Ross+Southwell+-+Affiliate+Marketing

**Ross Southwell - affiliate marketing**
Ross runs an online business through Amazons affiliate marketing scheme. He owns 3 websites plus blogs that allow him to promote those website and gain more customers.

Affiliate marketing is the selling of products for another company, in this case Amazon.com. He gains money because every time Ross sells an item off his website he gains compensation for the selling of that. He also gains it if the costumer was directed to amazon from the website even if they don't buy the product he is promoting.

Becoming an affiliate is easy, it's the design and implementation of the website that gets a bit harder. In order to have a website you need the following: (next to the points is what Ross uses) - A domain name and DNS(domain name server) - namecheap.com - A hosting server - hostgator.com - Commercial or open sours software in order to design the webpages - Wordpress/ artisteer

But even before Ross has his websites how does he decide which product to promote, because he wants a product that many people search for but there are hardly any websites for it, so this means he can gain more money as there is such a high demand for it. Ross has used a software called Market Samurai that through the use of a keyword searches for difference things on that word, in the case of Ross he would have searched different products to see which ones would have the best numbers. The software would tell u the following: - the number of service per day/ month/ year - number websites - number of websites with the same keywords - SEO optimisation - ad sense costs (how much per click) - the rating in search engines such a Google, Yahoo and Bing - etc............ Through this search Ross has now 3 websites. 1- arteaselstore.com 2- kidseaselstore.com 3- scientificnotationcalculator.net

Below is the mind map of Ross's Marketing and process.

Below is an image of Ross's latest website.