Why Most Affiliate Marketing Ventures Don’t Work And How To Avoid The Same Errors: Part 2

Ok, following on from my last article, you have created your affiliate marketing shop, enrolled in for plenty of affiliate programmes, picked the ads of sites whose products fall into your niche market and inserted them on your webpage’s. You have picked the keywords for your site, put them into the header that illustrates your site, what it does and what it offers. Those are the first three parts of SEO accomplished and you’re ready for the big one, the off site promotion.

To that point, as we left it last time, you’ve endured the tedious chore of getting your shop entered onto hundreds of internet business directories. At least you only have to do it once. But they will only be of importance to the search engines for a fairly short while, though they will continue to use them but what Google, Yahoo and the gang really love is to unearth up to date links in different spots and that entails keeping links fresh. To do this you can utilise social networks for SEO use. First, set up a username with Twitter using your website name as full name and Twitter name, or something close if that has been taken. For instance, my affiliate marketing website is internetfishingshop.com so I have a twitter name of ‘@internetfishing’ and full name ‘Internetfishing Shop’. Find shops (I just searched on ‘fishing’ which unearthed plenty) that fall into your niche area and follow them, and some will follow you back. And then, at least 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” (remembering to include the http://) and that will put a link which the robots will read and make a note that it’s up to date and when they follow it to find your site which will note 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 shows the Twitter messages and links as well.

Now, since your page is in the practice of affiliate marketing, you want some interested shoppers to go to it, so join some forums that are complimentary with your niche marketplace. Join in some of the chat so that your id gets known. And then, after a while slip in a note that you discovered something really great as a result of going to your page and insert a link. Also, have a look at Usenet, though these are slipping from favour but still, construct 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 constant visitor. All of this is excellent, effective SEO and will target search engine robots and potential clients equally. But it will not promote you far up the search engine rankings.

The next part of SEO which is going to make the most significant effect in pushing your affiliate marketing shop up the search engine results table is, of course the trickiest 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 feature of this little succession of pieces all by itself, but it is the most effective and, if you want your site found by hordes of people, it’s the one you need to work to do properly.

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