Why a Store is Better than a Blog

Why a Store is Better than a Blog

Affiliate marketing is a great business model and perfect for beginners. There's very little to learn to get started and it can be great for making a little extra cash each month, or to really put the work in and build a 5 figure monthly income. However, the affiliate landscape is changing. It's no longer a case of throwing together a blog with a few pages of reviews, getting first page rankings and sitting back cashing in on the tidal wave of traffic clicking on your affiliate links. One of the main problems facing affiliate marketers in particular, is getting their site in the Google search results. They no longer want to index 'thin' affiliate sites, with a few pages and 3 paragraph product reviews. It's not that Google has suddenly declared war on affiliates, it's that they want a quality user experience for their customers and those kind of sites simply don't offer anything of value. So what can you do?

Well you can spend the time and effort needed to build a high quality, packed with awesome content blog, or change your approach a little and build an eCommerce site. If you choose the blog route, the important part here is the high quality content. Google doesn't mind you being an affiliate, but you need to provide their users with something worthwhile, or you simply won't get ranked. And that can take time and a lot of effort. With an ecommerce site, you have physical products and a shopping cart system, which Google obviously sees value in and isn't classed as an 'affiliate site'.

You will be providing actual products which your visitors order directly from your site. Unfortunately, setting up and running an eCommerce site, although the best and safest option, can be tricky if you're new to working online. But thanks to huge advances in software development, you now have viable options. Products such as eStoreBuilder, mean you can now set up a fully functioning ecommerce based website, quickly and easily, while still using the affiliate marketing model. eStoreBuilder is particularly impressive as it's really simple to set up and you don't need any experience or programming/design skills. We're talking about 'clicking a few buttons' simple. In fact thanks to the over 12 months of development, eStoreBuilder is an affiliate marketers dream. 

You simply log into your 'dashboard', choose a template, choose a logo image, decide whether you want to use an eStoreBuilder subdomain or you want to buy your own domain name, a few more clicks and you're done. Click 'publish my site' and you are the proud owner of your very own eCommerce site, promoting best selling health and fitness supplements which payout up to $257 per sale. The eStoreBuilder model offers people the perfect way to benefit from the simplicity of affiliate marketing, without the recent downsides and could be the future of affiliate marketing.