subject: How To Set Up You Very Own Profitable Affiliate Website [print this page] First, you must pick the market you would like to promote products to, and then choose a product. These skills can best be learned with time and practice, and even expert marketers sometimes struggle with finding the right products to promote. Think of this as a bit of a hit-and-miss - you will succeed enormously in some markets, while not doing so well in others, and it's not always easy to predict which will be the successes.
Next, you need to find a domain name and get hosting. Once you are familiar with the process, this is relatively easy, although it's sometimes difficult to know which companies are reputable. You can get by with recommendations from others, but how do you know they're actually using those companies themselves? It's disheartening for the beginner who makes it this far, but the most determined will keep pushing onwards.
The next thing is to design a website template that will be attractive to visitors, will keep them on your website, and will ultimately send them on to the affiliate product sites to make a purchase. There's a reason website designers exist - this is a full-time job itself, not counting how long it takes to learn all these things. There are lots of premade templates available if you want to get your website up and running quickly, but they are rarely as good as templates that have been designed for a specific purpose and have been tested.
Next, you will need to create graphics and videos for your site, in order to make your website presentable and attractive to your visitors. These are both quite challenging tasks, and it's all too easy to make a mess of things if you're not confident in what you are doing. You need complicated software if you want to do this yourself, and it can take years for a graphic designer or videographer to learn how their own software works.
You finally have to upload it all via FTP, which means you must find an FTP client or figure out how the default web-based uploader for your web host works. Without some assistance, this technical skill can be difficult for beginners to sort out themselves.
The different skill sets involved in putting up a website include: domain name searches, finding and purchasing hosting, coding in at least one language (HTML, PHP, Javascript and more), making graphics, uploading files to your server, adding any necessary scripts...
It is very easy for a beginner to feel overwhelmed when confronted with all these things that need to be done in a specific order in order to get an affiliate website up and running. The best solution is to find software that helps you build affiliate websites quickly and easily, that way you can be up and running (and making money) with as little time wasted as possible.
