Monday, July 11, 2011
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Case study of the Web site of Affiliate Marketing
Recently I came across a site that I liked it and thought it would be a case study to discuss. The site is HowLifeWorks, which is not my site, but I have built websites like this me, make me big commissions every day.
This style of site goes against what most affiliate marketing training was told to do, that is to find a specific niche and become an expert in that area and get your slice of the larger niche targeting micro niche.
This approach works, and I also have a lot of sites that I make money with this approach, then I'm not saying or is it better, but every style have their advantages.
The style that the Web site of how it works is that they employ, it is very general, with no specific focus on a niche or any product, but rather contained on many niches. The rule allows them to virtually anything you want on the site, discuss how the argument has something to do with your life, then it fits!
You will notice that on that site that have many categories, e.g., business, finance, beauty, relationships, shopping, technology, etc. that they run a lot of CPA offers on these pages.
With the CPA offers could just swap around anytime they like as long as the 
targeted keyword phrase is not a specific product.
A good network that I started with recently is never blue, have loads of great offers and fantastic metrics for their affiliates.
The advantage of a site that caters to any one specific niche is that you get a choice of topics that can write and add content to your site is infinite. This is a great, because if some pages from construction and make your SEO to do not work for you, then all is not lost, as you can only find multiple keywords and add more content and move forward.
If you build niche specific sites, you can run the risk of selecting a dud niche and struggling to be able to fix the site if it doesn't work and forced to start over with a new site. The problem of starting afresh with new sites all the time, is that they can take time to gain trust with Google, whereas adding content to an older website with history in Google does not have this problem.
Just to be clear, although build niche specific sites, while also still work well, I'm sharing some ideas for other approaches in this post.
When building sites employ many different styles, depending on the potential that I can see in a niche, and even with more experience of affiliate marketing, tend to be able to know if a niche will work or not, although not all sites work as I had hoped, but that is just business.
Sharing hopefully this website style helped spark some ideas for all of you!
As regards the
Matt Carter
Friday, July 8, 2011
There is money in Adsense?
In this post I will discuss Google Adsense and decent if there is money to be made using.
A lot of people who focus on affiliate marketing, falsely believe that they can make good money with Google Adsense, and for a while back we also have fallen into this trap. However, having a couple of friends who are heavily in another I met recently in reality who is making $ 25,000 a month from Adsense pure, would make you think again.
There are a lot of companies advertising on the Google content network, in 2011, so far, 28% of revenue came from Google Adsense.
Not every niche will work well for Adsense, as I found out the hard way in the past. The key is to aim for niches where the cost per click for that 
keyword niche are high. When I say above, I mean at least more than $ 1 per click. Google pays you the 68 percent of clicks, so you get 68 cents to a $ 1 CPC keyword.
Google is a free tool called the traffic estimator that tells you how a keywords is CPC. Here is the link to that tool for you: traffic estimator. By the way, when using this tool, set your daily budget of $ 100, as I find that gives more accurate results.
A niche more competitive is the CPC for keywords are for Adsense. Therefore it is quite logical to monetize with Adsense where there is the money spent by advertisers.
If you try to make money with Adsense niches that don't have companies with decent marketing budget to spend on Adsense, then you can also find very hard to make decent money.
When looking at the keywords, you must calculate the traffic that you'll get if you are in position 1 in Google. For example if a keyword phrase Gets the exact match of 1000 searches a month, then you would get about 40% of the traffic in point 1.
Now, if you didn't have a 10 click through rate on your Adsense ads, you would get 40 clicks per month for that keyword. 40% of 1000 = 400 @ 10% CTR = 40 shots.
If Google tells you the CPC is $ 1, then you will pay 68 cents per click, so x = 40.68 $27,20 for that keyword each month. All you need to do is then rank for more keywords.
With adsense, it is important to see where I placed the ads on your site. Google also provide a variety of ad blocks that you can use, that once again, you should check. On the site of Google Adsense, Google provides a diagram that explains where are located the best ad results. I inserted the image below:
The great thing about Adsense is that you don't have to convert the traffic as such, you need to get those ads clicked and you are making money!
Adsense is not a business model of complicated, and if you know a thing or two about SEO and keyword research, then you can make a good go of it with Adsense. I think that some say that there is no money in Adsense because they don't even know why you are searching, or they did try, but went about it all wrong.
I'm trying to organize a webinar with my friend who is making $ 25,000 a month from Adsense, so he can teach you his tricks, as he knows me better than Adsense. With any luck that might happen soon, stay tuned.
How to choose the right keywords
I was asked very recently as one chooses the right keywords for SEO, so decided to write a post about it and also tie in some important aspects of recent Google update Panda also.
The first thing to consider when looking to target what keywords for your site, commercial intent is for that keyword. By this I mean simply are looking for people who type this keyword in Google in a buying mode, or just info.
As you can tell if a keyword has high commercial intent? Well the simplest rule is more specific, the phrase is usually intended more commercial. Even if people type in the product names and model numbers these have high commercial intent, but aren't the only ones. Anything where someone indicates that they have a problem that needs fixing, such as "how to stop sweating", also has a high degree of commercial intent.
The next thing to consider is the search for the keyword. If you are using the keyword tool from Google, aim for about 1000 searches per month on exact match.
Of course you then need to look at the competition for the keyword, this is a whole new topic on its own, so don't go there now, but essentially just make sure you target keywords that you have the SEO equivalent skill level rank in position 1 or 2 in Google for not going after the keywords that are out of your reachbecause only will waste time and end up giving up and be very disappointed.
Remember that most of the ranking in Google's backlinks, then skill level really say you ability to get quality backlinks.
I know that people always takes a detailed plan of exactly what keyword you choose each time and go more in detail in my course quick profit Formula on this, but it's really the best way to learn which keywords can rank for, by the practice. Multiple keywords rank better at what you get by looking at their destination and what to avoid.
So if a keyword that is too hard, all is not lost, you just know for next time to go after something easier. About the same, if you go after something that is easy but has almost no search volume, then all is not lost, it is known only to go after something more competitive next time.
As most of you know, Google has recently done a major update to how they rank pages that I did a post about a few weeks back: update Google farmer/Panda. Just recently head Amit Singhal and Google has made a statement regarding the update, I would like to discuss now.
Mr. Singhal did not say exactly what the changes were, as he has to protect the integrity of Google, however he did list a series of questions for the webmaster to ask regarding the content on their sites.
A question, who said it was:of
"If your site has duplicate, overlapping or redundant articles on the same or similar themes with variations of slightly different keyword?"
This is very interesting, and what you should be careful of here is whether the pages of sites targeted by keywords that are very similar. For example if one of your pages targeted "stop digging" and another targeted "stop digging dog", then it would be in trouble with Google, as they see this as low as the content in these two pages will be pretty much the same things.
If you want to target more than one keyword, you are better to guide them in the page itself, which is easy to do, and something that I do all the time. All you need to do is backlink for different phrases and make sure that your ' page ' SEO includes all target phrases.
It was another question, which stated:
"This article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?"
When I posted before about the update of Google, which I said that too many ads is not a good thing, and I've actually had a couple of people attacking me on the comments, claiming that I didn't know what I was talking about and that I was simply speculating, and that there is no evidence that too many ads can harm your rankings. However, States Mr. Singhal as too many ads and not enough good content is not a good thing, and Google will penalize for something.
Mr. Singhal added a lot more questions, but rather easily you can cover yourself simply by ensuring that the content is of quality. So be sure to not have misspellings, poor grammar, using headers, add images, use video where you can and have a minimum of 600 words, content that is well written and isn't just rehashed info from all other sites ranking for that keyword.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Find related keywords
Words are one of the most important things to get right when they are marketing online, and in this post I'll share a free and very simple to implement the technique for finding good keywords.
When I'm designing a new affiliate marketing site, and I decided to do something different when I was trying to find the keywords related to the main I was targeted keywords.
What I did was use a thesuarus online to find keywords. For example, when I was looking at some key words in this niche, I found the word "buy" when I typed "buy" in thesuarus.
Now I know that's not exactly earth shattering stuff there, but the fact is that I wasn't thinking about the word "purchase" and when I checked the search volume for "purchase", XZY XZY is the name of the product, I was pleasantly surprised to see a decent search volume and practically no competition SEO at all.
This is when I realized how cool this free tool can be thesuarus, because it can help you find keywords related to your main keywords that may not have ever thought of or that they Google keyword tool has not provided.
The advantage to find these keywords side, is that often less people have considered them and you can find small openings with less competition, that we all know is a good thing.
Any market where the keywords can be exchanged with other keywords, which are essentially other keywords that have the same meaning, are good ones.
When I see a market that has a wide variety of the keywords that I like, because there are so many combinations when it comes to keywords, and often this can mean that you can find phrases of keywords that have less competition SEO.
Another interesting example of keyword phrases that I discovered with the help of the thesaurus tool, which once again that he would not have thought about that are on the market of 
portable, were:
Laptops rated highest = 480 exact match searches and easy SEO Contest
The Thesaurus provides also opposed, and I've seen "worse" when I was looking for the word "better" and then I looked for "worst laptop" and had some, not much search volume and new easy SEO.
This is all hotfixes for these people, until next time, bye for now!
Matt
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
WordPress Backup
Hey all,
Some cleaning tips today, but very important, so please make sure you follow this if you use WordPress for your affiliate marketing sites.
WordPress in my opinion it is brilliant, I build all my sites on WordPress these days, because it makes life easier and create large sites with easier functionaility. However at WordPress can go wrong and the database, which is essentially where all your files are stored on the server can get corrupted.
Although this doesn't happen often, I have experienced before myself, and it is not enough. You can lose everything and have to start your new site, which we all know that is not a pleasant thought.
However there is a free plugin that you can use, I use on my site, which automatically makes a backup of your wordpress database and stores it in full on the server for you.
If you have problems with the database, will be protected as this plugin makes a backup every 24 hours on autopilot. I think this is a no brainer, really, because once set up you can just forget.
Here is the link to download this free wordpress plugin:
== >WP Database Backup<>
Believe me I will be grateful for this little thing if you run into problems with any database of affiliate marketing sites!