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I caught on to a marketeer’s trick last week quite out of the blue. A few weeks back I had to give an email to get entrance to a sales page about creating powerful affiliate web sites in no time flat. As I’d expected, I’m on that man’s mailing list now and get regular reminders to come back and buy-BUY! Past experience has taught me not to use one of keeper emails for such signups but one of my disposable ones atrmf.Mailshell.com/signup.html
(I can make them up and drop them as easily as handiwipes).

Being on this list gets me access to links I wouldn’t find otherwise, so when I have a few moments I go check out a link or two, even though I don’t expect to join or buy anything.

Well, last week Anik sent a link to another’s product, which was a software package. It included links to sample sites. I explored two of them, and suddenly exclaimed to myself; I know how he does it!

There is a line on the sales page admitting that this will not be for those who already know HMTL or web design skills. Since I have those skills I don’t need this package, but I can easily copy the concept and create my own sites.

Oh, now you’re dying to know what that concept is, right?

Basically, it’s a copy-cat of what I’ve learned in the free Affiliate Masters from SiteSell, but it’s been packaged as an much over-simplified paint-by-number kit. (This is a cheap plastic version). First you sign up to an affiliate arrangement whereby you sell their products with links from your site. Then,

1, You gather a bunch of keywords on the topic of these products,

2. You create a simple web page template

3. Arrange a column of links using ALL those keywords on each template

4. Using the template create a new web page for each keyword,

5. On each page describe the product(s) using the keyword of that page’s name, and add links and banners to that affiliate. Everything else is identical to the rest of the pages because it’s part of the template.

6. Make sure all the links from that keyword list link to the matching page.

7. Now list your site with the search engines, and line up pay-for-click ads to drive traffic to your site.

In this example, every page, and every out-going link was only to the affiliate products’ site. There was nothing personal or winsome about the pages. They looked mechanical to me.

Ever since I read The Affiliate Masters Course more than six years ago, I’ve been building my three sites on this principle, but rather than sticking to just one affiliate, I add about half a dozen, and disguise them as Tips and Solutions. I also see to it that my web pages have a strong personal touch, and come across as friendly and trustworthy.

The one thing I can take away from this is that I should prepare more pages named with the keywords that relate to the products. I’m sure I can fill them with content, as I can usually think of something to say on any word thrown at me. - My big hurdle to cross is to fit in more time!

By the way, if you want to read the Affiliate Masters Course, you may download it for free; Affiliate Masters Course