any new ingredients for successful affiliate websites

affiliate website ingredients

[atticus43]

I have been watching old videos from some of the affiliate experts which are free and dated. Generally speaking the websites they created contained the following:

list of companies
company written content for pages
company generated images
decent articles with links to companies in their directory

With blogs, rss feeds, numerous shopping directories,youtube and other options, is there a NEW recipe for creating profitable affiliate websites?

[ronin]

There are as many recipes for profitable affiliate websites as you can think up. The fundamental basis of an affiliate site with high potential is lots of high-quality content-based pages, but how you choose to write those pages - as a library of articles, as a shopping catalogue, as an interlinked series of brochures, as an online book, as a programmatic resource - is up to you.

I wouldn't use graphics and copy from the companies you're promoting. On the whole it tends to be a bit sterile and you can be sure that other affiliate marketers will be using the same material. Better to create your own graphics and write your own sparky copy - that differentiates you from the very beginning.

You'll want to have a range of companies on your site, so either take the vertical approach and cover all companies which relate to a particular sector (for instance a site on home and garden improvement might feature affiliate links to booksellers, toolshops, garden centres, kitchenware stores and furniture warehouses) or else take a horizontal approach and cover the same sector across numerous environments (for instance a European real estate site might have links to estate agencies in Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague and Vienna).

[atticus43]

Thanks... I will let you know how it works out.