Why Top-earning Affiliates Have Their Own Domains And Websites
Many affiliate programs usually provide special web pages for
their affiliates. This is one of the reasons why it may appear
very strange, at first, that most top affiliates and the high
earners from affiliate programs will most certainly always have
their own websites, complete with their own domains specifically
for promoting a certain affiliate program that they are involved
in.
Why should these affiliates spend the extra money for a website,
and even a domain name that both come with their own heavy
demands when they already have so much visibility already
through an affiliate program website? Actually there are a
number of reasons. Having your own website and
domain will tend to attract more traffic than an affiliate
site
A domain is bound to attract much more traffic than a long
affiliate address. When surfers see what looks like a registered
domain name, they will tend to take the site much more seriously
than if they were to see the rather long affiliate website
address. The affiliate can even ensure that they select a name
that will be quickly picked up by search engines to give the
site a high ranking. It is possible to carefully
monitor where the traffic is coming from
One of the major weaknesses of the vast majority of ordinary
affiliate websites lies in the fact that it is not possible to
analyze traffic and establish exactly where it is coming from.
You would need to install some code and most affiliate sites do
not give access to codes of the pages that they supply to their
affiliates. The result is that folks are forced to operate
blindly. Even as they instigate various advertising methods to
get traffic to their sites, there is really no way they can
track their visitors.
One of the most effective Internet marketing methods calls for
the constant analysis of your traffic to establish where they
have come from. The idea here is to find further ways and means
of reaching that particular market niches. In this way you will
find that your site traffic is constantly on the increase.
It becomes possible to harvest email
addresses
With your very own affiliate website, it becomes a lot easier
to collect names and email addresses from visitors to the
affiliates independent website. It is usually not possible to do
this from an affiliate website. When you do not do this, you
fail to make efficient and maximum use of the leads you generate
through your website and from all the marketing efforts you make
to attract traffic. A person harvesting email addresses and
building an opt-in email list is bound to make much more sales
from lower traffic than a person with a much larger volume of
traffic who does not build an opt-in email list.
It has been established that buyers usually need to be exposed
to any product or service that you are advertising, several
times before they can make a decision to buy. Emails are a great
way to do this, and the only legal way to send out mass email is
through permission marketing of using safe lists or your very
own opt-in email list. This is a list of persons who have opted
in to receive the latest updates and developments. This is
naturally the more effective option.
There are various ways of harvesting email addresses from
regular visitors to your affiliate website. You can offer an
amazing free e-course or offer to send them some free
fascinating software in return for their email address that you
can then use to market to them again and again. It really is not
surprising that top affiliates and top earners from affiliate
programs insist on having their own websites and domains.