Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tips For Your Affiliate Website

By Anson Hall

When you are working as an affiliate marketer, it is suggested you create an affiliate site of your own. To this end you will be able to pre-sell the affiliate products or services more effectively. This is how you make money with affiliate marketing.

As you may know, affiliate marketers do not have to spend a lot of investment. They will need to build their assets while they are working. As a matter of fact, your affiliate website, as well as your subscriber list, are the assets you will build up while you are working.

You may think that you can still making money by promoting the affiliate links on related forums. However, the fact here is that a lot of forums will not let you post your affiliate links. They will just ban your account if you try to promote affiliate links on the forums.

From the above you will certainly know the importance of having your own affiliate website. However, the next question will be how you should create the site. You can either have your own domain or use services such as blogger.com in order to create the site.

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.

However, you should understand that you do not only consider the cost when you are building your affiliate website. You have consider a lot of other issues when you are building the site. Failure to consider these issues will make you unable to make money with affiliate marketing.

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.

Another problem of using free services is that most probably you will not be able to hide the affiliate link yourself. You can hide the affiliate links yourself easily with some simple PHP codes. This will certainly help you to protect yourself from affiliate hijacking.

In fact, you may still use the free services. I will suggest that, if you have already had your own domain, you can try to start another site using the free services. For example, you may have your own website and at the same time you will use a free blog to support your main website!

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