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There is a lot of heavy “get rich with this program” promotion going on for what I call “cookie-cutter” affiliate websites. You sign up, pay a fee (often a down stroke and a monthly hosting/service price) and you get a pre-made website. You are told you can just sit back and watch the dollars flow in. Typically the only person that gets rich with this kind of a deal is the person running the website program in the first place. Even re-sellers of the program, if they have their own affiliate offering, seldom make any real money!

The biggest problem with these sites is that everyone’s is pretty much the same and they have not positioning in the important search engines. Here’s what Google says about them:

“Our Webmaster Guidelines advise you to create websites with original content that adds value for users. This is particularly important for sites that participate in affiliate programs.”

Google goes on to offer several important factors that you can apply to create a successful affiliate site. These include:

• Your affiliate content should make up only a small portion of the over all content of your website.
• When choosing your affiliate program, find product(s) that are appropriate for your intended audience. Targeting the product(s) to your site’s content will produce greater value and you will be more likely to rank better in search results.
• Build a community around your website and involve your users. Loyal, returning, readership provides more likelihood of conversion to sales.
• Update content regularly and be sure it is always relevant. Fresh, on-topic information increases website crawling by search engine spiders/bots.

This is all just one more reason why a blog is an excellent addition to an affiliate site as it allows easy addition of current, relevant material.

It’s unseasonably cold this morning. 27F with the wind chill factor. That’s cold, folks! But it’s a good Sunday morning. The website is all but done. Oh, sure, there’s a few bits and pieces that need a little messing with but all in all it is ready to go. We’ve added the link to MSMOsites and we’re looking forward to our first visitors.

The amazing thing to me is that from concept to near completion the site took only three days. Three days! Most comparable sites would take a week to ten days minimum and could easily drag out for weeks. We are really more and more impressed with this WordPress website engine. It’s powerful, easy to use, and the theme (template design) process is fast. It makes the whole process enjoyable.

And it means we can offer fully installed, configured, and hosted, websites at a much more affordable price than ever before. If you are looking for a website of your own talk to us and we’ll discuss your needs and match them to the options available.

I am just getting my new website up and running and it will be a few days yet before everything is fully ready. The site will, of course, always be a work in progress. I will make posts here in the blog as things come to mind and update the content of the various pages when I find new things to share. Drop back often. Please join our forums and participate as you can. Feel free to ask any questions you might have. I will always do my best to answer them.