If you are interested in being able to join an affiliate program, it is not always necessary to have your own website, however, it is advisable. If you have the ability and the time to do so, it’s something that will make it a lot easier for you to get affiliates interested in wanting you to help them promote their products. Below are some easy tips on how you can set up a good site that will attract affiliates.
I have covered How to Create a Good Affiliate Marketing Site and How to Drive Traffic to Affiliate Marketing Site in this article.
How to Create a Good Affiliate Marketing Site –
1. Platform for Your Website –
The first thing you need to do is to decide on what kind of a platform in which you want to base your site on. Two of the more common ones used are Blogger.com and WordPress.org. WordPress does provide you with more opportunities and more tools for you to be able to become an affiliate marketer with all kinds of plug ins and different widgets to add to your site.
2. Choose a Niche-
After you have chosen a platform to use, you then need to think about what you want to write about on your site. You should choose a topic or a niche as they are called that you actually have some sort of knowledge about and it needs to be something that you enjoy writing about as well.
3. Content Planning –
Next you can write down the top 5 topics within the subject that you chose and then begin to draft some ideas for the kind of content you want to include. For example if you want to focus on gardening then you might want to break your site down into five different areas like tools, soil, seeds, water, fertilizer/plant foods.
4. Buying a Domain Similar to Product –
After you have finished with this you are going to want to go and purchase for yourself a unique domain name and it should be the same or similar to the product range in which you plan on promoting and it should have at least two keywords that is relevant to the business. This will help your SEO rating and let search engines find your content a lot faster.
5. Writing Quality Content –
After this is all done you are set and ready to start writing some quality content for your site. You should probably write at least three to four times a week so that there is plenty of new material for the search engines to work with and it will also give your prospective readers fresh content to come to read. By having fresh content on the site the readers are going to be more willing to come back more often to check out your site.
Once your site is set up you can then get in contact with affiliate programs and sign up with the ones that have similar products to the content that you are writing about on your site. You can also promote your site by joining different social networks and include the site link in your signature or in your profile as well as including it in your email signature.
Some Good Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website!
Today, it’s not all that hard to create yourself a website. In fact, that’s the easy part. It’s getting people to come and visit your site that is the hardest part of all.
To get traffic to your site takes a lot of work, time, effort and sometimes even money to be able to do it. Be careful when trying to get traffic and don’t fall for a lot of those get traffic quick promises out there as a lot of them, just like the get rich schemes, are scams. Some of the better and more reliable methods are listed below.
1. Linking to Other Websites –
One way of boosting your ranking in the search engines is to get other websites out there to link to yours and you then can link to them. This is called link building and there are tons of ways to do this. Of course the good old fashioned way is to email the sites you’d like to have links on and ask them to post your link in exchange for posting theirs on your website.
2. Commenting on Sites and Forums –
You can also post a link inside of your comments that you might make on different forums and blogs but at the same time you need to make an attempt to communicate. Remember, people can spot a spammer from a mile away so don’t just use the blogs or forums to promote yourself, get involved with the conversations. You can also guest write for other sites if you want and they generally will allow you to include a link to your site within your article.
3. Organic Traffic –
Make sure that you are familiar with SEO or search engine optimization. This is a term for anything that will improve your rankings on search engines but it usually means that you use some practices that will make site more friendly for search engines.
4. Images Alt Attributes and Keywords Usage –
The most common is how you code. Having “alt” attributes within your coding is a good one or making sure that your headings have “h1” or “h2” tags on them. You will also want to make sure that the meta info that you provide for your page has good descriptions and good keywords or search words. You also need to make sure that the title tag has keywords in it as well so that the URL will contain the keywords.
5. Social Bookmarking and Social Media Sites –
You can also use social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit like sites to help drive more traffic to your site. Facebook and Twitter can be used as well, but they are not the be all or end all way of promoting traffic as some originally thought they would be. These two are better for getting your so called “brand” out to the public than they are for directing traffic to your website.
6. Advertising –
Do some advertising by joining a good affiliate program. Probably one of the better one of these that can send traffic your way is by getting into the Google Adwords program. You will only pay for the advertising when someone clicks through to your website, which means though that the traffic you get is guaranteed. However, this can be expensive and some advertising for you site can do more harm than good to your site.
In order to maintain any traffic you start getting to your site and for them to spread the word, the content that you place on your site has to be of high quality and your content should be consistent and you need to make sure that you constantly update your site in order to keep people coming back for more.
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