Build Your Own Affiliate Website With WordPress 

 

Assuming that you know what you want to sell, your domain name and hosting is sorted it’s now time to start building the actual site. 

 

It’s All About Trust and Quality 

In 2018 and beyond it is not about throwing a few random products on a website and selling them. There is still way too much of that goes on in the marketplace and NOBODY who does it makes any money.  Did they ever?

Your content is paramount and the quality and value of your content is the reason why people will come to and stay with you. Bad grammar is a real turn-off. Learn the difference between THERE, THEIR AND THEY’RE and YOUR and YOU’RE. 

Think that it doesn’t matter? – Well decide if “Your Rubbish” or “You’re Rubbish” matters, just for starters.

Everyone makes typos, so check, then check again You will miss some but you can minimise the issue. 

Your website must build trust – You must build trust. 

 

Great Content Is The Key 

In the case of an affiliate marketing website, you need to come up with interesting content that will help you convert visitors into buyers. That means it needs to be high quality enough to be picked up by search engines and encourage visitors to take action, the action you want. 

Because you are not actually selling the product(s) you should leave the sales copy to the vendor. This is particularly true of digital and software products, but also applies to physical products. 

 

Make Your Site Informative and Not Salesy 

That effectively means your website must not be a hard sell site. Visitors will be turned off in seconds and leave. 

For that, you first and foremost need to concentrate on delivering value. An affiliate website is mostly a pre-sell piece of content. Help the people coming to your site make a decision. Give them all the information they need to make a purchase. 

 

Most people will be there on your site because they need something. What that someting is has unlimited variations, but they need something. 

Advice, a present, a solution, a cure – whatever. 

YOU NEED TO SATISFY THAT NEED 

Types of Content

 

Here are some types of content especially suitable for this: 

 

Review sites 

You can build entire sites around just review posts. When doing so, try to bring something new to the table that visitors can’t learn anywhere else. Answer common questions and objections, try to be objective and helpful. Maybe offer alternatives to the product.

 

Comparison sites

Find leading products in your industry and show how they compare to each other. Great content, especially if you have affiliate links for both of them. We did it here with two of the most popular SEO plugins (but without affiliate links).

 

How-to sites

How-to posts offer lots of opportunities to include affiliate links. Show people how they can solve their problems and give them the tools to do so. If some of them are affiliate products, even better!

 

Product Group Sites

Very popular content type. Combine several products from the same category in one post for plenty of earning opportunities. Especially if you update the article, it will continue bringing in traffic and income.