Building Affiliate Sites with CMS Systems
Being in the affiliate business means building web sites. And with the direction things are going lately, building a successful web site means building a decent looking site with a number of web pages. But as many of us know, building a nice site and managing a a lot of web pages can be a real bear.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. The miracle factory that is the Intarweb has once again answered our prayer and given us content management systems (CMS). Thanks to the open source apostles of the web, there are many fantastic and affordable CMS systems available for use on your next affiliate site.
But why use a CMS system?
CMS systems have a number of advantages:
- Ability to quickly ramp up a web site
- Templates that are easy to switch and modify for a customized look
- Simple interfaces that make publishing a page almost as easy as saving it to Word
- Reduced coding time so you can spend more time promoting your site
When we are putting together PPC web sites here at InsureMe, we usually use a CMS system called Web Site Baker (WSB). WSB comes with a number of free templates you can use right out of the box, so you don’t even need to know how to code or design a site to have and attractive looking web presence. If you want to make a more customized site, you can do that with WSB as well…and after getting familiar with the interface, you should be able to crank out quality sites in record time.
This morning a couple of us spent some time sprucing up one of our Web Site Baker sites, and after a morning we ended up with this. Not too bad for a morning, eh? The beautiful thing is that most of our time was spent tweaking the template, but we didn’t have to build the foundations of the site on our own. In the end, I think a morning of work netted us an up-to-date looking web site that will covert well.
Oh yeah, let’s not forget one of the greatest things about Web Site Baker. It is free! That’s right. As free as hippies in the 60’s.
So if you are getting ready to crank out that next affiliate site, why not try out Web Site Baker. You might love it, and it might save you a lot of time so you can start making some serious affili-bucks with your purdy new site.
[Another CMS system that one of our favorite affiliates Magnus recommends is ExpressionEngine. While I have no real exposure to the system, Magnus knows what he is talking about, so I suggest you check it out too.]
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Comments
I was considering this for awhile, and sort of use blogs for the same things. The question I have is: do you know how the big search engines treat these PHP generated pages? Do you think it matters?
Posted by: Quoteus | March 9, 2007 06:38 AM
Hey Quoteus - from my understanding a php page should not be an issues for search engines. With that said, the pages we build with Web Site Baker are more focused on PPC than SEO, so I can't give you any personal success stories. Web Site Baker does make it easy to have clean URLs though...which is a big plus.
I found this article with some tips for SEOing PHP - you can read it here.
Posted by: James Omdahl | March 9, 2007 08:04 AM
Thanks again James!
Posted by: Quoteus | March 9, 2007 08:21 AM
Im lookin at CMD for affiliate system in google search and i have found your blog which one that recomend, Web Site Baker. And theres nothing demo that i have found there... Anyway, thanx for your confirmation here...
regards :)
Posted by: Anak Medan | January 23, 2008 06:21 AM