If you’re an affiliate marketer, the WordPress theme or website platform can make a difference depending on the type your business model.
One thing I love about affiliate marketing is there are many effective methods that generate income.
The following are just some of the effective affiliate marketing techniques:
- reviewing products and/or services,
- rating products and/or services (either individually or comparing products within a niche),
- recommend products to your following and visitors,
- teach/inform about products (“how to?”, “why use?”, etc.), and
- advertise products.
My favorite techniques are reviewing product and teaching about products.
Given the variety of affiliate marketing techniques, it follows that the type of website you build should cater to the affiliate marketing technique(s) you use.
For example, if you rate products, you may do the best with a theme or template designed to rate products. If you’re building a following through blogging, then you’ll want a basic blogging template (or theme). If you review many products across several niches, you may want a directory template. The point is you can improve your conversions with the right website template.
Since WordPress is so widely used among affiliate marketers (including me), the following are WordPress themes I view as appropriate according to the type of affiliate marketing technique you use.
WordPress Themes according affiliate marketing techniques
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Optimize Press Optimize Press is a WordPress theme dedicated to creating websites specifically for:
It’s the internet marketer’s theme (along with Profits Theme – also an excellent landing page theme – see below).
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Profits Theme Profits Theme is much like Optimize Press. Profits offers a better drag n’ drop design console for customizing landing pages; however, I prefer Optimize Press default designs/templates. Like Optimize Press, Profits Theme creates:
It too is the internet marketer’s theme.
>Click here to visit Profits Theme<
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Genesis Framework by StudioPress:
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DIY Thesis
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Flexx Theme by iThemes
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Socrates Theme
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| WordPress Theme Builders Themes you can fully customize and create many unique layouts throughout your website. |
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Builder Theme by iThemes
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Headway Themes
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Catalyst ThemeI also consider Catalyst a WordPress theme builder in the sense you can create custom layouts for pages and posts with no coding knowledge needed.Catalyst includes:
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InReview by ElegantThemes I’m delighted ElegantThemes came out with a Product Review WordPress theme. You can click here to view a live demo. InReview uses the popular ePanel technology developed by ElegantThemes which makes customizing many aspects of your theme very easy to do. InReview Theme includes:
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Product Review WordPress Theme
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WordPress Review Theme
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eBook by Templatic
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MyProduct theme by ElegantThemes
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Listings Theme by WooThemes
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Magazine Theme by StudioPress
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Bold News by WooThemes
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Lifestyle Theme by StudioPress
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Bold by ElegantThemes
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News Theme by StudioPress
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Article Directory Theme by Templatic
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Why not just use a free theme?
Great question. I used to use free themes, but became tired of the limitations. In my view, the innovation with premium theme developers is far beyond the offerings of free themes. Moreover, read this article to learn about potential hazards of using a free theme.
Premium Theme Buying Tip
Be sure to read the license. Some themes have different pricing packages depending on the number of concurrent websites on which a theme is used. For example, some themes charge more money if you wish to use a theme on more than one domain name). I tend to prefer an unlimited use license. After all, we affiliate marketers tend to build more than one website.
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Thank you for the in depth reviews and video access. I have ET, using them for a deals and coupons website, and just started a directory site backlinksthatmatter – it is getting page 1/position 1 ranking on google for the popular search term, backlinks that matter. Two questions, do you think DirectoryPress is a more robust directory theme than Elist from ET? It looks to offer more according to the demos I have seen. I like the different priced packages and ease of letting the customer submit their own listing.
Also, I have been getting good traffic on the site, even know it is early build stage. Should I put up a splash screen, under maintenance, be back April 20 or such?….or is it better to let it be and put the word under maintenance more prominently on Top. I don’t want to effect my good ranking? Open and appreciate any ideas.
Thanks,
David
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Hi David,
I’m not nearly as familiar with DirectoryPress as I am with eList. From my preliminary glance at DP, it’s comparable to eList in how it functions (categories, taxonomies, etc.). I think you’re good to go with either. I’ve been meaning to test DP and if I do, I’ll write a full review.
Keep the site up as-is. This way people that find your site can add listings. I’d get your privacy and terms and conditions pages up ASAP.
Hope this helps.