: [website, email, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or other]
   Available time each week: [hours]
   Existing assets: [website, email list, social accounts, reviews, expertise and published content]
   Commercial goals: [for example, build search traffic, grow an email list or generate qualified clicks]
   Topics or claims I will not cover: [list them]
   
   Produce:
   1. A prioritised 12-week calendar with one main content item per week and optional supporting posts.
   2. For every item, give the audience problem, search or discovery intent, proposed title, format, target action, affiliate product fit, evidence needed and a realistic production brief.
   3. Separate helpful comparison or buying-guide content from content that is mainly promotional.
   4. Suggest an internal linking and repurposing plan across my stated channels.
   5. Mark any item that needs current fact-checking, first-hand testing, expert input or confirmation from the advertiser.
   6. Include a plain UK affiliate disclosure approach for each relevant channel. Do not claim that any disclosure wording is legally sufficient without telling me to check the current ASA and CAP guidance and the platform rules.
   7. Do not invent product features, prices, availability, reviews, rankings, commission rates, search volumes or performance forecasts. Use "needs checking" where evidence is missing.
   8. Finish with a weekly production checklist and the five highest-risk factual or compliance checks before publication.
   
   Keep the plan specific to the information above. Prefer useful, evidence-led content over generic SEO articles. Do not promise income or predict results.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.