Before you can start making money
with affiliate offers, you need to be
able to drive targeted traffic
through your affiliate links. There are many ways to do this, and I am going to
focus on FREE techniques, so that you are MAKING money not spending it!
please if you missed our last guide on affiliate marketing read it here
To start, you will want to develop
enough content to power up a variety of
promotional campaigns. Content is
the #1 most important component of a
successful affiliate campaign,
because it warms up readers and pre-sells the products you are promoting.
The more content you have, the
better, but you‟ll
be able to start generating traffic through your affiliate links with only
10-15 short and targeted articles.
The key to creating powerful article
content is to keep it focused and relevant.
You want the article to provide
important information about the topic you are focusing on, while leaving the
reader hungry for more.
Make sure that you weave targeted
keywords throughout your content, including within the title of your article
itself and in the first few paragraphs of your article.
That way, you are not only able to
capture attention from targeted leads but you‟ll also be able to
make sure that your content is quickly indexed and ranked within the search engines based on your primary
keywords.
Here are the easiest ways to
generate fast traffic through your affiliate links and skyrocket your affiliate
income!
Keyword Research
The key to most of these traffic
methods is proper keyword research. If you don‟t take the time to
research your keywords carefully, you aren‟t going to have a very good chance to get a level of traffic
that will help your site make good money.
Fortunately, keyword research is a
relatively simple process. If you know what you‟re doing, you can research plenty of good keywords for your
niche in just a few minutes.
When it comes to keywords, there are
head keywords and what are referred to as
“long tail keyword phrases”.
Head keyword terms are typically
shorter phrases such as “weight loss”, while
tail keywords consist of multiple keywords that describe a market or niche,
such as “weight loss strategies for seniors”.
For the most part, head keywords are
always targeted by a greater number of competition
as they are a short form description of a
market, and long tail keyword
phrases will generate less traffic, but are much easier to dominate within the
search engines.
Experienced marketers focus on long tail keywords and
gauge their exposure by a COLLECTIVE count of all traffic generated from
multiple
Long tail keyword based campaigns.
You will find it much easier to
position yourself in the top search engine results if you primarily focus on
injecting long tail keywords into your traffic generation strategies.
Consider the fact that it could take
you months (and serious cash) to rank for the term “weight loss”, however if
you set up a dozen different campaigns targeting relevant, long tail keywords including “weight
loss after pregnancy”, “how to lose weight quickly”, or “safe and easy methods
of losing weight”, you would generate steady traffic from all campaigns
(although lower than a single main keyword), collectively giving you
MORE exposure than a competitive
keyword that you are consistently struggling to rank for much less maintain
your position.
You can quickly conduct keyword
research for your niche market just by using free online services, including
Google's Keyword Utility
For the most part, I use the Google
keyword tool, simply because it‟s
very fast and easy to use and is
absolutely free. The information is also pulled directly from Google’s database providing you with a more accurate overview of
specific keywords than many of the other keyword tools found online.
Visit
Google Keyword Suggestion Tool:
In order to conduct keyword
research, you have to begin by entering in what is referred to as a “seed”
keyword, basically a starting point to
your keyword research.
The seed keyword is a short term
describing your market, niche or potential
products you are considering
promoting.
For example, if you were interested
in promoting the product ““golf swing techniques””, you could enter the seed
keyword as ““golf swing techniques””, or if
evaluating the Golf market altogether,
begin by entering in “Golf Swing”.
Next, click “Get keyword ideas”
On the next page, you will see the
results of your search.
NOTE: Your results won‟t be sorted by
traffic, so you need to click “Global
Monthly Search Volume” at the top
of the results. This will sort the results by
traffic volume from highest to lowest.
The first column provides you with
alternative keyword phrases that you could
use within your content as well as
with search engine optimization or promoting
your product within PPC marketplaces.
The second column indicates the level
of competition, and in our example above,
nearly all of the featured keyword
phrases are being heavily targeted by
competitors.
The third column indicates the
estimated number of searches for each particular
keyword, based on monthly volume.
You want to look for keyword phrases
that receive at least 300 searches per
month according to the tool. Each
phrase could receive a lot more or a lot less
than the tool shows, so keep that in
mind.
You also need to check to be sure
the phrases you‟re targeting don‟t have so
much competition that they would be extremely difficult
to rank for.
You then want to turn
to Google’s main search engine at http://www.Google.com
to complete your keyword
research.
You begin by entering in
each keyword phrase, directly into the search engine,
wrapping your entire
phrase in quotes, like this:
“golf swing techniques”
The reason it‟s so important to contain your search query in quotes is due to
keyword proximity, relevancy
and to make sure you are given an accurate idea
as to the overall
competition of the keyword.
Google and other search
engines give more weight to sites with an exact phrase
quote than when the words aren‟t in such close
proximity, so by wrapping your text in quotations (example “dog
training tips”), only pages that feature your entire
keyword phrase will appear within the search results window.
What I want to find out is this:
How many people are using this exact
phrase on their sites?
So I simply go to Google and enter the
phrase in quotes, like this:
“golf swing tips”
Then I see how many results I find:
Ideally, I want this number to be as
low as possible, preferably under 150,000.
The phrase “golf swing tips”
currently has about 169,000 results in Google, so it‟s
fairly competitive.
What you really want
to look for is a good balance.
The ideal numbers are 300 or more
monthly searches and 150,000 or fewer
competing pages, but you have to look
at the overall ratio as well.
A phrase with 300 monthly searches
and 75,000 competing pages isn‟t as good
as a phrase with 25,000 monthly
searches and 150,000 competing pages. The
ratio is important.
Of course, the ratio isn’t going to matter
much if the phrase has so much
competition that it would be practically impossible to
rank for it.
If you find a phrase with 1,500,000
searches per month and 3,000,000 competing
pages, it would have a great ratio.
Unfortunately, ranking number one for a
phrase with three million competing
pages would prove extremely difficult.
Always go after the keywords that have
little competition and a good balance
between traffic and competition first,
then you can go after the more competitive
phrases later.
Keep this in focus in all your content and watch the
money roll.
I'll show you how to utilize article
marketing in affiliate marketing campaign quickly in the next segment of this
report !
Till then never never give up
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