INSIGHTS•2 MIN READ
Cleaning up some old sites and what do I discover?
excaliba
Published on June 15, 2013
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SOME MONEY IN MY AMAZON ASSOCIATES ACCOUNT!
Over the years, I've played with this and that in the Internet Marketing World - more as a hobby to understand how keywords and ranking worked so I could do some SEO work for some larger companies.
So, here I am going through a spring clean of some of those sites. And when I say a Spring Clean ... I really mean it! I'm dusting off the cobwebs of 5 to 8 years of inactivity, resetting passwords, opening up my old Google Analytics accounts etc. (it was a wonder those old WP sites hadn't been hacked - you need to keep them up-to-date).
Here's the thing, I was lucky enough to get some good (no-scam) training in writing good content, to compliment it with natural back-links etc. and then life got in the way - and I move onto other things. Anyway, both of these small niche sites are getting about 20 visitors a day through natural referrals or search engine traffic - and one of them still had an Amazon Associates link up.
And guess what, it has been generating commissions! I log into my old unused account and there is about $5 sitting there! (Not much I know, but validating nevertheless).
What is the lesson here?
So here I am, thinking about re-kicking these back into life with all the new insights from WA. I don't know how Google thinks about domain age (one of the things that SEO/Keyword specialists used to talk about), but perhaps these two sites could quickly rank again?
Anyway, thought I would share.
Cheers.
Over the years, I've played with this and that in the Internet Marketing World - more as a hobby to understand how keywords and ranking worked so I could do some SEO work for some larger companies.
So, here I am going through a spring clean of some of those sites. And when I say a Spring Clean ... I really mean it! I'm dusting off the cobwebs of 5 to 8 years of inactivity, resetting passwords, opening up my old Google Analytics accounts etc. (it was a wonder those old WP sites hadn't been hacked - you need to keep them up-to-date).
Here's the thing, I was lucky enough to get some good (no-scam) training in writing good content, to compliment it with natural back-links etc. and then life got in the way - and I move onto other things. Anyway, both of these small niche sites are getting about 20 visitors a day through natural referrals or search engine traffic - and one of them still had an Amazon Associates link up.
And guess what, it has been generating commissions! I log into my old unused account and there is about $5 sitting there! (Not much I know, but validating nevertheless).
What is the lesson here?
- Same as what is being taught here - write good content around your niche!
- Build natural back-links
So here I am, thinking about re-kicking these back into life with all the new insights from WA. I don't know how Google thinks about domain age (one of the things that SEO/Keyword specialists used to talk about), but perhaps these two sites could quickly rank again?
Anyway, thought I would share.
Cheers.
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