5 great Blog tips for Affiliate Store owners and Marketers

Blog and Affiliate Store Tip #1

Its not just "build it and they will come" You need traffic.

If you are not continually working on building your traffic thru on page SEO and thru off page SEO then you are losing the game because your competitors probably are. And NO an autoblog will not magically do it all for you. The new regular content is a must have but you also have to work the traffic side of it.

You can click on this link to read a great article about 12 SEO tips for your blog.

You can click on this link to read about an automated software system you can buy that will help you generate the traffic you need.

Blog and Affiliate Store Tip #2

Use  the technique of giving away free gifts to potential customers and visitors to your site.

For example, many people are currently creating e-books, free reports, and other digital products. These free products should actually be used to entice potential buyers of the product that you are promoting.

Oftentimes, there is a small, if not non-existent cost to the advertiser for creating these digital advertisements. If you have a reliable product for your affiliate marketing campaign, then your sales and conversion rates can be improved greatly by offering free products and gifts to customers and visitors to your Website!

Blog and Affiliate Store Tip #3

Make sure you are picking the right products. Cut the losers and keep the winners. A big mistake most people make is to just keep the same ads month in and month out, the same products, wether they sell or not.

WRONG. Always evaluate and test new products. here are 3 tips for how to look for them:

1.Look for affiliate products in strong markets, preferably where you have some interest or knowledge, but where it is obvious there is a big market. If there is a market, there will be plenty of products out there, and there will be people who have a need or strong desire for that product.

2.Find a niche within that market, preferably a small market, but still where people have a need or desire. For example, dating is a big market, but you would need to find a product suitable for a small niche.

3.Find products that are selling well. On Clickbank, a high gravity tells you a product is selling well, and most affiliate networks have some method of ranking. 

Blog and Affiliate Store Tip #4

Experiment with the price points!

Many affiliate marketing tips told you to look for low price product so that it is easier for you to make money with affiliate marketing. There is nothing wrong with that statement but when you think about it, you might need a lot of volume before you can make enough money to buy a super car.

Everyone knows that high priced product is hard to sell but it is not that there is no market for it. Isn’t Ferrari expensive? Still, there are people buying the car and the company is till making profit from it.

The key here is that you need to make your prospects feel that your product is indeed what they need. Just like selling the Ferrari, it is important that you let your prospects know that feature of the car but what you want to highlight is the experience of owning the car, the feel of driving the car on the road and the status of owning the car.

When you can make your prospects feel special with your product, it doesn’t matter how much you are selling your product, they are going to look for ways to buy your product. 

Blog and Affiliate Store Tip #5

Your Website is the jumping off point, the beggining, the foundation of  all your marketing efforts.

So the first step in any successful affiliate marketing business is building a good, credible and professional looking Website. You must build a user-friendly Website, which will attract your prospects and motivate them to click on the links to the products and services you are promoting and make a purchase. There are companies whose business is building websites that you can hire to build one for you.

But you don't need to do that. If yo don't already have a wordpress blog get one. WordPress has all the features you will ever need and you can use dozens of free wordpress plugins to optimize your Website automatically. You can click on this link to read about the best wordpress plugins to help your blog.

The Theme of your wordpress blog is not only its look and feel, its layout and design and its core capabilities, it is your customers first impression of your site. If you use a cheesy free template or layout do you think your customers are going to be enticed to spend money with you?

Spend $25 -$75 on a quality professional wordpress theme. Click on this link to check out the professional Themes by Woo Themes

WooThemes – Premium WordPress Templates

. They are sharp, organized,  super easy to use, loaded with toms of features and backed by solid professional support staff. You can thank me later!

What is a Sales page anyhow?? A blog Sales Page is also called a “Splash Page” or a landing page. Knowing How To Make A Blog Sales Page is a great way to get your core Blog message to your audience. NOTE: If you are new to blogging and want a good getting started guide you can click on this lnk to read a detailed getting started blogging guide!

With a  Blog sales page everyone that goes to your home page will read your core message. This is very common with Niche sites. For example if your site is aimed at selling a video on how to jump higher, you will probably want everyone that goes there to see your main page where you try to sell the video.

Also, even with a Premium (purchased) WordPress Theme you may want a  Sales page with lots of pictures or a sales pitch that makes it really stand out from other peoples blog. You can always list all the categories and other pages in tabs along the top and recent posts in a sidebar! And yes, if people like your blog, they WILL take the time to click around and see what else you have to say!

How To make the Blog Sales Page. If you use a default “free theme” or a Professional Custom Theme (Like one from Woo Themes) you can create a static front page for your wordpress Theme with a few simple changes. This article teaches you everything you need to know step by step to create a WordPress Static Page!

Background info before we show you how to modify a Blog Theme for a static Front Page:

1) By default WordPress shows your recent Posts on the first page of your Website or blog, page of your site.[/caption]

2) So if you change your Blog to have a static front page, you also have to change it so WordPress has a place to show all your recent blog posts and articles right?

3) WordPress often calls this a “Virtual Directory”

4) Creating a static front page for a WordPress Blog does not require editing or coding of files or templates. Using the default configuration for a "static front page" in WordPress does not remove the sidebar or change the look of the entire site, just the content area. So How to create a Blog Static Page is really pretty easy!

5) Important note on "How to Make a Blog static page" – When you create a Splash Page for your wordpress Theme it no longer uses the “wordpress Loop” to show your most recent blogs or peoples comments on the front page of your Theme. However the static page can be customized to link to featured content, or highlight posts,or direct people to  articles, categories, or contributors.

How to Create a Static Front Sales Page for your wordpress Theme:

Step 1) Create 2 WordPress Theme pages

using the "Add New Page" panel. Log into your admin account of your Website. Click on the “Pages” option on the right hand side of the panel. Click on “Add New”

From now on I will refer to each page as page 1 and page 2

Step 2) Page 1 -The first page Can be called what ever you want but most people call it “Home”. This is the Blogs static page (Splash Page) for your wordpress Theme.

• You can add whatever content you want to your WordPress Static Page.
• You can come back later and edit the page.
• You can imbed links to other pages within the body of the text on your WordPRess Static Page(I recommend installing the ckeditor plugin to make adding, links, pictures and better text a lot easier). To other pages or articles on your blog).
• You can add pictures to your Blogs Static Page– I recommend that you do. Remember that most people call a WordPress Static Page a "Splash Page". You want to make a Splash! And pictures can do that! And you can add attributed to those pictures that the Search Engines will key on so make sure to do that).

Step 3) Page 2 – Title this page as “Blog” (or new or articles or whatever) this is the page that  will contain the posts etc for your site.DO NOT add text to this page. Just publish it empty and go to the next step!!

Step 4) Designate which page of your blog is the “Front Page” .

Click on “settings” (you should be logged in as admin. It should be on the left side of the admin panel of your wordpress theme as pictured below. Then Click on “Reading” .

1. Under “front Page displays” Click the  “Static Page” button and then
2. Fill in the title of the Static Page that you defined above in the “Front Page” Box.
3. Fill in the title of the “Blog” Page that you created above (the one we said to leave empty).
4. Click “Save Changes” at the bottom.
   1. Set which page will be designated the "front"

Now go to your Website (refresh the screen to make sure that your changes show up).

If the WordPress Static Page is now the “Home Page” of your WordPress Theme (Blog) ->Cool! You did it!

If it isn’t, don’t panic! Lets figure it out.

Troubleshooting WordPress Themes

First, go back thru each of the steps of how to modify a wordpress theme to create a WordPress static page. The most common problem  is not saving the “reading” setting change, or not clicking the little button in the reading setting.

So check these steps and then close your browser, re-open it and go to your Website and see if the change to your wordpress theme is there. Some WordPress Themes (free or purchased)  won’t easily create a Blog static page. The most common problem is the Navigation Bar that many wordpress themes have and that contains links to the pages of your blog. Some themes have a “Home” page already defined. This can cause issues with the “home page” you just created. You need to get rid of that “other” home page!