How I Got #1 Results In A Competitive Product Launch As An Affiliate

[dadamson]

For some this might be obvious but hopefully you gain some good nuggets from my SEO strategy that literally got me position 1 in Google for:

[Product Name]
[Product Name] Review
[Product Name] Bonus

Within just one month and kept me at position 1 during the launch.

That's right, even outranked the actual products site for [Product Name]!

The site wasn't an Exact Match Keyword (EMD) domain but it was close. The product is a 3-word product, I registered the domain with these words in different order, as the actual product developer registered the correct order EMD.

Firstly, I knew that it was going to take a lot of work as there were already people ranking for these terms with strong SEO, the product is in the IM niche, which generally makes things harder.

So I started out with my usual methods of article marketing, blog commenting, gov/edu blog commenting, profile links, forum links, and social media.

I kept this up every day, it wasn't an insane amount of links though.

A little over 3000 article links over the month, these were article spins from 5 core articles and manually spun to make logical sense (ensuring the stricter article directories accepted them ASAP).

About 150 blog comments all up, 80 profile links, 40 forum thread links (from signatures from the created profiles).

I also loaded the site and some of the higher PR articles into my paid SocialADR account as these guys allow multiple users to bookmark your webpages across heaps of social sites.

Once I outsourced all of this, I also got one of my writers to write 4 very high quality 700 word unique articles highly targeted towards the product I was promoting.

I submitted 2 of these to Squidoo.com, one to Blogger.com, and the other to Hubpages.com - I used different proxies that I purchased from SquidProxies when signing up and submitting these (just to ensure Google sees them as naturally added by multiple people).

Each of these was targeting a different keyword and very much optimized for the keywords themselves.

As per the Squidoo requirements, I added more webparts, things like images, comments, rss feeds, etc. This really helped the quality of the articles.

I then added all of these to SocialADR and this gave them a lot of Social Media attention.

Towards the end of the month I had some more articles written up and did some more article marketing to these 4 high quality web2.0 articles.

About 5 days before the launch I added all the URLs from all of the backlinks I created to my $10 Linklicious account to ensure that Google was finding all the links.

During the second month I really sat back and watched the affiliate sales come in. The constant social activity on my best backlinks kept me at number one throughout the month.

So if you find a great keyword, but think it might be too tough or take to long, just follow these steps as I have explained above. This is a tried and true method to outranking some fierce competition relatively quickly.

I pretty much outsourced every part of this, there is no reason why you can't too and make a huge Return On Investment by going for a great keyword.

Cheers,
Dave

[athenistic]

Nice work.

Just a question - where did you find your information that you needed proxies to make Google think that your articles were all submitted by different people? Are you using Chrome or Google toolbar or something that Google can track you with?

[thebitbotdotcom]

That really is a lot of SEO. I am not surprised if you ranked doing all that.

All too often people think that SEO is simply getting great links and it is for the most part, but if they want to rank, they will have to have both quality and quality according to what you spelled out here.

[markviduk86]

Congrats
When get the first income, please post here

[mohalsaiad]

wow ,,, good plan for SEO

[Matt Ward]

Originally Posted by dadamson

I submitted 2 of these to Squidoo.com, one to Blogger.com, and the other to Hubpages.com - I used different proxies that I purchased from SquidProxies when signing up and submitting these (just to ensure Google sees them as naturally added by multiple people).

There's certainly no way that Google can tell what IP people use to post to 3rd party sites, so this is really only a concern with Blogger.

[bhuff85]

Did you see a good amount of profit from that particular product launch you promoted?

I've never got into the product launch stuff because it seems that most people do a lot of gruntwork for a few weeks, only to nab a top spot for a product that will only have a hot buying cycle of maybe 1 week or so. I know that for BIG launches, there is money to be made, but once the hype dies down for that launch, the site you built is practically worthless IMO. Just seems like you always have to "spin the wheels" in order to keep the income constant.

I'm more into the long-term passive profits by doing all of the hard work for a few weeks and then letting your site sit in the ranks for months to come with minimal maintence, resulting in passive income that's consistent and always coming through.

Either way, the details in your post are good for anyone looking to get into something similar for product launches.

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by athenistic

Nice work.

Just a question - where did you find your information that you needed proxies to make Google think that your articles were all submitted by different people? Are you using Chrome or Google toolbar or something that Google can track you with?

I just figured, it is better to appear as though more people are backlinking your stuff than just yourself in most cases. - I haven't done much testing in proxy use, but I have the proxies for other tasks, so I thought 'why not?' - Not sure if this even made a difference or not though.

No I don't use Chrome or have the Google toolbar or even Google Analytics installed on this one.

Originally Posted by mattward

There's certainly no way that Google can tell what IP people use to post to 3rd party sites, so this is really only a concern with Blogger.

Ok, I'm not sure about that, but as I already had the proxies, thought I'd just give it a go anyway.

Originally Posted by bhuff85

Did you see a good amount of profit from that particular product launch you promoted?

I've never got into the product launch stuff because it seems that most people do a lot of gruntwork for a few weeks, only to nab a top spot for a product that will only have a hot buying cycle of maybe 1 week or so. I know that for BIG launches, there is money to be made, but once the hype dies down for that launch, the site you built is practically worthless IMO. Just seems like you always have to "spin the wheels" in order to keep the income constant.

I'm more into the long-term passive profits by doing all of the hard work for a few weeks and then letting your site sit in the ranks for months to come with minimal maintence, resulting in passive income that's consistent and always coming through.

Either way, the details in your post are good for anyone looking to get into something similar for product launches.

Yeah, I made just under $2000 in aff sales which was quite nice as the cost of SEO was under $250.

I also spent a lot of time on the sales page and bonus products to ensure my page was the most appealing.

I am like you, I don't normally go for product launches due to their hard work and short term results, but I was really pleased with this result.

I guess the same formula can be applied to any hard to beat keyword to get great results though.

It really is easy when it is all outsourced.