by: Ken Hill

1. Build your site around a topic you enjoy.

Becoming a webmaster will require a lot of time on your part. Make
sure that you first build your site around a topic that you enjoy
and can spend time on.

Think about what topics you enjoy most, and that you know a lot
about. This will allow you to easily write about that topic to your
visitors and share your insight.

2. Keep narrowing your focus until you find your niche that makes
your site unique. For instance instead of sports, make your site
about your favorite team or instead of marketing choose to make your
site about ezine publishing.

3. Once you've decided on a topic for your site, you have also
selected your target audience, and are ready to join affiliate
programs that sell products to that audience.

4. When deciding on affiliate programs to join look for affiliate
programs that offer a line of products -- this will allow you to
earn further commissions when your referrals come back and order
something else.

5. Choose affiliate programs that offer a two-tier commission
structure, where you get paid a commission on the sales of people
that you refer to the affiliate program, or affiliate programs that
offer you the chance to earn a residual income.

6. Track your promotional efforts. This is essential in helping you
identify what ad copy generates the most sales and what marketing
techniques are most profitable.

7. Generate repeat traffic to your site by making your site a
valuable resource.

Publish your own articles, tutorials, ebooks, your ezine archive, as
well as the promotional materials provided to you by the affiliate
programs you've joined.

8. Keep your site updated regularly with new material.

9. Write recommendations.

Make a recommended links or products page where you share with your
visitors the benefits that the products that you promote will
provide to them -- how those products have helped you.

10. To increase your commissions promoting two-tier affiliate
programs, also provide a top rated affiliate programs page where you
recommend your affiliate opportunities to your visitors.

11. Follow up with your visitors by providing free e-mail courses.

Your courses can be those provided to you by the affiliate programs
you promote, or you can create your own free e-mail courses from
your own articles or tutorials.

12. Publish an ezine.

Running an ezine will allow you to successfully drive more new and
repeat traffic to your site, successfully market your affiliate
programs to your visitors by keeping in touch with them, and also
allow you to promote several different affiliate programs within
your ezine's content.

Publishing an ezine is also an excellent way to establish yourself
as an expert or resource in your field which will generate more
commissions for you as your subscribers respond to your
recommendations.



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