Before You Start
Here are a few things to consider before you start building
your affiliate site:
Site Creation
Site Marketing
Make sure that
you consider how you plan to advertise your site before you
start to build. If you plan on generating traffic via search
engines and directories, you may want to leave off that Flash
intro, most of those fancy graphics you designed, and all of
those neat JavaScript snippets you found. Generally speaking,
the site characteristics that were just mentioned are not
search engine friendly. However, if you plan on generating
most of your traffic from banner ads, pay-per-click listings,
forums, discussion groups, offline methods, etc., that Flash
movie on your home page can increase your site salability and
conversion rate. One thing worth mentioning is that the
products we offer really do sell themselves. Typically, our
affiliates don't need all of that pazzazz to see high
conversion rates.
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For beginners
who know absolutely nothing about computer programming or web
design, we recommend the following options:
- Use web-based site design software. One company we
recommend using is
www.istores.com. The advantage in using this type of
service is that you need no knowledge of computer
programming whatsoever. Just point and click. It's about $30
a month for the service. The downside to using web-based
site design software you have no access to the source HTML,
you have almost no control over the site layout and
structure, you cannot use the customizable affiliate order form, and it's
$30 a month (versus $10-15 a month for normal hosting).
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002. FrontPage provides for more
flexibility than the web-based software, but the learning
curve is somewhat steeper. Nonetheless, if you have
experience with Office programs, you will probably catch on
fairly quick. A copy of FrontPage is about $170. Try
www.nextag.com to compare prices online.
- Macromedia DreamWeaver MX. DreamWeaver does require some
computer programming skills, or at least the ability to
recognize code and some common programming languages. Using
DreamWeaver is an excellent way for one learn basic html and
other common programming languages. Visit the
Macromedia site for more info.
If you're looking for good graphic building/editing
software, we recommend you check out the following:
- For novice to veteran affiliates,
Adobe
PhotoShop is the obvious choice. PhotoShop has
everything you could want and more. Downside is that
PhotoShop has a huge learning curve (and a $500 sticker
price). But veteran affiliates, read on.
- For beginner to veteran affiliates and everyone in
between,
Ulead PhotoImpact is the answer. PhotoImpact has almost
every feature that PhotoShop has, but is very easy to learn
and work in. And you can get a copy for less than $100.
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One of the cheapest places on the internet to register
domain names is
GoDaddy.com.
New guys, please don't pay $35 for a domain name when you can
get'em at GoDaddy for $8.95! -Top
If you're new to the search engine game, first of all,
stay away from those "Submit your site to 4,000 search engines
for a $1" sites. There are probably less than 7 or 8 that you
would want to submit to, and to narrow it down even more, only
3 or 4 are really crucial. Here's a list of free places that
are worth submitting your site:
For a small fee, you can have
your site included in these search engines as well:
When you are positive that
your site looks good and is fully functional, submit your site
to 2 of the most important places on the internet:
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Targeting the wrong keywords in this industry can result
in a low conversion rate and low search engine rankings.
Wordtracker.com has an excellent tool to help combat
this problem. Basically, you type in a keyword such as
"phentermine" and their software tells you how many
times people have searched for that keyword, similar
keywords people are searching for (such as "buy
phentermine online"), and how many sites are competing
for that keyword. Wordtracker is really a must-have for
any serious affiliate. You can try out their free trial
as many times as you want to by
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First of all, you may be asking yourself why you
would want to do that. It is more difficult to get an
affiliate site into popular search engines like Yahoo!
and the Open Directory Project (although it can be
done,especially in Yahoo). Generally speaking, Overture
will not let you open a pay-per-click account if you're
an affiliate. In addition, some web surfers tend to
either shy away from affiliate sites, or go straight to
the affiliated site without clicking on an affiliate
link. Not to mention that some affiliates would just
like it to look like their own. -Top
The
major advantage here is that you can customize the look
and feel of your order form to make it "match" your
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Here's what you need to do.
Log-in to the Affiliate Control Center with your username and
password. Go to "Programs", click on "Select Ads", and scroll
down to the bottom of the page. Click on the "HTML
Document" and then click on View- Source to view the source
HTML code. Copy that entire page, from top to bottom, into
your favorite page editor. You can then modify the font,
colors, and layout of the order form. You can do just about
anything to it except modify the Javascript, the form fields,
or where the form submits to. You may also want to check with
your web host and get a shared SSL certificate for your order
page.
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Here's what you do: Create three
pages in your web and call them Patient Responsibility,
Informed Consent, and Nitroglycerins. Copy and paste our text
for each of those pages into your pages. Then make sure that
the links to those pages from your order form are properly
formatted. You're done.
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Make sure that
whenever the form is loaded into your browser, you see a small
window pop-up and then disappear (watch the bottom of your
screen). After this happens, you should be able to go to your
Temporary Internet Files and see that the cookie is set (cookie:
owner@platinumrx.modwest.com).
After you confirm that the cookie is setting, either e-mail us
at
affiliatesupport@PrescriptionsDrugStore.com with the order page url
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This is very easy to do. All you have to do is set
up a mailbox on your server that looks something like
patientsupport@mysite.com
or
patientcare@mysite.com
or
whatever@mysite.com.
You would then forward that mail to
patientcare@PrescriptionsDrugStore.com.
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You can
offer your customers the ability to track their packages
directly from your site. Simply create a page in your
web call "Order Tracking" and then copy and paste the
HTML code below into your page editor. Here's the code:
<!--
Start Tracking Area --><BR>
<form name="tracking"
action="http://www.fedex.com/cgi-bin/tracking"><input
type="hidden" name="language"
value="english"><input type="hidden"
name="action" value="track">
<p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Enter
your FedEx
tracking number:</font><br><BR><input type="text"
name="tracknumbers" size="20"><br><input type="hidden"
name="cntry_code"
value="us"><BR><input type="submit" value="Track
It!"></p>
</form><BR><!-- End Tracking Area --> |
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Here's what you do. Above the
<input> tag (which is near the bottom of the page), insert the
following: <input
type="hidden" name="affiliateemail" value="support@site.com">
<input type="hidden" name="affiliateurl"
value="http://site.com">
<input type="hidden" name="affiliateID" value="55555">
Insert your site's patient
support e-mail address in the "affiliateemail" value; insert
your site url in the "affiliateurl" value; and insert your
affiliate ID (five digits starting with "9") in to the "affiliateID" value.
Important!!! Be sure
that your site's patient support e-mail address forwards to
patientcare@PrescriptionsDrugStore.com.
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Good content serves many useful purposes. It adds
credibility to your site, increases your chances of
doing well in the search engines, and helps to sell your
products. To access text links and/or banners, log-in to
the Affiliate Control Center. -Top
Works best with Internet Explorer. Netscape Users
won't get any errors, but instead of the bookmark link,
they will see a message reminding them to bookmark the
site. Copy the code into the BODY of your HTML document:
<SCRIPT
LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
&& (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4)) {
var url="http://www.page-to-be-bookmarked.com";
var title="Phentermine Refills";
document.write('<A HREF="javascript:window.ext');
document.write('ernal.AddFavorite(url,title);" ');
document.write('onMouseOver=" window.status=');
document.write("'Bookmark this page for refills'; return
true ");
document.write('"onMouseOut=" window.status=');
document.write("' '; return true ");
document.write('">Bookmark this page for refills</a>');
}
else {
var msg = "Bookmark this page for refills";
if(navigator.appName == "Netscape") msg += " (CTRL-D)";
document.write(msg);
}
// End -->
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If you want to add a Flash movie to your site and don't
have the extra time or money to learn the software, try using
a program called Swish. It's very easy to learn and use, and
it exports movies in .swf format just like the real thing.
Best of all, you can get 2 licenses for $50.
Click here
for more info. -Top
We have to mention Ulead PhotoImpact again because it is
so much easier to learn and use than PhotoShop. And it's
about $400 cheaper. We would highly recommend it to any
novice affiliate.
Click
here to visit the
Ulead site. -Top
First, educate yourself on exactly what search engines
consider when ranking a page.
Click here for an
excellent article for beginners in the search engine
optimization (s.e.o.) field. Second, read through as
many s.e.o. forums as you possibly can. We also
recommend that you sign up for a few s.e.o. newsletters.
An great place to start you s.e.o. education is
www.searchenginewatch.com.
A membership is $59 for 6 months and is worth every
penny. Mastering s.e.o. takes alot of research, hard
work, and dedication. In the online prescribing
industry, a talented search engine optimizer will make
anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000 a month, every month. No
joke, not exaggerating, seriously. -Top
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