If you want to get higher Google rankings for your affiliate marketing website you need to provide unique helpful information that most others are not. Make sure to help your website visitors and even provide them with options. Your mindset should be about helping and not selling.
Do not look at the websites of others in your chosen niche and try to copy their approach. Rather look at them and ask yourself, how can I make my website better so that people would rather come here instead of my competitors? We all can express our personal views, making our content unique.
Also consider the ease of navigation around your website. Link to the posts and pages that have affiliate links instead of putting affiliate links on every post. This is what Kyle means when he says that your affiliate links should be more centralized than across your entire website content.
You should know by now how important inter linking your content is to better SEO rankings. When you have your affiliate links centralized on specific pages and review posts, inter linking to them from helpful relevant posts that do not contain affiliate links, will be better for your Google rankings.
To understand the importance of inter linking for better Google SEO and how to create them, check out the training at the link below.
How to Improve Website Rankings with Internal Links
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And to read the Google Affiliate Marketing Program Webmaster Guidelines that will go into better detail about what Google does not want to see and what you can do to increase your rankings, click the link below.
Google Affiliate Marketing Program Webmaster Guidelines Post
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I 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