By David McKenzie

For affiliates running their own web site or thinking of starting their own web site the following web design tips should help you convert more visitors into sales.

1. Your main goal as an affiliate is to get people to click your affiliate links so make it very easy for visitors to click your affiliate link. You have to actually tell them to click the link. Have a ‘click here’ for every affiliate link on your site.

2. Content. Content. Content. Give visitors what they want – they want good quality content and lots of it. Articles, tips, newsletter archives and details of each product or service on your site.

3. The fewer pictures the better. Lots of graphics slow sites down and as you are an affiliate you want your visitor to click your affiliate link. If your web site takes a long time to load your visitor may just leave and not even get a chance to click your affiliate link.

4. Use a simple layout with a prominent, easy to find link to each major page on your site. Complicated sites with lots of graphics and the latest design features are great in theory but the keep it simple strategy works best for affiliates.

5. If you offer a newsletter, make it very easy for people to sign up by having subscribe details on every page of your site. Also offer a newsletter archives section on your site.

6. For lots of great content use other people’s articles on your site. Ensure these articles fit the theme of your site and include your affiliate links at the bottom of each page these articles appear on.

7. Make sure you have a ‘Contact Us’ page. When you tell people who you are and how to contact you they will instantly be more likely to trust you. If they trust you they will click your affiliate links!

Be constantly looking for the best ways to design your affiliate web site. Your design should be focused on getting visitors to click your affiliate links. Better web design means better results for affiliates.

By David McKenzie

 There are thousands of business opportunities online. Most of them require some capital to start with. Not affiliate programs!

Here are 7 reasons why you should consider joining an affiliate program as your home based business.

1. Joining an affiliate program requires no outlay of capital.
That’s right, none! You can join an affiliate program for free
and start promoting the product immediately.

2. The internet marketing tools are already provided for you. A ‘top’ affiliate program will supply you with lots of
affiliate marketing tools that are ‘ready to go’. You just
copy and paste and put your affiliate code in. Then you start selling.

3. You do not need a product. It takes a LOT of time to develop your own product to sell online. With affiliate programs, the product is already there. Someone else spent all the time developing it so you do not have to.

4. Affiliate statistics are already provided as part of joining
an affiliate program. You do not have to go out and buy
expensive software to track your sales because the product owner is doing that for you. You don’t even have to pay for it, it’s free!

5. You do not have any ‘time lag’. With most businesses it takes a certain amount of time in the ‘start up’ phase. With affiliate programs there is no such thing. Once you join you can start selling.

6. You do not have to worry about sales administration and technical support. The product owner takes care of the sales process and all the after sales service. All you have to worry about is receiving your affiliate check!

7. You do not have to worry about direct contact with the
customer. In an affiliate program you are a re-seller so if the customer has a complaint they contact the product owner, not you.

Affiliate programs are simple to join, easy to start promoting and best of all they have no downside. If one affiliate program does not work out, you can leave and join a different one.