Maintaining an affiliate website is a marketing and
promotional method in which the website owner gets paid for referring prospective
customers to a specific product or website. The method of payment varies from a
PPC (pay-per-click) system--in which you get paid every time somebody clicks on
one of your advertising links--to commission-based systems.
Many people try to set up affiliate websites, but not everyone is successful at it. People forgo research and market targeting in favor of getting up the maximum number of sites with the maximum number of affiliate links, as quickly as possible. But the most successful affiliate websites take time to research, create and develop.
Many people try to set up affiliate websites, but not everyone is successful at it. People forgo research and market targeting in favor of getting up the maximum number of sites with the maximum number of affiliate links, as quickly as possible. But the most successful affiliate websites take time to research, create and develop.
Instructions
1. Finding Your Niche and Building Your Site
1.
Brainstorm ideas for your the topic of
your website. A topic can be something you have interest or experience in, or
it could be something you know is popular or have heard people talking about.
What you choose as your topic is completely up to you, although you will find
that certain areas provide more solid earnings potential.
2.
Narrow down your topic into a true
niche. A niche is a smaller scope within a topic, and it deals specifically
with one area. Your topic may have been youth sports, but your niche could be
coaching techniques for youth soccer leagues. It's important to research your
niche to find out what keywords and phrases are being searched for, how much
competition the niche has, and what kinds of affiliate-marketing opportunities
it will be able to provide.
3.
Purchase your own domain name. The name
should ideally deal directly with your niche. If possible, it should contain a
related keyword phrase, while remaining short and memorable. You'll also need
to purchase website hosting to go along with the domain.
4.
Sign up for different affiliate
programs, to use links from them. There are several large affiliate warehouses,
such as Commission Junction, that will allow you to join hundreds of affiliate
programs. You first must sign up for the website service itself, through which
you will get paid and gain access. You can then search for and request
membership with the many varied affiliate partners the site has.
5.
Set up your website, inserting the
advertiser's links in appropriate spots. Someone new to website development
should use a straightforward service like Wordpress, which has hundreds of
templates to choose from and designated areas reserved for ad space.
6.
Create content for your site that is
targeted toward both the visitors and the search engines. Your content is the
key way in which you draw people into your site and become placed within
popular search engines.
2. Promoting and Improving Your Affiliate Website
7.
Promote
your site through social networks and article directories. Both of these
techniques will increase direct traffic to your site, while also upping
indirect traffic by raising your site's standing within the major search
engines.
8.
Follow
through with other traffic strategies, including proper keyword placement,
targeted content and the submission of site maps that help search-engine
spiders crawl and index your site. Your site's target keywords should appear in
internal site links, page titles and page content.
9.
Continue
updating your site, finding new avenues of promotion and creating new content.
The more new content that is created, the more people will find your site, and
the more reason people will have to become return visitors.
10.
Keep
track of your results and tweak your programs, content and website structure to
maximize your success. You'll find that not all affiliate marketing is created
equally. Different ads, in different places, showing different things, can all
perform in different ways. Finding out what advertising and content methods
work best for your site is one of the most challenging but rewarding elements
to Internet marketing.
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