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A Comprehensive Guide to Affiliate Marketing Success

Though you can succeed as an affiliate even without the benefit of having your own website, the fact is, you will do so much better if you do have your own web pages established in the world wide web.  There are many reasons for this:

  • Having your own website will give you the liberty to try out a variety of marketing tactics which would otherwise be limited by other venues like free blog accounts, free web hosting services and the likes.
  • Having your own website will give you total control over the components necessary for your affiliate marketing success.
  • Most importantly, having your own website will give you ONE central destination where you can lead your prospects.  You won’t have to promote each and every affiliate link individually, you can host all of them under one banner and lead people there instead.


Please take note of the third reason why having your own website will greatly benefit your affiliate marketing campaign.  This will be central in our discussions for this article.

Your Own Cyber Mall

One way by which you can choose to display the affiliate merchant’s products in your website is by patterning your pages to follow the cyber mall model.  Familiar with websites like www.amazon.com , www.buy.com and even www.froogle.com ?  See how the products are neatly organized, and how easy it is to purchase them?

You can make your own cyber mall, featuring the affiliate products you are promoting.  Instead of building your own payment processing and product delivery system, however, you can just include your affiliate links and the affiliate merchant will take care of the rest.

Following the cyber mall model is a great way to kick things off with a bang.

A Review Center

A lot of affiliates I know claim that a review center-cum-website delivers the best results.  Pre-selling is all about conditioning your prospects’ minds to say “yes” to the offer, after all.  And what better way to condition them for their consent than through favorable reviews of the products you are promoting.

Reviews can come in the form of objective critiques of the said products.  Or perhaps, re commendatory messages suggesting their usage.  You can even deliver testimonials from satisfied customers as well, which can be a very powerful tool in persuading people to support what you are promoting.  They’d listen more to their fellow consumers, after all, compared to the merchant’s words.

The best format for a review center is through a blog.  Blogs, by their very nature, are simplified content management systems.  They may publication of entries quite easy, and search engine friendly as well.

Jazzing Up Your Affiliate Links

One thing you should learn is that most affiliate links, as they are, are prone to hacking.  People can actually steal your commissions by merely looking at your displayed affiliate links.  To prevent this from happening, many affiliates as well as affiliate merchants have resorted to the usage of URL redirectors such as www.tinyurl.com to mask the affiliate links.  You may want to try this out, especially when your affiliate links do include a unique designation.

Keep your website simple and straight to the point.  You wouldn’t want to embellish your web pages with ornate decorations that will only steal the focus away from the purpose of your web presence: to pre-sell the affiliate merchant’s products.  Also, you will want your website to be as accessible to as many number of online users as possible – including those with slower internet connections.
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