7 MAJOR Mistakes When Building an Affiliate Marketing Website (Avoid Them!)

Would you like to make thousands of dollars with affiliate marketing through a blog or a website anywhere in the world?

That's what Wealthy Affiliate teaches you.

In addition, if you avoid these 7 mistakes, you'll most likelly get results much faster.

After seeing 100’s of different affiliate marketing websites, I have noticed 7 extremely common mistakes that beginners keep on doing over and over again.

=> Here's the high-quality video in WA where I go through all these 7 mistakes + 2 bonus tips in detail.

When people send me their websites for review, it's almost guaranteed that there are some of these mistakes.

I don't blame you at all because I have made probably all these mistakes also myself. Mistakes are proof that we're are doing something and it allows us to grow.

I'll list them here and if you want to learn more in detail, watch the video that I linked above.

Mistakes #2, #4 and #7 are probably the biggest ones. => Avoid them at all costs!

Let me know in the comments which one of these tips was the most important for you so it will also sink into your mind more powerfully.

Are you ready? Let's go!

1. Trying to do everything perfectly from the beginning

You’re gonna make mistakes anyway and edit things later so the most important thing at the beginning is just take actions and learn the money-making process.

Nice logo isn’t going to make you money.

Nice design isn’t going to make you money.

People coming to your website and clicking your links will make you money.

=> Create content rather than a perfect logo.

2. Not targeting any keywords

You must target low competition keywords to get traffic from Google with a new site.

My recommendation is targeting keywords with less than 30 QSR for new sites according to Jaaxy. (Or at least less than 50).

I wasted +6 months targeting wrong keywords. Don't make the same mistake that I did.

3. Using a bad title / headline for your post

Title is the MOST IMPORTANT piece of your blog post.

If people don’t click your title, they

’re not going to read your post.

You may spend 5 hours writing a perfect blog post but if nobody reads that, it’s a total waste of time. => Put more time and effort on the title.

The truth is that most people aren’t going to read all the details of your blog post. But everyone is going to read your title.

Here are a few things that often work. You can try them yourself:

• Use numbers. Did you see this post title? "7 mistakes..."
• Use brackets [They just work!]
• Create an information gap. Don't reveal everything in the title but raise people's curiosity.

4. Not thinking about the reader

When you start your blog post, you should enter the conversation that the reader is having in his mind.

The first few sentences are the most important thing in your post after the title.

Think about what the reader is thinking.

• Why are they reading this kind of article?
• What kinds of answers are they looking for?
• What desires do they have?

It also helps if you have an avatar of the reader.

• What kind of person is he?
• Where is he from?
• How much money does he have?
• Does he have a family?
• Etc.

Then write directly to that person.

5. Using too small font

If the font on your website is too small, it’s hard for your visitors to read it and they will leave.

Especially elderly people don’t like small fonts or simply aren’t able to read them. And elderly people usually have the most money so often they can more likely buy the products you recommend than younger people such as students who don’t have much money.

Changing the font size may feel like a small improvement but when you do several of these small improvements, they’ll add up and you’ll see your results rising faster.

It’s a very easy thing to do and takes less than 5 minutes.

Why not make the easy ones?

6. Writing too long paragraphs

Do you remember when you were a child and you were at school and your teacher taught you how to write proper essays?

They said to you something like, “Each paragraph should be at least 3-4 sentences long at least!”

However, when you are writing a blog post, each paragraphs should be 3-4 sentences long maximum.

You and I both know that when people read texts online, they don’t read every sentence and word carefully. They skim through the texts and try to find the information that they’re looking for as fast as possible.

Writing shorter paragraphs will make it easier for your readers to read your posts. Even 1-sentence paragraphs are fine every now and then if you want to highlight something.

7. Not having your own domain name

It's very important and has direct benefits to your business:

1. Your website will rank better on Google with your own domain name rather than a sub-domain such as xxxx.siterubix.com

2. It looks more professional to your website visitors and they'll more likely trust your recommendations.

3. It builds your domain's authority on Google. For a new website, it takes some time to get ranked on Google. The earlier, you get your own domain name, the faster your website can rank on top.

If you don't have your own domain name, you can get it here.

BONUS Mistake #1: Writing too short articles

Instead of aiming for just 500 words, aim rather for +2,000 words, if you want to get ranked on Google.

One long 3,000-article is better than three short 1,000 articles.

(Note: this post is not intended to get ranked on Google so it's only around 1,100 words.)

BONUS Mistake #2: Not linking between your blog posts

Add some internal links and at least one external link to all of your blog posts that you want to get ranked on Google.

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If you want to learn these more in detail, watch my high-quality video here.

Feel free to share these things with your audience if you are helping them to get started with blogging.

To your success.

- Roope "Avoid these pitfalls to fast-track your progress at Wealthy Affiliate" Kiuttu

PS.

Have you made some of these mistakes like I did?

Let us know in the comments below!