hello people and fellow affiliate marketers.. im looking to start out in affiliate marketing but honestly am stuck on what sort of site to go for. Okay im going to have a few blogs here and there for my articles which im having written as i speak for my first 3 products (they are all by the same person and the ratio of searches a month (810) and number of sites is very low (190 sites for this).Also checked out the cb graphs for the products and they have just skyrocketed and then gone right the way down but are now on a rapid increase so hopefully ive chosen well but we will find out soon enough. Anyhow as i said before im stuck on what sort of site to go for... web 2.0 is ment to rank higher on google so im looking at those sort of templates (heard this from a topic here) do i go for one big site to promote all my products and just buy one domain (have seen this done here). If i do just go with one big site for all my products then do i need a mini site/landing page for each product with a relevant domain? Thank you for all your help people Lewi
the best education is to start out with one site. sign up to accounts at your web 2.0 communities, great write some articles. but everything starts with the first site. personally i suggest purchasing your first few sites, but that me. cheers
I suggest a different site for each niche. That way, if you decide at some point to sell the site, it will an easy thing to do
maybe i am confused what is web 2.0 i thought it was a new kind of scripting etc for web sites and templates :S
Hubpages or Squidoo. Basically, you sign up for the site and you can make your own page about whatever you want. I would do this at first to test the waters.
urrrrrrm so you think i should just make a blogger type thingy and then if its sucesfull then go forward and make a proper site for it is there anyone here that i can talk to in confidence and ask them if my chosen niche is worth going into or not??
if you are serious about this you should really buy a domain. Your own domain means you can build it up to have authority and build up backlinks to it, and at the end you have an asset. Personally I like to do wordpress blogs. It depends how you plan to promote it. Blogs are good because you can keep adding content and build up readers. Landing page is good because you can write it once, and then do some PPC and article marketing and don't have to put as much effort into the actual site (only the promotion)
okay but still im looking for some help to know if a product is worth going into as im still not sure what gravity do you think i should look for if its my first product?
I would get your own domain lewi, Are your products related, ie variations of slimming pills-, proactol, alli, hoodia etc If so I'd keep them on one site, but then again you could have a specific site for each one. I think in the long term your site will have more weight though if you just keep them all on one. There are specific site templates structured for web2.0 net - but not sure about these just yet- would be worth finding out more. The only way you can find out if it's worth going into is to give it a try, see how your traffic initially comes in and take it from there. If after 200 hops, no sale, then diversify. The main thing is to get as much targeted traffic as possible that way you will know whether its worth investing more time in. I'm still new to this pal, but traffic is i think the main part. If no-one comes in your shop, who's to know. There's lot's of experienced and successful people who use this forum, so just go on and ask!
cheers man for the help i think ive got one final question is it okay to link to the products purchase checkout page (to pay) rather than linking to their main sales page (landing page) as i heard on another forum that someone got annoyed about that and threatened to remove them from their product sales list (promoting a clickbank product)... if thats not possible then thats just plain dumb loool
That's normally more than fine. Why would the publisher be annoyed that you were linking straight to their sales (order/purchase now) page? Most of clickbank products have the purchase now at the bottom of the page anyway. Clickbank mainly caters for downloadable products where as moreniche(dot)com for example will have physical products, deliverable by post so these products tend to have alot more going on on their site, i.e weight loss pills would have a home page, testimonial page, bonuses page, faq + order now page etc, so you can link to various pages throughout your lander. Or if its languages you can link direct to get your free 7 day course page or order now etc - so they all differ, but not sure why they would be peeved by it. If your using ezine, you can't link straight to the product page as you probably know as you have to set up a lander or a site. You can redirect your site straight to the product page once they've approved it but if they catch ya they might ban you - please correct me if i'm wrong anyone. Keep asking and keep reading and learning from this forum + others, all the info's here.. cheers.
Hire a seo experts or buy some unique visitors. Usually 100 non-incentive visitors can give you at least 2-3 sales.
As i gather from another forum yes you can but you should clear it with the vendor first. Also using that code will not drop the cookie so you won't get credit if the prospect returns later Rick
From my point of view, I'd go with one product per site to see how each goes. You may or may not want to "brand" yourself with what could end up having numerous returns. I think clickbank has a feature called clickbank analytics that might help with some stats. From what I understand the higher the gravity the more sales - and the more affliates you're competing with.