BoardRiderLounge Affiliate Website

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn money on auto pilot once you have done the fundamental leg work of building and marketing your website. We decided to launch our own affiliate site in the competitive market of skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding and wakeboarding.

With our niche market selected it was time to assess our options for building the site. Although there was already a product on the market called Datafeedr for Wordpress, we decided to make this an Expression Engine site to take advantage of some of the powerful features of EE such as its ability to display related data. This key feature enabled us to mimic popular product comparison sites such as Pronto and Shopzilla.

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Competitive niches require a good deal of work to break into the top spots in the Search Engine Results Pages (serps). Within breaks in client work we are developing keyword optimized content, building links, submitting to directories, press release sites and of course applying Traffic Blasts to move the site into the coveted first page of Google.

Boardriderlounge was a great introduction into the affiliate space. We now have plans to launch new sites in quite a few more niches. Do you have a hobby you are passionate about or an expert in that could serve as your affiliate niche? Contact us today and we can decide on the best plan of action to get your first affiliate site up and running.

- Visit www.boardriderlounge.com to check out the site and to find great deals on equipment for boardsports and especially good Roxy Snowboard deals!

key features

• Expression Engine Content Management SystemWe are using our favorite CMS - Expression Engine - on BoardRiderLounge. This enables us to provide login access to multiple bloggers to update the site for us.
• XML Product ImportBoardriderlounge loads xml datafeeds from an affiliate network called Avantlink. On a nightly basis thousands of productsfrom over 15 merchants are updated in the database so users find the latest products everyday on the site.
• Semi Product Comparison Shopping Although the data didn't provide us with unique attributes to enable a true product comparison, we were able to leverage EE's ability to "relate" different data sets to show similar products on the same page. So users are able to select products and have results returned from various merchants with the best deals listed first.
• Email Marketing Through Mailchimp We are using Mailchimp as our email delivery program and loving it. Mailchimp integrates with Google Analytics and gives us all kinds of insightful data to analyze.
• Community ForumThis brand new site hosts a community forum for skateboarders, surfers, snowboarders and wakeboarders alike to chat and exchange ideas.