Content Creation
Good morning all, from a freezing cold UK! I can't take credit for this advice, as I received it in an email. However, I thought it summarised nicely exactly what we should be doing when it comes to content creation. It may be helpful for new members, or anybody that has perhaps lost their way. Oddly enough, the same email also suggested that product reviews should be no longer than 700 words, as very few vistors would read anything longer than that.
As a participant of an Affiliate Program with the aim to monetize your website in the best possible way, you should think deeply about the topic of content creation. Only high-quality, helpful content will take your affiliate website to the next level. After extensive brainstorming and research, you should always write to match the expectations of your readers, and do your best to pique your readers’ curiosity.
To ensure your website retains its credibility and to deliver added value for your readers, be sure you don’t flood your website with excessive advertising, or with recommendations for products that aren’t up to standard, just to increase your revenue. In the last analysis, always ask yourself: after reading your affiliate text on another website, would you use or order the product yourself?
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Thank you for your sharing and advice, Diane! Yes, I agree with you. I've seen some websites flooded with a lot of advertisements. I do not know where to look at. Do not even talk about the content. I closed the tab.
Sometimes, after writing, we need to review on our own and get another person in our family to see if it looks 'appropriate'. It's always a good practice :o)
Diane,
These are great things to think about. I spend a fair amount of time doing comments on people's blog posts. Some have way too many ads. It seems some people focus more including ads rather than great content.
Others do a great job with enticing reviews that I find myself very, very tempted to purchase what I am reading about and commenting on.
Thanks, Diane - always nice to get some content help and prompts :-)
On the subject of length... The training says 1K minimum, aim for 1.5K and (elsewhere) 2-2.5K if possible. Someone said they checked the posts hitting Page 1 (not sure what topic) and they were all 4.5K.
But if we're writing for readers then I agree, not many people are going to wade through a piece much longer than 500-700 words, although that does depend on the product."Buying a Boeing 747, Sir? You've come to the right place!" :-)
Bottom line here is that most people simply want to be told what's the best buy! I reckon the other 2475 words are for Google.
Discuss
:-)
Ian
Here is Neil Patel's online experiment with word count and blog ranking.
He experimented with 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000, 35000 as far as I remember.
From his statistical analysis from SEO he found 1890 words was average.
Most of the time in my niche I copy-paste the 1st-page #1 blog. I have found even 700-800 words ranked #1.
Hope it helps
Hi Anusuya - thank you for taking the time to do that.
10K and 35K. Really? Wow!
When you say 1890 words was average, is that the average number of words in his posts or the number of words you need to write to get ranked?
I'm interested in the number of words you should write in order to get ranked.
I can quite believe short posts get ranked, depending on their keywords, but it's not safe to say that short posts rank just as well as long ones, is it?
Ian
He took statistics from the blogs (published from elsewhere) to arrive at 1890 number.
For all his own blogs he experimented how ranking is impacted by no of words. He saw between 2000-3000 and 10-35000 the rankings were similar.
Ok, thansk, but I'm still not totally following this :-(
You're saying the average number of wrods in a blog is 1890?
But this has NOTHING to do with ranking?
To tank you need 2K-3K?
Is that correct?
Thanks,
Ian
Always be on the lookout for viral content that you could write about yourself.
As an example, I had an email yesterday from a marketer that I follow. He had just released his new video on his Youtube channel. He has been building his subscriber list on Youtube quite steadily in recent months and he has 170,000.
I noticed that in less than 24 hours he had already had over 22,000 views of the video. It has also had over 100 comments.
Now whilst many of his subs would have watched it, the fact that they were interested enough to do so sparked a fire within me!
I therefore wrote a blog post on the same topic with the same title but it did not steal any of his ideas, it just prompted ideas of my own.
The moral is - always be on the lookout for ideas for your content.
Great stuff Diane! Content is definitely king. Monetizing will logically come after. Stay focused and success will follow! BTW: Freezing cold here in Canada as well! :)
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Hey Diane,
Great advice given here.
Best regards
Maxine