Different Type of Sites for No Cost Affiliate Marketing
In this week’s No Cost Affiliate Marketing Digest, we are going to look at different types to build and different contents that you can add to your affiliate sites.
Learning about different type of sites to build helps placing your affiliate site as an authority in a niche, which is a crucial part of learning affiliate marketing.
Before I get started, let me have a small disclaimer here. I don’t have experience building all the type of sites I listed below. However, I have seen people using it and with this, I will be covering them using my sense with some of my experience in the world of affiliate marketing.
Site Types for No Cost Affiliate Marketing
Building sites for affiliate marketing has evolved over the years and with the advancement in coding and scripting, affiliates are now able to use advance and user friendly scripts to build their sites without much of a fuss.
HTML Static Site
HTML static sites will be the foundation of stone age Internet. Affiliates with ample HTML knowledge are still using them to build simple 5 page affiliate sites. However, you should not be using plain HTML for your affiliate sites any more due to the following reasons:
- No content management system - With most search engines discarding their trust on thin affiliate sites, you would want to have a full fledge CMS to add and edit your contents as and when you need to.
- Complicated design customizations - User friendliness in design customization is extremely crucial as affiliate promotion page tweaks must be done frequently for maximum click through rates.
- Time waster - OK, this is the killer why you shouldn’t be using HTML static sites for your affiliate sites. Updating and customizing them simply needs a lot of time. Time is gold for successful affiliates and you would hate to waste hours tweaking HTML codes and not making any money.
Blogs
Using blogs to set up affiliate sites is recommended by me. Adding content is no longer a fuss and customizations of design can be carried out easily.
Wordpress is a powerful blogging software that I use as it also provides some great plugins such as the All In One SEO Pack and Automatic Wordpress Upgrade to help saving the time that we as affiliates spend on technical stuffs.
Apart from the plugins, there are some great FREE themes that I have used for great conversions. One of them that you should be trying out is the Vegenance, which is a single column template with large and clear type font.
Store Front
If you have always dreamed of having a store but don’t have your own products to sell, you can now do this with merchant products. An affiliate store front lists out merchant products using data feeds provided by the merchant.
Scripts such as Build A Niche Store for eBay Partner Network affiliates and Clickitz for Clickbank affiliates provide the facility for affiliates to only focus on link building and marketing their store rather than just focusing on content creation.
However, with the recent outrage of Google on the use of the Build A Niche Store Script prompted me to move away from these scripts. I have been trying to get Build A Niche Store back into Google for some time now.
If you are willing to take the risk and will add great contents apart from the store pages to your site, you should not face any big problems with Google.
Incentivized Sites
Such scripts have been a hit since the boom of incentivized offers on various CPA networks like Market Leverage, Hydra and NeverBlueAds a while ago.
The scripts will work in such a way that you reward people with prizes or cash by filling out incentivized CPA offers for you. I have seen a drop in incentivized offers on networks recently and definitely not recommend you to get your hands on such scripts.
Contents for No Cost Affiliate Marketing Up Next
Now you know that blogs seem to be the best script to install on a domain for no cost affiliate marketing but what are the contents that you should add to it? What are the contents that will actually make you affiliate marketing commissions?
Well, I will publish all the contents that have made me money in the past. Stay tune if you want to know what types of contents to add to your affiliate sites by subscribing to Aff Boom RSS Feed by using the e-mail subscription box below.
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