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Remember, affiliate marketers are often provided with ready made web sites or web pages by their affiliate program.

Most affiliate marketing programs do not require you to have a web site.  It is possible to run successful affiliate marketing campaigns without a web site.

It is up to you to decide if a web site would be helpful or if your time is better spent strictly on marketing.

Learn what you need about successful marketing with a free copy of my “Action Plan for Affiliate Marketers” guide when you become an SFI affiliate through the following link:

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Savannah Kruse

Interactive and Personalized Web Sites

Make your website interactive. Add feedback forms and email forms that allow your prospective customers to ask you any questions they might have about a product. Personalize your site for each visitor – perhaps by geographical location, name, computer type, or such – to help them feel welcome and unique.

Content is King

Good content sells a product or service. Ask yourself the following questions. Do your ads and articles convey the right message?  Does it help your visitor through the sales process? Have others review your ads and articles to provide editing feedback. Always check spelling and grammar for everything you write.

Credibility Is Crucial

The best site design won’t sell your products or services unless your customers believe in you.  A clear privacy statement is one step in building your credibility. Provide legitimate contact information on line.  Provide prominent links to your contact info and to your privacy statement from every page on the site.

Navigation should be simple

Make site navigation easy and quick. Make finding what they want convenient to your visitors. Design your site so everything is just three clicks away from anything else your visitor might want to see.

Consistency is the key

Give all the pages in your web site a consistent look.  Use colors and themes throughout the site so that your visitors can easily tell they are still at your site. Functionality should be similar and navigation should be identical on virtually all your pages.  

Hiya!

When you get ready to put up your own web site, it is extremely helpful to know about effective marketing designs.

There are many things you can do to plan a good web site.  Remember, it is your visitors you need to think of when designing any web site.  Determine exactly what it is you want them to do, and then make sure it is easy for them to do it!

Beyond that, have fun!  This is a medium for expressing yourself and the web site you create will leave your visitors with an impression of you.   Make the most you can of it.

Walk through the marketing process step by step with a free copy of my “Action Plan for Affiliate Marketers” guide! Get one when you become an SFI affiliate through the following link:

http://internetmarketersdreamsite.com/SFI

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Savannah Kruse

Target Your Audience

Make certain that your site caters to your visitors.  Design your web site to reflect the preferences of your potential customers.  Are you marketing to business professionals? Make sure your site looks professionally designed and polished.  Is your product aimed mostly at a young audience? Then your site can be more informal and interactive. The key point here is to understand the tastes of your market and design your web site accordingly.

Focus the Site

The content on your web site should focus on the goal of selling your product or service. If you have several products, each item should have a unique sales page.  If you market many items, you may wish to create a catalog for ease in browsing.  Be sure to include a search box on your site as well.

Build a web site that is a simple, focused site. It should be easy to build, low maintenance, low cost or free, customer friendly, and credible.

There are many factors to be considered while designing a site. Following are just a few of the many things to consider during site design.

Design Quick Page Loading

You have just a few seconds to capture a visitor’s attention. To minimize load times, keep graphics small. Use bells and whistles (animation, sound, video, etc) sparingly.  Use text size and color to draw attention where you want it on the page.  Keep page sizes small and provide easy to use menus for navigation through them.

If you don’t have a web site, you might consider starting one.  There are sites that offer both a free domain name and free web hosting for life.  Many of these same places offer web design templates to make getting your site functional a quick and easy process.

Sometimes your affiliate program has ready made web site code that you can use with your domain name and hosting plan.  This gives you ready made program specific web site pages and takes no more work than moving a few files from your hard drive to your hosting plan’s server.

If you want other web site design options, look around.  There are many free programs and templates to help you get your own web site up quickly.

Hiya!

Thanks to everyone who helped provide input on the updated version of the “Action Plan for SFI Affiliate Marketers.”

The guide now includes examples with page links to SFI to make it easier to work along with the guide.  There are also several “how-to” pages explaining things in detail with step-by-step examples.

Although the guide is written with the beginner marketer in mind, it is useful to even the most skilled marketer.  It will help expedite you through the SFI site and process so you can be up and marketing as quickly as possible.

Get all this information in the free copy of my “Action Plan for SFI Affiliate Marketers” guide when you become an SFI affiliate through the following link:

http://www.internetmarketersdreamsite.com/SFI

Succeed!

Savannah Kruse

Analyze your sale pages and web site.  Have you introduced your company?  Are you presenting your products and services in a way that shows the customer how they will benefit from it?

Add bonus items or offer a special discount for a limited time for certain items to catch your target audience’s attention.

Examine results from your advertising resources.  Which ones are producing better results?  Drop the ones that result in few or no visitors to your pages.

Remember that relevant information in articles can provide many links to your page or web site.  Help these articles serve your needs better by using keyword suggestion tools. Research keywords frequently and optimize your article submissions and your web site accordingly.  Submit your website to various search engines monthly.

You can get relevant articles to use on your site for free from article directories.  Be sure to follow their rules for posting other’s work on your blog or web site.

If you have started an affiliate marketing campaign, keep it constant.  If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention.

Be patient. Try each method of promotion until you find the ones that work best for you. This requires some trial and error, but since most methods of promotion can be done for free you can easily test which seem to be working to bring you customers.

Check all your sale pages and advertisements for errors and make sure all the links are correct.  Upload new content to your blog and web site continuously.

Track down where visitors are coming from and what ads are getting their attention.  Be willing to try methods again using different ads and approaches based on what you learn about your visitors.