Affiliate Marketing Master Plan

Are you trying to hard to make money online? This may sound funny, but if you are new to internet marketing and learning how to make money online, and you are going for the credit card niche, then you are working too hard!

When people start out, often, they try to go for the home runs, and they think they will hit it out of the ballpark in one try. What happens? Miserable failure! and then they give up.

We had a chat today with Vic, and guess what? Most of his niche attempts fail! Yes, they go no where. But, 3 out of 10 hit it, and he has enough of those to be able to make what he makes on line.

One of the thing we talked about today is that you need to go for something you have a real chance to hit.

Question: If you find a keyword that is a really good buying keyword, and you get 10 searches a month, that you can take position one with a few articles and a BMD run, would you do it?

Answer: If you said no, because there is not enough traffic, then that is why you are struggling. You are probably going for the keyword that has tons of traffic, but guess what….tons of traffic means competition, and that means you will have to work damn hard for it.

Why not throw up the site that will get you 1 sale a month? It only cost you 15 bucks. Say you make 100 a year from that site. That means that essentially you made 85 bucks for that year. It breaks down to .23 a day.

What do you think about that? Most people scoff at that. Imagine you have 100 sites doing that. Again, virtually no effort sites… 23 bucks a day, or about 8500 a year.

Now, this is worse case senario. Lets say you get to .50 a day. Now you are talking 18,250 a year.

But, in reality, you will have some bigger winners….

The point is this. Go for sites and keywords you can take over easily, leave the hard ones for the big boys, and build lots of sites. Make a dollar a day per site, and build a site a day. 365 sites making a dollar a day is $133,225.00 a year.

Is that doable? Can you make money online that way?

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!

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