Learn step-by-step how to build an easy affiliate website 

Building a money-making affiliate website just got super easy. No technical skills necessary. Let me show you how.

Website Building Checklist 

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Website Concept Using Keywords

The first day of website building is a brainstorm: what are you interested in and what are you good at?
Goal: make a list of hundreds of keyword phrases.

Website Concept: Prioritize Your Keywords

Goal: Find the keywords that get searched the most often, and that have the fewest number of competitive websites online.

Build your Website Concept with Research

Goal: Research your competition and fill a spreadsheet with ideas for merchants, affiliate programs, and content ideas.

Finding the Best Affiliate Programs

Goal: Understand how to pick the best affiliate programs from your list.

Deciding Between a Website or Blog

Goal: Explore Publisher-For-You and see how easy it is to switch from website to blog until you decide which format you want to use.

Build Your Website by Writing Content

Goal: Write unique content that pleases the search engines, answers readers' questions and needs, and ultimately makes you money.

Make Your Website Look Unique

Goal: Take a break from writing and do some simple design work that makes your website stand out from the crowd.

Find Targeted Prospects and Send Them to your Website

Goal: Get targeted traffic to your site by using article marketing, submitting your website to directories, commenting in related blogs, and leaving posts in relevant forums.

Building a website HAS to be easy 

Publisher-For-You is the bee's knees

As webmasters, we want to focus on creating (income producing) text content, and we don't want that focus to be distracted by web publishing technology. No html, no uploading and futzing with alignments and fonts and all that.

We want to focus on writing quality content and getting traffic.

Authors need to be able to create a large site or blog using one simple form with just TWO required fields. That kind of simplicity is welcome so you can focus on writing and promoting, the things that get you traffic and make you money.

Two clicks and you have downloaded a backup copy of your entire site. One click and you can switch your entire site from blog mode to website mode, and vice versa.

One click and you can add an article from the 25,000 installed within your account. One click and you navigate from your current page to any other page on your site, including the searchable site map. One click and you can switch from one color scheme to another. One click and you can switch from a sidebar on every page to links at the bottom of each page, or vice versa.

One click and you have a date for Saturday night...oh sorry, that may be the one click you can't do.

What's your biggest issue about building a website? 

Add to this list

Grab this list

Get the RSS feed: Keep an eye on this Plexo list. See who wins. And who's left in the dirt.

Get the widget: Add this Plexo list as a widget on your blog, site, forum, whatever. Be an influential. Show off your great find.

Get this on my lens: Attack of the clones! Grab this Plexo module for your own lens. Get YOUR readers to vote for their favorites.

• Add to Bloglines
• Add to My Yahoo
• Add to Google
• Add to Technorati
• Add to NewsGator
• Add to My MSN
• Grab the XML

Please pick your widget size and display. Then click "Make the Widget" to get the code that's just right for you.

Pick your widget size:

Small size: Best for blog sidebars, and areas 250 pixels or less
Standard size: Best for blog posts, and areas greater than 250 pixels wide

How many list items to show? 5 10 15 All

Make the Widget!

Voila: Just copy and paste this code into your own site. Have fun!

Oopsey! Please login to Squidoo in order to add this module to your lens.

Add more links    Submit

Type or paste links below (one per line):
(Ex: http://www.cuteoverload.com) Help me find links

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Did you ever build a website...and then learn how to do it right? 

I did, and I'm still dealing with the mess...

I built my first website a couple years ago, and it's gone through several incarnations. I recently learned something I should have known before I started: what a good website navigation system looks like.

I'm too embarrassed to go into the details. Suffice it to say, I think this is why very few of my pages even have a page rank, although my homepage has a pr4 and is located quite high in search engine results.

Every page is linked to the homepage. What's the problem? I finally slowed down and looked at it from a first-time visitor's point of view. There is no logical progression. There is nothing that draws the visitor from one page to the next.

I have 7 main categories. I just need to organize everything into category directories.

We don't need the details. Just imagine changing the urls of over 100 pages.

So when I add content to my websites at Publisher-For-You, it's so relaxing. I mean, I work on those websites for fun.

The navigation system for these sites is created and maintained automatically. The author does not need to create or manage an internal linking structure for their site; you create categories, then choose one from the drop-down menu whenever you write a new article. The article is automatically placed in that directory, which is reflected in the URL. Simple.

To make navigation easy for readers, a link to every page is provided on every page. Readers are never more than one click away from any page on the site.

I'm beginning a love affair with drop-down menus and with the word "automatic".

A searchable site map is provided. Readers can sort article listings by latest article, oldest article, category of article, or search for words contained in article titles or summaries.

A simple site map designed around the needs of search engine robots is also provided.

All right, I'm two-timing "automatic" - I love "simple" too. Am I the only person who has struggled in vain to install a Google site map on my website?

The system encourages authors to put a brief summary of each article under the article title, which gives readers an "at a glance" guide to each article's contents. If you include your keywords in your article summary (and why would you not?) you will be pleasantly surprised that this is quite often what the search engines quote in search results.

Ah beauty, simplicity, and automation. I'm in love.

Do you think the best way to learn is by just doing it? 

I'm not free and easy, but some things are

I like free trials. Maybe you can relate: I learn by doing. Many times I read a manual or page of instructions and everything gets fuzzy. I start thinking about how I really need to clean my house or wash some dishes. I wonder what's on tv. Now would be a good time to organize my desk drawers.

But sit me down with step by step instructions and let me try it out before I pay any money, now that I like.

This is how Publisher-For-You is; you pay at the end of the month ($25/month) so every new subscriber gets to try it out for 30 days. A whole month! So even if you have a life, you have plenty of time to experiment. If you don't want to continue, you don't have to pay. No hassles with trying to get a refund.

Payment is made through PayPal, so you also don't need to worry about disclosing personal information such as credit card info to a company you may decide not to continue with after a month.

The beauty of getting a 30-day free trial is that it only takes 30 minutes to sign up and get your website online. That leaves you 719 1/2 hours to get to know all the tools and options, and put plenty of content on there.

Then build a Squidoo page that focuses on your favorite part of your Publisher-For-You website topic. I was able to get this Squidoo page into Google's Top 10 within a week, so you can get targeted traffic back to your own domain fast with this system.

No Technical Knowledge Necessary 

If you can write an email, you can add a video or content quickly and easily

Adding a YouTube video is easy with a website hosted at Publisher-For-You. So is adding new content.

The problem with an information-based website is the volume of information you need to add before you are considered an authority. Publisher-For-You makes this easy in several ways:

Authors can create a huge website easily because adding a content page means filling in only two required fields (title and content) with two additional optional fields available (category and summary).

Over 25,000 articles in 75 topic areas come already installed within each Publisher-For-You account. With one click of a button users can add any article they want to their website.

A group of writers can build a site together using the Guest Editor function, allowing each participant to publish within a specified category, complete with their own control panel, under the supervision of the site owner. Any company, organization or collaborative group will find this feature incredibly useful.

Readers can easily add comments to any article, and the webmaster is automatically notified of new comments by email.

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Website Building Software 

Web Piston Site Builder

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Gimme some space! 

And make it safe!

Steve Jobs knows his market 

Have you noticed any pop-ups lately, asking if you'd like to download Apple's Safari browser?

The importance of knowing your target market was never more obvious than in the June 10th, 2007 unveiling of the beta Safari Browser for Windows by Steve Jobs at Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

There are a whole list of reasons why, once again, Jobs and Apple are spot-on with their latest promotion. First of all, they know that the owners of Apple products are like groupies, or maybe cult members. Apple product users flock to conferences and conventions so that they can maybe be the first to let their text buddies, RSS subscribers, DIGG diggers or whoever, hear about the latest and greatest from Apple. They pride themselves on being cutting edge.

Secondly, capturing disgruntled Windows users has got to be Jobs' favorite hobby...

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Targeted Website Traffic From Ezines 

A good ezine editor keeps his list targeted, fresh and interested. All you need to do is find the ezines that target YOUR market.

Once you start making money from your work online and know that all you have to do is ______ to make money, whatever you use to fill in that blank becomes the best use of your time.

If, like me, writing is what makes you money, then the time it takes to research, market, link, promote, advertise, answer emails, maintain a website, and do your bookkeeping are minutes and hours wasted. Whether or not this is "time well wasted" depends on your results.

I try to keep it simple. I write fresh website content and use Publisher-For-You as my webhost because so many of these tasks become automated. Now all I need is targeted traffic - that's what article marketing is for. How do I do that most efficiently?

Read more about how to get plenty of targeted website traffic

Getting Backlinks from Forums 

a quicky 3-minute how-to

Top 10 Tactics For Getting Backlinks revisited 

You get a bonus: #11, the one I just discovered today

The excitement hasn't worn off yet...

#11: social bookmarking (I know, nothing new...read on). This is about getting backlinks to your webpages from the top social bookmarking websites. A list of the top 30 sites can be found here, along with the criteria for rating them (all good stuff): http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30

(By the way, at the bottom of this page is a list of other interesting and maybe helpful pages of "Top" lists.)

Then I did myself one better, I found a site where I can put a button in my Bookmarks toolbar that will send my webpage to dozens of these sites all at once. How cool is that?

http://www.socialposter.com/

Having Problems Choosing The Best Affiliate Programs? 

My affiliate website won't be complete without products, but sometimes it's hard to pick the best program. Here are some guidelines I use to help make sure I earn good money from my efforts.

I've completely lost my mind: Ask for 100% commission 

This works if the affiliate program owner is smart and has a suitable product

Asking an affiliate program owner if you can earn 100% commission sounds like I've completely lost it, I know. But here's the deal: it's worth making no profit to an affiliate program manager IF it builds their list.

Think of it this way: especially if an affiliate program is new and there aren't many affiliates, a program manager may be very open to hearing this idea.

Affiliates are encouraged to join and to be active if they get to keep all the profits on one product. AND the affiliate manager builds a list of BUYING customers faster.

There's more to this shocking affiliate marketing tip.

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enslavedbyfaeries This may be something I'd like to try in the future. Thanks for the great tips and suggestions. Posted August 14, 2008

joomlagal You've got some great ups on website building, and describe what's involved really well. Excellent lens! Posted October 06, 2007

bekat Pat, I can almost guarantee you that you will do well with Pub4U. The owner, Phil Tanny, is my buddy and he's a coding whiz, he's adding new tools as we type... If you need any help at all, just let me know. I've been testing every aspect of the service for him, and I think it rocks. Posted August 10, 2007

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Posted August 08, 2007

Pat Okerlund This site is so great I signed up for Publisher for you!! I really can't believe it's true. I've been trying to build a site with another hosting company for 9 months, now and I'm no closer to being finished than when I started. I sure hope this works. Thank you so much, Pat Posted June 24, 2007

 

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