PAGE 1 – What Google thinks about Affiliate Marketing websites
PAGE 2 – What your content should look like and what it should not do
PAGE 3 – How to create your content for better Google rankings
PAGE 4 – Things to remember when creating your Affiliate Marketing website
It is important to know how to write content for affiliate marketing websites that will rank well in Google. The reason why this is very important, is that Google does not look too kindly on affiliate marketing websites. Why is this?
ARE YOU HELPING OR SELLING?
There are so many affiliate marketing websites that do not provide plenty of helpful information but rather have affiliate links, sometimes multiple, on almost every page and post. If you are creating content and your goal is to sell instead of help, Google will not rank your website highly.
This is a major problem with many affiliate marketing websites. Even here within WA I often see members ask, how many affiliate links can I put on every page or post? Is your desire to sell or help people? As Kyle has said many times throughout the training, you should be HELPING people.
The Google Webmaster Guidelines for affiliate marketing websites says you are to provide original content that adds value to your website visitors. This means that if you are not providing useful helpful and unique information, you are not adding value beyond just product descriptions.
NEXT UP = How to know the difference between a helpful and a selling website.Also, I am looking for some suggestions on how to centralize affiliate links on our site. We have a reading website, geared towards kids/teens. I want to be able to have reviews on different authors, or books, and give suggestions on books to purchase. What I don't want to do is have a bunch of posts about different authors and have affiliate links in each post. Ideally I would have a post on "Dr Seuss" and suggest some of our favorites. Another post would be about Roald Dahl and some book suggestions. I don't know how to structure this without having affiliate links on each post.
Thank you,
Steve
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