Have you ever wondered How To Build An Affiliate Website? This post looks at the steps to build a profitable WordPress website.
In previous posts, I have shown you how to choose affiliate products. If you have not read that yet then click on the link below.
Where to find affiliate products to sell?
I have also shown you how to build a website. Click the link below if you have not read that.
How to create an Affiliate Marketing Website.
This post looks at how to design a WordPress website especially for your niche market.
What Are The Main Types Of Affiliate Marketing Sites?
You may have selected your niche, but that is not the end of your decisions. There are different types of websites you can use to make money online.
How To Build An Affiliate Website? will now look at the different ways you can advertise your products.
Types of websites to advertise your products.
Below is a short list of ways you can advertise your affiliate Products.
- Coupon Sites. Coupon or Deal sites are easily the most popular type of affiliate site out there today. …
- News & Media Sites. Yep, news and media sites are getting into the affiliate game. …
- Content Sites. …
- Review Sites. …
- Loyalty or Cashback Sites. …
- Bloggers. …
- Shopping Comparison.
Let’s look at each type of site individually.
What Are Coupon Sites And How Do They Work?
Coupons are a great way to expand your affiliate marketing network. It is a great way of introducing customers to brands and getting them to sign up to your list.
How Do Coupon Sites Work?
A website owner (the affiliate marketer) partners with a brand and agrees to market that brand using their own website. The owner of the brand gives the affiliate marketer a code to share on their website. The brand owner then pays the affiliate a percentage of any money made through that link.
I have provided you with a video showing you how to create a coupon site with WordPress
How To Make A News And Media WordPress Site?
If you are unsure how to set up a website then check out the link below.
When you are setting up your WordPress news and media website you have to choose a memorable domain name. You can use free blog name generators or just go to your hosting companies. Remember to choose a domain name that is applicable to the type of news and media you will be writing about. It is what will attract people to visit your site.
The next stage is to choose an appropriate WordPress theme.
There are many great WordPress themes available. When choosing a theme, make sure it has at least 4 stars and that it has been updated in the last month. Also, make sure that it has had at least 1,000 installs. The higher the better.
The next thing to consider is adding plugins to your news and media WordPress site. Plugins help to attract visitors and increase Social Media shares. One great plugin is WP News and Scrolling Widgets.
One of the best ways to get more traffic and sales is when people share your post with friends. WordPress understands this and so they have added Social Share plugins order to let people share your posts. Just click on plugins on the sidebar of your site, click add new, and the enter social media shares in the search box. All the available Social Media Share plugins will be shown. Just choose the ones you want to use. The more interesting your posts, the more shares you will get.
How Do You Write A Review Website?
The basic idea of a review website is to explain the features of the product and give your opinion of whether it is any good.
Let’s have a look at what a great review website should include.
The first part is to make sure that the title of your post makes it obvious that it is a review website. It could be something like “Review of xxx Is It Worth The Money?”. A title like this will make it easy to be picked up by the search engines. People will know exactly what to expect. The more in-depth you go, the higher you will rank in the search engines.
When you are doing a review of a product there are certain things you need to cover.
The first thing is to explain what exactly is the product you are going to review. This should be kept to a few sentences.
Then explain what you are going to review.
- Introduce the product (include something interesting or unique about it);
- List key product features;
- Discuss benefits associated with its use;
- Compare the pros and cons;
- Explain its intended target;
- Include price and purchase information.
How To Build An Affiliate Website? will now look at sites for Bloggers.
Blogging is a very popular way to make money online. You may be asking yourself how blogging is different from Social Media? Let’s have a look at that now.
Blogging creates social media that lives on your website. In-depth blog posts can help potential clients solve their problems, which cannot be achieved through social media posts that tend to be shorter and less descriptive.
You can go into more depth with a blog. Discuss problems and offer solutions to problems which you cannot really do with a social media post. You will notice that a lot of posts on social media have links that lead you to someone’s blog article. In effect, social media is a tool to get you to the more in-depth article on their blog which can then lead you to a sales page.
What Is A CashBack Site?
Cashback sites pay you a cash reward when you click through from them and then buy goods or financial products. Sites that do this are Quidco and TopCashback.
What Is A Shopping Comparison Site?
Shopping Comparison Websites, or Price Comparison Websites as they are also known, trawl through selected retailers’ products to find the cheapest deal. Affiliate marketers often use these because they get a percentage of the sale when someone buys through their affiliate link.
Everyone wants to buy things at the cheapest price. The biggest problem is that everyone is setting up Price Comparison websites. As a result, it takes a lot of work to get your page shown at the top of the search engines. You have to do a lot of keyword research to make sure your site is easily found.
I hope you found How To Build An Affiliate Website? useful.
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