How to Build a Top-Selling Web Site with Affiliate Internet Marketing
Affiliate marketing is an activity that involves selling other people's products and services. In return for making sales, you receive affiliate commissions, which are a portion of the sale you make. Building a top-selling affiliate marketing website does take some skill and time, however, to learn CMS (content management system) platforms such as Wordpress or how to use affiliate software.
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Things You'll Need
- Domain name
- Web hosting subscription
- Shopping cart software
- Affiliate store software
Instructions
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Setting Up
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Decide on the structure of your top-selling affiliate marketing website. Two possible structures include creating a review site where reviews are written about featured affiliate products or creating an affiliate product store that showcases many different types of products at once, with basic descriptions of each.
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Purchase a domain name. Choose a name that will suit your needs for an affiliate marketing website. Domain names can be bought and registered at Internet registrars such as GoDaddy.com and can be obtained for as little as $7 to $10 for an annual registration.
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Subscribe to a monthly web hosting service to have a place to host your site. For an affiliate marketing website, a "shared" hosting account would be sufficient, but there are also "dedicated" hosting plans that use more server and database resources. The features and particular aspects of each type of web hosting service plan can be found on each provider's website; look for reviews of web hosting services on CNET, TopTenReviews, and other sites that give opinions on web hosts. A few examples web hosts include GoDaddy, Host Gator and LiquidWeb.
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Decide which affiliate products you want to promote and sign up with the respective services. Marketing products often requires using a "hoplink," which is the URL that is created when you choose a specific product to promote. Some affiliate marketplaces include ClickBank, Commission Junction and PayDotCom.
Creating a Review Site
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Install a blogging platform on your affiliate marketing website via your web hosting control panel. Many web hosting services will have automatic installation services such as a program called Fantastico that instantly creates a blog site from Wordpress, Joomla, or another blog platform or content management system (CMS).
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Customize your blog so that it appears as a professional-looking and authoritative website. Upload a professional affiliate theme or template to your website if you're using Wordpress or Joomla; themes and templates can be found on sites like ThemeForest.net and TemplateMonster.com. Customize the website with other design elements, such as with logos, color schemes, and layouts. Refer to the user manual or help guide of each CMS or template that you're using to create your site for specific instructions on modifying site elements.
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Post reviews on your homepage and additional pages about affiliate products that you're promoting. Write an article describing the benefits and features of the product which you're marketing. Don't forget to include an image of the affiliate product; hyperlink the product image to the "hoplink" of the authors' purchase link, which allows your readers to click the image and pay for the product. Use the "hoplink" elsewhere throughout the review article so that readers will have ample chances to click and buy the product.
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Organize your top-selling affiliate marketing review website by creating a clean and neat navigational structure. Create page categories and hierarchies in your CMS (i.e Wordpress or Joomla) control panel so that readers can easily find products they are interested in.
Affiliate Store
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Decide on the affiliate store software you'd like to use for your website and download the software to your desktop after purchasing. There are several popular ones that can be used, each with its own features and benefits. A couple examples include AffiliStore and AffiliStore Plus. Features that are important to have in an affiliate store software include store design customization and product feeds that pull information and products from affiliate marketplaces.
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Upload the affiliate store software to your website via your web hosting control panel. Refer to the specific software's installation instructions or Readme file for help; you may have to create a MySQL database or follow other special instructions. Ask a representative from your web hosting service if you need help.
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Customize your affiliate store website. Change the template, colors, or layout of the affiliate store to suit your preferences if the software allows it. Insert CSV (comma-separated values) product feeds from affiliate networks such as Affiliate Window or Paid on Results to display affiliate products. Create product and category navigation to allow visitors of your site to quickly find products they want. Refer to the instructions in user manual of the particular affiliate software you are using for your website.
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