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Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing 8: WordPress Plugins
One of the strengths of WordPress is that it can be easily adapted to meet a wide range of different needs. As I write this, there are over 7800 plugs available in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
This is the “official” plugin repository, and there are probably another couple of thousand plugins available which are not listed [...]
Make Money Online By Writing Product Reviews
Writing product reviews is a popular way to make money online. The process is straight forward:
1. Choose a product you feel comfortable promoting. There is a lot of rubbish out there, so it’s always best for choose something you’ve actually used yourself, and that you would be happy to recommend to your friends.
2. Create a [...]
Affiliate Marketing 7: WordPress Themes
Now that you have your WordPress blog installed, you’ll want to change the theme to one that’s a bit less bland than the default Kubrick theme.
Kubrick is not that bad, but it screams out, “Golly, I just didn’t have time to do any work on my site”.
For affiliate sites, you really want a theme [...]
Affiliate Marketing 6: Installing WordPress
Now that you’ve sorted out your domain name and hosting, and you’ve chosen a product to promote, you’ll need to create a website.
Actually, that’s not strictly true. You can sell affiliate products without having your own website. One way to do this is with (free or paid) online advertising. You would simply use your affiliate [...]
Affiliate Marketing 5: Choosing a Web Host
Choosing a web hosting company is one of the more important things you’ll have to do when you’re setting up an online business.
Not all hosting companies are created equal – there are vast differences in the areas that count, like service, performance, responsiveness and so on.
There are ways to make sure that you choose the [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing Tagged cpanel, hostgator, resellerzoom, web host, web hosting 1 Comment
Affiliate Marketing 4: Choosing A Domain Name
There are ways to make money as an affiliate without a website. However, having your own website (or a network of websites) is generally the best approach.
In this article we’ll take a look at choosing domain names. I’ll show you some of the resources I use.
It is fairly well accepted that the domain name has [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing Tagged domain name, domain resources, keyword-based domain name 1 Comment
Affiliate Marketing 3: Choosing Affiliate Programs
Now that you’ve tentatively chosen a topic for your website, you’ll need to find out what products are available for you to promote.
There are basically two places you can find affiliate products.
Many merchants have their own, in-house affiliate programs. Examples are Amazon and Hostgator.
Affiliate networks provide affiliate management services for thousands of merchants. Examples [...]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing Tagged affiliate products, cj, clickbank, cost per action, cost per sale, cpa 3 Comments
Affiliate Marketing 2: Choosing A Topic
It’s best to base your affiliate marketing business on a subject that interests you – preferably on something you’re passionate about. It helps if it’s something that many other people are passionate about as well.
Here are some questions to help you choose a topic you could use as the basis of your website:
What are your [...]
Affiliate Marketing 1: Starting an Affiliate Marketing Business
If you’ve explored ways to make money on the Internet, you’ve probably been told that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to get started. In some ways this is true – promoting other peoples’ products means that you have none of the problems of product delivery or customer service.
But affiliate marketing is not necessarily a [...]
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