Friday, December 26, 2008

Tips For Your Affiliate Website

By Anson Hall

In most cases, you will need to create your own affiliate website in order to promote the products effectively. In fact, it will be very difficult for you to make money if you do not try to create your own website.

First of all, you may want to know why you need to have your own affiliate site. It is mainly because you do not have many assets as an affiliate marketer. In fact, your email list and affiliate sites will certainly be your assets that can help you to make money in the long run.

You may be thinking of promoting the affiliate products on forums. Of course you will be promoting on forums related to your products. However, you may not be allowed to post your affiliate links. If this is the case, you will not be make money using this method.

Now you should know that why you need to create your own website. There are a lot of free services on the internet so that you do not need to spend even a buck in order to start your own site. Blogger.com is certainly one of the example. Yet, another option is to have your own domain.

So, you may want to know which option you should go for. We will need to first of all understand the difference between these two options. The advantage of using free services is of course you do not need to spend money. On the contrary, you will need to spend some money if you go for the option of creating your own domain and website.

Due to this difference, there are marketers who will prefer not to have their own domains. However, the point here is that you should never consider this issue by considering the price only. You have to think about some other aspects before you make the decision.

A good landing page is very important when you are creating your own website. To this end it will be more perfect if you can control the layout and design of each page. However, taking squidoo.com as an example, you will not be able to change the basic layout of the lens.

You cannot hide your affiliate links yourself if you use free services like blogger.com. This is also true for squidoo.com. In fact, you can hide the links without any problem if you have your own hosting and domain. The problem of affiliate hijacking has to be addressed at this point.

In order to increase the conversions, you can use free services with your main affiliate site. Your main site will be promoting the products. At the same time you will use a free blog to keep in touch with your potential buyers so that you can boost the conversion rate to a greater extent.

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