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What Steps Are Needed To Create A Good Affiliate Site?

by Mr Squeeze
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Hey Guys,

You may know that I have recently had a few of my sites reviewed by you fellow warriors. It seems that I am not that good yet at creating a profit pulling affiliate site.

What I would like to know is basically a step by step in order of start to finish in order to get a running start. (hopefully others will benefit from this too)

Here's the things I can think of:

Step 1) Choose a product or service to promote

Step 2) Find a targetable keyword (low competition and atleast 50 searches per day)

Step 3) Get hosting and register a keyword rich domain

Step 4) Install wordpress and required plugins

Step 5) Write and upload a highly targeted keyword rich presell article (500-700 words including affiliate links) (also fill in about me and privacy pages etc)

Step 6) Promotion starts bookmark your site on the major social bookmarking sites

Step 7) Blog commenting

Step 8) Link Wheel

Step 9) Article marketing

That's all I can think of since im a newbee, please feel free to add to this or elaborate on the steps listed.

Thank's in advance,
Stephen.
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    Choose more than one product to promote but review them and rate them accordingly and honestly too.

    Your author resource box must be one that calls a reader to action.

    Your articles should not be too informative in such a way that the reader feels that he has nothing left to know about your subject.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Squeeze
    hey King, thanks for the info, much appreciated.

    Would you say that the steps in my first post are solid enough to get a site indexed, ranked pretty well and making some sales?

    If done to a fairly high standard that is.

    Thanks,
    Stephen.
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    The answer is YES.

    What get's a site indexed is less than doing all of the things you listed above.

    All I did to get my current site indexed is to submit the url to digg.com, finish!

    However, you need to keep doing the things you listed above in order to increase your page rank, get backlinks, drive traffic to your site and all that.
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  • Profile picture of the author AbleSmith
    Thanks for this great post! I just show it to my girlfriend to make her understand why i work all the time, that i need to improve my skills and keep on my passion.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Stephen, if you are only going to add a single pre-sell article, why in the world would you mess around with Wordpress and a collection of plugins? You're looking at serious overkill.

      A plain-vanilla HTML site will require fewer resources, less maintenance, will load faster, is more secure...

      Just go to someplace like oswd.org (Open Source Web Design - Download free web design templates.) and download a template to use for the page structure. You can create a nice site in Notepad using a good template, or you can go with an HTML editor.

      Other than that, your plan looks like it should get you started...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Squeeze
    Hey John,
    Thanks for the reply,

    The only reason I said wordpress is because I hear it over and over that it is the best for getting a site ranked and google loves it. By all means if it can be done with html that would be great, I have webplus X4 which I am pretty good with.

    Also I have heard a lot of folks saying that merely having a good bookmarking campaign can get your site ranked pretty high in the SERPS, is thi true?

    Thanks,
    Stephen.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Rodman
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      You can take or leave the advice, but I think what you are planning on doing is the exact reason why most people have horrible results with affiliate marketing.
      That is the epitome of a treadmill approach.

      As a product owner that sells 7 figures per year, I can tell you that the best affiliates are ones with real sites. So if I sell a fat-loss ebook, the people that will sell the most copies are the ones that have a blog related to fat loss. And the blog is not filled 50 keyword focused articles. They talk about things people would like to know.....product reviews, biggest loser discussion, equipment reviews, daily workouts, random thoughts on diet, etc.

      They then implement solid IM strategies, like autoresponders, building a list, upsells, etc to grow it even more.

      Most people that follow the standard cookie-cutter "affiliate blog in a box" strategy are just wasting their time. Garbage in, garbage out.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by Stephen Courtney View Post

        Hey John,
        Thanks for the reply,

        The only reason I said wordpress is because I hear it over and over that it is the best for getting a site ranked and google loves it. By all means if it can be done with html that would be great, I have webplus X4 which I am pretty good with.

        Also I have heard a lot of folks saying that merely having a good bookmarking campaign can get your site ranked pretty high in the SERPS, is this true?

        Thanks,
        Stephen.
        Truth be told, Google doesn't give a rat's ass about Wordpress. There's nothing magic in it.

        About the only advantage WP has is that it generates RSS feeds, which you can do for yourself if you don't intend to update the site.

        What Google loves are sites with good, fresh content, properly organized and formatted. Wordpress does a fair job of that for people without the tech skills to learn to do that for themselves.

        A good bookmarking campaign can get you to a decent ranking over time, as bookmarks at their core are simply links. Get enough of the right backlinks, and unless you play with very competitive keywords, you can get a decent ranking.

        One thing I do want to mention...

        You asked about a plan to get started and make a few sales. Your plan would do that, BUT...

        For the long term, I'd read Dave Rodman's advice above and take it seriously...
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