Writing On the Web

Accept this fact now and life will become much easier and more profitable for you - You are going to have to do some writing on your website.

Simply putting up a few banners is not enough to generate revenue through your website with affiliate programs.  If it WAS that easy then everyone would be rich.  You need to add quality to your site to establish trust which also helps to pre-sell visitors on a product or service.

Some affiliates cut so many corners that there is NOTHING original or valuable on their website, then they complain that they aren't making money and declare affiliate marketing a scam!  Please don't be one of those people.  It takes time and effort to earn commissions.  If you put in the ground work now then it will pay off in the long run.







So how do you write for the web?

People use the web differently than newspapers, books, magazines or even email, they tend to skim much more and just try to pick out the vital points.  The advantage for you as an affiliate, and provider of quality information, is that you don't have to write a load of content as a result.

Present information in small paragraphs, with the top paragraph giving a total synopsis of what the rest of the article is about.  People can get an idea of what the article is about without reading the whole thing and allows them to better understand what the content is going to be about.

Use headlines and sub headings to break a page up and allow a user to pick the parts they want to read more easily.  Bullet points also help to make the content easy to read, as does using different colored and styled fonts for headings, sub headers, bullet points, line breaks, etc.

You should add content to whatever products and services you are promoting as this not only gives the user more information but it can also help to pre-sell them on it and convince them to click through to the merchant's site and hopefully buy.

Writing is also important with regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as keywords in the text and various tags will help towards a page ranking well in the search engines.  We will cover this in more detail later on in the email series.

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