Good answers for you, Elize!

Jeff

Support will sort it out for you

Is that you WA blog or your website blog? When I clicked on your blog on here it works just fine for me.

Francesca

There are many "rules of thumb" about how many affiliate links to put on a page, but really, there is not a specific amount which will "hurt" your rankings. There are many examples of sites with lots of affiliate links which DO rank, and many with NO affiliate links which don't rank. It just depends.

That being said, you shouldn't be recommending the same affiliate products over and over again on each page. If you want to promote a specific product or set of products frequently, the best idea will be to create a single review page, then link from your other pages to that single review page.

This will make updating affiliate links and offers in the future infinitely easier. Rather than updating links across 100 pages, you just update one page!

I know you have quite a few different answers here, and the reason is because it’s situational.

In some cases where you’re linking to a clove essential oil that’s sold from one vendor and a lavender essential oil where it’s by a different vendor, it would only be frustrating to the end user if you only included one link to a homepage or something. In that case, do what’s best for user experience.

In another case where you’re only talking about lavender essential oil, you won’t need to link 25 times to make the message clear.

It’s case by case. You don’t want it to be too littered with links that it’s like avoiding a landline just to read your content, but you also don’t want to minimize it to the point that it’s hard for them to take action if they wanted to.

Use your best judgement because it’s no set in stone number of links allowed. There are ranking posts that recommend lots of products and have lots of of affiliate links.

What I think works best is when you have more internal links than external links or affiliate links if that’s possible for you. Also, where possible And where it makes sense, link to reviews.

For me, if I find myself repeating a vendors’ name often, I make it a priority to write a review about them.

Just a thought. Hopefully this helps. User experience comes first.

Hi Elize.

It is a little confusing.

The general rule is that you don't want affiliate links in every post.

Some of your posts need to be just supplying helpful information because Google loves that and will reward you accordingly.

Add your affiliate links to posts, like product reviews, where they will have the most impact.

Then internally link your informational posts to the review posts containing the affiliate links.

Hope that helps. Let us know if anything we have said is unclear.

Good luck.

Colette and Philip

As long as its not similar in many of your other pages or posts, it should be alright.

I guess 2 different links per post would not really be an issue or considered as spam

If all the oils are from one place then one link should suffice. You could use product funnels then the number of links don’t matter on the page you use to funnel because you are not trying to rank it.

Whether you want to target the USA, the world, or a specific country is up to you. With a general .com, you have the option of getting traffic from every country in the world, with a focus on the USA.

Internet traffic and online shopping is massive in the USA compared to any other country. My recommendation is always is to stick to a .com domain name as your first website. If you want to target country-specific products through keywords and topics for your posts, that's fine too.

For example, mywebiste.com/best-products-in-argentina

With country-specific domains, you limit yourself to traffic from that one country. It's a much smaller traffic pool, and you generally won't rank for any search terms outside of that specific country.

For example, if I have a website bestproteinpowder.ca, I'll only rank for "best protein powder" when someone from Canada searches that term.

However, the advantage of using country specific domains is that you can dominate that area because you'll probably be a lot better at marketing and ranking than most other local sites.

So it's a question of whether you want a small piece of a big pie or a big piece of a small pie. My advice though is to learn your skills on a .com, then transfer those skills to a country specific domain in the future if you still want to at that time.

Up to you though! There's lots of unexplored opportunities online, and you may have some great ideas that could work out. I'm just going off of advice for "best practices", and what I've personally seen/learned over the years.

In your situation, unless you are specifically targeting Australians, my recommendation would be a .com.

If your site is mainly for Australians then use the dot com dot au. But if you want to reach an international audience then you'll need the dot com.

I always think dot com is the best as that's what most people naturally look for