onlineebooks
Hello everyone.
I am looking at doing some affiliate promoting but i am not sure the best way of doing it.

I would like to promote a large amount of affilate programs but i am not sure if i should just host the mini site on one of my other sites , as a subdomain, or put it on its own domain.

I would guess that its own domain would be best but that would be alot of domains to look after ..... your options would be appricitatd.
thanks
jamie snodgrass

Louis
Originally posted by onlineebooks
Hello everyone.
I am looking at doing some affiliate promoting but i am not sure the best way of doing it.

I would like to promote a large amount of affilate programs but i am not sure if i should just host the mini site on one of my other sites , as a subdomain, or put it on its own domain.

I would guess that its own domain would be best but that would be alot of domains to look after ..... your options would be appricitatd.
thanks
jamie snodgrass

Hi Jamie

My first question would be - how are you going to promote them?

And actually -- I've come to the following conclusions:

Rather than generically promoting an affiliate link, I would suggest promoting an affiliate link that solves the problem your visitor has at that moment.

As a successful example:

Yanik Silver's "33 Days To Online Profits" product has an action plan for getting people profiting online.

To realise that action plan and achieve what they want to achieve, the reader has to sign up to services/tools through Yanik's affiliate links.

Yanik said that worked much more effectively than just putting links in and hoping people will click on them.

And I actually promote *very* few affiliate links. I only promote things I use myself, truly believe in, and then I just promote them consistently and hard.

All I've really done for affiliate links is use meta tag redirects.

For example:

www.domain.com/affiliatelink

And then in the "affiliatelink" folder you just have an index.html file which automatically redirects through your affiliate link.

Sincerely,
Louis

onlineebooks
Thanks for your info louis.

I have come to the conclusion that it depends on what kind of traffic you are looking for .

If you are going to try and get se traffic it would be better to have it in its own domain with its own pages.

If you are going to use a pay per click engine then i guess you might as well just have it in a subfolder in one of your sites.

Does this sound right or am on the wrong track here ?
jamie

jason_ga
Sounds good to me.

Your third option is to set up a domain that is just a redirect to your affiliate link. You might want to use this in advertising (online or offline), as a simple domain name is easier to remember than a URL + page name.

Obviously you could make this domain a mini site (like you mentioned), but in some cases there might be little point - especially if the merchants site is well created.

Cheers,
Jason

Louis
Originally posted by onlineebooks
Thanks for your info louis.

I have come to the conclusion that it depends on what kind of traffic you are looking for .


If you are going to try and get se traffic it would be better to have it in its own domain with its own pages.

If you are going to use a pay per click engine then i guess you might as well just have it in a subfolder in one of your sites.

Does this sound right or am on the wrong track here ?
jamie

Hi Jamie

One thing you might find useful (if you're not using it already) is WordTracker:

http://www.wordtracker.com

Even just their free trial offers a wealth of information and reveals niches you can potentially dominate.

Sincerely,
Louis

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