Affiliate Marketing System: Increase Your Sales By Building Your Own Website

April 9th, 2010

Kmcgraw

This article is aimed at the affiliate marketer who want to take his business to the next level. One of the best ways you can do that is to build your own website. If you’re interested in increasing your affiliate income, please read on!

Things you will need:

A domain name related to your niche. There is a rule in Internet marketing: you should never have to explain a domain name. This means that your domain name should be short and people should be able to tell from that domain name what your site is about.

For example, if your niche is dog training, it would make sense to use words related to dog training, that are eye-catching and get your point across. Something like dogtraining4dummies, or dogtraining123, or even makeyourdogsit would work.

Hosting. Hosting is space on the web to store your website contents. In the old days (like the beginning of this century) hosting and bandwidth was expensive. This is no longer the case; hosting is very cheap and so is bandwidth. You can get decent hosting with unlimited bandwidth and services like Fantastico Deluxe which lets you install popular scripts like Wordpress at the click of a button for about three dollars per month to seven dollars per month.

A What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) webpage editor program. Unless you know HTML, this type of editor will help you create your website. In WYSIWYG editing, the coding is done in the background as you type your content, so that what you see on the screen is exactly how the end-result will look. Many good hosting plans will offer their own WYSIWYG editor as part of the hosting service.

Alternatively, you can use the popular Wordpress script to create your site with even less fuss. There are many popular and free Wordpress themes that you can customize to your liking.

Content. You can’t build a site that’s just full of affiliate links and nothing else and expect to make any money. Rather, you should create a website full of useful content that is related to your niche and then offer your affiliate products as a complement to that.

There are two common ways to organize your content: One is the problem/solution format in which you establish yourself as an expert on your niche and then guide your visitors to your affiliate products as a solution to their problems, while the other is more of a repository for facts and opinions about your niche. In the latter, you would include affiliate products that people reading about your niche might be interested in purchasing.

A good example of the problem/solution type site is one about training aggressive dogs. A site like this could explain a technique to keep a dog from lunging at other people or animals while on a walk by using a special collar. The site then recommends a series of collars that would work and these would be the affiliate products for that site

An example of a factual and opinion based site would be a site about PC games. The site would offer game reviews (opinion) and facts about how to get the most out of the latest games (facts.) Affiliate products for such a site would revolve around things useful to PC gamers, like games themselves, computer equipment, and computer maintenance products.