Hosting For Your Affiliate Website

If you’re getting into affiliate marketing, you’ll end up with a website at some point and want to find a home for it. That’s what “hosting” is in the online world – that place called a server where your website lives. There are a number of website hosting companies with even more features and benefits. How do you select one?

Well here’s a review site to visit, one of many that give you the skinny on hosting sites.  Remember any review site is bound to be someone else’s affiliate site – just so you know. But that’s OK, it’s where you get to see one of the more popular kinds of affiliate websites, something you can have after you pick a niche.

Just a few things you might want to look for:

1. Does the hosting company have a cpanel? That’s what you need for Wordpress which is the platform we are using for our affiliate websites. Look for our post on Wordpress here on Extreme Newbies.
2. What’s the monthly fee – and do you get a break if you pay annually?
3. Something new – is the hosting company eco-friendly? If this is important to you (and shouldn’t it be for all of us), look for green hosting. It’s out there.
4. Do they have 24/7 easily-accessible support? There’s nothing worse than having a problem at 1am and no one’s home at your hosting company.

Building Affiliate Marketing Websites The Easy Way

There are some myths in affiliate marketing, which attract a lot of people to it believing they are true. First is they think managing an online business is easy and second, they think that one can make a fortune through online marketing in an instant. Probably not even 10% of those who are into affiliate marketing became rich overnight. There may be some who fortunately achieved overwhelming success in just a short span of time after setting up an affiliate program, but not a majority of them can confidently say they only had luck. Anyone who is successful in this kind of business would say he worked hard to get to where he is right now. Success in affiliate marketing takes time and hard work, but it’s worth it.

If you are planning to start an affiliate program, one of the things you have to consider is having your own website, not just an ordinary website but a professional looking one. How do you build an affiliate marketing website? What are the easy steps to build one? First, you must have already decided on the theme or niche of your website. It would be better if you already have an idea what products or services to promote as this would help you plan the design and lay-out of your web pages. The next thing to do is to choose a domain name and get it hosted. The domain name is a unique name used to label the actual address of your website on the Internet. In deciding what domain name to register, look into the type of products you are endorsing and the theme of your site. Having the right keywords in your domain name would give you better chances of drawing more visitors to your website. Also, choose a top level domain or extension, such as .com because it is more popular. In selecting your web host, consider the security of servers and up time guarantees.

Now, you can start creating your webpages. Don’t be disheartened when you know a little in this field. There are page generation tools and fast launch sites available online; you just have to search for them. Countless online sources could help you build an affiliate marketing website, though you might need time to study and learn the whole process. This is one of the reasons why your site or the products you are going to promote must match your interest. Building your marketing website for the first time would be a lot more fun if you know very well the theme of your site. If you don’t have time to make your own website, you can use templates or purchase readily available websites. The latter, however, is a more expensive option.

Creating an affiliate website on your own would be cheaper and more interesting. In the process of building your website, you may also increase your knowledge in Information Technology and the use of computers, softwares and the Internet. As you educate yourself in these fields, you are increasing your advantage against other affiliate marketers. It helps a lot, though, if you already know the basics in web page development like programming languages and graphics softwares because you can make your site extra corporate-looking, more convenient to use or easier to navigate. Furthermore, if you are knowledgeable and skillful in this area, you can already concentrate more on the content of the page rather than the design.

The key to draw visitors to your website is to have high quality content; thus, the next thing you must pay attention to in building your marketing website is this. There may be several other factors that contribute to the success of your affiliate marketing site, but a good content tops the list. This is precisely the reason why users choose to enter your site. They want to get information and so when they don’t find it, they would definitely go elsewhere. Write interesting articles related to your theme as this would make them frequent your site. If you have already looked for affiliate programs that complement your site, add links to the business sites and other very good informative sites. Links contribute to how well you will be listed in major search engines as well. Also, create pages for the products you are endorsing, but don’t just promote the products by putting hyped-up ads. Keep your readers interested by injecting lots of relevant and useful information. This would make them click the link to the business site and buy the product. Remember that no good content means no frequent visitors, no sales and ultimately, no commission.

Make your site simple yet not without a touch of class in order to make it appear more of a business website rather than a personal website. This would be pleasing to the eyes and more interesting to browse. To help you with the design, you can check some successful online stores to get an idea on how you can make your site look better. Make sure you don’t place too many banner ads since these could distract some site users; and thus, instead of clicking your ad, they might just leave your site and look for other interesting websites. After all, banner ads are not the only means of advertising your products. Now your website is complete, submit its URL to major search engines to increase your traffic.

Grow from where you started. Learn about use of keywords for search engine optimization and apply them in your content. Update your site regularly or add new webpages. Make sure to inform your prospects about the latest updates in your site. You can use newsletters to accomplish this. The Internet offers a huge source of information about just anything, make use of it. Continue to educate yourself on how to improve your website and soon you’ll find yourself successful in affiliate marketing.

Newbies Starting At “GO” With AffiloBlueprint

If you’re an “extreme newbie” like we are then you may be bumbling along trying to figure out how to make money online, which is rumored to be completely possible for anyone.  And we believe it!! But for two 50-something sisters who came to online marketing later in life, it’s a BIG learning curve which is why we recommend that you get all the help you can. That’s where AffiloBlueprint comes in – the place where we took our baby steps into the world of affiliate marketing.

First of all, it’s a video based course. So no thumbing through pages, trying to figure out the terminology while Googling. Nope, just easy to follow “real life” demonstrations with all the info you need right on your computer screen. Never fear though, the course notes are there for viewing or download if you want them.

Then, there’s the fact that the creator, Mark Ling from New Zealand, takes you through the exact process he used to get from zero earnings to $500 a week in a niche he knows nothing about! Which means that even if you know nothing about affiliate marketing, you can replicate his process and get the same (or better) results. Works for us.

What You Get

AffiloBlueprint is a 12-week study program, which takes you through Mark simple process to affiliate super earning. Since it’s on video, it’s also easy to skip backwards and forwards through the lessons while you set up your first site. In fact, it’s a little like having your own personal affiliate marketing coach on-call.  No paging or scrolling, looking for that one crucial piece of information you remember reading somewhere. Just go to the week where Mark presents the lesson and rewind and fast forward to your heart’s content.

What we found is that you can pop these videos on and create your affiliate marketing business at the same time (and at your own pace if 12 weeks seems like a rush).

Why We Love It!

Did we mention that it’s on video?  But seriously, AffiloBlueprint accommodates different learning styles. Besides that, if you’re an extreme newbie to affiliate marketing, this is really, really simple to follow.  Just note: we’re guessing that the pace of AffiloBlueprint might be a little slow if you already know something about Internet marketing and how to set up a website.

If you’re not quite ready yet to start AffiloBlueprint, Mark offers a DIY method of learning affiliate marketing through his main website – Affilorama. Here you can find more than seven hundred articles on Internet marketing, a list of high earning keywords, and free software to spruce up your blog and create a really nifty splash page.

A lot of content on Affilorama is free. And if all that info whets your appetite for more, sign up for Mark’s premium level membership.

Bottom line – Mark Ling really makes it easy to understand the sometimes complex, confusing (to us) terminology and ideas that make up the world of Internet affiliate marketing. If you are an extreme newbie and want a simple, easy to follow money making system (with some great hand-holding), check out AffiloBlueprint. We’re just in the middle of the program but here’s our verdict:

Definitely money well spent for us. To see if AffiloBlueprint might be for you, click on the green button at the top of this article.