Need Help and advice on my gift blog

by handle
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I recently started an affiliate marketing gift guide blog and i'm having trouble driving traffic to it. Of course gifts and all related terms are so competitive but I really think the content is great and I want to stick with it.

The items I've listed go from $5-$1000 which means to make any money with affiliate marketing I really need to get going with boosting traffic. I'm looking for any advice or tricks on how I can drive free traffic and where I can get relevant backlinks to take my traffic from 40 people a day to 4000 focusing on the UK and US.



Anyone got any advice (or questions?)
#advice #affiliate markerting #blog #gift #web traffic generation
  • Profile picture of the author MaryK
    First, use the signature tag on this forum. I notice you do not have one.

    Number of ways to drive traffic for free.

    Articles, write good, original articles and submit to article directories. Make sure your author's box is a really good, make it so people cannot help but click thru to your site.

    Write press releases and submit to directories - especially if you have a 'special'

    With both the above READ ALL THEIR RULES FIRST! And be sure to keep to them.

    Join other forums especially if relevant to your product(s).

    Have you a newsletter? An incentive to get people to subscribe to your newsletter?

    Get only wire (they have a free service which has limitations but not too many) and submit new posts through them. That will spread your site through a vast amount of social networking sites.

    Make sure your blog is optimized for seo and also social networking. If your are using wordpress.org there are many very good plugins you can use which allow people to network.

    Have you rss?

    Get a Facebook Page just for your site and keep the info relevant to your site.

    Have a competition offering one of your products as a gift.

    Offer an incentive for people to join your mailing list - free newsletter/competition/free gift/e-book make sure it does have VALUE to your subscribers.

    Hope this helps and good luck, it's the right time of the year for a gift related blog. Above all do not give up, it takes time to build a good, responsive list.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkJonesCBDoctor
      Originally Posted by MaryK View Post

      First, use the signature tag on this forum. I notice you do not have one.

      Number of ways to drive traffic for free.

      Articles, write good, original articles and submit to article directories. Make sure your author's box is a really good, make it so people cannot help but click thru to your site.

      Write press releases and submit to directories - especially if you have a 'special'

      With both the above READ ALL THEIR RULES FIRST! And be sure to keep to them.

      Join other forums especially if relevant to your product(s).

      Have you a newsletter? An incentive to get people to subscribe to your newsletter?

      Get only wire (they have a free service which has limitations but not too many) and submit new posts through them. That will spread your site through a vast amount of social networking sites.

      Make sure your blog is optimized for seo and also social networking. If your are using wordpress.org there are many very good plugins you can use which allow people to network.

      Have you rss?

      Get a Facebook Page just for your site and keep the info relevant to your site.

      Have a competition offering one of your products as a gift.

      Offer an incentive for people to join your mailing list - free newsletter/competition/free gift/e-book make sure it does have VALUE to your subscribers.

      Hope this helps and good luck, it's the right time of the year for a gift related blog. Above all do not give up, it takes time to build a good, responsive list.
      excellent advise. double on the article marketing. Build your backlinks for a higher search engine ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Neriabati
    Promote your blog with social networking sites
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  • Profile picture of the author kennykjtan
    Get a twitter account, facebook, myspace and everything you can think of. Blast them while doing your SEO and yes, maryK is right. Create a signature now!
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  • Hi Handle,

    =>> Of course, your blog's content should consist of relevant, timely and useful solutions for the related needs and problems of your target audience. Your viewers should also think and feel you're a friendly, expert resource of helpful, interesting and entertaining content while viewing your blog posts. Your blog should also be integrated with functions which make it easy for your viewers to share your content with their own social networks...

    =>> Start with your own network of relatives, colleagues and friends. Hook up with them through online social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Politely ask them to spread the word about your blog and how timely it is this season...

    =>> Determine which of your target keywords are used by people who'll most likely sign up to mailing lists of relevant sites with top ranking pages in Google for your target keywords. Take note of the exact local and global search volume of those keywords. Google your target keywords. List down the top ten or so page results. Determine where your target audience would most likely go when they're presented by those page results after their Google searches for your target keywords. Contact the webmasters of those sites. Negotiate mutually beneficial deals with them, such as unique, relevant content useful for their target audience as posts on their sites and as content for their mailing list newsletters or emails, in exchange for text and banner links pointing to your blog...

    =>> Develop a Facebook page for your business. Find Facebook PPC coupons. Use those coupons to develop FB ads and implement those PPC ad campaigns...

    =>> Connect with owners of related blogs that have useful content and pages top ranking in Google for relevant keywords. Do this by posting comments helpful in improving the value of the discussion threads for interested viewers...

    =>> Spend time in Web forums with large membership bases consisting of people most likely interested in your blog content and affiliate products. Help out other members of those Web forums by contributing useful info and advice relevant to their needs and problems related to topics and sub topics covered by your target niches, keywords, blog content and affiliate products. Don't forget to have an actionable signature link anchored by one of your target keywords pointing to your blog. You could point to a page on your blog where recent posts are listed with descriptions, or where most popular posts are listed with descriptions, or so on...

    =>> If you live in one of your target countries, print out coupons promoting a contest on your blog with interesting rewards/prizes. Participants can freely join by signing up to your blog's mailing list. Make your coupons targeted, i.e. For students of specific universities, for residents of particular districts and neighborhoods, for employees of specific malls and companies near you, etc. You can also outsource this task to residents of your target countries, in case you live outside your target countries. Spice up this campaign of yours by conceptualizing then implementing offline and online campaigns which could most likely go viral, offline and online...

    ==>>> Be creative and conceptualize, implement, monitor and improve other traffic generation and site promotion campaigns <<<==

    That's just about it for now...
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by handle View Post

    I recently started an affiliate marketing gift guide blog and i'm having trouble driving traffic to it. Of course gifts and all related terms are so competitive but I really think the content is great and I want to stick with it.

    The items I've listed go from $5-$1000 which means to make any money with affiliate marketing I really need to get going with boosting traffic. I'm looking for any advice or tricks on how I can drive free traffic and where I can get relevant backlinks to take my traffic from 40 people a day to 4000 focusing on the UK and US.



    Anyone got any advice (or questions?)
    First, you need to be targeting the right keywords. Product-related keywords convert the best. Secondly, do some blog commenting and make use of forums -- making sure to add value. Third, make sure you are adding unique, quality content on a regular basis....the list goes on, but this should get you going on the right direction.

    Good luck,
    Joey
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  • Profile picture of the author handle
    Hey Thanks guys, some of these things I'm already doing and some I should be - all I need to do more often and regularly. now I need to work out how to add it to my signature!

    Thanks again!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author handle
    Let's try that again! Feel free to check out the blog in my signature (if it works!)
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    • Profile picture of the author jeskola
      Nice site - i like your theme!

      Have you tried split testing copy on your buttons?

      Also, in terms of traffic - not seeing many keywords used... But i think you have a good idea and there are some great products are there.

      What are your conversion rates? ( Do you know numbers such as traffic on site, traffic clicking through, traffic buying)

      I'd look for blogs and forums where the community is primarily female and look at developing relationships there. At this time of year a blog like yours should be killing it - with the right traffic.

      If you have missed out on Christmas traffic which it sounds like you might have , perhaps focus and put all your efforts into Valentines. IF you start working hard now... you will reap the rewards come Feb 14th.

      Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dominis Marketing
    Nice site you got there. Promote it on social media and
    make some youtube vids reviewing the gifts in there and
    point them to your site in the description.

    Youtube vids ranks easier on SEs and they also have huge
    traffic in the site itself. Plus if people likes your product review
    videos it can go viral..
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    • Profile picture of the author jeskola
      Another thought might be to play around with colour - make it feel a bit more feminine... It's a bit grey at the moment!
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  • Profile picture of the author waynecans
    Just strengthen your SEO campaign. You will surely get a lot of traffics in the days to come.
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  • Profile picture of the author robertvo
    Hi Handle,
    I like your site. I always wanted to do similar site, but with drop shipping.
    I don't think Amazon is giving enough commissions. Like around 10% right?
    I would suggest you do lots of Social Networking stuff, FB ads and article marketing.
    Build a list and push it hard before Christmas, father's day, etc..

    Great products, good luck!

    Rob
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  • Profile picture of the author handle
    THANK YOU!!!
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