Additional Resources
There's a few articles and training that have shaped the way I look at affiliate marketing. Here's the best ones:
1) Wealthy Affiliate: This is where I learned and is by far the most comprehensive training on the internet.
2) http://incomeaddon.com/ This website opened my eyes to the power of best of lists and has a free training course you'll want to take. It's much like this training but more in depth. The guy who runs this website makes around $20,000 a month as an Amazon Affiliate.(I think this website is offline now)
3) http://www.viperchill.com/goog... This post opened my eyes to the "year" strategy. This guy makes millions online every year and noticed that keywords with the year in them were the most profitable and got the most traffic.
4) https://gaps.com/google-affili... This is from the same guy as Viperchill and is just another one of his website. It goes more in depth into the year strategy and breaks down a website that only has 8 best of posts and brings in tens of thousands a month.
5) https://backlinko.com/on-page-... I posted this link in the last section but it's worth posting again. This post shows you all the little tricks to rank better.
6) Think and Grow Rich: This is the single greatest business book and one all people looking to make money needs to read.
If you go through these 6 resources you'll basically know as much as me.
I hope this training helps you and I hope you seriously consider what I've said. If you've made it this far I'm guessing you really want to make this whole online marketing thing work.
It's actually really simple to make money online. Once you understand this and all the principles I laid out in this training you'll see what I mean. As billionaire Mark Cuban once said " The internet is the single easiest and best way to make money.' He should know - he made BILLIONS online.
If you have questions leave a comment below or you can send me a message if you don't understand something.
Thanks and I wish you luck on your journey!
Please help on this also.
While analyzing competition for best of keyword what is most important. Is it Domain Authority or content length or relevance of ranking websites on SERP. If all the website ranking for a best of keyword in my chosen niche are high authority can we still try and beat them with longer post?
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So I bought a domain.
Thanks for everything.
1) I am ready to roll. I have my basic site set up and ready to start.
2) I am signed up with Amazon Associates. 80ish % will be Amazon products.
3) I was approved for the other two affiliate programs that I needed. Bad news is 20ish % can only be purchased through these two affiliates. Good news is they are higher commission than Amazon.
4) On-Line SEO Checklist Printed out from Backlinko so I don't miss anything.
Three questions if I may:
1) 300-400 minimum words per item on page plus intro and conclusion will keep me from being dinged by Google?
2) I get the internal links and why, but I am confused about adding external links (to whom and why would I do that). It seems that would send them off my page (even if opens new window) or distract them from buying right then if I sent them for some reason to another site. Could you elaborate on this please.
3) I understand with a new site, nobody will be reading these for a while..do I keep a constant check on the product links to make sure they are still active? I assume dead links to products would be terrible.
Thanks for everything. I sincerely appreciate it.
Craig
2) Link how to well known like wikipedia. It's good for SEO. I don't have an exact answer for why but everyone I respect in the SEO industry says do it so you should just do it.
3) Maybe once a month check no the links or when a post starts getting traffic check on them.
Does it have to be amazon products or could it be other affiliate links? If I want to have a travel blog for example could I do ‘best places to visit in Berlin 2018’ but, instead of products, have links to things like booking.com and Airbnb??
It’s more of a hiking/travel blog but I’d also like to do place reviews (as well as hiking gear).
Thanks! Stephen.
Also what if there is no traffic for a keyword with the year? For instance "Best Recliners" vs "Best Recliners 2018". No traffic for "Best Recliners 2018" but decent amount for "Best Recliners". Is it okay to just add 2018 to the title? Permalink would still be shortened.
