Chicken and the egg

What comes first?

[2004mark]

Hello all.

I'm an experienced webdesigner, but have no experience with affiliate marketing what so ever. Although, it is something that I am currently researching, and the idea is filling me with excitement.

I've got so many idea's flying around my head and just want to dive right in and get started.

However, I'm trying to take it one step at a time and not get to far ahead of myself.

So my first question is, once I've picked my website's theme, what comes first, the construction of the website or finding an affiliate partner.

Obviously it's hard to design and construct a website when your missing a big element of it, but likewise, wont most affiliate partners want to see your website to approve it before they give you access to data?

[Sierra_Dad]

Many don't really care. The website field in the signup is more of a checkoff item.

A website showing the theme that is still under construction will be enough for many of them.

Some do care and want you to be more established. Hopefully you can reapply later if that turns out to be the case.

[frup]

If you're building a quality website you hope will have a future it should stand on its own. You should build it and then add the affiliate links later. That's the best strategy, I think, for long-term success.

There are ways to build sites that are nothing but affiliate links, but you'd probably need to be somewhat experienced in site building and SEO to succeed with that strategy these days. IMHO.