Starting my first internet marketing venture today (Question about blog)

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Hi everyone, Ross here.

Very glad I found this site, the information has been very enlightening to say the least.

Basically what I plan to do is to promote an affiliate product on my main website along with mini-blogs also driving traffic to my website to try and bring in those extra sales.

My question is, from your own experience, is it better to drive all that traffic to your main website? (the thing I am likely going to do) to improve chances of getting a sale as the website would have plenty of content or, would you simply just promote the sales link right there on each blog? Or both?

I know both methods can work but it would be nice to here your views.

Thanks you.

Regards,
Ross.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
    Originally Posted by Murt@gh View Post

    Hi everyone, Ross here.

    Very glad I found this site, the information has been very enlightening to say the least.

    Basically what I plan to do is to promote an affiliate product on my main website along with mini-blogs also driving traffic to my website to try and bring in those extra sales.

    My question is, from your own experience, is it better to drive all that traffic to your main website? (the thing I am likely going to do) to improve chances of getting a sale as the website would have plenty of content or, would you simply just promote the sales link right there on each blog? Or both?

    I know both methods can work but it would be nice to here your views.

    Thanks you.

    Regards,
    Ross.
    Since you say this is your first venture, I assume that you have no online brand as of now. Thus, all your sales would be based on the information and products/services you have to offer. Now, from SEO point of view, it would be better if you use a single website to offer a single product, since the backlinks' anchor text keyword value would be fully realized when all the content on the website is related.
    Moreover, people are more likely to buy from a targeted website if they think that the person selling/recommending them is an expert on that particular niche/topic.

    All that is my opinion. Wait for others who are way more experience than me
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  • Profile picture of the author Lazy
    It totally depends. If your main site has several related products in a niche, I would direct traffic there. But if your products aren't closely related enough, i would drive traffic to individual sales pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author keyideas
    You can generate traffic from your website if you will optimize your keywords. But generating traffic from blogs are more easy. You can create link wheel for generating traffic from various sources
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  • Profile picture of the author Murt@gh
    Well since I only have one current product I plan to promote and it's one I am very focused on doing, I am considering providing more of a landing page with a review written by myself so people can properly understand the product. I don't want to take the same approach to things that are usually done, content wise.

    But you see I had in mind more of a general website with a number of information but then I've realised from your comments, that this will drive down the power of my keywords for the single product I aim to sell! So thanks for that. I do plan to expand the information so the site can be more open to other people with other products, but I understand that would be very far down the line providing the original promotion yields results to sale and what not.

    My main focus is on providing great content along with the backlinks and researched keywords to form a good structure, then the blogs to provide a boost as keyideas is referring to.

    The methods of SEO and all the other marketing techniques are ofcourse very important to me, after all that is what will bring me sales, providing I've chosen the right product to market. So I will be trying my heart out day and night to learn more and more.

    Thanks for the advice so far!

    P.S - Where is the thank you button I haven't spotted it yet?

    Regards,
    Ross.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lazy
      Originally Posted by Murt@gh View Post

      P.S - Where is the thank you button I haven't spotted it yet?

      Regards,
      Ross.

      Bottom right corner my brother.


      Sounds like you've got a level head and a good attitude. You're going to do just fine in this business.
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  • Profile picture of the author JHC81
    I would bring people to my main site, this way they they can check out my other affiliate offers and learn more about me. By doing this you will build more backlinks to your main site from other blogs, more backlinks means your site will rank higher in Google, hope that helped you and good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author VeitSchenk
    in my experience there is no clear cut answer:

    I've got some sites which I built up as "big" authority sites, tons of content, and Google hates it. When it's in the search results, it's right at the top, but 9 out of 10 days it's not even in the top 500.

    Then I've got other sites that are super thin, just 4 blog-posts, Google loves it and sends me all the traffic I want and this baby converts beautifully at around 5%.

    If you're going for feeder blogs, you may want to consider getting SEO hosting, so they're not all on the same IP address. The SEO benefits may be higher if you've got feeder blogs that are on different IP addresses.

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  • Profile picture of the author jonibravo
    Yes it is right to bring all people on your main site. In this way they will better understand your products and services. Sub blogs will provide information about main website. Main website then will provide information about your product. This method is commonly used and much popular in internet marketing world. Because in this way information regarding main product will also be supported by other products available on product.
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    • Profile picture of the author Truckster
      Drive traffic to your main site. One product, lots of content. Use mini blogs, article marketing etc to link back to it using a variety of relevant keywords. Make sure to vary the keyword anchor text or G will think it is unnatural.

      And good luck, its a great business to be in.
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    • Profile picture of the author Murt@gh
      Originally Posted by Lazy View Post

      Bottom right corner my brother.


      Sounds like you've got a level head and a good attitude. You're going to do just fine in this business.
      Thank alot for the kind and motivating words man.

      You're going to laugh but I still can't see the thank you button! I know they are usually on the bottom right on forums but it just says "Quote", "Multiquote" and "Quick Reply"

      Do you think it has something to do with being a new user?

      Originally Posted by VeitSchenk View Post

      I've got other sites that are super thin, just 4 blog-posts, Google loves it and sends me all the traffic I want and this baby converts beautifully at around 5%.
      Thanks for the advice and considerations Veit, I will look into all the potential elements I can try out.

      Originally Posted by Amy Garrison View Post

      I would bring people to my main site, this way they they can check out my other affiliate offers and learn more about me. By doing this you will build more backlinks to your main site from other blogs, more backlinks means your site will rank higher in Google, hope that helped you and good luck.
      Well this is just what I needed reassaurance of! Thanks Amy.
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