How to become an affiliate

If you are thinking of starting a web site selling affiliate products here`s some helpful tips and advice.

(First of all you can read “The Online Entrepreneurs Guide”) This book will give you a basic understanding about Ecommerce.

Step 1. Find a niche

Pandora`s Delights is updated nearly every day with products from Clickbank. These are either brand new products or ones that have been around for a while and have been relaunched.

Select a niche you want to focus your business on, it could be either health, body building, fishing, gardening, web traffic, trading, there are plenty to choose from,

I would suggest picking a category you have some experience or knowledge about as you will find it easier to add content to your site.

Step 2 Select if you want a Blog site or a Web site

Whats the difference between a blog site and a web site?  A blog site will allow your readers to be reactive and post comments; A web site is most cases is static.   

Step 3. Content

Place content on your site that visitors will find interesting, then update your site with new content to keep your visitors coming back.

When a visitor arrives at your website one of the following will happen

  • They click straight off to another site because they to not see anything they like.
  • They have a look around and either like or dislike the content.
  • They decide to enter they name and other detail to receive any offers you have running.
  • They buy a product or service from you.
  • They tell their friends about your site.

Most buyer only proceed if they are comfortable with what you have on offer. A friendly helpful website will turn a stranger into a friend.

You have less that a few seconds to capture their initial interest before they are off to another site. (Make your landing page so interesting they want to stay)

Step 4 Clickbank Account

Open an account with Clickbank (How to open a Clickbank account)

Step 5 Affiliate links

Select products from Pandora`s Delights using the Clickbank Vendors code that fits in with your chosen niche. (You will find this on the left of the product description in blue text)

Enter the Vendors code into the Clickbank market place with your affiliate ID and this will create a hope link for you, also you will see the percentage amount of the retail price the Vendor is offering you to sell their product. Copy & paste your hope link onto your web site or hyperlink some of your keyword in you content, and when clicked a sales page for your affiliate link will open up. On this sales page when anybody buys the product you will earn commission. To check your affiliate code is in place click on the purchase area of the sales page and the Clickbank billing window will open up, scroll to the bottom and your affiliate ID should be there.

Why use Pandora`s Delights when you can take the products straight off Clickbank because you have to go there anyway?

This is true and you can find all the products you need on the Clickbank site.

Pandora`s Delights just makes it easier you to find the new and relaunched products than are conveniently in one place.

Step 6 Promote your site

Building a great site with great content and with your affiliate links in place is going to make you money? Only if real people visit your site

You will see 1001 different ways to promote your site and most of them will look very attractive.

(Caution is advised because you could end up paying out a small fourtune buying these products to find out they are not as good as the salesletter is applying)

You now have a basic structure for starting an affiliate business and reading “The Online Entrepreneurs Guide” will have given you a far greater understanding of what to look out for and how this business works.

Pandora`s Delights is committed to helping affiliates and vendors.

With this in mind we have created Pandora`s Delights “Website Surgery”