Wednesday, January 7, 2009

How To Design An Affiliate Website

By Anson Hall

Have you ever thought of making money online. As a matter of fact, there are lots of opportunities to make money online. One of the ways is to start your own business in the field of affiliate marketing.

There are some marketers who will try to promote the affiliate products by posting the affiliate links on places such as online forum. However, it will be a lot better if you can create your own affiliate website.

The design of your website is very important. You will need to create a website which converts. Otherwise you will not be able to make money with affiliate marketing. What you have to do is to consider some practical issues when you are creating your affiliate 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 Consider hiring a ghost writer if you do not have time to write the article. Of course you may also need to hire a writer if you are not the kind of person who can write very well. Yet, you must give enough instructions to the writers when you are hiring one.

#6 One last point is that, you will need to make sure that you do not join too many programs. In most cases, you will need to create one website for each program. And you may not have the time to promote so many programs. - 16747

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