My first website.. A newbie

What do you mean? OnSite or OffSite?

I mean, because I'm not much into traffic generation now. I want to build my site into perfection.
My doubt is, lets say my product is ABC.
1. What are the possible articles I can write on it?
2. What are the navigation menus I may have in my site? (Home, About Us?..... )

Have an opt in box and build that list. Have an Autoresponder series set up.

What's your niche?

Quality content is a must. You should have both product reviews and articles on stuff related to your niche. You will get traffic from both. It's also important that you start building a list as soon as possible. The cool thing about having an opt-in form on your blog is that a number of the people who visit your site via the search engines will sign up to your list without you having to do much of anything. Finally, don't put adsense blocks on pages where you are promoting products for affiliate marketing. Adsense drives traffic away from your site.

Good luck,
Joey

There's one more help I might need.
If I buy domain from, say, godaddy.com, how can "Wordpress" help me? With templates?
And how can I import those pages to my site, once I design it?

Hi

I'm not sure if this is what you mean but if you buy your domain you need to transfer it to hosting. I use the baby plan on hostgator as it's easy and you can link straight into Wordpress. Wordpress is I think the easiest to use as it gives you thousands of free themes or some paid ones if you need something specific. If you stick into Youtube how to set up a wordpress theme on hostgator there are free videos to show you what to do. There are other hosting companies and again use the search facility on Google to find one which suits your finances and needs.
Hope this helps
Nicky

the promotion of site is a second step, first of all you have to create an attractive and audience oriented website.
Make sure to select a good developer, select a unique theme.First build site, then come to bank-links, creating blogs for traffic, adding links to posters/images and keyword rich articles etc.

Best wishes

Absolutely build a list,

I just haven't done it on this website yet, but don't let that sway you off path.

Building a list is always the way to go.

Hi,
I'm kinda stuck with list-building. Any direct links to learn and create one?

Here is a video that goes over the process of setting up a campaign with GetResponse:

go to Email Marketing Software & Autoresponder from GetResponse for a free 30 day trial, learn everything you need to know with no investment. =)

Chris

Thanks again @Christopher.

And pardon me for my continuous questions.

Well I hope this is the last question. When I choose a product, should I look into 'local monthly searches' or 'Competition' ?

And I learnt the keyword is very vast. For example, lets say 'abc' product(Weight Loss product) has low competition and about '14,800' local monthly searches.

But, there are many keywords for which the competition is high and 'local monthly searches'
is huge!! And they are irrelevant to the product. Something like- 'Loosing weight', 'best weight loss' and so on. But my product is 'abc'. How do I choose keywords?

@girizh...what type of affiliate site do you have??? cashback, comparison, voucher etc???

Okay this is another tough one... but let me help you.

You can use this tools:
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You can view up to 10 keywords for free, I use a premium subscription and this tool is invaluable to me, but until you start making money don't worry about it, there are 10 billion things you can buy that can 'help' but won't 'make you money', for now just focus on the top ten results.

Type in a keyword and check keyword summary / related results, you can get a more realistic view of how much each click is worth to advertisers, how many searches this keyword gets, and the amount of search results.

You can use SEO Power Suite:
SEO PowerSuite - The OFFICIAL FREE Version From Link-Assistant.Com

You can use these four tools for free, you can check back-links of websites, you can check your website rankings pretty quickly and you can view an optimization report of your website that is pretty accurate.

I also use market samurai, you can get an extended free trial here:
Market Samurai

I use all of these tools in sync when choosing keywords, I determine how powerful my competition is on the top of the SERP's for any given keyword, I check how profitable that keyword might actually be, and I formulate a plan to tackle those keywords based on the data I derived from the various software tools.

You have to be very careful when building back-links, I find that building 5-9 links a day - taken directly from competitors (find these with SEO Spyglass, part of SEO Power Suite), this definitely helps.

This bit of info here can keep you busy awhile, if it is something you can grasp and even get excited about, then you might have a chance in Internet Marketing my friend!

Just prepare for hardships =)

First, congratulations on GETTING STARTED. That is the hardest part, oftentimes, in affiliate marketing. Just getting started. Sometimes too much analysis leads to paralysis.

My advice is to look at your stats and see where your traffic is coming from. You will be getting SOME traffic. Even if it's very little. Figure out how people found you and try to pump up the volume that source sends.

There's a gold mine in your stats. People are often too busy, confused, and, I hate to say this, sometimes too lazy to figure out how to maximize the traffic they are already getting.

Wow. That's a wonderful tool!!

But my question is how can we select KW out of product name.. I mean, for example, if I choose my KW as 'Weight loss pill' for ABC product, how does it benefit me? How do I connect KW and the product ? It makes sense to humans that ABC is a product for losing our weight. But how does Google understand that? How effective is to choose such KW. Because before I thought when I choose a product, all the KW must have my product name in it.. True? How do I go about it?

Those are the confusions.. Uff!


Many Thanks though

I also came across an affiliate site that has only ONE page (plus 3 other menus like Privacy policy, Disclaimer)and it is in NO.1 Position!! How is it possible?He/She hardly has written 3 articles and it is a 'blog' and not a proper website.!I'm confused with this..

Thanks a lot again guys esp., Christopher, you have made my life little easier and busier Thank u so much..

Hi, the affiliate site might be harnessing traffic from social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc !nd that one page is a Squeeze page which might be that the copywriting is so good that most are compelled to subscribe to her list to find out more

And how is the KW selected? Is it really necessary to have product_name in the KW?

And I heard instead of SEO, there's something called PLR articles? Please enlighten me.

Hey man,

It sounds like you don't have the fundamentals down. Go get affiloblueprint 3 and follow that. It's very relevant to your business model.

Good luck!

You can create a free website at webs.com and 110mb.com and other places if you can not buy hosting at hostgator or hawkhost.

Write 10 to 20 unique articles on your blog. Monetize with Amazon, Adsense or CPA like CJ, Peerfly, etc.

Get free traffic from free classified ad sites like OLX.com and Backpage

Good luck !

I'm confused because I'm ready to buy domain and start up writing articles on niche (yes, I have keywords). Lets say opt-in forms are also ready for my site.

Blogs are set up for back-links.

Is this good enough to start now with affiliate business?

Yes, I do mybridaldress site, it's my first. But I don't know how to improve its popularity, let everyone know it. Please help me!