Checklist Introduction

I thought I’d create a checklist to help those of you getting started affiliate marketing. This will hep you make sure you have in place what you need for your affiliate marketing business to be profitable.

Getting Started Affiliate Marketing checklist: The Checklist

Hopefully for those of you just getting started affiliate marketing that can be used as a very simple and easy to follow checklist.

Getting Started Affiliate Marketing checklist: SEO

One point I will pick up on is the SEO. For those of you who are getting started affiliate marketing, SEO stands for search engine optimisation. Search engine optimisation is the act of getting your site as visible and as high up in the search engines as possible under your chosen keywords.

I know I put SEO last but SEO is something you need to be doing throughout the life time of your site and while you are creating your website. There a number of things yo can do to boost your placing in the Google rankings.

Things such as adding your pages and links to bookmarking sites, adding your sites to online directories (like DMOZ), posting your links on social media, adding links to articles and then posting them on sites like this will all help boost your search engine rankings.

The other thing Google like to see is that your site visitors are engaging with you content and sharing it. To google this signifies that your content is useful and therefor should be higher in their search results. So encourage visitors to commend on your content and respond to them and even if you are just getting started affiliate marketing, you will swiftly see success.

I just wanted to touch on that to make clear the importance of SEO. I feel that the other steps to an extent are fairly self explanatory even for someone who is getting started affiliate marketing. SEO involves a lot more and is a lot more complex. I just wanted to make sure that was clear!

For more in depth information on successfully getting started affiliate marketing you can keep an eye out for my future articles and check out my website

• • Select your targeted niche
  • Research & select relevant keywords for your niche
  • Organise domain registration & hosting for your website
  • Create content for your website – Make sure your content is useful & engaging
  • Search and sign up for relevant affiliate programs/ programs to promote
  • Add affiliate links to your websites – reviews are great ways to do to have great content while promoting products
  • Search engine optimisation – Add your links to social book marking sites, social media, article sites etc.