Affiliate website's are they worth it, heres mine

EKRIUQ

I’m just wondering if anyone here has experience with making affiliate websites and is it possible to make any money out of them, As I’m only at building websites for a couple of months I don’t have people knocking down my door to build them a website and its more of a hobby I have at the moment. The most success I’ve had is making a couple of hundred dollars from Google ads.

So to build my portfolio I’m going to build some affiliate webs sites here’s my first www.IrishWebDesign.net There is errors in html on the site but that’s mainly out of my control as I’m dealing with a lot of external components but its CSS level 2.1 valid. I’ve cross checked it with 43 browsers’ and the only one which makes it look funny is windows millennium (nothing strange there).

I’m not really looking for a site review but if anyone has any constructive suggestions I’m more than willing to take them onboard or any suggestions on promoting the site I know it’ll will take a good few months to get any impact on the search engines but I’ve done the necessary, Google sitemap, submit url to google, made the urls search engine friendly, and I’m using Google dashboard.

Thanks

steve-hosting36

Lunarpages hosting?

Axwell

I just had a quick look but when i saw it was a website offering templates as opposed to proper website design it put me off as its similar to another business on here thats got plenty of mention for the same sort of offerings.

Also your site has spelling and css errors in the little i looked at it, the FAQ page has spelling mistakes.

The CSS on your reseller hosting package is off.

I clicked on the online website builder under "Our Services" and now your CSS navigation doesnt work and overlaps or gets overlapped by the content of that page.

Just had a quick look so havent gone into too much detail on it.

EKRIUQ

steve-hosting36 wrote: »

Lunarpages hosting?

I'd prefer an Irish host like 365, but need to do more research I couldn't find an affiliate program for 365

EKRIUQ

Axwell wrote: »

Also your site has spelling and css errors in the little i looked at it, the FAQ page has spelling mistakes.
The CSS on your reseller hosting package is off.
Just had a quick look so havent gone into too much detail on it.

Thanks for that, those pages with the CSS overlap is because of wrapper pages and it's either send someone to an external site or try to keep them on the site I'll try to find a work around but as the CSS is 100% valid I don't know how to fix it, if you do or have suggestions please let me know

the FAQ page has spelling mistakes

I rechecked the whole page with word and only found 1

when i saw it was a website offering templates as opposed to proper website design

It's an affiliate website I built the website and sell their products.

Liam Byrne

BingoBongo wrote: »

I rechecked the whole page with word and only found 1

Check the Word settings......even the home page has the American word "customizable" :mad:

Irish and European spellings use "s" instead of "z" in words like that (e.g. "apologise", "specialise", etc), so if Ireland is your target market (as is probably from the web address), make sure that Word is NOT set to the annoying American dictionary....to test, try typing the word "colour".

tomED

You'll find it quite difficult to get the rankings you need to make money from this site.

The website is lacking in content, since you are using javascript to pull in the content from templatehelp.com

You'll need to bumpf if up with some serious content to get anything out this!

Tom

Malice

I just had a look at your Online Website Builder. It refused to work with Opera, Firefox or IE7! What's it doing that it requires functionality only available in IE5.5 or IE6?

EKRIUQ

malice_ wrote: »

I just had a look at your Online Website Builder. It refused to work with Opera, Firefox or IE7! What's it doing that it requires functionality only available in IE5.5 or IE6?

Its actually a combination of PHP (server side) and Javascript or MSHTML (client side).

The MSHTML side of things restricts the editing to Internet Explorer 5.5

MSHTML is basically javascript talking to the mshtml.dll that comes with I.E, and used to power a lot of html editing, such as the stuff you see in outlook, or frontpage.

Malice

BingoBongo wrote: »

The MSHTML side of things restricts the editing to Internet Explorer 5.5

But that's insane! I'm used to seeing sites that are IE-only for whatever stupid reason but to restrict a site to a version of IE that ceased being current about seven years ago makes no sense to me. Is there really no way of doing whatever needs to be done in a more compatible way? The browser market share for IE5.5 or IE6 can't still be that big these days can it?

mneylon

BingoBongo wrote: »

Its actually a combination of PHP (server side) and Javascript or MSHTML (client side).

The MSHTML side of things restricts the editing to Internet Explorer 5.5

It's 2008. Why would anyone code anything that was IE specific in this day and age?

Orion

BingoBongo wrote: »

The MSHTML side of things restricts the editing to Internet Explorer 5.5

That's just nuts. Irrespective of the version IE market share is shrinking. And you're also aimed at people with a little more tech knowledge that the average housewife so FF and Opera are real possibilities. To restrict your flagship to one browser is ... well nuts.

On another note - I have NoScript installed and some pages won't display a hell of a lot unless I allow templatehelp.com to run scripts. For example - the Joomla page merely shows "Joomla Sites" and nothing else unless I allow a site that I've never heard of and haven't visited. There must be a better way of coding that.

Seth Brundle

BingoBongo wrote: »

I’m just wondering if anyone here has experience with making affiliate websites and is it possible to make any money out of them, As I’m only at building websites for a couple of months I don’t have people knocking down my door to build them a website and its more of a hobby I have at the moment. The most success I’ve had is making a couple of hundred dollars from Google ads.

Is a couple of hundred not good enough?
Are you planning on becomming a full time designer? If so then get your own site in order first and then look at online marketing.

BingoBongo wrote: »

So to build my portfolio I’m going to build some affiliate webs sites here’s my first www.IrishWebDesign.net There is errors in html on the site but that’s mainly out of my control as I’m dealing with a lot of external components but its CSS level 2.1 valid. I’ve cross checked it with 43 browsers’ and the only one which makes it look funny is windows millennium (nothing strange there).

Its your site so therefore the errors are yours!
You claim that you have done "thosands (sic) of websites" on your portfolio page. How many have you actually done?
As for Windows ME - its an operating system not a browser. If I were to have a meeting with you about a website and you said that, I'd throw you out straight away.

BingoBongo wrote: »

Its actually a combination of PHP (server side) and Javascript or MSHTML (client side).

The MSHTML side of things restricts the editing to Internet Explorer 5.5

MSHTML is basically javascript talking to the mshtml.dll that comes with I.E, and used to power a lot of html editing, such as the stuff you see in outlook, or frontpage.

FFS!
I use Firefox but if I were to use IE then I'm on version 7 - as a designer you should be striving to use the latest technologies, not trying to hold people back to using shíte software.

mneylon

kbannon wrote: »

I use Firefox but if I were to use IE then I'm on version 7

Or IE8 with FF 3 beta

/me runs for the hills

Seth Brundle

blacknight wrote: »

Or IE8 with FF 3 beta

/me runs for the hills

Keep running

EKRIUQ

kbannon wrote: »

Is a couple of hundred not good enough?
Are you planning on becomming a full time designer? If so then get your own site in order first and then look at online marketing.
Its your site so therefore the errors are yours!
You claim that you have done "thosands (sic) of websites" on your portfolio page. How many have you actually done?
As for Windows ME - its an operating system not a browser. If I were to have a meeting with you about a website and you said that, I'd throw you out straight away.
FFS!
I use Firefox but if I were to use IE then I'm on version 7 - as a designer you should be striving to use the latest technologies, not trying to hold people back to using shíte software.

It appears the idea of an affiliate website seems to have gone over some people’s heads here and don’t understand the concept behind them.

The site is only online a couple of days, and there will be changes made in time based on some people’s constructive observations but in other cases, ignorance seems to be bliss to some posters

tomED

I don't think it has gone over anyones head here. Most people are trying to advise you.

Creating the site to work with just IE is alienating a lot of potential customers of yours. It could be up to at least 15% of visitors at this stage (depending of course on your target audience).

I think you should really take some advice from this. The lads are only trying to tell you that if you want to succeed you need to put a bit more work in.

It's going to be a tough road ahead for you unless you take some advice on board, and even at that, I think it's going to be difficult to generate much business from this.

Since you have the skills to put sites together, why not do a cheap and nasty offering where you sell templated sites to small businesses?

Malice

BingoBongo wrote: »

It appears the idea of an affiliate website seems to have gone over some people’s heads here and don’t understand the concept behind them.

The site is only online a couple of days, and there will be changes made in time based on some people’s constructive observations but in other cases, ignorance seems to be bliss to some posters

I'm not sure why you think people are being ignorant. Leaving the concept of an affiliate website aside, I still stand by my previous post. I'll write it again just in case you missed it: To restrict a site to a version of IE that ceased being current about seven years ago makes no sense to me. Is there really no way of doing whatever needs to be done in a more compatible way? The browser market share for IE5.5 or IE6 can't still be that big these days can it?

You say you've tested the site in 43 browsers? What were they? How could you have done that level of testing and not noticed that your site won't work with Firefox, Opera and IE7?

Seth Brundle

BingoBongo wrote: »

It appears the idea of an affiliate website seems to have gone over some people’s heads here and don’t understand the concept behind them.

The site is only online a couple of days, and there will be changes made in time based on some people’s constructive observations but in other cases, ignorance seems to be bliss to some posters

How was I being ignorant? I know what an affiliate site is.
I also know that (and maybe Im being biased as Im associated somewhat with the industry) your site whilst looks good, does not validate and has so many typos, etc that I would not do business with you as I would expect that the same mistakes would be made in any template or product/service you provide. It doesn't matter if the errors are not your fault. Its your site that is displaying them.
Furthermore, your site is the one that doesn't validate. Your site is the one that expects users to use MSIE 5.5. Your site is the one that as someone striving to project a professional image, does not do that. It looks nice but technically it lets you down.

EKRIUQ

Thanks for all this, but just to clear things up

THE SITE WORKS WITH ALL BROWSERS, REPEAT ALLL BROWSERS

If not can view the site in your brower please let me know.

You say you've tested the site in 43 browsers? What were they? How could you have done that level of testing and not noticed that your site won't work with Firefox, Opera and IE7?

What malice picked up rightly is an external site called www.site2you.com a website building website (I have it planted inside my site) that uses IE5.5 or IE6 to work NOT Irishwebdesign.net I thought people would have spotted that.

Seth Brundle

Stop shouting. People are taking the time here for you so stop getting annoyed!

As for the site2you.com or any other third party components used in your site, it is your site that is showing them and for any visitor who is not very savvy (who in fairness will possibly be the majority of your visitors), they will presume its your site that is at fault.

Malice

BingoBongo wrote: »

Thanks for all this, but just to clear things up

THE SITE WORKS WITH ALL BROWSERS, REPEAT ALLL BROWSERS

If not can view the site in your brower please let me know.

No it doesn't! No amount of capitalisation and bolding will change that!
Your end user could care less what's "planted" inside your site. As long as it's your site's URL in the address bar, your site is responsible for the content.

noreds

i have a trade doubler account
they advertise for dell, apple , itunes etc
should i apply for ads for itunes.
My site unlocks iphones.
should i steer clear as it might bring the big apple eye upon me.