You’ve probably heard before, probably with a lot of hype,
how much money you can make with affiliate programmers. Maybe you’ve even set
up a site yourself, only to find that after buying domain, a few bucks a month
in hosting software or a web designer to design your site, etc, that the paddy
affiliate fees hardly even cover your cost. Well, here is the type free way to
really make money with an Amazon.com affiliate site. And it will only take a
day to make the site.
The secret? Low cost, low effort
1. If you don’t already know it learn some
basic HTML. You have to do this to keep your cost down and still get what
you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you’re going to need
to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text
formatting. Get over any anxiety you have.
2. Decide on your topic. You are going to
be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy
and know something about. If you can’t stay passionate about the topic, that will
show and it also won’t hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be
distinctive e.g. bands from your city, left handed guitarist, music for a
certain kind of dance, authors of a certain religion, books about arts and
crafts, etc.
3. Choose your domain name. Make it
keyword rich not necessarily clever. Think how people will find your site in
the search engines. Here are some ideas (all available, by the way):
Music:
bands from Lagos.com, Band out of
Uyo.com. Non stop hip hop.com.
Books:
Mormon
authors.com. Art and crafts.com, books by Stephen king.com, classic business
books.com
4. Register your domain name. if you are
not technically inclined at all, register your domain wherever you set up your hosting
in step 5. Otherwise you can save a few bucks by choosing a lower-cost
provider. Not a big deal for one or two sites, but it can be ten or twenty.
5. Set up your web hosting. This is where
most people get burned, for this kind of site; you do not need $10 a month web
hosting! Check out discount hosting. Com for no-frills hosting with adequate
functionality and bandwidth, for around $10 a year! If you want more features,
or especially if you are planning to run multiple sites, see Greek hosting.com
or multi domain hosting.com
6. Install weblog software. “weblog, did I
hear you say?” yes, it will give your site all the structure you need, plus
make it easy to quick post new content, my pick is word press, which is open
source (i.e. free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Download it
and follow their installation instructions. Turn on notifications to web logs.
Com and blogs. In word press, this is under options/RSS/RDF feeds, track
pingbacks.
7. Make it pretty. Free templates for word
press are available at not that ugly.
Choose a style you like and then tweak it to suit your tastes and theme of
site.
8. Set up categories. Most blog software
allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will
help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests.
9. Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It’s
simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the join Associates link at the
bottom of the page (here’s a direct link for your convenience). Your site
should already have at least the basic set up done, even if you don’t have any
content there yet.
10. Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There
are two links that are going to be essential for you to make it easy. First is
the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their
instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a “bookmark let”.
Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to link toolbar in your
browser (assuming internet Explorer), or your favorite menu. This will allow
you to blog a product with one mouse click.
11. Create your Amazon build a link
bookmark/link. this will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate
ID built in. log in to Associates central, look in the left navigation sidebar,
go to build A link, and under static links, find individual items. Click and
drag this onto your links toolbar or favorite menu.
12. Built your first link. Go to Amazon and
find the product you want to review. Scroll down to product details and find
ASIN or ISBN. Double click on the number itself to select it, then right click
and choose copy. Click in the search field and choose paste. Change the
selection from served link to host link go. Your selection should show up. Click
get HTML. Choose the kind of link you want, select the highlighted text and
copy it.
13. Blog your view. Now, click on your blog
posting link (press it! By default in word press). If you are using word press,
you should now see two pieces of click code in your posting form, the first one
ending with Associate build A-link” delete through that point. The second part
is a link to the product of your Amazon Associate ID built in. now just write
your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit publish.
14. Build out your site. Before you promote
your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several
product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you’ve created you may also
want to make categories for articles, news and commentary about your topic. The
more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you
are writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically,
assuming you turned on the notification mentioned in step 6.
Promote
your site.
The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing
about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic
is discussed
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