Successfully using blogs for your affilate marketing? How are you doing it?

I would like to know this too. Been playing around with blogs and not sure if its the best for me. or best use of my marketing time I should say.

Hi -

Generally, when I build a blog, I get about 5 posts up, 3 pages (About, Contact, Privacy policy) and other important things such as sitemap etc.

I drip feed a good amount of the content.

I'd tell you the approach I take.

Handle one project at a time. Build a blog, get 25 articles, post 5, drip feed one every week. There you've 20 weeks (almost 5 months) of content automatically being added to your site.

I've a few blogs which haven't been updated for 3-4 months and they still maintain first page rankings in Google. Don't have much experience here, so don't take my word on this. (I mean ranking on SE's without updating for a long time)

For me, as long as targeted traffic is flowing in, it's all good. :-)


I actually get one project going a week, research the market in a couple days, build the site in 3-4 hours, outsource the backlinking to people here on WF and then move on to the next project.

I'd say I spend a week maximum on a blog to research the market, build it, get it indexed and get a fair amount of backlinks.

Targeted traffic and conversion.


Sounds quite similar to my model, so I'll answer -

Usually, the blog is all good for 3-4 months. Exceptionally, I've ONE blog which maintains the page #1 ranking in various search engines despite not being updated in the past 6 months.

I don't spend much time maintaining these blogs. They're kind of Build - Make money and let go.

Thanks

I use Yaab Wordpress plugin to pull RSS feeds with sites that come up with searches for my keyword. The post is just something like "Hey, haven't updated in a while, but I came across this and thought it was worth linking to. Don't forget we have great articles like XXX in and other ones about YYY and ZZZ in our archive. Anyway, if you check out the article below, be sure to leave a comment. REPOSTED LINK AND SUMMARY GOES HERE."

The point is, after you quit posting QUALITY content to your blog, you set something like that up to continue posting on a regular basis. You notice that it will keep posting FRESH stuff via reposting other related content, AND it will keep backlinking your own earlier quality posts.

Note that won't make much difference on your own blog, but if you regularly submit your RSS feeds to aggregators, those links will get picked up elsewhere.

Continuous content + continuous backlink building = good.

You won't have that problem of your blogs vanishing after 4 months if you do that. I haven't anyway.

If anyone does decide to pursue my method above, I have an advanced tip, too. When I do those article intros, I use another plugin called Stray Random Quotes. I load that up with my target keywords and all my "good" posts and article titles I want to promote. That way, it's automatically randomizing what is linked to, and with what target keywords.

Then you can forget about it, and it'll run itself for much longer than a few months.

Hope that helps!

It depends. I always wait until the site is indexed by Google before adding any monetization. Placing ads at the start can slow down indexing. For Adsense, I wait even longer, until I'm getting steady traffic for targeted keywords.

No. That's a common myth. With good SEO you can treat it just like a static HTML site. Some of my best earners haven't been updated significantly in almost 2 years. That said, there are some competitive niches where constant updating can help to some degree but most aren't this way.

You should start the next one immediately, no waiting around, no checking stats, no tweaking. Build as many as you can, build links to your sites and set aside a day or two a month for stats checking and tweaking.

Targeted buying search traffic.

It can last quite a while if your SEO is good, years in fact. Keep moving and don't stop.

Hi Supergirl,

Well, when you set up your brand new blog, it's always good to have content up between 5 to 10 posts for a start. Always make sure that these posts are keyword optimized. It's good to post just 1-2 pages as well. Then submit your site to web directories for a start to get your site indexed.

From the beginning, you can actually start to monetize your posts and blogs with adsense, affiliate banners. (coz you never know who might come by your blog.)

You can preschedule your posts so that everything is on autopilot mode. I recommend posting blog posts once every 5-7 days. Also drive traffic to your site by social bookmarking your posts.

In fact there are many traffic generation strategies that you can apply to increase traffic to your blog.

You can have as many blogs as you wish. If you were to preschedule your blog posts for like 6months or 1 year, it will be easier to manage. I believe that once you have successfully set up a blog, monetized your blog and blog posts, and covered content for 6months to a year, you can leave the blog on its own and perhaps monitor it once every month.

You can start on the next blog once you are comfortable with leaving the current blog alone and on autopilot mode.

I would think that quality content matters when making an affiliate blog successful. Be sure that your content is good, unique and also beneficial to your blog visitors. Also, promote only good affiliate products that even you believe it's too good to miss out on. and not just any product under the sun. Always think about how your web visitor will benefit from your site.

I would say that those small blogs with little content and high traffic can last about a year. However, it really depends on the content. If the content is good like, "How To..." posts which will still generate traffic on its own when people search i.e. "how to fish" etc. , you can be sure that the site will still have traffic in the long run and still make continue to make sales though there aren't much activity.

If you get visitors then it doesnt matter. 1 post is enough. If you have something good to offer then you'll make a sale.Traffic is whats important. I have a blog that has maybe 4 post sitting at 3rd spot. Been getting sales every now and again.

Hi Super,

Different strokes for different folks.

Figure your goal, write it down.

How much time do you have to work your business each day?

Draw up your plans from your time available.

Get to work. Do it. Have fun.

Follow your plan whether your building a blog a day or every other day. Tweak it as you go.

Only action is going to put money in your pocket.

Most important two words of advice I can give you.

Do it.

Then do it some more and don't stop.

Best Regards,

Jim

PS. Help someone along the way. What goes around comes around.

Blogging is my choice of poison ! . And my Passion. It is more of a long term investment and yes you have to continual update. I have 11 Blogs. And when I started to make money with Adsense I took that Money and outsourced Articles to put on my Blog. This is how you really harness much power. And this is the Power of Blogging. Keep making more and more Money and keep reinvesting it with Articles and more blogs.

But I would say the best way to start is to Monetize with Adsense because you can start Earning with just a little traffic . And then as your Traffic increases with time you can transition over to Affiliate Products !!
And just keep reinvesting !

I've had success with buying domain names that are exactly the medium search volume keywords I want to rank for, installing wordpress on them with a nice theme, writing 5 blog posts, putting an about and contact us page, then getting backlinks.

The goal of these sites is to rank for one medium search volume keyword each with their homepage, that targets a clickbank product.

It works well if you work on it.

This is great feedback from all of you. I have picked up a few things.