My first plan for affiliate marketing am I on the right track?
I will state that I do not have thousands to get started, I do not plan to outsource content or web page design (I bought a huge book on word-press and im pretty savvy with computers, I have word-press running on Xampp already). the only thing I plan to outsource is graphics and I have a casual graphic designer on hand (and his work is brilliant) to do headers, images and banners.
Well, im trying to treat this like an apprenticeship, I figured a good place to start would be to create a squidoo lens, logially speaking; im not interested in making thousands from it but its merely a method of testing keywords and phrases I have picked (My research on keywords needs improving still), to hone my skills on writing articles (Ive read various warriors slag squidoo off for removing content, my logic dictates that good SEO starts with content and the only lens I have had un-ranked was thin on content, I have affiliate links on all four that I have made) and to try to get a lens to rank for selected keyword on google.
I have a niche area (its pretty small but in health, google states my main key phrase has approx 35k searches a month)
I have just built a lens and am looking into fiverr gigs to get a small number of social media links,
I have been using SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters to check and improve on page SEO
I have been using Ping-o-Matic! to ping my lens
and I have been using SERP Checker to check my progress.
I have 3 affiliate links to related products from click bank on my lens (I chose click bank because I am a newbie, I dont want to strut around trying to get accepted into programs when I am very inexperienced and lacking knowledge!)
I plan to learn how to get this lens indexed on page one for my main key phrase.
Am I right in assuming the SEO skills required to rank a lens on google are simplified variants of ranking a full site?
I plan to build a related site with mailing list, forums would be ideal for this niche as would a few product reviews and short helpful articles. I plan to enhance my SEO skills on this page and attempt to get it ranked for the main key phrase.
I plan to convert the squidoo lens (providing the traffic is good) to a feeder site for my main page, get as much in the way of social media feeding in as I can and reinvest any money Im making into relevant PPC
and I plan to do all this on under $100
So that is my plan, I have not done this before and I learn at my best by doing something and experimenting with trial and error. I expect to make nothing for a while but to me this is an apprenticeship (well you spend thousands learning a degree and make nothing, this is a lot cheaper!)
Does it look like I am on the right track guys and girls?
Have I covered all the basics of learning the affiliate side of IM in my plan?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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