How to put affiliate links on your website?

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While going through the courses I am at Course 3 and there have been a few lessons about actually putting affiliate links on your website. During the lessons, Kyle shows how to put links throughout a review post. At this time, I don't have any reviews so I created a products page with a listing of quite a few different products. What concerns me about this route, is that this may make my site look more like a seller site than a information site and turn people off.

I do have a review section in my menu, but I do not have any reviews to offer yet. I was planning to do a review on the same items I have listed on my products page.

I was hoping to get some input, help or advice from others on this because this has been eating at me all day, lol.

Thanks for any help!

If you want to take a look you can check out the site at https://believeyoucandle.com

The items are listed on the product page and you see the review page which is under construction.

:)

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Hey Jeff,

I remember that Kyle said in his training about not to put too many links on one page; I believe his limit was no more than 5 links. Also, per Kyle, you shouldn't have affiliate links on every page; as an alternative, you can link to another one of your posts, then have the links on that other post.

So, let's say Post A talks about the melted candle bars, you can link it to Post B which will have the actual affiliate links.

Hope this was helpful, Jeff.

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Thank you!
I definitely wasn't going to put a bunch of affiliate links in my posts, I did catch on to that No-No in the training.

My main issue was that I wanted to put an actual products page in my site, but it definitely goes outside the training that I've been through already. More than likely I will just delete the page to keep the site within the same specs as Kyle is teaching.

thanks for your input!

:)

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Glad you found a solution, Jeff.

I have put together one page with affiliate banners on it so I don't have banners all over my site. I still have individual products but not a bunch of banners.

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Thanks for your input!
Down the road I can see where I can incorporate some banners but in keeping in line with the lessons, I will probably just stick with the reviews for now.

Thanks!
:)

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Jwlewis! Thank you for this revelation, I think we are in it together. This your method needs trying

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Thank you! Still debating on whether to keep my products page. In the end, I think I will store it as a draft when I get some reviews up and running.
:)

I have some ideas for you. I'll give you some specific suggestions later
Right now, it's late where I am. Do far, I think you have a lot to work with. You just need some fine tuning.

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Thanks!
Still waiting for tip....
Hahahaha!

No seriously!
:)

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Sorry. I got sidetracked by a client today. I promise, it will be worthwhile; I tend to write at length once I get started.

That products page looks like an online store. I'm not going to lie. What I've done for my site is something like this...

https://eyeoncybersecurity.com/security-tools

I basically listed all the products that I want to promote and wrote a short summary or review about it. Then I created an image (action button) that will take them to the seller's site. My affiliate link is there.

Having a review on each product is a great idea. You may get more hits on those articles that this page. So I suggest get started on those and not worry about this page too much.

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Yeah, thats what I was worried about and I do agree with the review post tactic.

I do like your layout of the items on your page a lot better!

Thank you for the info and advice, it is greatly appreciated!

:)

When incorporating product affiliate links into your posts, you don't necessarily have to use only reviews. For example, you can check out my latest post which isn't a review post at all, but since the subject matter is central to a book i highly recommend i placed an amazon affilate link to the book in the post. You can check it out here:

https://traveltheworldmakingmoneyonline.com/what-is-the-new-rich-how-to-turn-your-passion-into-your-career

While it's front and center in the post, i don't feel that the post becomes salesmany in any way and that's because the content of the post is still driving my main point across, and isn't focused on the product.

So there's definitely ways to incorporate affiliate links into regular posts. Now, within reviews you can truly take advantage of this and within each review of a single product even have accessories or similar products that you link to. So reviews are a great place to take advantage of the links and because they are product reviews by nature they won't come off too salesmany because people expect to be sold.

Hope this helped you out. Don't sweat it when something on your page is bothering you. You can always remove stuff, move stuff around, hide stuff. Especially in the beginning where our traffic is minimal, everything we're doing is foundational and we are all learning. It's ok to make a mistake :)

Thanks for the tip and help!

One of my main concerns was that with a product page, my site will come across more as a selling website than an information site and lose traffic due to that.

As you say, I will let it float for a while and use my OCD skills to scour the analytics every other hour to keep tabs on it.

Thank you!
:)

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I think we all get OCD sometimes with analytics. One last piece of advice I'd give you is early on, don't even look at analytics. Seriously. I never look at it. It makes my brain go nuts! Lol. It makes me second guess things. I've found that if you just stick with the training, do EVERYTHING as Kyle tells you and in the order he tells you, just push forward and get your feedback from the community instead of a data page, you'll get to where you need to be. And once you start making sales, and they start coming in regularly THEN you can look at what's working the best for you and your confidence in your page will get you to look at it without this question of your success but just a question of how to FURTHER your success.

Everyone gets lost in analytics. Early on, it's not even worth it to look. Trust me. FIGHT YOUR OCD lol. Take care, brother.

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