Build a High-Performance Amazon Affiliate Website

[Step-by-Step Tutorial]

Overview

hi-performance-amazon-affiliate-website-tutorial-overviewWhat is a high-performance Amazon affiliate website?

Lately, you may have heard a lot of talk about website performance, page speed, and core web vitals. This is all-important for a successful Amazon Affiliate website, but “performance” applies to a lot more than just how fast your page loads or what scores you get in a page speed tester.

In this tutorial, we will go step-by-step through everything you need to know and do to launch a high-performance website on ALL levels.

Performance applies to many things such as:

  • How fast your website & content loads.
  • You website colors and styles.
  • How well do your website’s colors affect the reader’s mood?
  • How easy is your font to read?
  • How well your content performs.
  • How well does your content catch the reader’s attention?
  • How well do your templates guide the reader’s eyes?
  • How scannable are your posts and pages?
  • Are your paragraphs too short or too long?
  • How well does your copy, imagery, and overall “look-n-feel” influence people to want to click your affiliate links?
  • How efficiently YOU work! How much of your most valuable resource, your time, do you think you will waste figuring out and testing all of this stuff for yourself. You yourself can be “high-performance” cranking out high-quality work efficiently.

As you can see, all of these aspects of building a successful Amazon Affiliate website can be optimized to achieve their goals as well as possible.

What will this guide cover?

This tutorial is divided into 5 chapters. Each one covers the basic steps you need to take to follow the tutorial.  I link to official high-quality outside tutorials whenever I can because they will always be up-to-date. This tutorial will guide you through all the steps of building a high-performance blog or website, and give you an excellent starting point to grow into a mega-site if you so choose.

Here is an overview of what each chapter will cover.

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Go to Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – Planning & Setting Up Your Website Basics

In chapter 1 you will start at the very beginning. First, we’ll cover what makes a kickass topic for your website. Then we will take a look at where your website will live (web hosting), and get it set up.

Chapter 1 will cover:
  • Choosing a topic for your Amazon affiliate website
  • Choosing and registering a domain (URL)
  • Choosing your website hosting
  • Buying a hosting package
  • Connecting your domain to your website

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Go to Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – Setting Up Plugins, Themes

Once you have your website topic is chosen and WordPress install set up, it’s time to add the theme and plugins. This chapter is a bit longer as there is a lot to cover. We’ll be keeping our theme choice simple and plugins minimal.

Chapter 2 will cover:

  • Adding a high-performance theme to your website
  • Adding necessary plugins
  • Setting up the necessary plugins

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Go to Chapter 3

Chapter 3 – Creating Pages and Adding Content

Now that you have your website all set up, it’s time to start adding content! This chapter will go over what standard pages to add, what to put on them, and give you a wide range of content types that you can publish.

Chapter 3 will cover:

  • Basic Starter Sitemap
  • Writing and creating content
  • (SEO) Search Engine Optimization considerations

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Chapter 4 – Monetizing your Content

Your website is all set up and you have some content published. Your SEO is starting to kick in and deliver organic Google visitors, so it’s finally time to monetize your website!

Chapter 4 will cover:

  • Benefits to the Amazon Associates Program
  • Signing Up for the Amazon Associates Program
  • Monetizing your posts with AmaLinks Pro® No-API mode (new Amazon affiliates)
  • Monetising your posts with AmaLinks Pro® API mode

 

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Go to Chapter 5

Chapter 5 – Technical Optimization

Lastly, we will cover some of the more technical aspects of building and maintaining a high-performance Amazon affiliate website. This part is where we will fine-tune the loading, performance, and page experience of your website and get it humming like a well-oiled money machine.

Chapter 4 will cover:

  • Caching
  • Content Delivery Networks
  • Fine-tuning asset loading

Who is this guide for?

This guide is for anybody looking to build a high-quality Amazon affiliate website in as little time as possible, with as little frustration as possible. Many site builders underestimate the time and mental toll of frustrations when things go wrong or they enter unfamiliar territory.

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This guide can save you most of that time and frustration just like all of these people!

Joking of course … this is just a stock image 😉

Following this guide can be a giant shortcut to success for YOU though, without getting yourself lost along the way and wasting countless hours to trial and error. Of course, there still will be trial and error and things to work through, but by following this guide you will save a lot of time.

This is not the only way to build an Amazon Affiliate Website…

There are many different ways to build a successful website, and this tutorial teaches one of them. All choices, services, software, and recommendations are my own, and not necessarily the best way to do them, but my way at this current time.

Let’s take the guesswork out of building a high-performance Amazon affiliate website. To save the most time and get the best results, especially for new bloggers and content creators, I recommend following the tutorial exactly. Once you learn the method, you can change it to suit your needs.

What does this tutorial assume?

This tutorial assumes that you:

  • want to save lots of time and frustration while at the same time building a top-performing long-lasting Amazon affiliate website
  • want every single step on what to do laid out clearly.
  • are somewhat technically savvy. You must be able to use a computer, type documents, resize images, and complete other general computer-related activities.
  • have at least enough money to pay for a yearly fee to register a domain and enough money to pay monthly for website hosting.
  • understand that the methods, choices, and techniques presented in this tutorial are just one way to do things, and not necessarily the best way to do things. They are a way to do things. I don’t know everything!

Let’s Get Started!

For the best results with this tutorial, I do recommend following it exactly for at least one website, and then growing and improving the method to suit your own needs from there.

Questions?