Affiliate marketing is probably one of the most lucrative businesses made available on the Internet and building a website that works is crucial for success. Of course, you need certain amount of knowledge to make large commission pay checks but believe me, if you apply them all, the success is yours.
This article is going to reveal how to build a website for affiliate marketing that works forever, even the day you are not ready to receive all the checks.
Market Research
Most affiliate marketers get drawn very easily to the keyword research and foregoing the requirement for market research. Although keyword research does matter in online affiliate marketing, nothing beats the old days of market research. You still need to understand what your potential clients want. From there, you can derive what are the services or products that will suit their needs.
Besides that, you also have to do some research on the products or services you are about to promote. I myself avoid promoting junk products that will give no value to my customers. The reason is simple, I want to keep my loyal customer forever and I am not going to sell something just for the sake of money. In fact, I will only promote something that I bought myself and love using them all the time. This will build your credibility in the long run.
At least, that will be my first answer if anyone asks me on how to build a website for affiliate marketing. Remember, promote quality products only.
Great Content
Many affiliate marketers struggled to write great contents. For shortcuts, they use some re-writing softwares just to spin existing available articles which most of the time are just some rubbish in the cyber world. The fact that Google hate these kinds of content make the chances of your website to be thrown into the Google sandbox is high. If that happen, you will not be making any money from the Search Engine. Can you imagine how bad is that?
How to write great content?
Easy. Don’t write on something that you don’t know. In other words, write on something that you are passionate about. This can be either your hobby, something related to your day jobs or just because you had faced it yourself before. Bottom line, great contents are normally come from great experience. You’ll be amazed on how powerful your content will be if you do exactly that.
Soft Sells Strategy
Soft sell is about passively promoting a product. Since most online consumers hate blatant advertisement the most, you should avoid the obvious sales pitch style at all cost. That is fact that all internet marketers must live with but difficult to admit. The reason is simply because it will turn people off and make them want to leave your website the soonest.
Soft sell can be done as simple as mentioning the product that did great things to you in your well-written content. And that’s it. Simply insert a quick blurb about the product in the appropriate part of your articles and provide a link to the merchant’s sales page.
