Using a Blog As Your Affiliate
Marketing Web Site
By Doug Champigny
One of the most powerful tools
for affiliate promotion is your affiliate marketing web site, and with today's
interactive online technologies a blog is usually your easiest and best choice
to use as your home base online. Regular posting to your affiliate blog will
help you to build a loyal readership, as well as build a stable of permanent
links to the products and services you promote, all of said links containing
your specific affiliate code, of course!
Self-hosted
WordPress blogs are easy to set up, easily updated and can be
indexed in many directories beyond the traditional search engines
automatically. You can also easily add audio and video to your blogs, which
open up podcasts directories too as well as help you put a personal touch on
your messages to your readers. This makes doing SEO for your affiliate
marketing web site much easier and lets you focus that much more of your time
on other affiliate promotion strategies. With time, you'll find the proper
balance that works best for you online.
Building
a money-making blog using affiliate opportunities
involves everything from proper choice of the ads in your sidebar to the
careful selection of the topics you write about. By keeping all your posts
targeted to the particular audience you're targeting you can build a following
and start to warm them up regarding the products and services you'll be
offering them in your affiliate promotion. Further, as you build an empirical
amount of information about your topic within your blog you'll be building a
reputation for yourself and demonstrating your expertise within your niche. And
again, remember that every new item you add to your blog gives the search
engines and directories one more possible link back to your online presence.
Further,
you can use ads and posts to drive targeted traffic to
your squeeze pages and opt-in forms, thus building your affiliate marketing
list at the same time. Building a targeted list of prospects lets you contact
them again and again, both for your current promotion and for those you'll do
down the road as time goes on. This dual purpose - building your list and
demonstrating your expertise within your target niche, will constitute the bulk
of your affiliate marketing work online, and can go a long way towards making
affiliate marketing pay for you. And after all, that's why we're doing all of
this in the first place, right?
Your
affiliate blogging also gives you a powerful home base online, a
great place to drive targeted prospects to from your article marketing,
podcasting and affiliate marketing video efforts. While your site is designed
to be a traffic magnet on it's own, sending additional web site traffic to it
using these techniques and the various Web 2.0 sites that allow business
networking will help a lot for making money affiliate marketing.
Using
affiliate marketing to make money online, especially with your own
affiliate marketing web site, is one of the most common ways to start a home
business - and setting your site up right, hooking it into the various Web 2.0
sites and using strategies like Twitter affiliate marketing to drive targeted
prospects to your web site should make your affiliate efforts pay that much
sooner. And by using an interactive platform like blogging for your site, it's
now easier than ever to get started online!
If
you're ready to start making money affiliate marketing or
are already an affiliate but not making what you should, visit Doug's Affiliate
Marketing Training Blog at http://captain-affiliate.com where he shares more
tips, tricks and resources for affiliates regularly!
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