Affiliate Marketing Master Plan

I got an email today from someone who I’ve gotten to know a bit over the last few months. I met her at Vics Make money online blog…BloggerUnleashed.

Anyway, she was always very engaged and enthusiastic about things and was always at the chats he used to host. She is also a member of the Affiliate Academy, which I am as well as many other good people are now members of.

In her email, she expressed to me how she is having such a hard time…she does internet marketing part time, as she spends her full time raising and home schooling her young child.  She is reading a blog from another of the greats named Grizzly.  His how to make money blog tells the ins and outs of how to make money online wtih adsense.

She says she is having a hard time with it. Now, I admit, I am no genius, and I am not raking it in yet..with adsense.  As of today,  I did have my best day with adsense. I made just over $15. Now while you may not think that is something to jump up an down over, I will tell you this.

I have been working on my new network of sites, since September. Last month, I was making $3 a day with adsense, so as you can see, as my sites are aging, and I continue to gather links to the sites, and they age, the big G is starting to give me some love. As well, I am staring to get some action from Yahoo, as it seems that Yahoo takes a bit longer to give you love.

The other thing I did was reoptimize my posts to have a better keyword density in the hopes of telling the google bot what kinds of adsense ads to put up on the site.

In my email reply back to this person, I told her that from my understanding, you want to devote an entire site, whether a wordpress blog, or a blogspot blog to one set of keywords, and work all the posts around that keyword.

Then you want to create the posts and target long tail keywords that are very related to the main keyword you are targeting.

Once you get the longtail keyword up, build links (or as Griz says, gather links) to the post to get it to rank. While doing that, make sure your post has the right keyword density to allow the google adsense bot to know which ads to place on the site.

Write enough posts targeting long tails, get them all to rank then you start to get traffic.  The other benefit, is that once you start getting all those longtail keyword phrases to rank, you start to build authority for the site and the set of keywords.

What happens next is you are building a momentum, and you start to pull your site up in the serps.

Keep building the links and posts until you feel that you have optimized all you can.  Once you are done with that, the only thing left to do is…Wash Rinse and Repeat.

Oh yeah, one other thing, Both Griz and Vic will be the first to say you need to do alot of experimenting.  Think Babe Ruth. He had the most home runs, but also the most strike outs.

In Griz’ latest post, he says he throws up alot of crap and sees what sticks. Vic says 20% of his network creates 80% of his income.  Think Paretos Principle  people.

Now…GO BUILD SOME LINKS!

Okay, so we are now starting to talk about the benefits of and ranking with organic traffic on google. This is where it is at.

The first thing you need to completely understand, is that going the organic traffic route is a method that you get paid in 4-6 months. Do not expect to see that your site ranks number one for your search term, or keyword in a few weeks.

If that were possible, then don’t you think that everyone would be doing it? Now, there are rare instances that it does happen, but remember what I am saying. they Are RARE!

You need to build your site, then you need to get links to that site. Every link has a value associated with it. Think of links as votes. Every link is a vote for your site. Some votes have more power, and some have less.

Overall, the more links you have the better you will rank. But… That doesn’t mean that you will rank if you go and get thousands of links in a day. Google will simply ignore those links, and worse off, you could get penalized for those links.

Gradually, your links get counted, and then you see your site starting to move up in the search rankings. Eventually, you hit position one, and you dominate that search term.

In time, we will discuss the different kinds of links, and what you want to do to get them.

But what is important is that you understand from this post is that links are the little guys that are going to get you paid if you work organic search traffic.

I know it’s been quite a while since  posted here. I’ve been pretty busy working on stuff and continuing to build my sites, and improve on my internet and affiliate marketing.

Since starting this whole thing right around December 1, I am almost up on my first year anniversary.  This is pretty exciting. As I have had winners and losers.  One of the neatest things I have done is stumbled upon a site that I have been following for now since about May. That makes 5 months, and I have radically shifted my approach to affiliate marketing.

One of the things I have gotten involved in is SEO and PPC.  One of the interesting things is that PPC is really a form of SEO…

Meaning, if your SEO sucks, then your PPC campaigns will suck too.  That’s because you will not have picked the right keywords, or optimized them for success.  You will pay higher CPC, and have less conversions.

Overall, the important things Ive learned that apply to both is this.

1. You need traffic. Not just lots…but more importantly targeted.  You need to pick keywords that are targeted to the right people. People that have a need to fill.

2. You need high rankings on the big G. That means position 1.

3. If you are going for organic traffic. Your seo skills will revolve around your ability to get links.  Anchored text back links to your site.  At the end of the day, the one with the most links wins.

Anyway, I plan on visiting and posting more about the new things Im working on and the things you need to do if you plan on making money online.

Till Then,

Matt