As I said on the previous page, I follow Kyle’s example of how he built his WA promotional website. However I add to it by making my format different by not doing so many scam reviews and rather provide additional ways for my website readers to make money online from home.
Google will rank a website higher that provides helpful affiliate marketing content rather than content that is all about selling the targeted product. Google guidelines also says, "Make sure your site adds substantial value beyond simply republishing content available from the original merchant."
HOW TO MAKE YOUR CONTENT UNIQUE
One obvious way to make your affiliate marketing content unique is to really know about what you are promoting. You should not choose a niche based on how profitable you think it will be. Choose a niche you have passion for and know a lot about because it will be reflected in your content in a helping manner.
Adding value to your website content can be things like including comparison graphs which you can easily create on Google Trends, offer additional relevant content and images, give your opinions about the price of your product, and create blogs about why you have chosen to promote the product. Basically your personal touch.
You should be providing the kind of affiliate content that will make people want to visit your website rather than others in your same niche and/or the original merchant website of the product. When you provide a better User Experience and help your visitors, Google will reward you with higher rankings.
NEXT UP = Learn more about the Google Affiliate Marketing Program Webmaster GuidelinesI think we all lose sight of this, myself included, as we all have dreams of the kind of money we would like to make with our website.
I certainly think I've lost sight of this as there has been so many changes at my day job, that I'm focusing on doing whatever I can to make money from my website instead of doing something to genuinely help people.
While my traffic is increasing, I've noticed my bounce rate is creeping up and session duration is going down plus it has been a VERY long time since I've gotten organic comments on my site vs requesting comments from here.
So while my traffic is going up, the traffic that is coming in seems to not find my content engaging or helpful even though I do keyword research. Maybe I just don't know my niche as well as I thought which is disheartening because I really do enjoy it, but maybe I don't know enough about it to truly create great and engaging content. Maybe I should make my content more personal like you've stated.
It's ironic that, "Google Webmaster Guidelines for affiliate marketing websites says you are to provide original content that adds value to your website visitors"... applies to us, when the top spots on page 1 of Google belong to ads. It's okay for them to "run a business" and make a profit, but they don't look to kindly on affiliate marketers for doing the same.
Sorry, just had to through that out there :-D.
Thanks for the training, very helpful. Always appreciated.
Jay
Thanks Rob
Bob Zeiss