DesignSmarts: The Real Scoop on Site Design and Effective Affiliate Programs

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What exactly is this affiliate program stuff'
Companies/organizations need surfers to visit their sites.
One way they can drive traffic to their site is to create
an affiliate program.

As an affiliate, you promote advertisers' Web sites on your site,
and when you bring customers to them, you get paid. There is many ways
an affiliate program can be run. In general, some affiliate programs

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pay each time a visitor clicks a link from your Web site to theirs,
some affiliate programs pay only when a sale is made.
Amazon is one example of an Affiliate program. Sell a book
for them from your site and you make a commission.

Sounds great right' Yes, it is a pretty sweet concept. However, you must
very strategic in how you use them. I have wondered across a great number
of sites that have:

A) Great design - Clean cut, easy to look at.
B) Interesting main focus - Something that would intrigue me

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1) Your information contained in your domain name
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& make me want to read on.
C) Something useful to offer - A product or service that can
really benefit me.
D) Affiliate links littered all over the place - It's kind of like

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your waiter bringing you your favorite dish with ten pounds of
wet garbage slopped on top.

End Result: I, like many other visitors, leave your site.
You the site owner, are sabotaging your site and sending traffic away!

Josh's 2 Step, No Fail, Sure-fire way of making affiliate
links work for you:

1. If you want an affiliate link to be effective you must place ones
with relevant information in your site. For example if you have a miracle

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juice link on your Internet business opportunity site, it just won't make
sense. Besides, the link will get very little traffic because people
find your site looking for that's right, Internet business opportunities.
Not only will irrelevant links sit there like "duds", they also take away
from the great information your have on your site as the main focus.

2. Don't over do it! Limit your affiliate links in respect to your
main content (ie. If your affiliate links take up more room then your
main content, you have way too many).

Why' At Worldprofit, when we design the Ultimate Home Business Package
we only recommend three affiliate links in the home page design.
The reason for this is because:

a) We don't want the surfers to become confused
b) We don't want the site to become cluttered
c) We want the surfer's to trust your site
d) We don't want the site to be too long
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