Blog Or Squeeze Page, which is the best to start up my affiliate campaign?

I'm not totally sure about your question, but if I understand correctly, I'd answer with a "yes" to the actual question you asked... "Should I start with squeeze page and a blog?"

Yep, I'd go with both. If you start with only a squeeze page, you still need some way to drive traffic to that page. Of course, you do need a newsletter message sequence in an autoresponder behind that squeeze page.

If you start with a blog, you need a way to monetize the blog, and getting people into a newsletter sequence is a way that will probably generate the largest return down the road, even though it starts out slower than, say, adsense ads on your blog pages.

One way you can kick off with only one of your choices, is to start with the blog, and monetize it with adsense or similar paid advertisements. You then generate income directly from the clicks of those ads on your site, and this can help you to validate your keywords. If you were to check, I bet you'd find that the vast majority of them go to squeeze pages, and there's a reason for that. Once you have some adsense revenue to prove your niche, adding the squeeze page is pretty much a no-brainer if you want to set up for long term income.

If you have a link going to a sales page, you have a one-time shot to get that prospect to buy your product. This can be an uphill battle, and your conversion rates will probably be pretty low. On the other hand, if the link goes to a squeeze page you can market to them repeatedly from your autoresponder, with the same sales page or a variety of different offers, and vastly increase your income potential.

You need the squeeze page (and autoresponder) for long term income, but you could probably do without the blog, so long as you have enough sources of traffic feeding that squeeze page. Thus, if you really have to limit yourself to only one, many people would say the squeeze page is probably the better choice.

That said, however, If I personally were only working with one, I'd start with the blog, populate it with appropriate adsense ads, and prove my keywords were viable, then add the squeeze page and autoresponder once I started to see some adsense revenue. Thus, we're sort of back to the first answer, to do both.

If you're trying to rank on the search engines using SEO (it sounds like you are), then using a blog would definitely be better since there'd be much more keyword rich content on there. You could just insert an opt-in box on the front page of your blog, or use a pop-up one if you prefer that.

Paul

You're going to need both...There should be an affiliate offer connected to your squeeze page while collecting emails...Send ALL traffic to your squeeze page and the emails you've collected will be your traffic for your blog.

That's how I'm doing it right now and it's working pretty well...

Keep it simple and then scale it up - a good way to get started is to go with the blog format, but keep it just to one page; a squeeze page, a review page, a page with a free gift and opt-in on etc...

Test the market with this, if it converts then you can start expanding the blog, targeting other keywords via seo and really go for the larger more authority site then.. but it's tough to do all this first untested and get it built and it doesn't work at all... test it small scale first.

Thanks all for your contributions, really appreciate it.

I think I will go for a squeeze page first then later a blog.

The reason I asked this question is because I have read courses about
starting up with squeeze pages and blogs, but i find myself confused on
which one to start with.