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!

For those of you that are looking for affiliate marketing tips, one of the newest sites that I recommend you check out is The Keyword Academy.  Co authored and I believe partnered with Courtney Tuttle and Mark Butler, aka. Court’s Internet Marketing School, this is their newest site about SEO, internet marketing, and the great things you can do to make money online.

I happen to be a big fan of Court and Mark, and I follow what they are talking about.  Most recently they talked about how important link building is, and how important it is to really focus on what matters…Did I say Link buidling?

Anyway.  Check out their site, because you will get some great tips, and probably a lot of the same things we talk about here.

Did I say, do keyword research, then create a blog, then write keyword focused posts and then what?????

Oh yeah, go gather links.  Key word anchored links.

That’s all for todays post. Please visit Mark and Court, leave them a message, and say hello.

You’ll be glad you did.

Matt

I’ve been doing a great deal of learning and discovering what works and what doesn’t for about a year now. I’ll tell you that this year has gone by super fast.

I had found some niches that were very profitable, and eventually dried up however. But, the thing is I know this works. One thing to remember, website traffic is good, but website traffic that converts is really what you want.

I will say one thing, for those of you looking for the quick bucks, this may not be for you. It takes time and effort. I work at this every spare minute I have. But, I can see results , and I can see how building a solid infrasturcture will pay off dividends in the future.

What I have settled on is that organic traffic is the way to go. And if you read the last post, you will and should understand that organic rankings you need to gather many links that are optimized for your intended keywords.

To review…you can never say it too many times.

1. Do the keyword research and find what keywords are low competition, and high search.

2. Build a site.

3. Start gathering links like crazy (well, not too crazy…can you say sandbox?) How bout, in a natural progression.

4. Rank for your keyword.

5. Open Bank account.

Now, you have to understand that it takes 3-6 months on average to rank for a non too tough keyword.

As I move forward on this blog, I am going to work at offering affiliate marketing tips, and ways to get good rankings.

I’ll also introduce you to some of the people that I like to follow, who offer great information, and they don’t scam you.

Stop by every so often, and hey, post a comment to say hi!