Making First Affiliate Web Site

I need a break from thinking about my new affiliate marketing web site, so I thought I’d write a blog about my experience. I realize that to be successful you have to get that first site going. I started early this morning doing some last minute searches on the niche I decided to enter, then over an hour deciding on the domain name.

Luckily Wealthy Affiliate has all the tools that I needed to research and create the web site. There is a keyword research tool, keyword creating tool, a very easy web site creation tool and even free hosting with you membership. There is a lady on the forum who has made 43 video tutorials for site creation, seo, list building, etc.

I decided to keep my site name generic so that I’ll be able to promote a variety of niches. For example – www.genericsite.com/niche_1 - OR - www.genericsite.com/niche_2, I will use them as landing pages and to pre-sell.

With all the tools available, building the site was the easy part. The time and trouble is deciding on the products for the niche and getting set up in different affiliate programs. Many of them are not automated so you have to wait for someone to approve the site and get back to you. I was ready to work today and wanted to get more done than I did. Well the site is up and I have two products on it, but the two that I really want to get on there are through commission junction and I’m having a little problem with them. I had an account with them years ago that I never used so they deactivated it, now it won’t let me login because it was deactivated and they won’t let me apply for a new account because I already have one! I sent customer support an email and hope to hear from them soon.

I even started a small adwords campaign. I should wait until the site is better developed, but I’m too impatient for that!

The site was so easy to create; researching and registering the domain took up much of the time. Now that I have that part done adding another niche is going to be a piece of cake – time to go research that next perfect, profitable niche. Finding the right niche is very important, there are some niches that are overflowing with master marketers – I’m not getting into that arena – I’ll stick with small niches for now.