About Affiliate Marketing

I believe you've bought the right products but just make sure that you implement that step by step. If you didn't implement it, you will be trapped into buying new stuff and keep on buying but never applying means no income.

i had implemented the steps i read in the books. just that the ranking on the serp is not getting to the top. hence alot of time, my blog doesn't get the exposure. any tips or tricks to share on enhancing your website/blog to be at the first page of google?

One years worth of visitors "should" have translated into at least one sale, assuming you had a few thousand visitors drop by. Thus either you must have only received a handful of untargeted visitors, or your website / landing page simply is not converting due to poor design and or content / offers etc. The latter probably plays a big part in this. Also, even though trying to get your page to rank on the first page of Google is not impossible, it is probably highly unlikely in these days. Therefore it's best to start working on another traffic strategy, right after you work on your actual site.

There are far more easier and fun ways to get traffic then using Google. Some are...

- Forums
- Blog commenting
- Guest posting
- Writing articles
- SEO
- Creating newsletters
- Social Bookmarking
- Blogging
- Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)

The trick is to pick 2 methods you believe you would enjoy doing then stick to only those methods. Once you see results move to to 2 new methods.

After you have tried every method discard the ones that are not producing results - and focus on the ones that are.

I myself find blogging extremely time consuming and prefer doing 1 page websites (squeeze pages) -- and capturing my visors into my email list. From there I will give them valuable information -- and promote products to them.

If you the type who loves to blog -- I would look at Kim Roach or Blogging with John Chow.

@"affmarketing26"
If you could post the link to your website we could analyze why sales are not happening.

Until then, here are some tips to help you get a sale:

1. Keyword = select what they call "end of the buying cycle" keywords. These are keywords people would type in after ALREADY hearing about and researching the product. It could also come in the form of a long tail keyword.

Ex:
sony 55 inch HD29971-55
best deal on sony 50 HD22212-50
natural GERD relief with 10 million active cultures

These keywords are ultra targeted and in most cases easier to rank. You could also look for new products since competition is likely lower.

These keywords are usually lower in traffic BUT they will result in more sales with less "selling" effort on your part. If you target a general keyword the searcher is not as ready to buy yet and you will have to guide them more through the buying cycle, usually with follow up emails.

2. Type of Products = go after something that will solve a nagging problem, i.e. a health ailment, a divorce, a kid that is causing family problems, etc. These are top of mind for the searcher and thus, they'd want to solve it now

3. Landing Page = HELP them somehow. It could be your story on how you checked a few big name sites and why you think one site offers the best deal, i.e. Free Shipping with the least hassle return policy.

Or, you can educate them on why the number of active cultures on a probiotic box is not as important b/c all that matters is how many actually reach the gut.

Help and educate them instead of using salesy language.

4. Call to Action = use around 3 call to action links / images. Maybe a clickable image at the top of your page, a link in the middle or your page, i.e. go here for more info on [product], and a link at the end of your page, i.e. get rid of heartburn with [product]

Hope that addresses why you may not be getting sales.

Charlie

Sorry, but it doesn't sound that you really did invest your time.

SEO is certainly something I'd urge you, as a fellow affiliate marketer, to stay away from, as much as you reasonably can. I advise you not to put your time, effort and energy into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (just because of all the high rankings I've got, incidentally, from article syndication to relevant sites) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living from that traffic! Google rankings, in short, are not really much of a "traffic-generating plan" at all: that traffic's very poor quality and often temporary, too. Just reading this forum regularly will convince anyone of that.

Pay attention to the date of edition of those SEO ebooks. Very often they are way out of date and all techniques are not working any more. Of course there are some basics which have to be memorized all the times. I absolutely agree with SlfMastery and his advice.

I also agree with Alexa Smith. Don't optimize for search engines, optimize for people. Imagine like if you were trying to find something on the net.

Also try to become an expert in your niche or find someone who is already an expert. In most cases you need not a search engine traffic but traffic which comes from someone authoritative. This is especial important for the beginners before they have their own list of prospects or leads. Of course you may lose some of you profit paying out commissions but you will save your time and efforts.

You say you are hovering around page 10 or 13 for your keywords.

Which keywords?

You should be marketing to a giant and ever growing set of keywords/phrases.

You need to track down low comp keywords that may have fewer searches per month. Tons and tons of them.

You need to think around your main keywords if there is a great deal of competition there. Don't go straight down the middle, work around your main subject.

Once you have brought them in then you interlink on your site go get them to those other pages.

Hope that all makes sense.

I understand that feeling, my friend.

If you think this is the right system to work on, keep doing it until make it work.

If you can't rank your site, try different traffic methods.

I tried SEO before, but I gave up because it took too much time to implement.

"Never let a stumble on the road be the end of the journey"

You are almost there, you have a blog, website.

Everything is setup, you are almost there. Don't stop it!

I kept failing for 3 years but I can still make money online at the end. You can do it too.

One of the most important thing you need to learn to make affiliate sales is how your going to get your offer in front of a hyper targeted audience. Your visitors need to be in the buying mood and for something very specific, so figure out how you can find these people.

There are better ways to affiliate market then what you're trying to do. You should start out on YouTube reviewing products, creating your own review website, and building a mailing list with squeeze pages.

You can find all the information you need on here for free. There's really only a few components to a successful affiliate business:

-traffic
-squeeze pages to build your list
-immediate offer
-follow up series designed to build a relationship and promote other offers
-be consistent with your email marketing & promotion to value ratio