Affiliate Marketing Using Your Own Website Or Blog
It is true that as an affiliate marketer, you are not required to have your own website or domain name. You can choose, instead, to market the products and services using your affiliate links and/or replicated affiliate websites. However, you will find as you delve deeper into the world of affiliate marketing that having your own website and/or blog is essential to your success.
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With your own website, you can use your own domain name to promote the products and services, instead of affiliate links. People tend to avoid affiliate links when they see them in ezines and on forums. But they don’t seem to have an aversion to visiting a person’s website or blog.
When you promote affiliate products and services using affiliate links, you can only promote one product or service at a time. This means that in order to make the income you want or need to make, you will be spending all of your time marketing – every free minute you have will be marketing.
However, if you have a website, you can promote the website, and not the products. First, people like free information. Fill your site up with that, and along with the content, throw in banners and links to the related affiliate products and services. It is much easier to promote one website or blog than it is to promote ten or twenty affiliate products or services.
Having your own website and domain, for each niche that you are doing affiliate marketing in, makes you appear more professional, and helps to establish you as an expert. It also gives you the ability to write your own sales copy so that you don’t have to depend on the sales copy provided by the affiliate manager or merchant.
This, in turn, gives you the ability beat your competition – those affiliates who are selling the same products and services that you are selling. You can present the material and the product or service in a way that they can’t unless they have their own website or blog. For the best place we’ve found for hosting an affiliate marketing website or blog, visit Hosting For Marketers.
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10 comments
Fred Lotgering - Follow this person as @lotcon on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Doug,
Your are right! Blogs are great tools to get traffic to your affiliate site or promote affiliate products.
Works even better by adding podcasts. You just reminded me in that again…
Fred
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Earl Netwal - Follow this person as @EarlNetwal on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM
having a web site or blog is like have a base of operations, It gives you a place to hang your hat, and to pitch not one but multiple products and services.
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Mike Paetzold - Follow this person as @mikepaetzold on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Preaching to the choir here. Hard to get any traffic to your affiliate link from the search engines and easy to do if you add quality information to your website.
This brings you even more visitors and a good offer of an ethical bribe to sign up for your list will add more to your list. That way you get to contact the visitor more than once.
Hosting For Marketers has all the pieces at a good price too.
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Joel Osborne - Follow this person as @JoelOsborne on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Good point Doug… spending just $10 on a new domain and $20 a month for great hosting (+ everything else you need which is included in the hosting) is all that someone needs.
When you think about it, that’s just $30 for the first month… where else can you start a business for so cheap? By selling just 2-3 affiliate products, you can be in profit every month!
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Ron Barrett - Follow this person as @ronbarrett on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Doug,
Great information on how to use your own domain or website as a hub to bring people in, with quality content of course, and then direct them to resources that are pertaining to what they are looking for.
Keep up the good work.
Ron
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Andre Arnett - Follow this person as @learningaffil on Twitter
on April 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
You are so right about being able to promote more from your own site. I never really thought of it like that but I can see the advantages now. Thanks.
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Lonnie Minton - Follow this person as @AffiliateBus on Twitter
on April 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Doug, very good information and advice. I really believe that any internet marketer that has been around for long that tells anyone that they can really become successful in online marketing without having their own website should spend some time examining their motives. Anyone that is involved in this business knows that having your own website(s) is essential.
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Chaunna Brooke on April 9, 2009 at 5:26 AM
Thanks for sharing this informative content. Any content that talks about suggestions and tips on how to properly implement affiliate marketing are most welcome.
SEM Consultant - Follow this person as @scottmillion on Twitter
on April 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM
That is right, you’ll get the edge in the competition if you promote your own site with your affiliate adds on it. This gives you more authority and more space for future product that you want to promote.