As In any business it is important to have strategy. Here, I will provide you with couple of strategies for growing and improving your af...
As In any business it is important to have strategy. Here, I will provide you with couple of strategies for growing and improving your affiliate businesses from few hundreds into tens of thousands of dollars a month using websites and search engine optimization.
The same applies to affiliate marketing since it is your business and has to be treated like business. Each has own strengths and weaknesses, that’s why we’re stepping in and providing your with couple strategies to use separately or in one big marketing mix to ensure growth and stability of your affiliate business with MoreNiche.
Before you start to apply these strategies it’s important that you have already decent understanding about websites, hosting and other basic elements of web else we advice to read guides located in SEO area.
Strategy#1 Blogs
Very simple but yet effective strategy is blogging. Blogging is good from couple of aspects, like:
- Blogs are free to create. There are many different blogging services to use with different and very flexible features.
- Most Importantly, blogs are search engine friendly content management systems (CMS) that can achieve high rankings in search engines even without knowing much about technical aspects of search engine optimization.
Here is an example on what to write in blogs:
- Blogs can be used to create diary about ones progress using some enlargement method. By posting different feelings, aspects, pictures, can create an interaction with audience.
What would be the blog strategy that works?
Basically the main goal is to create little blog network of 5-20 blogs that are on close topics to each other as well they should be aiming for low competition search terms. Usually it means either low searched term or also terms that are 3- 4 and more words long.
Tools for keyword research:
- KeywordElite – is desktop tool with many keyword research features. This tool will collect you keywords from various places into numbers of thousands. It is used by most top SEO and PPC marketers.
- WordTrakcer – most popular online keyword research service, offers advanced keyword research and suggestions.
Key factor in blogging is to have keyword rich content and then link it between blogs and other sites targeting these specific keywords and pages. See MoreNiche linking guide for more details. Each blog should be updated with 1-2 posts every other day or so. Blogs should achieve 10 or more posts each. In a month’s time it would be quite realistic to achieve 100 visitors a day and earnings of $500 to 1000$ per month. Of course, some blogs will produce better and some not. Some will achieve higher rankings some will support these with links. Of course, also one blog can be doing well as it would be easier to create unique content and gain more links. Regarding unique content and how to create it from MoreNiche content articles - see guide on avoiding duplicate content.
Strategy#2 Mega-Site
Mega site approach is good owner concentrates not only on very small niche and small content site like 10-20 page review site but goes after wide variety of topics that includes high competition and volume keywords as well as smaller sub keywords along with related niches / topics.
Examples: abbys-sexual-health.com, altpenis.com, askmen.com, about.com
These sites relates to sexuality and different angles, men things and even megasite about everything with many categories and sub categories like about.com
Core strategy is following:
- Select the main keywords and their keyword categories and sometimes even more sub-subcategories.
- Select related subjects and their categories.
- Develop huge list of keywords of so called long tail (thousands of little keywords) that fits under the main topics.
- Develop main topics (quickly) just to fill main categories.
- Heavy development of long tail articles. This means creating articles on groups on these small keywords and optimizing them fast with couple good links. Usually this strategy will allow having 10’s of pages optimized within few shorts months and receive first targeted traffic.
- As the long tail is being targeted and developed – the more traffic and more links are achieved which eventually will result in subcategory rankings and later in rankings of all main categories.
Strategy#3 Dominate the market
This strategy is oriented toward creating many small niche sites targeting very tight keyword groups (5-10 keywords) from long tail.
If in mega-site links and site building starts from the very long tail pages (that applies also to link gaining) then here this is totally opposite. Each website created is targeting actually small keyword on its homepage so 95% of all linking activities are oriented towards the homepage of site.
In general such website will have 5-10 pages on average. Of course some sites will naturally grow bigger as more related content and keywords will get discovered. In many cases it will be enough to gain 20-50 links to rank well on all 3 major search engines in top 10.
Strategy#4 Conspiracy
This strategy is called conspiracy because of fact that to visitors are given several choices but as the result they end buying trough your affiliate codes. How would it look in practical life? For example, your site is ranking under keyword that generates 5 sales a week/month and your site ranks No.1.
Question:
why not to make another site that would rank as No. 2 and another for No.3?
Reason:
If you know how to get it to No.1 it shouldn’t be too hard to repeat the process. Important thing to remember when doing so is to diversify your sites. Make them look and feel they way that visitor would have impression that this is totally different website and totally different person behind it. Also its advisable to host similar sites in different places as well as not to interlink them. Remember, one site can rank for several keywords so use it for maximum exposure on search engines!
#happyblogging :)
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