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Affiliate Selling Overview and Tips Here
is a high level overview of the affiliate selling process
– The
first step in the process is Keyword Research. What are your customers
looking for exactly? If you are only looking to sell to your
readers and subscribers to your list – that's one thing, but if you are
looking to rank and obtain search engine traffic, you'll also need to know
where you're able to compete. Here
is my favorite Keyword Suggestion Tool –
it
shows you the keyword searches over multiple search
engines. As a small business, you probably won't want
to compete with highly competitive keywords that people have already spent
thousands of dollars, and probably years of time getting established. But
if you look through the keywords that come up in your search, you can find
searched for keywords that don't have as much
competition. For
example, instead of targeting losing weight for High Energy Eating – I've
targeted terms having to do with healthy eating.
The
keyword House Cleaning is highly competitive. I have tried for years to
get a top 10 listing for that keyword, and combinations. Never been able
to get there. I sell a copy of Secret Confessions of a Clean Freak every
day from the keyword Clean Freak. And that didn't even show up on keyword
suggestions. Using
your keywords – You
know the drill – use your keyword in your title tag and meta description.
Use it again in your H1 tag. Use it again in H2, H3… tags. Sprinkle the
keyword – and related keywords throughout your article.
Using
related words is very important now that Google is changing to Symantec
indexing. In an article written for people to read instead of search
engines, you would naturally use other terms. Google is constantly looking
for ways to cut out the spam sites – which is good for you and me this
year. How
to figure out what to write about – Now,
you are welcome to use any of the articles at CommonSenseLiving.com – and
that will be great content for your readers. You will not be able to get
rank for that content though because it is duplicate content. The days of
ranking by republishing the same content all over the web are long
over.
That
being said - Remember
that writing about your personal experience with a product is the best way
to generate sales. The
second best way is informative articles. But how do you figure out what to
write? The
simple solution is to go to the bullets on the sales letter for the
product you are going to promote, and write an article about each one.
Which
leads us to another opportunity -
Build
your list even if you're selling someone else's
products. Load these articles
into an autoresponder, such as AWeber. You
are welcome to use the autoresponder series already set up for High Energy
Eating. Don't forget to change the urls in the followup messages to your
affiliate url. Scroll down the
followup message page and put this code in the box -
food-for-health-8c369 Next -
Put
up a squeeze page offering tips – and get people to opt-in before you send
them to the sales page. When
you set up your autoresponder, there is an option for what page they go to
once they've signed up. Simply put in your affiliate link – or better
yet… Your
redirect link. If
you've been around any length of time – you've seen links that look like
this – CommonSenseLiving.com/recommends/product
name You
set up a folder on your domain named
recommends. Each
product redirect page will go in to this folder.
You
still want to title your page and put a keyword rich meta description.
Actually, I'm not sure this makes a difference, but why take chances?
Then
you simply put this meta tag in the <head> </head>
section. <META
http-equiv=Refresh
content=0;url=http://www.highenergyeating.com> Of
course, you will change the url to your affiliate url.
Now
you have the ability to sell related products to your new list. Cool, ey?
And
when you're leaving comments in blogs or forums, you have a much better
looking url to use. And
speaking of blogs – do you have one? If
you do, are you using adwords to monetize? Why
not put your own ads for your affiliate products instead?
Instead
of placing advertiser banners, put up the banners from the products you're
selling. And
if you have money to spend, did you know that if you use the google
content network, you can target specific sites?
If
I wanted to bid high enough, I could put a banner for High Energy Eating
on Rachel Ray's site. How's that for outrageous?
This
is just a high level overview, but put these tips to use right away. Don't
overcomplicate it! To
your success! Carole
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