Tuesday, January 13, 2009

How To Design An Affiliate Website

By Anson Hall

One of the best ways to make money online is to work as an affiliate marketer. There are various tactics you will use in order to make money. You will be able to earn a lot if you can use all these tactics effectively.

In order to make money in the field of affiliate marketing, you will need to promote the affiliate products using the affiliate links. You can post these links on forums or blogs. Yet I will suggest you to promote the links using your own website.

So, the question here is how you should create and design the affiliate site. As a matter of fact, you do not just create a site without any plan. You will need to consider the following issues when you are designing the site.

#1 First of all, you will need to search for the products you will promote. You can make the decision based on your hobby or interest. However, you should make sure that you will be promoting four to five products in your site. To this end you may want to search for a few affiliate programs which promote similar products.

#2 The next step is to think about the main theme of your website. You should never create a site without a theme. A general site may not covert well. Of course the theme of your website should be totally related to the products you have chosen.

#3 Regarding the contents of your website, in most cases you will be writing articles that are under the niche of the site. Remember, quality of the articles will be extremely important. Make sure that you only post quality articles on your site.

#4 One important point you have always to remember when you designing your affiliate site is that you will not use fonts that are difficult to read. The navigation bar of the site should be very clear and you need to make sure that visitors will not find difficulties when they try to navigate through your site.

#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.

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