WordPress or static website? Which is better for affiliate marketing?

9 years ago

WordPress is better suited if you need database functionality. If you are just creating a sales page with an affiliate link, go with what you have. You did say it is 90% done already...

You can edit HTML and CSS in WordPress.....

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JohnnyFanta

9 years ago

Purely on scaleblity, Wordpress is the number one option for you, plus there is a host of marketing tools that you can use.

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essmeier 9 years ago

Are you asking about using Wordpress on a domain that you own, or are you asking about creating a site at Wordpress.com?

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9 years ago

You can use html as your index page and install WP in a folder.

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MyProfitBlueprint

9 years ago

Wordpress is best for large sites where you plan to post a lot of content, particularly if you are doing SEO because it is a lot less of a hassle to build the sites, and there are a ton of tools that you can use to help increase conversions. The downside to Wordpress is that it can be less secure as WordPress sites are huge hacking targets and the pages load slower since the site has to generate the html pages on the fly (cache plugins can speed this up). Actually you can edit html and css in wordpress, using the template editor, you just have to remember to reupdate the custom changes if you update the theme. Also some themes will give you areas for custom css which I have also made use of before. So it really depends on what theme you are working with. Generally speaking if it is just a landing page or optin, a really simple site, it might be best to go with html. The page will load fast. If you need additional plugin functionality and are building a blog/authority site, you will probably get a better experience with Wordpress. As mentioned above, you can also use both on the same domain - for example landing pages in html to load really fast and main content blog could be in wordpress. I have done that before, although these days I tend to be lazy and do most of my landing pages with a wordpress content builder.

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vishwa

9 years ago

I also prefer WordPress and it is suited best for affiliate marketing. WordPress provide you to expand your blog to provide maximum output.

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JesseGilbert1

Banned 9 years ago

Another vote for Wordpress

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razorz18

9 years ago

WordPress of course. You can add many great plugin for your affiliate and email marketing campaign where's you need to do more code when you using HTML.

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FarNext

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter

Hi,

I've design my own website using HTML/CSS/JavaScript... Its almost 90% done ! My question was to go for WordPress or use my own website?

I was planning to go for affiliate marketing... to promote products.. which might be better?

I've heard that we can't edit HTML nor CSS in WordPress. Then how can we edit things when we need? The design and all?

And, is it true that WordPress doesnt allow affiliate links? And Adsense?

What are the steps to be taken?

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- Wordpress is the best platform for affiliate marketing due to many reasons you'll understand with time.

- " I've heard that we can't edit HTML nor CSS in WordPress. Then how can we edit things when we need? The design and all?"

Don't know who misguided you. You'll be always able to edit your webdesign (in more than 1 ways) in Wordpress.

- " And, is it true that WordPress doesnt allow affiliate links? And Adsense?"

Yet another myth (I would say, misleading information). Wordpress allows affiliate
links as well as Adsense etc.etc. other links.

- What are the steps to be taken?

Totally depends upon you. It can be free of cost (if you host you host your website with Wordpress as a subdomain; not advisable though!) or paid (buy a webhosting account. Much recommended).

Of course, you'll need to purchase webhosting, domain name, Wordpress installation files (often comes with the web hosting provider or download one from wordpress.org) and a Wordpress theme/template of your choice.

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Miguelito203

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter

Hi,

I've design my own website using HTML/CSS/JavaScript... Its almost 90% done ! My question was to go for WordPress or use my own website?

I was planning to go for affiliate marketing... to promote products.. which might be better?

I've heard that we can't edit HTML nor CSS in WordPress. Then how can we edit things when we need? The design and all?

And, is it true that WordPress doesnt allow affiliate links? And Adsense?

What are the steps to be taken?

For affiliate marketing, use Wordpress. It's the standard for all the reasons people have said. Also, when people say that Wordpress doesn't allow affiliate links, what they mean is that the free version of Wordpress, where you sign up for free and the username you choose becomes part of Wordpress's sub-domain like "joey35.wordpress.com," doesn't allow affiliate links.

However, when a lot of people are talking about the free version of Wordpress for our purposes, we are talking about when you purchase a domain name, hosting and the like and then install Wordpress onto a particular domain from inside your cpanel (also free), so I can see why it's confusing. Purchasing your own domain and hosting allows you to have control over your content as well as build a list.

Joey

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wiredup

9 years ago

Sorry but I'm going to have to throw my vote against you guys when it comes to scalability and stability.
WordPress as it comes out of the box isn't as scalable as you might think. If you're looking to create a site which doesn't bend under pressure it's always best to use your own implementation of an MVC framework with caching along with NGINX and load balancing on a VPS such as DigitalOcean.

When it comes to huge websites that utilize WordPress Core such as NYTimes, their code has been restructured so many time for performance it barely resembles original WordPress code.

If you're not worried about scalability into the future and don't expect to surpass it's benchmark limitations, WordPress could be perfect for you. It's easy to set up and easy to moderate. It's literally made for people who don't have or want to obtain the extensive knowledge it would take to make the same system from scratch and should be used as such.

EDIT: Here's some mediocre benchmark stats:
http://www.yottaa.com/blog/applicati...Who-Is-Slowest

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jbbrotherskeep

9 years ago

Would have to agree with wiredup... if you plan on REALLY sending traffic wordpress is not the best option as you have queries and databases to worry about as for HTML/PHP it's static so pages load faster as well as your tracking scripts.

If building out html/php is cumbersome... by all means start with Wordpress as it's easy as heck to throw up a site.

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Originally Posted by wiredup

Sorry but I'm going to have to throw my vote against you guys when it comes to scalability and stability.
WordPress as it comes out of the box isn't as scalable as you might think. If you're looking to create a site which doesn't bend under pressure it's always best to use your own implementation of an MVC framework with caching along with NGINX and load balancing on a VPS such as DigitalOcean.

When it comes to huge websites that utilize WordPress Core such as NYTimes, their code has been restructured so many time for performance it barely resembles original WordPress code.

If you're not worried about scalability into the future and don't expect to surpass it's benchmark limitations, WordPress could be perfect for you. It's easy to set up and easy to moderate. It's literally made for people who don't have or want to obtain the extensive knowledge it would take to make the same system from scratch and should be used as such.

EDIT: Here's some mediocre benchmark stats:
Benchmarking Performance of 8 CMS Platforms: Who Is Slowest?

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MyProfitBlueprint

9 years ago

Originally Posted by wiredup

Sorry but I'm going to have to throw my vote against you guys when it comes to scalability and stability.
WordPress as it comes out of the box isn't as scalable as you might think. If you're looking to create a site which doesn't bend under pressure it's always best to use your own implementation of an MVC framework with caching along with NGINX and load balancing on a VPS such as DigitalOcean.

When it comes to huge websites that utilize WordPress Core such as NYTimes, their code has been restructured so many time for performance it barely resembles original WordPress code.

If you're not worried about scalability into the future and don't expect to surpass it's benchmark limitations, WordPress could be perfect for you. It's easy to set up and easy to moderate. It's literally made for people who don't have or want to obtain the extensive knowledge it would take to make the same system from scratch and should be used as such.

EDIT: Here's some mediocre benchmark stats:
Benchmarking Performance of 8 CMS Platforms: Who Is Slowest?

Point taken, but when I am speaking to scalability I am talking a 5 page site versus a 20-100+ page site. I doubt anyone here is planning on building out the next NYT

. As you probably know, even the choice of database can have big differences in performance at that level. Anyone even thinking about getting that sort of traffic should probably be hosting on their own server and using a good paid CDN as well which will help alleviate some of the speed problems with WordPress (which is admittedly a disadvantage). I wish I had that sort of problem to deal with

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wiredup

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MyProfitBlueprint

Point taken, but when I am speaking to scalability I am talking a 5 page site versus a 20-100+ page site. I doubt anyone here is planning on building out the next NYT

. As you probably know, even the choice of database can have big differences in performance at that level. Anyone even thinking about getting that sort of traffic should probably be hosting on their own server and using a good paid CDN as well which will help alleviate some of the speed problems with WordPress (which is admittedly a disadvantage). I wish I had that sort of problem to deal with

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Oh don't we all wish we had that problem.
Though even with a few-page website it's more about the model the website is structured within. Let's take WIREDUP, my advertising platform. We're currently in private beta and the actual website is only about 10-15 pages. But those pages interact with a database. Each IO call adds up. What's more than that, our API serves out over 250,000 ad requests a day with absolutely no connection to the front-end. Luckily our API is built with Node.js and can handle that, but I wouldn't dream of doing something like that with any pre-built container like WordPress.

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Frank Donovan 9 years ago

Most of the replies in this thread seem to be focusing on the pros and cons of the WordPress platform without actually referring to the purpose mentioned in the OP.

The first consideration for affiliate marketing is finding and reaching your audience. Then it's simply a question of matching a particular product or service to that audience. In that respect, your website platform is largely irrelevant. In fact, some successful affiliates don't even bother with a site, while others make do with a simple lead capture page.

If your affiliate marketing model is based on building an audience via blogging, then WordPress is as good as any other platform and better than most. As has been mentioned, use Wordpress.org (which allows affiliate links) and set up your own domain and hosting. For any other kind of site, the actual platform you use is down to your own preference. Your success as an affiliate marketer isn't going to depend on your site software.

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LarryHaywood

9 years ago

Definitely going to put my vote on Wordpress as I have been in love with it for years now and have had zero issues. Wireup may have a good point above however. If you aren't the NYTimes though, I'd say go for Wordpress.

It's going to pretty hard to break it in my opinion. There are other content management systems you could explore as well. I have used Joomla in the past but ended up choosing WP over it. Just my 2 cents on the matter.

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wiredup

9 years ago

Oh absolutely, if it comes down to choosing between joomla, drupal, any of the others and WordPress, I'd choose WordPress every time simply because of the enormous community and support behind it as well as the amount of plugins available. The one thing I'd advise you is to turn on automatic updates as they really help keep your site up-to-date when it comes to security and WordPress gets targeted a lot by exploiters simply because it's the industry leader.

Don't get me wrong, even my advertising company is making plugins for WordPress because we know exactly how widely it's used and how important it is to have something which allows such easy access to website creation.

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LarryHaywood

9 years ago

Originally Posted by wiredup

Oh absolutely, if it comes down to choosing between joomla, drupal, any of the others and WordPress, I'd choose WordPress every time simply because of the enormous community and support behind it as well as the amount of plugins available. The one thing I'd advise you is to turn on automatic updates as they really help keep your site up-to-date when it comes to security and WordPress gets targeted a lot by exploiters simply because it's the industry leader.

Don't get me wrong, even my advertising company is making plugins for WordPress because we know exactly how widely it's used and how important it is to have something which allows such easy access to website creation.

Very true. They are trying to hack my Wordpress site on a daily basis. The Limit-Login Attempts plugin has really performed well for me.

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mathewsps

9 years ago

I would like to give the vote to Wordpress due to its simplicity, support and user friendly interface. There are lot of widgets , PLUGINS , Themes to ease many functions and operations in less time.

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9 years ago

Wordpress all the way. There are many free and cheap plugins you can use to make stunning landing pages and high converting sales pages.

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Azlan.MY

9 years ago

Wordpress is the best. You should consider this even before creating your website with HTML. Yes, you can rank on G with HTML sites but in the long term WP sites are much easier to manage and customize. Especially when you are doing aff marketing.

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sujit1717

9 years ago

Ofcourse Wordpress,

* Great plugins
* Great themes
* Customization
* Lots of tutorials
* Automation

You just can't look away. WP is the best.

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ppetri

9 years ago

A Wordpress theme and OptimizePress with OP members Plugin will do everything you need from sales pages, launch pages, squeeze page, and members access that works with PayPal, other credit card processors... Works with Clickbank, JVzoo and other launch sites. Some people use WP Memberchamp and Op for WSO's.

https://www.optimizepress.com/

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agmccall

9 years ago

The one that you are best at building.

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Kay King 9 years ago

The one that you are best at building.

In any thread asking about "Wordpress vs (anything else)" you'll see people "voting for" WP.

The problem in a thread like this is you don't know if answers are from those who prefer Wordpress - or only know how to use Wordpress. The popularity of Wordpress grew quickly mainly because it's easy to jump in and get a site up. Many of the plugins make tasks easy for Wordpress users -but it's also a vulnerable platform and often slow loading.

Suggest you start with the articles below before jumping from html to wordpress. You can also launch your html site and, when you want, add a WP blog TO the site now or later.

5 Reasons You Might Not Want to Use Wordpress | inspirationfeed.com

WordPress Fans Beware: Main Disadvantages of Using WordPress

The 7 Disadvantages of Using WordPress | InstantShift

Its almost 90% done

Finish the site and get it online. Don't stop at 90% to rethink everything.
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- wiredup 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  Finish the site and get it online. Don't stop at 90% to rethink everything.
  
  I think it was Napoleon Hill who said most men stop three feet before reaching gold.
  
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Fingertips

9 years ago

Just to chuck a spanner in the works. here's what I did. I did both, and doubled my catchment funnel. I am talking about marketing methods here rather than technical ease of use with WP vs html.

My static page and my WP site were designed to appeal to two different demographics, and it works so well. One is an HTML hubsite which I call my static page. It never gets updated except if I change the banner or offer. It is a sort of sales page which introduces me and what I do, and one of the options they have is to go to my blog for latest developments. The offer opt-in on the hubsite is different to the blog opt-in so that way I have two imposing banners rather than one. The hubsite has an autostart audio file where I read out the text on the page for lazy people, with a funky background tune...

I was advised to host my WP site on my own domain after a year of .org. and it fires up faster and WP is great for sharing links. In fact WP is almost a badge of authenticity for many people - they trust the name...

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