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Building Affiliate Marketing Websites
by David Dubb ESL Coach + InternetWork Marketer Posted: 08/10/2007The Easy Way To Build Affiliate Marketing Websites.
There are some myths in affiliate marketing, which draw several people to it thinking it's true. First they think managing an online business is easy and secondly, that one can earn a fortune through online marketing in a flash. Fewer than 10% of those became rich overnight. There might be a few who achieved overwhelming success in just a short span after setting up an affiliate program, but not a majority of them can honestly say they only had luck. Anyone who's prospering in this kind of business would say he worked hard to get to where he is right now. Success in affiliate marketing takes time and hard work, and, in the end, worth it.
If you're planning to start an affiliate program, one of the things you have got to consider is having your own website, not just an average site but a professional looking one. How do you build an affiliate marketing website? What are the easy steps to build one? First, you must choose the theme or niche of your website. It would be better if you already have an idea what products or services to promote, this would help you plan the design and lay-out of your web pages. The next thing is to choose a domain name and get it hosted. The domain name is a unique name used to label the actual address of your website on the Internet. In deciding what domain name to register, look into the type of products you are endorsing and the theme of your site. Having the proper keywords in your domain name would contribute drawing more visitors to your website. Likewise, choose a top-ranking domain or extension, such as .com. In selecting your web host, consider the security of servers and uptime guarantees.
Now, you can begin creating your webpages. Don’t be discouraged if you've never done it before. There are page generation tools and fast launch sites available online; a little searching. Innumerable online sources could assist you build an affiliate marketing website, you might need time to study and learn the process. This is among the understandings why your site or products you're going to promote must equal your interest. Building your marketing site for the first time would be a great deal of fun if you know the theme of your site. If you don’t have time to create your own website, you can use templates or purchase readily available websites. The latter, however, is a costlier option.
Creating an affiliate website on one's own would be cheaper and more exciting. In the process of building your website, you'll increase your knowledge in Information Technology, the use of computers, softwares and the Internet. As you educate yourself in these fields, you're maximizing your advantage over competitor marketers. Furthermore, if you're knowledgeable and skilled in this arena, you are able to concentrate more on the content of the page rather than the design.
The key to attract visitors to your site is to deliver high quality content; therefore, the succeeding matter you must pay attention to in building your marketing website is content. There are several additional factors that contribute to the success of your affiliate marketing site, but good content is tops. This is the reason why users choose to enter your site and come back for more. They want information and if they don’t find it, they'll go elsewhere. Write interesting articles associated with your theme, this would make them frequent your site. If you've already searched affiliate programs that complement your site, add links to the sites and other respectable informative sites. Links contribute to how well you'll be listed in major search engines. Likewise, create pages for the products you are supporting, don’t simply promote the products by posting hyped-up ads. Keep your viewers curious by injecting lots of to the point and useful information. This will make them click the link to the and hopefully buy the product. Remember that worthless content =no frequent visitors, no sales and ultimately, no commission.
Build your site simple yet with a touch of class to make it appear more of a business site rather than a personal one. This is pleasant to the eyes and more interesting to browse. To assist you with designing, you can check some sure-fire online stores to capture an idea how you can make your site look better. Be sure you don’t post too many banner ads as these could perturb some site visitors; and so, instead of clicking your ad, they might just leave. After all, banner ads are not the only means of promoting your products. Now your website is complete, submit its URL to major search engines to increase your traffic. (Step One on Driving Your Site on the WWW Highway).
Grow from where you started. Learn the use of keywords for search engine optimization (SEO) and apply them in your content. Update your site regularly . Make sure to inform your prospects about the latest updates. You can use newsletters to accomplish this. The Internet is an immense source of information, take advantage of it. Continue to educate yourself and soon you’ll find yourself successful in affiliate marketing.
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About David Dubb 
ESL Coach + InternetWork Marketer
1,159 connections, 33 recommendations, 2,976 honor points.Joined APSense since, May 19th, 2007, From Kiriat Shmona, Israel.
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Jean DAndrea
 RetiredYou give great advice, David. Good information and content are very much sought after. Good content keeps your visitors coming back for more. Jean Nov 4th 2007 01:06 |
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Philip Low
 TaxiThe information is good but not good enough. Perhaps you would like to give examples like where to get affiliate membership software; how to do uploading the writing from computer to hosted domain; how you can manage membership etc. etc. In fact, I have been chasing my tail round and round. No guru will give complete. If it is complete, they charge a high premium. Tell us more Nov 10th 2007 19:45 |
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Mark Hultgren
Wordpress SpecialistOOOH OOH I know one GREAT membership management software that I use. David probably does too! You can see it in action at http://2getsales.com/sitemgr/ JV Manager or JV Manager 2 (Fantasos) By John Delavera. If you are interested in acquiring a copy of this software, let me know. Resale rights are few and far between! David, if you don't already have this, let me know and I will give you a great discount on it! Nov 10th 2007 19:55 |
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David Dubb
ESL Coach + InternetWork MarketerHi Philip, Agreed that this might not be the exact information you were looking for. As you know there is no end to information and this article is a basic introduction. I will prepare an article concerning your questions. In the meantime I strongly suggest you have a look at the site posted by MKWeb. Extremely good software. Nov 11th 2007 05:44 |
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Philip Low
TaxiHello Mark and David, Thank you. Thanks Mark, I have downloaded the software and playing around it. I have my long over due domain hosted for life (it is true) by my good friend, Carlo Garcia of the WealthySecret. I notice that he has a piece of affilate manager software sitting in my cpanel (I do not know how to use it) Just view the video twice, seem like quite simple to do, I may try it so Nov 11th 2007 06:17 |
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Mark Hultgren
Wordpress SpecialistHi Phillip, Make sure that the software you have is The JV Manager from John Delavera and not the other one that has been floating around in giveaways and firesales. There is a cheap copy (same name, but by no means the same quality) of JV Manager that has some issues, things like lack of security, difficulty in getting it installed and running. I have a couple copies of the other JVM, and even installed it on a couple sites, only to take it down after a couple weeks because of a backdoor access. Granted, Fantasos (JVM2) is a MASSIVE program, but it has everything you need to accurately and profitably run not only a membership site, but also sell individual products and include them in different shopping carts (Yes multiple carts!). It comes all set up to interact with your choice of payment processors, like Paypal, Clickbank, 2Checkout, Authorize.net, and a couple others. You can manage an affiliate program, Joint Ventures, and even allow others to run their own mini sites inside your website! (This feature alone will bring the SE's running to your site once the members start seeing how easy it is to build a mini site for their products. You can create templates for the different levels to use as a starting point or they can create their own with the built in editor. I hope you don't think I am hijacking your post, David, just wanted to make sure your readers understand that SOME products out there are real CR_P! And what they can find if they know where to look. Nov 11th 2007 07:15 |
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David Dubb
ESL Coach + InternetWork MarketerHi MK, I purposely did not add any of my own professional comments to let you take the lead on this one. I f you were an unworthy source I would have done something, on the contrary, I know what you are talking about and I think it is of great importance that all understand you and listen to what you have to say. No harm done my friend. One hand washes the other. ::)) Nov 11th 2007 09:33 |
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David Dubb
ESL Coach + InternetWork MarketerHi Prospor7, Belated thank you for your input. Please accept my apologies. Hope it was helpful. Apr 26th 2009 11:20 |
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Sidegiggs online
Online Sidegiggsthis is wonderful information that i will be referring to in the future. kudos. http://www.6dgr.com/sidegiggs Aug 17th 2009 15:54 |
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Julia Ramirez
DON'T BE AFRAID TO JUMP IN! Learning the process and making mistakes is part of the process. If you are not posting, testing, experimenting and trying?.you are not making any progress. Oct 16th 2010 20:33 |
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Ween Smith
Pro online ReailerThis information is quiet well put,it's just the type of information that people need to further there business. Oct 18th 2010 17:37 |
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Pauline Bennett
 Affiliate MarketerI really enjoyed reading this, it has very good content and I will implementing some of the advice today! Nov 11th 2010 03:19 |
This is wonderful information David!
Many of us newbies really appreciate those of you who have gone before. I value those who take the time to lay out the steps in such an easy to understand fashion. Thanks again for the info.
Oct 15th 2007 14:01