Creating A Voucher Website Using WordPress

by GuestBlogger on May 16, 2010

WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
First, WordPress are no longer allowing users to use the hosted version of WordPress if they are advertising sponsored posts. How far they take this – if it gets as far as disallowing affiliate marketing – I do not know and if the situation changes in the future we can not know. But for security, I would recommend avoiding the hosted version if you want to make sure your website will always thrive.

Hosting WordPress.org
So we are looking at the self hosted version of WordPress. There are two options here, depending on your technical abilities. If you are happy with FTP and buying a MySQL database, then you might use any host you like. But if this sounds too complicated, then look merely for hosts that will install WordPress at the click of a few buttons.

Once you have your host, then you might also buy you domain name. Along with setting up WordPress, your site is now up and running!

Finding Some Vouchers
There is no point in merely displaying random voucher codes if the purpose of the website is to make an income. You will just want to display discount codes that relate to sites running affiliate schemes and you will merely be allowed to display approved codes. So sign up to a handful of the biggest affiliate schemes you could find and then apply to all of their relevant merchants.

They will then email you as discount codes go live. You then only write a new post and type in the code and all of the details. Do not bother with click to reveal – it only annoys people. Just give the full details on your post. The affiliate scheme will provide you with banners or text links for the merchant. Just copy and paste one of these into the post.

Attracting Visitors To Your discount code website
Search engine optimisation techniques are impending, but will take a lot of effort! At best, probably optimising for merchant names and the word voucher code may help for people looking for that merchant’s banners, but you need to build on the powers of the blogging tool.

Instead you need to build a following and this is where sites excel! If you can attract some traffic to your new WordPress site, then people will start signing up for you RSS feed. So make sure that your posts about new vouchers clearly name the merchant and the voucher, so followers could pop by when there is a voucher that appeals. But, where do you get these traffic from to begin with?

Well start taking part in other discount code websites and forums. Be the first person to post about admirable codes that you know around, giving the full details on the forum or in the comment so that it does not become blatant self promotion. Just rely on the avatar linking back to your site, or adding a link in your signature.

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