When creating a website for the purpose of doing affiliate marketing
, each step from choosing a domain to publishing your web pages must be carefully planned.
Here are a few guidelines to simplify the process of creating a website for affiliate marketing.
Choosing a Topic
The very first step to building an affiliate marketing website is choosing a topic. Without a topic, you wouldn't be able to have a domain name that identifies what your site is all about.
Your topic should be something that is profitable, something you've decided that you want to create content about with the goal of selling a product that fills the need of the person reading that content.
Let's use cycling thoughout this article as an example. You've choosen cycling as your topic because you cycle yourself and you've very passionate about the topic. So you've decide that you can write about various aspects of cycling and promote affiliate products like bicycles and cycling gear. Great start.
Choosing a domain
The very next step is choosing a domain name or website address. This is the address that people will type in to their browser to find your website so you should keep it as short as possible.
Your domain must also be descriptive and have the keywords that you want to rank for if that is possible.
Something like cyclingreality.com is broad enough to cover the example we described above. It is also short and has the word cycling in it so people know what your site is about.
Building Your Affiliate Website
This is the part where most people get stuck. What website builder to use? How many pages? What to put on the front page? What colors to use? What font looks better?
These are all great questions that would take more than just this short article to answer in detail.
The website builder you choose depends on what kind of site you want to build. There are lots of options to choose from but if you're passionate and want to have a website/blog type of thing then I would suggest using Wordpress. Not the free wordpress blogs though.
Using Wordpress takes the trouble out of many of the questions I mentioned above and is a very simple solution for beginners.