Build a useful, interesting website on your niche - STEP 6

This is a very important step. Don't just build a website. Build a useful, interesting website on your niche. How? One of the best ways to achieve this is to build a site which solves people's problems. Such useful sites often help their visitors to decide which products is good for them to buy.

Create a content-rich and keyword-rich site, designed to be easily found in search engines.

Show your personality. Have a bit of fun. Be memorable. You need to connect with your visitors, let them see you as a real person and not like a robot that they cannot talk back to . Remember that people like buying from merchant of those they have come to know, like and trust.

There's no space in this affiliate program tutorial to describe how to build a website. For that, you'll need a good instruction manual.

If you're short of money, you can hunt for free information on sites such as HTMLGoodies.

You'll save yourself an enormous amount of time and frustration if you take the plunge and buy a good instruction manual too. There are many of them but i can tell of two that is second to none.

Here are the two best options:

(1.) For keen do-it-your-self, whereby you get to learn how to really be a good wed affiliate master, I recommend you go for Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. Click here for the review of "Super Affiliate Handbook"


Rosalind Gardner is a real been-there-done-that super affiliate marketer. Her instruction manual shows you how she builds very successful sites using web authoring software.

It starts right at the beginning, discussing topics such as myths about doing business online, mistakes to avoid, how to choose the best topic, how to choose the right domain name, etc.

The book, updated in May 2006, takes you step-by-step through the whole process.

One particularly useful feature is her explanation of how she achieves high conversion rates (visitor-to-sales ratios), achieving conversion rates of 4% or 6% while most affiliates are happy with 1%.

Another of the strengths of the book is her descriptions of a wide variety of ways to get traffic to your site. This is important - too many affiliates rely on just one or two traffic-generating methods. The more traffic-generating methods you have, the safer your business is.

Rosalind is genuinely successful, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Now she's also a very successful author, with sales of more $1 million from her book, which is excellent value.

When you learn from her, you're learning from a winner.

Learn more about Rosalind's Super Affiliate Handbook here.

If you choose to follow Rosalind's great advice, then to get your business start running properly, you'll also need a website-building tool. A very good tool and a popular choice among several affiliates is Xsitepro, which is designed for people who want to build small, niche sites.
Xsitepro or the new version XSitePro2 is not suitable for every type of site, so make sure you read the XSitePro2 review before you decide.

(2.) If you truly wants to simplify things as much as possible and automate the tedious techie and complicated stuff, I recommend you go with Ken Evoy's Site Build It - SBI - idea.

SBI is company that has experts in online business. Its a site-building, site-hosting, site-promoting, suite of tools, all in one place, and in one package you get all these benefits. That is why they boost that no one does it better than they do.

Once you have SBI, you don't have to go scurrying all over the Net adding more tools and software. You have almost all you need in one package, so you can concentrate on the fun part - creating useful, interesting content.

You also have the benefit of learning through their step by step action guide.

Here is what SBI says  "When you are finished with the Guide, you will have a deep understanding of how to build your new Web site, market it like a pro, and maintain it using the most success-focused suite of online tools available. And like so many others, you will have the knowledge to create your successful online business".


STEP 7; Add Affiliate Links  

Firstly, it is always advisable to presell if you want to do affiliate marketing and build a web business. You can learn more about preselling when you take the 10 Day Affiliate Masters E-course here you will discover the power of preselling.

The idea is that; as you write these articles for your site visitors, weave your affiliate links into them. Always have a particular or typical visitor in mind as you write the articles. Hence the reason it is advisable to find a profitable niche. Act like you're their teacher and director but do it indirectly. Speak to that visitor and advise him or her on what you believe its right.Your task as an affiliate is to help your visitor decide what to buy.

As said above about preselling, one successful technique is to gradually lead your visitor towards a purchase, but ensure you are not directly selling the product 'people rarely buy when you are directly selling'. Start by discovering and outlining a possible problem (It could be one that you have gone through before or one that is most talk about), discuss a good solution that will work or has worked for you, and end the article with a link that is a call to action, such as a hyperlink that says, "Find out more here."

Again, your task as an affiliate is NOT to sell. leave the direct selling to the merchant who owns the product. Moreover,  your visitors will find the sales letter when they get to the merchant site through your link. Focus on preselling, as this will warm up your visitors. Your desire is to have your visitors in a ready-to-buy frame of mind when they arrive at the merchant's site.

For superb advice on preselling, I strongly recommend also that you join Ken Evoy's 5 Pillar Affiliate Program. It's free to join.

Ken is an absolute whiz at preselling and he's renowned for working extremely hard to help his affiliates succeed. He has a superb program, one that is not common. It's been No.1 in my Top 10. I earn five-figure monthly commissions from this affiliate program.



STEP 8: Place AdSense Ads On Your Site.

Many online marketers are already familiar with google adsense and are making lots of money from just this program. If you have a good, popular site, it's remarkably easy to make good money with Google AdSense just by placing adsense code on your site.

If you are among those who don't know yet; AdSense is an application run by google Inc. that serves ads on sites and pays the site owners for their traffic. Website or blog owners from around the globe can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video advertisements to be administered or placed on their websites by google. Sites owners then get to generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. When people visit your website or blog and from your site they click the text links, image or video placed by google, and visit other people's site, google credits you with a share of what the owners of the sites paid google to display their website on yours.

AdSense is also free to join. But the hard part is knowing how its done to generate you income. You can learn from this Adsense Tutorial

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