Affiliate marketing promotion using Wordpress is the hottest trend these days. It is true that that a Wordpress site is extremely easy to personalize, upload and promote, also you can create your affiliate marketing promotion almost instantly. The majority of affiliates swear to Wordpress hosting nowadays, as the best answer, and succeed easily. However there are so many Wordpress affiliate promotion blogs that you must learn the marketing ways if you want to market affiliate links with your Wordpress blog.
If you are planning to promote affiliate links with your Wordpress blog, take into consideration you will need a hosted Wordpress.org blog. Plenty of affiliates find their running free Wordpress website taken off by Wordpress.com, as you are not allowed to use the free site for marketing offers. On the other hand it is giving you better credibility if you are having a dot com web address, and a hosting and domain name doesn't cost a huge amount of money these days.
The first step of starting up your affiliate marketing promotion is researching potential keywords and buy a keyword rich domain. Considering what kind of affiliate marketing links you are planning to market on your Wordpress affiliate pages, you have to research and find profit-pulling keywords and also the competition. Also your niche research is important, you must research popular websites like hubpages, other Wordpress blogs, Google groups, Youtube, Yahoo Answers and many more. You have to find out what are the questions people in your niche are are looking to find answers for.
To research your niche and the keywords, I would advise you to use Google's own keyword tool, Youtube's keyword tool, and find out the number of results. You can also get a free keyword tool that is to determine how strong other competing sites are and number of the searches on the most popular search sites. You are advised to collect all the details of the sites competing for the keywords, like page rank, backlink, age and more.
Next you have to get your keyword rich affiliate Wordpress blog and buy your hosting. Just get the Wordpress files and upload it to your affiliate Wordpress folder. Also you will need to download a suitable blog theme, and change your affiliate blog to get it found for search engines. It is important that you need to use the chosen keywords in the meta tags, and obtain some plugins to pull in the traffic to your Affiliate marketing Wordpress blog.
The most important plugins you will need are All-in-One SEO Pack, some social bookmarking plugin, a Feedburner plugin and an RSS sign up button. The list is not complete:, and remember that the longer your Affiliate marketing Wordpress blog is taking to load because of the plugins the lower it can rank in search results. You will have to allow time for your links and banners to load as well, if you are looking to include affiliate offers with your Wordpress blog.
All done, you are able to link your affiliate links with your Wordpress blog. All you have to do now is keep on posting, research suitable affiliate offers and generate the traffic, as content plus offers plus traffic will in the end turn into affiliate profit!