Hitting a wall with plugins and affiliates
I knew it was going to happen sometime but was hoping it would be later, much later. Hitting a wall with my understanding of plug ins and affiliates. Trying to fit these lessons in while working my job at this time is proving to be hectic to say the least.
Does anyone have any specific links that they have waatched and learned from that you could recommend to me to help save time to get me past this wall that I am up against? I am still progressing through my certifaction here in WA but needing a little extra help in these two topics.
This is a short post here for me today only because again I am on short time schedule before I have to head into work and after doing my training today in WA, not a lot of time left to post this. I wanted to get this sent off though because I wanted to see if anyone in this community could offer any help.
Next stop when I get a chance is asking this in the forums as well. But until then, please feel free to help a person out that is hitting the wall.
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Hi Todd,
First of all welcome to WA.
The best way to learn it in-depth is by continuing the training here. But not only go through it but also taking action on every single task you get in the training. Then the overall understanding will come together.
By trying to skip ahead you might miss some important steps.
If you have problems or do not understand a certain aspect of the training then you just ask as you do here.
But be specific about your answers. Plugins and affiliates are big topics and the training goes through all this.
So if you can try to be more specific about exactly what it is that is stopping you from moving forward with the training it will be easier to try to come with an answer, and I will be happy to try to see if I can help. But not sure I understand with this post what it is you are struggling with.
All the best,
Mikael
Do you have specific questions about these topics? It's easier to help when we know what you are struggling with.
Best Regards,
Jim
concerning the affiliate confusion for myself is I am getting approved by some and they are sending me emails and telling me to add their links/banners etc on my site somewhere. I go to my template and don't see where I can fit these in? Are there better templates for this than maybe what I am using?
I don't want my blog to look like a billboard for the couple of affiliates that I have chosen. Is it ok if I don't add them on the site except when I mention them and then I just use the link they sent me? How do you keep track of your affiliates and their info they send you?
Hope this makes sense at least a little.
Hey Todd, it is okay to use only links that they send you. To be honest, though, I would hold off adding any affiliate links to let Google rank your site naturally. When you hold off in the beginning, it gives you a chance to build up quality content without having Google penalize you for having an overabundance of affiliate links.
In other words, a new site that has say, two pages, and one of those pages has affiliate links would be considered 50% affiliate links. On the other hand, a seasoned site with hundreds of pages with only say twenty of those having affiliate links, will fly under the radar of Google and other search engines.
People worry that they will miss out on sales if they don't include their affiliate links when a site is new. But, since you aren't ranking that well anyway, that isn't an issue.
The training is set up to include affiliate links later in the game for this very reason.
Best Regards,
Jim
Great advise and a good but difficult reminder for me to have patience. Any rule of thumb as to how much content to have on your site or a certain ranking within Google before you would start with affiliate links?
No real hard-and-fast rule as to when to do it, but you'll feel when it is right. When your traffic is trending up, you're getting organic comments, and people are leaving their email regularly in your opt in forms, etc. This is jumping ahead a bit, but Kyle shows techniques for an affiliate link strategy: Properly Using Affiliate Links But, again, it's suggested not to jump the gun and follow the training in the right order.
Best Regards,
Jim
It has happened a lot where I will ask a question or get confused etc then the very next lesson I take in WA is the lesson that covers it. I really am enjoying the thoroughness of WA and the community here. Thanks
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Todd
Popped in to thank you for joining my family of followers. In looking at your list of post I will have some interesting reading later today.
Best wishes for a successful WA journey
Barry/Barney44