Building Profitable Affiliate Sites

You have several options when it comes to starting an affiliate based website ‐ you can build a regular old website, build a blog (wordpress) or buy an existing site or blog that is currently residing in your niche.

I have used regular websites and blogs for many years. But, in my overall experience and conversations with other successful affiliates, blogs seem to have a more successful track record, both for traffic and revenue. In the past, blogs were used predominantly as their name implies, daily web logs. Bloggers would write their daily thoughts, use them as a personal journal and companies would use them to keep their customers up to date on news, what’s new and upcoming and so forth.

However, in the past couple years, blogs have become much more than silly journals and have turned into a killer way to drive traffic and revenue. Here are a few reasons blogs work so well for affiliate marketing… They’re newbie friendly, anyone can run one. Blogs are especially suited to those that are new to the web ‐ with a very friendly user‐interface, they’re easily updated and easily managed. They’re great for SEO. Easy and frequent updates, crawlable urls, blog directories for linking, pinging, RSS and well structured content all contribute to blog superiority in the search engines.

Blogs garner regular readers. Because of their frequent updates, blogs give readers a reason to come back day after day, thus increasing your chances of a sale and more. Static websites, unless they’re updated with a script, don’t have the same ‘pull’. Blogs (WordPress) have scores of widgets. Widgets can make your blog cooler, more useful and easier to market. All of this translates to more, new and repeat traffic.

Stop by at wordpress and look through the 1000′s of widgets to make your blog stand out. We’ll call it a more community feel, but blogs are MUCH easier to get links to, than regular websites. This is great for SEO (mentioned above) and for non‐search related traffic. Which, depending on where the traffic is coming from, can be as good or better quality. This, of course, is not to say there are no benefits to regular websites. We’ll discuss more traditional sites a little later, along with a fast and easy way to monetize them.

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