How to Build an Affiliate Web Site

Affiliate marketing is simply the process of advertising other people's products for a commission payment for every sale you generate for them. It is a huge business, especially on the Internet. There are a wide variety of ways to promote affiliate products, but the most long term and consistent strategies include building your own website to pre-sell your prospects and then redirecting them to the affiliate product sales page using your affiliate links to ensure you get credit for the sale.

Instructions

Affiliate Content Site

1. Install a content management system on your domain like Word Press, Joomla or Drupal. These systems make it easy to apply a common visual theme to all of the pages of your site, post content without technical expertise and change parts of your site on all pages with one operation.

2. Create and post niche specific, unique and high quality content on a regular and consistent basis. Your content should include text, images and video. It must be focused on the niche you are targeting and include keyword phrases that people might search for when looking for information in your niche.

3. Place banners and text ads on your website promoting your affiliate products. Use banners in static locations like headers and sidebars. Work text ad links into the body of your website copy in each post.

Affiliate Review Website

1. Write a thorough and accurate review of one to three affiliate products that all solve the same problem or address the same issue. Include the pros and cons of each product and rate the products against one another.

2. Place all of your reviews on one page that offers visitors useful information about each product and genuinely helps them make a buying decision. Include images of the products.

3. Place affiliate links to each product sales page prominently on your page. Make it easy for your visitors to go to the product pages by making at least one link large and bold so they can't miss it. Add a few more links within the body of the review and link the product images to the sales pages.

List Marketing

1. Create an opt in page that offers the visitor a free report, video or email course in exchange for subscribing to your email list. Be sure the information you offer is high quality and addresses a common problem that people in your target niche suffer from. The better your information the more loyalty you will create with your subscribers.

2. Create a series of email messages that offer valuable, niche specific information and load those messages into an autoresponder system. Aweber.com, GetResponse and ConstantContact.com are a few popular autoresponder systems that will automatically deliver your email messages to your subscribers according to a schedule you set in advance.

3. Include your affiliate links within your email messages. Create content that your subscribers will find useful, always including your affiliate links and offer it freely to your list. The more value you deliver to them the greater the odds are that they will take advantage of your recommendation, visit your affiliate product sales pages and buy the products you are promoting.

References

• Associate Programs: Affiliate Program Tutorial