ioksane

After a while of thinking about it, today I just did it. So I urge all you newbies like me that wonder around the forum, looking at blogs day dreaming about it, to actually do it.

I chose a niche i got a foothold in. I know a bit about it, I'm interested in it, and I could definately relate my consumers, and understand the market. Choose something close. I don't believe in the passion crap for the affiliate business, but there's some truth in there.

It's site targeting quite a wide niche, but I'm going to be PPCing to the seperate product pages with longtail keywords, and hopefully get some ready to purchase traffic for cheap.

I don't know - it's my first hurdle. Maybe it wont take as long too do the next. It werent the development, it was the endless time thinking about doing it. I used XSITEPRO and it was well quick.

JUst go for your first idea, until you've been accepted by the merchant, and drove a bit of traffic to it. At least you've tried then...

Being the first time, I obviously didnt have any affiliate links - and didn't know any merchants or what network to join. Common dillemma.

Best thing to do is start your site once you've thought of a market, add some content - anything half decent will do. Add the seperate pages you propose to fill with affiliate feeds, or pre sells, and just fill it out a bit.

Put some adsense on there or amazon/ebay links where the affiliate links will be, or maybe add some links to merchants non affiliate.

Then find a merchant to join by googling. "PRODUCT" affiliate.

Then apply through their link. That will take you to the network they use. Don't think about it- just sign up. Put your newly made 'skeleton' site as your link and you should be fine.

This avoids the affiliate "chicken n egg" sydrome. BEcuase truth is, the network or merchant don't matter as much as your choice of niche. IF there's a market for it, then there will be a merchant with an affiliate program.

Obviously if there terrible - switch. If you find ONE there's bound to be plenty more.

Affiliate 101, and I'm sorry for not revealing my site or niche - I hate it when people do that. I'll just tell you that its focusing on products for a specific type of person.

I break my site down into categories that will be filled with pre sell or data feeds, and then all the site has got is a bit of Google content, and the contact us, privacy crap.

As I said I used Xsite Pro - it's easier than wordpress - and made for affiliates.

IF I was on the warrior forum I'd put an affiliate link here for XSP. Dickeds.

Anyway, tar for all your help, and hopefully I'll have something more to say in a few weeks once this is either successful or not.

Ioksane.

mason

good to hear

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emp

Naaah, here on WF you'd put up said link... you just lost out.

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James Schramko

Congrats Ioksane,

If you link to it from a few other places now like blogs and articles you can really boost your traffic.

Let us know how it goes.

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