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Making money from dating affiliation programs is possible ! Even if you have a low or no budget.
There is truly no reason not to get involved as a dating affiliate webmaster.
And here are some advices / tips that I hope you will find helpful if you plan to set up a dating site …
1. Choose a good dating niche.
Decide on the kind of dating website that you’d like to setup. Choose a concept and a niche that you really consider as a good / « not so bad » idea. Maybe you could settle dating site that offers tips or relationship advices. You also could decide to write reviews about maony or evene just one dating site.
2. Keyword Research.
Research all of the relevant keywords related to your chosen niche target. You’ll need these keywords for optimizing your site and writing your articles and blog posts.
3. Find a hosting service.
Find yourself an hosting service.
A reliable one if you think your project will rock. On a tight budget you can get virtual hosting for as little as $9.95 a month.
A free hosting is also possible if you plan to realise many different targeted dating sites. I personnaly use www.olympe-network.com in this case.
4. Choose a good domain name.
Choosing a good domain name is not taht easy. Many .com domains are already registered. But you may use some good tools in order to help you 
Here are 2 links I invite to to check : www.domaines-expires.com and www.domain-mix.com. Use your knowledge of relevant keywords to help in choosing a keyword domain. You also can try to be creative and / or target a « brandable » name.
5. Setup a website.
Setup a website and ensure that it is properly optimized. Using a wordpress CMS is ok. Link your blog posts to the relevant articles. Ensure you use social bookmarking sites like digg whenever you make a blog post.
6. Choose different sources of remuneration.
They are two main types of solutions if you want to get money from your dating site.
- Adsense
Adsense is actually the best solution. The program remains the one that pays you the better.
- Affiliation services
This really is a serious alternative to Adsense. You can get really interesting earnings with dating affiliation services. Here again, you have different possibilities :
- find a global affiliate marketing service (such as Commission Junction or Tradedoubler for exemple ) and then compare the dating programs available;
- find a direct affiliation service. You may for exemple try Easyflirt Partner’s Affiliation Program. Easyflirt really offers a good solution. This programs allows you to add a dating section on your site with different promotional tools. You get 55% on each paid subscription you generate, and you are also paid on each rebill !
Of course it is better to be « on topic » with your niche if you want to get a high clic rates. The quality of your site is a key point here.
7. Write articles for your site.
Write about 30 to 40 high-quality articles based on the dating subject you’ve chosen. Try to be unique and original. Consistently quality content will get you traffic in organic search engine results.
8. Prepare articles for marketing purpose.
Write articles that describe your service. What are you offering, why is your site better than ohters, why is your site so unique … Articles should be based on keywords you wish to target. Submit them to article directories. Ensure you write different articles for each submission.
9. Run your own newsletter / mailing list.
Running an eZine or a newsletter is one great way to keep your customers coming back to you for more. When you send out your newsletter make sure you are always branding yourself in your customers’ minds.
10. Get dating traffic.
At this stage you have a website with quality article-content. Post some fresh content regularly. Also try to catch relevant inbound links to your site.
- Free traffic
What you need now is to use as many sources of free dating traffic as possible. You can use directories, article directories, social sites, yahoo answers, comments on related blogs, relevant forums, groups (google, yahoo, msn), google images, viral marketing techniques … - Paid traffic
- Paid traffic
Different paid solutions are available : google adwords or yahoo advertising solutions are the main services available. It’s worth giving it a try. You can get really good results depending on your niche / target. But remember to always monitor your campains and your ROI (Return on investment).
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Ok, enought for today ! You already have some work to do on your own. I let you go further and try to follow the steps above before developping deeper recommandations.
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