I am new to web design, as well as this whole affiliate, but I have a domain that I was not using, and decided to try to earn some money, but I honestly have no idea what I am doing. I recently created www.bluntsbongsandbeyond.com I wanted a site that you could go to, and fine who has the best deals in regards to online smoke shops and tobacco pipes. I created a basic layout, and I think it looks pretty good, but now I am not sure what to do next? I read some SEO articles, and think I got the whole meta tags down correctly, but can someone check out my source and see? What should I do now? Obviously, my goal is to make some money, but I am not sure what is needed to get more visitors? I was considering creating some good banners and advertising the site on forums and myspace and other social networkign sites, maybe even Digg or StumbleUpon? If you guys were in my position, what would you do? Sorry if this has been discussed before, I searched and found some good info, but not exactly the info I needed, I figured I should make a thread and get some good advice from the pros! Thanks!
I'm having a hard time navigating to your inner pages. I think you should add more content to the homepage, a writeup on the purpose of the site. Add as many pages of unique content you can in the form of articles and product reviews. The more pages you have the more traffic you can get organically. You should set up your forum signature to link to your site and get busy writing good content. It's all about producing good quality content to pull in visitors.
I plan on writing daily reviews of products, do you think that would attract visitors? I am working on adding more text and everything, and making the main index contain 90% of the content, I can update it with new text and everything.
navigation and design is important imho! and content as well, so those reviews definitely will help. all that im seeing are banners, which are a turn-off. just my 2 cents