A well-built review site can increase your commissions in affiliate marketing. A review site is a website which offers unbiased reviews on various products in a particular market. Other than the individual review pages, you should also have pages where you put up articles for content.

In today blog post, we will go through the steps to build a good review site for affiliate marketing:

• Conduct a thorough product research. It is recommended to choose at least 5 products for review. Therefore, the first step that you need to do is to conduct a research and choose a market whereby there are tons of buyers. Many other affiliates will be competing with you by building review sites - you will need a big and hungry market to profit at the beginning.

• Keyword research. After you have chosen the affiliate products to promote, the next step is to do a keyword research. When building mini-site, the most important thing is to get the keyword theme of your site right. One of the biggest traffic referrer for your review site will be organic search engine traffic. If your content is well-written and optimized to the right audience, there will be targeted long-tail traffic to your site which will result in higher conversions due to relevancy. For more information about how to do a keyword research for long-tail traffic review site, you can check out Chris Rempel’s Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate here.

• Plan out your content. You need to decide how many review and article pages you need to write. A recommended guideline is to have 5 review pages for each product, 10 article pages, and other general pages like Home Page, Sitemap, Contact Us, etc. I will advise you to come up with the content first before web design. Writing the content is the hardest part when it comes to building a review site. You need to do research for each product and come up with a detailed reporting of the pros and cons for each of them. Additionally, you will also need to write 10 articles with content that suit the overall keyword theme of your site.

• Do up the design for your review site. Personally, I used XSitePro to build my review site. XSitePro will be a good tool for anyone who does not have technical knowledge on building websites. If you are not a designer and have trouble coming up with good design for your review site, you can go over to Chris Rempel’s site and get his ready-made review site templates at a very affordable price.

• Market your review site. Here is the most exciting part of the whole process - marketing. After you have got your site up and running on the Internet, it is now time to do some marketing. You need to aggressively build back links for your site. Write another 5 articles (not the same content with the articles on your site) and submit them to various article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. You should also use ArticleMarketer.com to help distribute you articles to more directories and get back links. Create hubpages and Squidoo lens to further boost your traffic and back links. Last but not least, do not forget about 1-way directory linking. You can outsource this portion to vendors which they will submit your website manually to hundreds of directories at a small cost.

If done right, your review site should be bringing you some early sales already. If the market that you have chosen proves to be profitable, you can duplicate the entire process again and create another review site for the same niche.

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