Landing page domain name

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Hi mates....

I am an affiliate who promotes CB products via YouTube... So I don't have any experience to promote anything using a website... But anyway I guess it is time to start a website...

I am going to establish 2 websites for one product I am promoting through my youtube videos...

What kind of domain names I should select for the review website? Should it be the exact match and similar to the vendors page or it should be completely different?

My vendor has several articles in his affiliate page... I would like to establish another website and use those articles in it... So what kind of domain name I should select for this one too?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

    Should it be the exact match and similar to the vendors page or it should be completely different?
    Completely different.

    It should relate to the niche, not to any individual product at all.

    If you're an affiliate, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to design and build your business so that it's dependent on the continued success and availability of one specific product, at all, would it? One of the great advantages of being an affiliate is that we have complete flexibility about which individual products we promote, and - unlike vendors - we can build a genuine, asset-based business without it being dependent on any specific product at all. It would be a "strange" approach to choose to give up that major advantage before we even start?

    Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

    My vendor has several articles in his affiliate page... I would like to establish another website and use those articles in it...
    I don't understand. Why "another website", if you want to use them? Why not the same website as the one for which you're discussing the landing page??

    I suspect this thread may help you (quite a lot?!): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

    (You do mean "landing page", rather than something else, do you? You're not confusing landing-pages with something else? Just asking!! http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9319964 ).


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  • Profile picture of the author allenmartin
    Hi wizard12,

    I would suggest you to split test 2 domain names

    productnamereview.com
    exactkeyword.com (keyword) you want to rank for

    Another thing i would suggest you to choose are Buyer Keywords you might already know as a clickbank affiliate

    You could also create a LSI Keyword Domain - instead of using the Buyer Keyword as your domain name you could use a LSI keyword.

    Again, testing is everything

    Have a nice day
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  • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
    As Alexa already said, don't make yourself dependent on one product by choosing a similar domain. What if that vendor goes out of business? What if you decide you don't want to promote that product anymore or find a better one? Then your domain name will always be similar to something you are no longer promoting. Maybe the hope was that you would equally rank in Google for that product name, when people search for that product on Google. And, there is a chance that others will search for the product name, assuming it's fairly well known. Then again, most people don't search a specific Clickbank ebook name, but only search brand names that you might know such as Sony, IBM, Apple, etc and then usually only for a specific product.

    There's no real benefit to tying yourself down to a domain name that so closely mirrors another person's site. Another thing is how there might be legal consequences for naming your site a similar name if they have already trademarked that name. So if their site is mybestweightlosstips.com and you name yours, mybestweightlosstips.net and that name is trademarked, you could get in trouble. That's just an example but you see where I'm going with this and I'm sure you can apply it to your own situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author wizard12
    Thank you all...

    I guess I am misled now! I couldn't get all points!!!

    Alexa / seoboyz01... Why you don't prefer an exact match domain for the domain like allenmartin suggested (ie productnamereview.com)? The domains are so cheap and can be replaced as soon as you want to change the domain of your website?! Am I wrong?

    One of the products I am promoting via YT is selling almost well... So now I am going to establish 2 websites for that product too... One website is a review website (Alexa, are you saying that I can/should use the affiliate articles which are placed in the affiliate page of my vendor in my review website? I thought I should use them in my second website I am going to establish (not in the review website) to do PPC ads)...

    Not only to review the product but say I want to have a website to do Bing/FB ads for that product too (and bring organic traffic as well (which I know I can't if I use the articles in the aff page of the vendor -because I think Google considers them as duplicate content-))... What kind of website I should establish?
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    • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      Thank you all...

      I guess I am misled now! I couldn't get all points!!!

      Alexa / seoboyz01... Why you don't prefer an exact match domain for the domain like allenmartin suggested (ie productnamereview.com)? The domains are so cheap and can be replaced as soon as you want to change the domain of your website?! Am I wrong?
      You're assuming that people will search for the name on Google. And, maybe they will, maybe they won't. You're assuming you can even rank based on exact match domain. Exact match domains can rank, but not solely on their name similarity. How many others are trying to rank based on an exact match domain for that site?

      Also, again is this really the only product you want to promote? You are locking yourself in. And, while domains are cheap, your list will always be based on that one product. Are you building a list or is this domain just going to be used for a 'review' site. By the way, review sites are not necessarily the best way to promote Clickbank affiliate products anyway. Read around here on the forum and you'll find email marketing is the way to go.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      Alexa / seoboyz01... Why you don't prefer an exact match domain for the domain like allenmartin suggested (ie productnamereview.com)?
      There's no benefit, and as mentioned above, if you're an affiliate, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to design and build your business so that it's dependent on the continued success and availability of one specific product, at all, would it? One of the great advantages of being an affiliate is that we have complete flexibility about which individual products we promote, and - unlike vendors - we can build a genuine, asset-based business without it being dependent on any specific product at all. It would be a "strange" approach to choose to give up that major advantage before we even start?

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      The domains are so cheap
      Domains are the same price whether they're an "exact match" or not.

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      and can be replaced as soon as you want to change the domain of your website?!
      In some ways, that's almost like starting a new business, though. What about all the backlinks you have to the old domain-name, and so on?

      Besides which, as a ClickBank affiliate, surely the last thing you want to do is "look salesy".

      Traffic landing on my ClickBank affiliate sites can't see the name of a ClickBank product there at all, and that's how it should be, for me. They wouldn't opt in, if they thought the site looked "salesy", and I wouldn't build a list in the niche, and without that I wouldn't have any income: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      Am I wrong?
      I think so, honestly, yes.

      I think the reason you're wrong about this is that you're looking at it from the perspective of "websites that sell ClickBank products". This isn't a very helpful perspective, in my opinion. For affiliates' purposes, it isn't really websites that sell ClickBank products: it's relationships built with prospective customers who trust you, and are willing to rely on the strength of your recommendation because you're the person offering the recommendation. It's all about trust and respect and credibility. It has very little to do with what your website looks like, as long as you don't put people off with "complications" and "salesy stuff" and as long as you're aware, on every level, that the primary purpose of your website is to collect your visitors' email addresses.

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      Alexa, are you saying that I can/should use the affiliate articles which are placed in the affiliate page of my vendor in my review website?
      For myself, as an affiliate, I don't use them at all (I suppose might use them in an edited/amended form as emails, though, if they're well-written enough!).

      But if I wanted to use them on a website, I would certainly do so without having a separate domain-name and website just for that purpose.

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      I thought I should use them in my second website
      Forgive me if we're somehow talking at cross-purposes, here, but I don't understand why you want two websites, as an affiliate, to promote one ClickBank product? I'm not trying to sound "dismissive" of the idea, but it's just not a suggestion I've ever heard before ...

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      say I want to have a website to do Bing/FB ads for that product too
      Why do you need a separate website and domain-name, for that?

      I think you'd be better off with one website for the niche (not for an individual product, even if you're selling only one product in the niche, at the moment, because that may change!).

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      and bring organic traffic as well (which I know I can't if I use the articles in the aff page of the vendor -because I think Google considers them as duplicate content
      No. Google considers them as "syndicated content", not "duplicate content". But you're right that they won't help you to get traffic. That doesn't really matter much, though, in the overall scheme of things, because search-engine traffic is generally so far from ideal for ClickBank sales, for all the reasons explained here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398 .

      Originally Posted by wizard12 View Post

      What kind of website I should establish?
      Something that makes your visitors want you to have their email addresses.

      If you're doing this "for the money", and wanting to spend your time, energy, resources and effort usefully and productively, I advise you not to go to the trouble of putting up "affiliate websites" without that being their primary objective. There's no point in doing nearly all the work and ignoring most of the money.


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  • Profile picture of the author jfludin
    Use a more generic domain name that you can recycle if you end up wanted to promote additional products in the same niche on this page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lightlysalted
    Yes I would relate it to the niche rather than the product it looks less like spam. The other problem is that if you develop a successful website for a specific product which does well and they then stop the product or withdraw your right to promote it you are stuck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Not only to review the product but say I want to have a website to do Bing/FB ads for that product too (and bring organic traffic as well (which I know I can't if I use the articles in the aff page of the vendor -because I think Google considers them as duplicate content-))... What kind of website I should establish?
    All you need and should use for PPC is a squeeze page.

    You, like many others, are trying to make it much more complicated then needed.
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