Building your first affiliate website
January 24th, 2010 by websiteIt’s easy to create an affiliate or company website.
The first thing you’ll need to do is pick a domain name – which is your dot.com address. Any domain registrar on the net will sell you one of these, often for as little as $10. Then you need hosting – a place to physically host your site on the net.
Finally, you need to create your site.
Wix is a great place to create profitable websites – just pick one of the templates available and get to work. Also, most hosting companies include basic webpage templates with their packages, which cuts out the cost of buying a professional web designer.
But just because you have a website, doesn’t make it a guaranteed success. That’s true whether you have an affiliate site or a website for your own company. And that brings us to the final point. If you want to generate consistent sales, you really need to look at what’s working out there.
The templates you get from your host may look nice – but that doesn’t mean they will generate sales for you.
So how do we separate the moneymakers from the duds? It’s easy.
Just study existing websites on the market – do a few searches for keywords that relate to your niche, and check out any advertisers. Pay close attention to anyone advertising consistently – these are the most profitable websites on the net. And you should refer to what they are doing – the headers they use, the colour scheme, their HTMl code, images they upload – basically everything that they have done to create their webpages.
And one final point: remember that affiliate marketing is very much an evolving game. The few websites that generate profit today may well fail to be profitable tomorrow.