If you are building a website to promote affiliate links and you want the site to rank well in Google at some point, don’t slap affiliate links on it right away.

This will be hard for beginners to do. I know this because I have been there myself and know how hard it is to see the big picture.

Here’s why you should not put affiliate links on right away:

1. It won’t do any good anyway because a new site gets no search engine traffic.

2. Google (and Yahoo) can have very adverse reactions to the site if they think it MIGHT be there just to promote affiliate links. They are really clamping down on this lately. Google hates sites which seem to be there just to promote affiliate links.

Be patient with new sites. Create plenty of good content Google will love. Make sure you understand SEO BEFORE writing the content. Get the site ranked in Google before putting the first affiliate link on. And even then, do not put too many affiliate links on it. Nothing will ditch a site’s rankings faster than a high affiliate link to content ratio.

Remember, your first job with a new site is to get traffic…not to make money.

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