Affiliate Marketing Site: 6 Factors to Consider Before Building by Jeff Casmer

Affiliate Marketing Site: Studies show that the attention span of online users is about ten seconds. This is far less than other media forms. To keep your visitors interested and keen on your affiliate marketing site it must contain certain elements. Your website should be fluid with the links and content relating to the marketing niche. Here are some valuable tips to know when you are creating an affiliate marketing website.

Your headline sells your ads, or in this case your website. If your headline fails to grab the attention of your viewer you can be guaranteed that nothing else will. Take your time and put a considerable amount of thought into creating compelling headlines for all your content, ads, and description tags.

A good headline of course can not stand on its own. Having a compelling sales letter or article is just as important, if not more so. Keep in mind however, that the job of the affiliate marketer is not hard sell to his customers. Your goal is to provide the customer with all the necessary information to make the purchase. This means having a benefit filled sales page, with testimonials from satisfied customers, as well as pointing out the disadvantages to not owning the product.

You will also want give your prospective customer content surrounding the niche the products relate to. For example, if you were an affiliate marketer about an ebook on hypnosis, you might write articles about the benefits of hypnosis and then tell your readers that they can find more information buy purchasing the book.

This benefits you in two ways. One is that search engines like sites with content, thus you're more likely to receive a greater quantity of traffic. Second, the visitors that do visit you will be impressed by your knowledge, regard you as an expert, and value your recommendation.

A FAQ page is another thing you should consider. A FAQ page entails facts about the products and services and how they impact the customer's level of satisfaction. Providing information is a great way to make sales but your customer can provide you with information that will boost sales.

Information is a two way street and you can gather information about your customers to use to your advantage. When creating your affiliate marketing site page consider adding a scripting and ecommerce services. This scripting option allows you to gather information about your customers' shopping habits. This gives you the opportunity to offer future products that cater to your customers' needs and that are of interest to them. Avoid over doing it though, the customer should still be able to maneuver through the site with ease.

The user experience should be a positive experience. Try to keep the load time to a minimum. This means that unless your article, graphics or videos adds to the overall professional image of the website it has no business being there.

Your customer should also be able to access all the pages efficiently and effectively. Your links should not only be working but readable. If it's too small to read they will not click it. Keep in mind that in order for your site to entice the browser to stay it has to be relevant to their needs. All your links and content should be relevant to one another. Stick to the theme of the site.

Your affiliate marketing site should be informative, professional and convenient. As long you keep the customer in mind while you build your site, you can not go wrong.

Jeff Casmer is an internet marketing consultant and work at home business owner. For more information on affiliate programs please visit his "Top Ranked" Best Affiliate Programs Directory gives you all the information you need to Work at Home in the 21st century.

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