affiliate shops

[jane p]

Ifyou create a shop which is just basically pointing people to shops then you get a commission how easy it it to get people to visit your website and purchase. I guess your website is just a clone?

Are there any secrets for marketing your site?

 

[gotreatme]

Are you talking about like a comparison website where maybe..

Amazon and other retailers are compared..

customers then click & go to Amazon & webmaster gets commission via affiliate program?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

You need to create unique content that will then rank, and you then drive the traffic from that site, to your affiliate cookie cutter site.

 

[Esk247]

It's not any easier, it just means you get to promote and advertise products that you might not be able to buy in to stock. E.g. console games, £20 to buy in, you have to buy 500 of the darn things (or something like that). So affiliate schemes take that initial expenditure away and they also deal with the payment processing.

If you can make the website look and feel authentic and genuine then you'll be ok, but you still need to promote and market the website in the same way as any other business.

 

[qia123]

Advertising union!

 

[jane p]

Advertising union!

? what does that mean?

 

[fisicx]

? what does that mean?

It means they are a plonker.

Affiliate marketing can earn you a few bob but you have to work really hard to earn those pennies. The site isn't going to interest google so you will spend hours and hours promoting your site everywhere and anywhere you can. A friend who has an afiliate site writes articles and guest blog posts. He spends about two hours every evening writing and makes around £50/week.

 

[paulus]

He spends about two hours every evening writing and makes around £50/week.

This is one way of doing it, and probably the way that most people do. Alternatively, you could buy an existing site that has had all the hard work done to it and use that to push the affiliate products.

Your friend works around 10 hours to make £50 so he's making £5/hour (if he has weekends off). In contrast, I have a site that I work 0 hours on and it makes £400 / month (around £inifinity / hour ). I know of other people who have similar sites.

I'm not particularly clever, I just worked hard to find a site that fit my criteria and I bought it. The point is, it's not always necessary to spend hours and hours promoting an affiliate site. There are smarter ways if you're prepared to look for them.

 

[Asim786]

I have started setting up 4 or 5 websites with the aim of making money from affiliate marketing. But it has taken time to write content and set up the sites when I should be concentrating on my main site. Where Can I buy a site that has all the hard work done for you?

 

[Archil]

Guys,

I'm looking for a free affiliate commission tracking software for my website.

Can anybody recommend one?

All the best,

Archil

 

[eshopwiz]

I have started setting up 4 or 5 websites with the aim of making money from affiliate marketing. But it has taken time to write content and set up the sites when I should be concentrating on my main site. Where Can I buy a site that has all the hard work done for you?

You can buy sites of flippa.com or look at something like blogging to the bank but I dunno if they actually work....

 

[eshopwiz]

Guys,

I'm looking for a free affiliate commission tracking software for my website.

Can anybody recommend one?

All the best,

Archil

Google analytics?

Most affilate programs (clickbank, comission junction) have this built in already. What exactly are you looking for? If its link tracking, bit.ly does it.

 

[DesignerNick]

You just need to find a niche to promote you can easily rank for with a decent conversion rate!

I have a range off aff sites, some do well, some don't but it is all part and parcel of the learning process!

As long as they make back the domain name costs I have not really lost out and learn what works and what doesn't along the way!

 

[paulus]

Where Can I buy a site that has all the hard work done for you?

You can buy an expired domain and build a site on it. In the example I mentioned I bought an expired domain for $170, spent a couple of hours putting 2 pages on the site and that was it. The value of the domain is in the inbound links it has.

You could also buy an established site from marketplaces like digitalpoint/Flippa etc. Be prepared to wade through a quagmire to find anything decent, though.

Both places take a lot of searching before you find something good.

 

[jane p]

ive got a domain name that could be linked with gifts. Can i use something like affilipark to promote it and is it free?

would it be worthwhile. Ive had a domain name for a year or more now and never found anything to do with it.

Its called something i want if anyone can help me.

Dont need to make alot of money from it but something would be nice.

 

[paulus]

ive got a domain name that could be linked with gifts. Can i use something like affilipark to promote it and is it free?

Presumably affilipark take a cut of your earnings? I would just sign up with someone like Amazon, Commission Junction, Affiliate Window etc and sell using them. The affiliate networks are already "middle men", you don't need a "middle middle man" by using affilipark.

Usually the biggest challenge is generating enough traffic to make a profit. The affiliate network you use is secondary. Unless affilipark have some magical method for bringing useful traffic to your site I'd give them a miss.

 

[jane p]

Thanks. I dont know how to get traffic.

What are the costs? Are their hosting fees with the ones you mentioned?

 

[Esk247]

Getting traffic is the hardest part for many websites. You do that in variety of ways through your marketing via Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Forums, Search Engines etc etc. This all takes a long time to get going unless you have a really mass market product that's a bit new and exciting.

Hosting fees are dependent on the type of company you go with for the web design or affiliate shop. You already have a domain so you need to bolt that on to a hosting platform to store all the files or it can be done for free sometimes, not sure what the service is like though for free web services, you get what you pay for usually.

You can setup an affiliate shop online for peanuts, but you have to market it in the same way as any other online store and this is where it can start costing you money.

 

[Asim786]

I keep hearing about Flippa to buy websites. Is there an industry out there that just sells websites?

 

[paulus]

I keep hearing about Flippa to buy websites. Is there an industry out there that just sells websites?

I don't know whether you could say there is an industry. There are business people who run profitable websites and who acquire more when they see good opportunities. When there is a buyer willing to pay a high enough price for one, they'll sell.

Flippa is good if you want a turnkey that you have to plough your own time and effort into to make a success. There are the odd gems, but you have to wait a while for them to turn up.