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Free Guide to Set Up an Affiliate Site

January 5, 2013 by Shawn Collins

Back in December 2010, I was in negotiations to write a book with a big publisher on affiliate marketing, but I didn’t like the direction (“get rich quick”) they wanted to go or that they would own the content.

Make Money OnlineAlso, they wanted 250 pages on becoming an affiliate, and I figured I could explain it clearly to people in far fewer pages.

And then there is the permanence of a printed book. The way of doing things evolves, but the advice in the book stay the same.

I wrote “Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants” back in 2000, and large parts were obsolete when it hit the shelves in 2001.

So anyway, I decided to take the process I use to create affiliate sites and share it for free as a blog, and the result was Extra Money Answer.

Here are all of the sections and subsections for anybody who wants to get started with an affiliate site.

  1. Introduction to the Extra Money Answer
  2. Pick a Topic for Your Site
    • Narrow Down Your Potential Topics
  3. How to Create Content
    • Become an Expert on Your Topic
    • Make “Ask the Expert” Videos
    • Google Alerts as a Content Source
  4. Brainstorm a Domain Name
    • Register a Domain Name
  5. Website Hosting
    • Setting Up Your Hosting Plan
    • Connecting Your Domain to Your Host
    • Installing WordPress
    • Installing a WordPress Theme
    • Configuring WordPress
    • WordPress Plugins
  6. Using Email to Drive Traffic
    • Create an Email List
    • Add an Email Form to Your Site
    • RSS to Email
    • Email Newsletters
    • Email Follow-Up Series
  7. Secure Your Social Media Names
    • Register Your Name on Twitter
    • Create a Facebook Page
    • Register Your User Name on Social Media Sites
  8. Driving Traffic to Your Website
    • Site Scrapers and Syndicators
    • NetworkedBlogs on Facebook
    • Twitter Tools
    • AWeber RSS to Email
    • YouTube Descriptions
    • Meetup.com Perks
    • LinkedIn Applications
    • Paper.li
    • Flickr Links
    • StumbleUpon
    • Podcasting
    • Facebook Ads
  9. Finding Affiliate Programs
    • Advertising in Print Publications
    • Affiliate Directories
    • Affiliate Networks
    • Affiliate Manager Contacts Affiliates
    • Affiliate Marketing Blogs
    • Message Boards or Forums
    • Affiliate Manager is on Twitter
    • Affiliate Marketing Conferences
    • Search Engines
  10. Creating Affiliate Links
    • Getting Code for Affiliate Links
    • Banner Ads
    • Text Links
    • Landing Pages
    • Datafeeds
    • HTML for Solo Email
    • Dynamic Rich Media
  11. Enhanced Statistics for Affiliates
    • Redirecting Affiliate Links
    • Affiliate Sub-IDs
    • Ad Servers
    • Google Analytics
    • A/B Testing
  12. Education for Affiliate Marketers
    • Affiliate Marketing Blogs and a Magazine
    • Networking at Meetups and Conferences
    • Competitive Research

Stay tuned in the near future for a Kindle version for anybody who wants a more portable format.

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