Sun 12 Jun, 2011
Why Most Affiliate Marketing Schemes Fall And How One Can Avoid The Same Pitfalls: Part Two
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Ok, continuing on from my last article, you have set up your affiliate marketing shop, enrolled in for stacks of associate plans, picked the ads of retailers whose products fall into your niche market and put them on your webpage’s. You have selected the keywords for your website, put them into the header that describes your site, what it does and what it offers. Those are the 1st 3 elements of SEO achieved and you’re ready for the main one, the off site promotion.
To that point, as we left it last time, you’ve been through the tiresome task of getting your shop listed in hundreds of internet business directories. At least you only have to do it once. But these will only be of importance to the search engines for a quite short period, though they will continue to use them but what Google, Yahoo and the gang really love is to unearth new links in other locations and that entails keeping links fresh. To this end you can use social networks for search engine optimisation use. First, create a username with Twitter using your website name as full name and Twitter name, or something close if they’ve been bagged. For instance, my affiliate marketing website is internetfishingshop.com so I have a twitter name of ‘@internetfishing’ and full name ‘Internetfishing Shop’. Search for shops (I just searched on ‘fishing’ which turned up plenty) that fall into your niche area and follow them, and a number will follow you in return. And then, minimum once a day, tweet a message which includes a link to your website. Something akin to “Get the finest XXX products in the world at http:// your site address here” (you must include the http://) and that will include a link which the robots will pick up and make a note that it’s fresh and when they follow it to find your site which will acknowledge that it is still current.
Also, register a Facebook page for your site, and link the Twitter app to link it so that it also repeats the Twitter messages and links as well.
Now, because your page is in the practice of affiliate marketing, you want some interested shoppers to go to it, so join some forums that match with your niche area. Join in some of the chat so that your username gets known. And then, after a while slip in a thread that you got something really good from going to your site and include a link. Also, investigate Usenet, though these are dropping from favour but still, write a message with your link in and post it in plenty of newsgroups. Somebody may see it, follow it, like it, bookmark it and be a regular visitor. All of this is excellent, effective SEO and will target search engine robots and possible buyers equally. But it won’t push you far up the search engine rankings.
The next part of search engine optimisation that is going to make the biggest result in getting your affiliate marketing website up the search engine results table is, of course the most difficult and most labour intensive part of search engine optimisation. It is also the most contentious which is why it is going to take all of the 3rd article of this little series of monograms all by itself, but it is the most effective and, if you want your site visited by hordes of folks, it’s the one you need to work to do right.
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