Missing the point of Affiliate Marketing!
I have been doing a few website reviews and I am just amazed, it is not that the websites look ugly or anything like that.
It is that people completely miss the point of affiliate marketing!
And then you get people that want to be nice to them telling them how wonderful their websites looks, so they earn a credit.
This only confirms my believe that they are also missing the point of affiliate marketing!
The point of affiliate marketing is to drive trafic to you website.
You do this by one thing only!
Unique CONTENT about your Niche that you are targeting!
So when I see an authority website that just displays products and pricing on the front page, I just shake my head. Another website in the desert, will never get any traffic!
Or a website that is a basic business page promoting there own products and having a portfolio to display. For offering webdesign and also training on affliate marketing!
They don't even get the concept of affiliate marketing right, because there is no unique CONTENT, other than a front page. Yes the design looks smick, but it is a billboard in the desert! No customers will see it.
Are you following the training guys, or are you just carring away making beautiful websites that don't get seen anywhere!
And if you do an website review, have a good look and tell them what you think is wrong and what they did ok. Egos don't need to be polished!
People need to know where they are missing the point, else al they will do is give up and say that is not working!
Cheers
Eric.
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Unfortunately, if you do not put positive comments on a website they get rejected. I had a comment rejected because it wasn't strong enough. it would appear some don't want to know the truth of what others think.
Derek
Hi Derek, I agree. You can still give positive feedback but tell them also what you know works best. There have been extensive studies on what appeals to people and what does not.
That layout, font size, readability, colours, white spaces, length of sentences, consistency of website are all very important for the customer experience.
Other things that I think are very important are loading speed of a website, the size of your images (Kbyte not visual size).
All these things, if you know, people can check for when they do the review.
It is my opinion that if you ask for a review you want to hear what you can improve and what works and what doesn't.
And Derek I think you are mistaken between comment and reviews, comments can be rejected, reviews cannot.
Cheers
Eric.
Thank you so much for your straight forward comments on the purpose of creating a site that increases the value of the affiliate marketing on it, as well as the affiliate marketing being able to add value to the site. The two should always edify the other for achieving the best results.
Giving value to the reader and using the best key words and media is the way over time to build a successful site. Recieving any type of feedback is a priceless part of our training and, if it is used to give the customers exactly what they are looking for, it will eventually result in producing a revenue stream. Though I am still a work in progress, I am really trying to learn well from the experience afforded to us at WA.
It is the best value we could ever have. I sincerely hope all of us see the value that exists with WA and not waste any more time while this opportunity is still within our reach. All the best to you.
Thank you, Gary, for your comment. I asked Kyle if we can review the process and make some guide lines on what you should cover when reviewing a website.
So it it doesn't become a ego polishing contest.
Agree but on the other hand my very first website is a BAD-looking billboard in the desert at this moment so I'm not the best guy to give advice yet :D However I have clear goals and plan and I am pretty sure it starts to give something back, sooner or later. Maybe 100 keyword optimized articles more and I have a foundation of some mighty bucks
I know that it is sometimes hard for people to stick to the training and fully grasp the concept. I just find it frustrating to see people doing reviews on their site and just telling them it is all good and they love what they have done.
I just checked a site out and did a speed test and it ran at 3%. Wouldn't you like to know if it was your site!
Honestly, some of these reviews are just a joke. I think we need to set some rules in WA how to do reviews, what points to check etc. Else what is the point!
The people that give reviews will never learn how to give a good review and the people that get the review are none the wiser.
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You are doing some awesome and honest reviews and that is what we all need here so that we can refocus if necessary on the training.
We cannot always just here the good. For me I definitely want to know what I can improve upon because I could have missed something in the training that I could be doing better.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks for your reply PeakLiving, I agree 100% with you mate, it is not what you want to hear, it is what you need to hear that allows you to move forward.
Web design is a skill that we all need to learn.
WordPress is an open platform, you can do anything you like on your website.
The problem is that you don't make the website for you, you make a website for your customers.
The aim of your website is to convert a looking customer in a buying one and in the first place to get organic traffic coming in.
Even if you had very deep pockets and could buy all the traffic that you wanted it still wouldn't convert if your website doesn't attract organic traffic first.
Your content on your website determines that! Bad content no conversions, no authority, traffics leaves.
That is why they put so much effort into teaching to start writing content in WA training.
It doesn't matter how flashy and good looking you make your website, it is the content that makes them read on and convert all the rest are just distractions, these things are your ego pleasers.
They don't convert, they just make people say wow and then they leave. Would you rather have a converting website or a flashy one with bells and whistles?
It is like going to a restaurant, It might look really inviting and a place to be, but if the food (content) is bad, people won't come back.
So the streetcar down the road is doing a roaring business and people are lining up for miles because the food (content) is good!
So if the content is good, the rest doesn't matter so much. You can then improve the things around your content to make it even better.
Maybe this helps people to understand it better.
Cheers
Eric.