Steps 01 – Search for a GREAT PRODUCT to promote
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This step is MOST IMPORTANT, and I knew that if I get this correct I will make money with my SEO & Web 2.0 skills.
Instead of spending time to find a winning product by searching ClickBank database or CBengine or AdSpyPro or SpyFu i invented my OWN FORMULA, and I worked like a magic.
I thought that I there is a successful product already in market and the same author is launching another product in same market, people will definitely go for it. At least in the launch phase when you don’t have the real feedback of product ( because all affiliates will ONLY WRITE GOOD FEEDBACK as they want to sell it…! ) – THIS IS THE BIGGEST SECRET. The product I choose was in fitness industry and the author already had 3 very successful products before this one.
Step 02 – Choose Correct Domain Name
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With my past experiences of SEO work I know 100% that Google gives very good importance to the DOMAIN NAME. The product launch schedule was announced before 2 months of launch but the date was not decided, so I registered a domain with the PRODUCT NAME in it. Because I was early in business I got the domain name I wanted.
You can add anything BEFORE or AFTER the product name like : review, scam, info, get, secrets, the etc. So you will get all the traffic on the PRODUCT NAME SEARCH.
Step 03 – Create The Website
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At the beginning of 2008 I wrote a small post here on IJ telling and asking for the plans of the year 2008. There I wrote I will use WordPress for my next projects.
WordPress is THE BEST. It’s is UNMACHED. Weather it is a 1 – 5 page affiliate website of 100 page corporate website or 1000 page huge online ecommerce store, USE WordPress – Forget Everything Else. I don’t want to write a WordPress guide here but it is so easy to install and you can do anything with WordPress. So just GO FOR WordPress.
The theme I chose had a simple header image and right sidebar and it was FREE.
Step 04 – Elements of Website
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01 – Header Image : I put the ebook cover image, photo of author & a big Call to Action
02 – Optin Box : I offered my visitor 2 free reports by giving their email address. The report was provided by the author himself.
03 – First Post : A big bold head like with one more Call to Action. Made this post sticky so that I appears 1st every time. This 1st post should be the REVIEW or INFORMATION of the product itself.
04 – Other Posts: You must have 2-4 other pages / posts related to the product of the category of the product
Step 05 – SEO
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I recently watched the IPK videos last week and realized that I was already doing all the things given in video. He called it OPSEO.
01 – Use All in One SEO plugin for WrodPress
02 – Use different Titles & Description for each page / post. Don’t repeat
03 – Use Alt Tags for all the images
04 – Must put H1 tag on each page / post
05 – Use 1 or 2 H2 tags on each page / post
06 – Use your particular keyword ( for that particular page / post ) in H1 & H2
07 – Use your particular at the start of the page, at the middle of page & at the end of the page
08 – Use the keyword in page / post name
09 – Use SILO. It’s killer. For example if you are selling a N97 mobile of NOKIA your page structure should be
www.domainname.com\mobile-phones\nokia\N97.htm or
www.domainname.com\nokia\N97.htm
10 – Go to Google and search for your main keyword with ~ function to find LSI keywords or your MOTHER KEYWORD.
For example ~mobile phone
Similarly search for your particular keyword of the particular page like ~Nokia or ~N97
Google will highlight the LSI keywords in bold, copy these keyword in notepad and use them in H1, H2 tags, Discretion, Site Content etc. This trick will help a lot to make the THEME OF YOUR WEBSITE.
HOW DO I KNOW THAT LSI WORKS ??? I have proof, just today I checked the back links of my website and surprise – I don’t have a single back link in Google & only 2 back links in Yahoo. It’s only because of the On Page SEO & LSI that my site is still on page 1.
11 – Once you have all required page on your WordPress site, create XML site map for Google and just tell Google about it by submitting the sitemap.
Step 06 – Web 2.0 Marketing
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If you don’t get traffic & visitors to your website there is no way you will make money and the best way to marketing in current period is Web 2.0 Marketing. There are 500+ HOT Web 2.0 properties on which you can put your content and get good amount of traffic & boost in Search Engine rankings very fast.
I created account of the following : YouTube, Yahoo Video, Digg, HubPages, Squidoo etc.
I created a Power Point presentation & recorded the screen with Camtasia Studio and uploaded the video to video channels.
I created 1 article and submitted to the Remote Blogs like HubPages, Squidoo
I created Digg account and digged my own site.
Step 07 – Some Other Points
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1 - Don’t ever put and AdSense or anything else on your Affiliate Product Review Page. Why –Because you don’ want to give the visitor any chance to quite your page. The visitor should quite your page only 3 ways : Your own affiliate link directly to the product page, Link leading to more info about the product on your own domain ( like optin ) or just quit.
2 - Put a Contact, Disclaimer or Privacy Policy page on your page. Just to make Google feel good.
3 – Always have an optin box, so that you can contact the interested visitor later on.
At that time I used a FREE 3rd party optin service called ZOOKODA ( zookoda.com ). But there is a free WordPress plugin available these days which is better than this. It’s called GWA Auto Responder ( freeautoresponder.biz )
The Result
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After submitting the XML site map to Google didn’t do anything else. In just 3 days my site was crawled by Google and it was indexed. Now please note that Indexing doesn’t mean Ranking.
After I submitted my Videos to YouTube & Yahoo Videos, those pages ( of YouTube & Yahoo ) were indexed in 2 days
Within 9 days my site was on 1st Rank in Google for the Product Keyword….! In fact the main product site was at 2nd number, and my YouTube page was at 3rd Place…!
After 15 days I had 5 places on 1st page of Google out of 10. ( Conversation Domination )
And this is how it got my 1st Affiliate Commission of $255
Thing That Went Wrong
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As I said I had some unavoidable engagements and I stopped doing any work on this project after the initial 7 days.
What happened at that time was the product was launched and I didn’t put my affiliate link on the site. I checked in my Google Analytics account and saw that I had the MAXIMUM VISITORS in those 3 days, I guess I lost all the sales at that time, as my site was on 1st place in Google without my affiliate link.
I attached my affiliate link and forgot about it but the product was good and people continued to buy it and I got the commission.
Conclusion
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1 – If I can do it any one can do it
2 – All of us have as good knowledge as the GURUS but the difference between them and us is TAKING ACTION
3 – You don’t need to spend money on PPC to be a successful affiliate
4 - I guess I am quite good at SEO & Web 2.0 Social Marketing.
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