Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Essential Components of an Affiliate Marketing Website

When you think of earning money online, all those who are around you will tell you to start an affiliate marketing site. There is a reason for that. Affiliate marketing sites have the potential to earn. However, you need a website to earn through affiliate marketing. There are many free offers of websites but these are not that good at earning. The reason is that there are hundreds of similar websites to compete with that of yours. Therefore, you must have your own website to make your affiliate marketing a success.

Plan your website

The first thing you need to do is to take a piece of paper and make a site map. In the first place, you need to have a page to introduce yourself and the site. Also you need to have a page where you have your content. Good content is essential to avoid your site looking like a collection of affiliate links. If you are good at writing, you could do it. If not, you have the option to get your content written by a professional writer.

Next, you need the tools that every affiliate marketing site needs. They are the affiliate links, the sales pitch and the auto responder to collect email addresses to keep contact with your visitors.

Design your website

The easiest way you could build a website is to get a good professional looking template and fill it with your content. The template you choose should be a clean neat and one that is easy to navigate. If you have some knowledge of HTML code, that may become handy. However, when you use a template, you could create a good website even without knowing much about HTML. In order to fill content into template, you only need to copy and paste. These templates have spaces for content. You may need images also for your web pages. There are sites that offer free images if you don't have any with you.



Update content

It is true that you are going to make money with your website but your visitors should not feel it. Therefore, you need to have quality content for them to read. Also, you must update it at least twice a week to make your visitors to come back. When you build up trust this way, your visitors will trust your advice on purchasing the stuff you have for sale.

Make your site search engine friendly

In order to get down traffic, you need to have your site search engine optimized. There are many ways to do it such as article submission, directory submission, link building and making blog comments. You need to resort to one or more of these techniques and get a good search engine ranking in order to attract traffic to your site.

Contact information

Your site needs a contact page not only for the visitors to contact you regarding products or services you have for sale but also to inform you of any problems with your site.

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