Monday, December 29, 2008

How To Design An Affiliate Website

By Anson Hall

Have you ever thought of making money online. As a matter of fact, there are lots of opportunities to make money online. One of the ways is to start your own business in the field of affiliate marketing.

There are some marketers who will try to promote the affiliate products by posting the affiliate links on places such as online forum. However, it will be a lot better if you can create your own affiliate website.

You will need to think about the design of your affiliate site. A website without detailed planning in design will not help you to make money. There are a lot of practical aspects you will need to consider in order to create a website that makes you money.

#1 Before you start creating your website, you will need to think about the products you are going to promote. You will need to search for affiliate programs which have the products you want to promote. Be sure to join two to three programs which promote similar products. You will at least promote three products in your site.

#2 Then, you will need to make sure that the topic of your website is relevant to the products you have found from the affiliate programs. You need to identify the niche so that you can promote the products effectively.

#3 The contents of you website should be related to your niche. If you are creating a site on wedding, you will need to make sure that the articles you post on your site are relevant to this topic.

#4 You may think that you need to have a lot of fancy graphics or images in order to attract the visitors. However, the fact is that a simple site can also work very well. However, you will need to make sure that the articles are easy to read and the site is easy to navigate.

#5 It is very true that you may not have the time to create the contents yourself. It is totally alright for you to hire a freelance writer to help. You can easily find such writers in some freelance site and webmaster forums.

#6 The last issue you need to know is that you should never join too many affiliate programs. Joining three to four programs will be good. However, you may not have to the time to promote fifty programs and as a result you will never join so many programs at a time. - 15465

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