Newbie to Market Affiliating

[ADAMESKI]

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Hello All,

I'm very new to all this but am starting to get my head round it.

Looking for any people who have some tips out there for first timers.

I have already registered my site, and am now in the progress of writing my templetes for the site.

I was wondering what would be my best move after this.

Before anyone says, i do realise that this is not an overnight thing and can take years to get in to a good position if at all, but myself and the two people with me are very dedicated, and have quite a bit of free time.

I am planning on starting a generic Shopping Market page, with lists of many different stores and goods, although i realise this is a bit ambitous to start, i do feel that i have the time and patients to build the site ok.

Any help for a newbie would be greatly appreciated.

Traffic coming through my site is the most important, i get that, but where do we all start.

Thanks for taking the time, to listen to my bit of waffle. I wanna be like the rest of you please. anyway bye for now, and hope to post on here in six months-1yrs time with great success stories and some.

Bye
Adam

[drivetowin]

Adam

Welcome to the forum and to the wild wild world of affiliate marketing

Unless you have come up with something really unusual, you will have a real hard struggle trying to make money from a generic shopping site - there are just far far too many out there already - yes a few (and at least a couple owned by members of this forum) earn a decent chunk of money but most are lucky if they make a tenner a month

Far far better to find some niches, pick a subject or subjects that you are interested in, build sites about those and then look for suitable merchants

[km8]

I'd say take kbudden's advice and narrow it down to a niche, or at least a genre - if not 'left-handed-golf putters', at least 'sports equipment'.

This is not about how many products you've got - it's about how many likely-to-buy-what-you've-got visitors you can attract.

Focus, focus, focus!