Once these strategies are put to the test in your own business and you become enthusiastic after finally seeing quick and easier money, come over to my website and find out who taught me these strategies and completely turned my business around.
Along the way to earning a few dollars per month, I have made many mistakes.
Getting past these road blocks was the best thing I ever did because passive money, no matter the amount, is the best type of income. Getting paid like clockwork every month for years into the future after doing something once is the best type of business, as you can imagine.
And I have to tell you, that's a great feeling.
But getting to where I am today should have taken half the time and effort than it did so if I had the chance to do it all over again, of course, there are a few things I would do differently.
That's what this article is about dispelling myths about affiliate marketing and getting you from point A to point B in the shortest time possible. First I will tell you about the specifics mistakes that I made on my journey and then I will give you the strategy to bypass all the BS and make money quickly and effortlessly as if you were swimming with the current as opposed to against it.
My introduction to Internet marketing came a few years ago when I wanted to have my family's restaurant website show up higher in the Google results pages and I was first introduced to SEO.
Being able to rank any website on the first page of Google was a valuable skill that I picked up.
The bad news is, even though I got websites on page one of Google, I was focusing on the wrong keywords!
That was my first mistake... the wrong keywords.
I quickly got tired of getting to page one with nothing to show for it (other than pride, I guess) so I searched for and purchased a home study program on selling other people's products and services as an affiliate.
My second challenge had to do with my on-site strategy. My thinking was that a large site in which I published reviews of a myriad of products and services in an overarching niche was the best way to sell the most products.
I got the site up to a few hundred bucks a month but then it plateaued. And it took a lot of time and effort to get the traffic levels up to where they are now.
I compare this strategy to maneuvering a huge cargo ship. It takes a lot of time and energy to get where you need to go.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear, so they say. I was at a restaurant when I met a successful Internet Marketer who challenged everything I was doing online. I didn't know it at the time but this person had made eight figures in just about ten years by creating small one or two page websites.
That was an ah-ha moment for me.
I had been working my rear end off to get my one website on the first page and this person was getting dozens of sites with very little content there in a matter of days or a few weeks tops??
How could I not listen to what he had to say?
The strategy that he was using and the thing that was missing from my business was getting, buying or registering domain names with the exact keyword that I wanted to rank for in them. Having the keyword puts you way ahead of the competition and will get you onto page one with less links and less content than you ever thought before.
One quarter of how the search engines rank sites!
Smaller sites that revolve around one product or service can become profitable and rank much quicker. If it doesn't work out, you didn't lose much.
What I learned didn't end there. If your domain name is made of keywords that people looking to buy are searching for, even if you don't get that many visitors to your website the ones that do show up are at the end of the buying process and one step away from buying the product you're promoting.
Now you're swimming downstream effortlessly because your visitors are ready to hand you money and 25% of the SEO struggle has been destroyed by having your keywords in your domain name right after the http://.
Here's Exactly What to Do to Get There
Keyword Research
People typing phrases into the search bar that are later on in the buying process is the key.
Here are the best keywords:
-Name of Service/Product Itself
-Product Name Reviews
-Model Number
-Product Name Bonus
-Product Name Discount
-Product Creator's Name
-Buy Service or Product Name
-Buy Model Number
If you find that more than 1000 people are searching for all the buyer keywords put together then you will want to invest some more of your time in the product.
Make sure to total up all exact match keywords, not broad. If you are not aware of the difference, phrase match is when you search for something with quotation marks and all the words appear in the results in the same order.
Just remember to check this Exact Match option off inside the tool when doing your research.
Nothing is for certain and this is just a rule of thumb. After doing this a few times and seeing what sells and what doesn't you will become excellent and keyword research and spotting winners when you see them.
Sizing Up the Competition
Here are the questions you need to ask (and answer) about the other people competing for the same keyword:
-Look at the actual URL. Does it have the keyword or key phrase in it? If so, where is it? It's much better and it will be harder to beat them if they have the phrase right up front in the web address.
-How about the title of the website? Does that contain the key phrase?
-Is the keyword found in the description?
-How about in the Header tag?
This may seem like a different language to you at the moment but don't get caught up in that because you can easily find Internet Marketing tools and resources that can tell you all these factors with the push of a button.
The amount of external links pointing in to a site is of course important but the exciting point to remember is if you get/have a domain name with your keywords built in, the first spot in the search engine results is yours to defend!
If you retain nothing else from reading this article, remember this. Having the keyword in your domain name is that important to you getting tons of free traffic from the search engines.
According to Brian Clark of Copyblogger,
"you can gain attention from people via search engines because Google trusts your content."
Well said by Brian and I believe this is the reason exact match domains rank so highly. Because Google trusts that a site with the keyword in its URL will be the most relevant by default until you prove to them otherwise.
Makes sense doesn't it?
The next step is to find the best available domain name that contains your keywords
Go to your nearest domain host and see if the buyer keyword for the product you want to promote is available in .com, .net or .org. My mentor (find out who that is on my website) seems to easily rank any of the three main extensions but they are in priority order.
I would suggest staying away from domains with hyphens in them and I have heard this from many others in Internet Marketing. However, I have not confirmed this on my own so I recently bought a hyphenated domain name to see if this holds water or not.
Driving People to Your Site
Lastly, we need to get the search engines to your website so we need to build backlinks. We can do this by submitting videos to the video sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo, writing and publishing articles to article directories like Ezine Articles and posting comments on industry forums and blogs. Remember to actually create a hyperlink on each document or in the description section back to your website.
Thank goodness you usually will not have to build thousands upon thousands of these links because, as we said throughout, you have a big jump start because you own the keyword rich domain name.
Bringing It All Together
Acquiring, building and ranking websites with exact match domains will allow you to receive feedback much quicker and you will quickly know whether or not to put more time into your website or to move on to another keyword, other product or another niche. Focus on the products and the keywords that you think will give you the greatest chance to make a little cash.
Some of your sites will produce no money, some will make you some and some will be homeruns. The more sites you put up the better off you will be. It's a numbers game just like everything else.
So today we covered buyer keywords and having the exact match domain name.
Along the way to earning a few dollars per month, I have made many mistakes.
Getting past these road blocks was the best thing I ever did because passive money, no matter the amount, is the best type of income. Getting paid like clockwork every month for years into the future after doing something once is the best type of business, as you can imagine.
And I have to tell you, that's a great feeling.
But getting to where I am today should have taken half the time and effort than it did so if I had the chance to do it all over again, of course, there are a few things I would do differently.
That's what this article is about dispelling myths about affiliate marketing and getting you from point A to point B in the shortest time possible. First I will tell you about the specifics mistakes that I made on my journey and then I will give you the strategy to bypass all the BS and make money quickly and effortlessly as if you were swimming with the current as opposed to against it.
My introduction to Internet marketing came a few years ago when I wanted to have my family's restaurant website show up higher in the Google results pages and I was first introduced to SEO.
Being able to rank any website on the first page of Google was a valuable skill that I picked up.
The bad news is, even though I got websites on page one of Google, I was focusing on the wrong keywords!
That was my first mistake... the wrong keywords.
I quickly got tired of getting to page one with nothing to show for it (other than pride, I guess) so I searched for and purchased a home study program on selling other people's products and services as an affiliate.
My second challenge had to do with my on-site strategy. My thinking was that a large site in which I published reviews of a myriad of products and services in an overarching niche was the best way to sell the most products.
I got the site up to a few hundred bucks a month but then it plateaued. And it took a lot of time and effort to get the traffic levels up to where they are now.
I compare this strategy to maneuvering a huge cargo ship. It takes a lot of time and energy to get where you need to go.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear, so they say. I was at a restaurant when I met a successful Internet Marketer who challenged everything I was doing online. I didn't know it at the time but this person had made eight figures in just about ten years by creating small one or two page websites.
That was an ah-ha moment for me.
I had been working my rear end off to get my one website on the first page and this person was getting dozens of sites with very little content there in a matter of days or a few weeks tops??
How could I not listen to what he had to say?
The strategy that he was using and the thing that was missing from my business was getting, buying or registering domain names with the exact keyword that I wanted to rank for in them. Having the keyword puts you way ahead of the competition and will get you onto page one with less links and less content than you ever thought before.
One quarter of how the search engines rank sites!
Smaller sites that revolve around one product or service can become profitable and rank much quicker. If it doesn't work out, you didn't lose much.
What I learned didn't end there. If your domain name is made of keywords that people looking to buy are searching for, even if you don't get that many visitors to your website the ones that do show up are at the end of the buying process and one step away from buying the product you're promoting.
Now you're swimming downstream effortlessly because your visitors are ready to hand you money and 25% of the SEO struggle has been destroyed by having your keywords in your domain name right after the http://.
Here's Exactly What to Do to Get There
Keyword Research
People typing phrases into the search bar that are later on in the buying process is the key.
Here are the best keywords:
-Name of Service/Product Itself
-Product Name Reviews
-Model Number
-Product Name Bonus
-Product Name Discount
-Product Creator's Name
-Buy Service or Product Name
-Buy Model Number
If you find that more than 1000 people are searching for all the buyer keywords put together then you will want to invest some more of your time in the product.
Make sure to total up all exact match keywords, not broad. If you are not aware of the difference, phrase match is when you search for something with quotation marks and all the words appear in the results in the same order.
Just remember to check this Exact Match option off inside the tool when doing your research.
Nothing is for certain and this is just a rule of thumb. After doing this a few times and seeing what sells and what doesn't you will become excellent and keyword research and spotting winners when you see them.
Sizing Up the Competition
Here are the questions you need to ask (and answer) about the other people competing for the same keyword:
-Look at the actual URL. Does it have the keyword or key phrase in it? If so, where is it? It's much better and it will be harder to beat them if they have the phrase right up front in the web address.
-How about the title of the website? Does that contain the key phrase?
-Is the keyword found in the description?
-How about in the Header tag?
This may seem like a different language to you at the moment but don't get caught up in that because you can easily find Internet Marketing tools and resources that can tell you all these factors with the push of a button.
The amount of external links pointing in to a site is of course important but the exciting point to remember is if you get/have a domain name with your keywords built in, the first spot in the search engine results is yours to defend!
If you retain nothing else from reading this article, remember this. Having the keyword in your domain name is that important to you getting tons of free traffic from the search engines.
According to Brian Clark of Copyblogger,
"you can gain attention from people via search engines because Google trusts your content."
Well said by Brian and I believe this is the reason exact match domains rank so highly. Because Google trusts that a site with the keyword in its URL will be the most relevant by default until you prove to them otherwise.
Makes sense doesn't it?
The next step is to find the best available domain name that contains your keywords
Go to your nearest domain host and see if the buyer keyword for the product you want to promote is available in .com, .net or .org. My mentor (find out who that is on my website) seems to easily rank any of the three main extensions but they are in priority order.
I would suggest staying away from domains with hyphens in them and I have heard this from many others in Internet Marketing. However, I have not confirmed this on my own so I recently bought a hyphenated domain name to see if this holds water or not.
Driving People to Your Site
Lastly, we need to get the search engines to your website so we need to build backlinks. We can do this by submitting videos to the video sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo, writing and publishing articles to article directories like Ezine Articles and posting comments on industry forums and blogs. Remember to actually create a hyperlink on each document or in the description section back to your website.
Thank goodness you usually will not have to build thousands upon thousands of these links because, as we said throughout, you have a big jump start because you own the keyword rich domain name.
Bringing It All Together
Acquiring, building and ranking websites with exact match domains will allow you to receive feedback much quicker and you will quickly know whether or not to put more time into your website or to move on to another keyword, other product or another niche. Focus on the products and the keywords that you think will give you the greatest chance to make a little cash.
Some of your sites will produce no money, some will make you some and some will be homeruns. The more sites you put up the better off you will be. It's a numbers game just like everything else.
So today we covered buyer keywords and having the exact match domain name.
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