How to Design Your Website for Affiliate Marketing – Tips for stay at home moms

As you may know many stay at home moms choose affiliate marketing as a way to earn extra income due to the fact that it is relatively easy to get involved in. Though it is not necessary to have your own website to be successful in affiliate marketing it can prove to be a very valuable tool.

Before you start designing your website you will want to purchase your domain name and hosting. You can do both at hostgator.com. I like this service because your affiliate business grows and you build more websites you can host them all on one account for one low price.

Now let’s jump right into the 3 things you need to keep in mind when it comes to building a website to promote your affiliate products.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Keep It Simple
   
   I am sure you hear this all the time. Simplicity works. Don’t make things overly complicated. Your site should be easy to navigate. Have your navigation either at the top of the site or on the left hand side. Your visitors should not have any problems finding the information they are looking for. If they do they will not be coming back to visit your site which means you won’t be making as much money as you would like to.

2. It has to look professional
   
   Don’t get carried away with banners and graphics. This will turn your visitors off. Have a nice header that has your logo and name on it and have a nice clean white background. Have a few pictures but don’t overdo it.

3. Capture email addresses and build a mailing list
   
   If you are going to build your own website to promote your affiliate products then it is an absolute must that you have a place on your site where you can collect email addresses. Most people don’t buy on the first visit. Nor do they buy on the second visit. It takes at least 5-10 visits sometimes before a person will make a purchase. The only way you can keep in touch with them and remind them of your site is to do it via email. You MUST capture email addresses. If you don’t you are literally letting money slip through your hands. A good service to use is trafficwave.net. They also offer a 30 day trial.

Tips & Warnings

• you do choose to build your own website to promote your affiliate products please keep these tips in mind. Make sure your site is simple, professional and has a way to capture email addresses. If you do this you should have no problem getting visitors to purchase your affiliate products.
• To learn how you can start making money as an affiliate marketer I suggest reading “The Stay At Home Moms Step By Step Guide To Making $150 A Day In Under 30 Days”. I have placed a link in the resource section.

Resources

• Mailing List Service
• The Stay at home moms step by step guide to earning $150 a day in under 30 days
• more articles and information about affiliate marketing for stay at home moms
• Hostgator.com - Hosting and domain service

[niknik2008]

on 2/10/2009 Great Tip!