So I'm launching my website next week

10 years ago

What niche will you be focusing on? If you already have compiled your target list of keywords, then you would find matching products on Amazon for those and then write your reviews. But, before you even do that, see what competition you will have on Google Search. It's not good enough to know, how popular a keyword is, you need to know who else is competing against you. These other sites are already well established and indexed in Google Search and starting up a site to compete won't really be easy if you are targeting a niche that is already over saturated. Just a few things to think about before starting out.

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shashikant1010

10 years ago

its good to review of product but amazon and flip kart have already page of review
so they are reputed site in Google.
increase ranking in Google is so much difficult task whenever competitor was so big
you cant handle seo because amazon and flipkart have so much big team of seo.

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Graham Maddison

10 years ago

if you are using firefox as your browser, you can download a plugin to show the page rank of any website you visit.
This is a link to just one plugin .. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...ddon/pagerank/

there are many more

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RS3RS

10 years ago

For keyword research, I highly recommend you download the MOZ toolbar and make sure the search overlay is activated.

Then, when you Google a keyword, it will show the strength of each ranking page directly in the search results, all at the same time, without having to click on anything. Makes it much, much faster to size up the competition for a keyword.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Zaflow

I'm launching my very first website / blog to review and sell a few physical products at amazon and I need help from you in ANY way you can.

You might want to read this post.

Affiliate sales come from relationships with subscribers.

Originally Posted by Zaflow

I need to discuss ways to plan keywords, how competitive they are, and how many people look for them

This is usually a very poor approach, for affiliate sales. This post explains why: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398

Originally Posted by Zaflow

What is a "PR" status of a website or page? and how do you find that out on a specific website?.

"Page rank" is one very minor and generally unimportant factor affecting how sites rank in Google. It's less and less important all the time. Good SEO isn't about "page ranks" and "numbers of backlinks": it's about quality and relevance, just like almost everything else in internet marketing.

We can all see for ourselves (from the ever-increasing regularity with which lower-PR pages outrank higher-PR pages in Google's SERP's results) how unimportant it is, even as a ranking factor.

Don't go down this SEO-related track: it's very unlikely to help you, Sam. And there are reaons for that.

This thread, on the other hand. may help you a lot: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608164

By the way, SEO questions live here: http://www.warriorforum.com/search-engine-optimization/

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nettiapina

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

"Page rank" is one very minor and generally unimportant factor affecting how sites rank in Google. It's less and less important all the time. Good SEO isn't about "page ranks" and "numbers of backlinks": it's about quality and relevance, just like almost everything else in internet marketing.

That's not exactly true. Backlinks do help pages to rank in Google. It's always been in the core of their way to track the importance of a page. That's what pagerank means.

The visible "toolbar" pagerank is less and less important because Google has stopped updating it regularly. You don't see the actual score they're using for the calculations in the background. They've not stopped using pagerank, but try to discourage using it as a metric.

Relevance is an important factor. In my opinion "quality" is a bit too vague, but it's important that the articles fit the purpose and are suitable for the intended audience.

However, I think Alexa is right when she points out that SEO might not be the way to market. It's often fairly hard for an affiliate commission based websites. For example the content is often somewhat derivative, and other affiliates are competing for the same SERPs.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Backlinks do help pages to rank in Google.

Of course they do. I didn't say that they don't. But they help on the basis of their relevance and quality, not just "how many of them you get".

Originally Posted by nettiapina

The visible "toolbar" pagerank is less and less important because Google has stopped updating it regularly.

They've done a little more than just "stopped updating it regularly". They've announced openly that ceasing to publish pageranks at all remains a longer-term objective for them.

Originally Posted by nettiapina

They've not stopped using pagerank, but try to discourage using it as a metric.

I also try to discourage people from using it as a metric, which is why I said what I did, just above.

A lot of would-be affiliate marketing starting off in internet marketing have read dreadfully out-of-date and misleading guidebooks of various kinds (including some WSO's) and believe that pageranks are a valuable and important metric for their businesses. Explaining to them that this isn't the case, and that search-engine traffic is unlikely to help them much anyway is potentially very helpful to them. (I just wish people had explained it to me, more clearly, back when I started.

)

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Relevance is an important factor.

So Google says (and I agree). We all agree about that one (apart from the occasional people selling mass automated backlinks of the type that get people's websites penalized).

Originally Posted by nettiapina

In my opinion "quality" is a bit too vague

It's not a precise term, I agree. But becoming aware of it, at as early a stage as possible, is helpful to people who may otherwise falling into the trap of thinking only/mostly in quantitative terms.

Originally Posted by nettiapina

However, I think Alexa is right when she points out that SEO might not be the way to market. It's often fairly hard for an affiliate commission based websites. For example the content is often somewhat derivative, and other affiliates are competing for the same SERPs.

We agree, of course ...

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smiles8103

10 years ago

Congrats on launching your new site! Let me first start by saying, make sure that your content is the BEST it can be....I have said this a million times, but it is the truth, content is KING. If you write for people, you will be much better off than trying to write for Google.

Now, for planning keywords, I use longtail pro. If you don't have money to buy the tool, you can also go to fiverr.com and have the keyword research done for you

. I have done this in the past when I didn't have time, and it worked out well for me

When you are just learning SEO, you are going to have to put in time to learn, and understand the basics atleast.

If you need help checking PR or backlinks, ect many have suggested a few great tools, but feel free to PM me, or send me a skype message, and I would be happy to share several other free tools with you.

Good luck with your site!

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Zaflow

10 years ago

Originally Posted by smiles8103

Now, for planning keywords, I use longtail pro. If you don't have money to buy the tool, you can also go to fiverr.com and have the keyword research done for you

. I have done this in the past when I didn't have time, and it worked out well for me

Good luck with your site!

I looked into that, and I like it, I might just sign up for the 10 day trial, get my keywords and test them out, if it works out I will sign up with them in case I want to expand or start a new project.

Thank you for the suggestion

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Zaflow 10 years ago

Thank you Alexa, your post has really opened my eyes and it goes against most of what others are saying on this forum in general, but it makes so much sense

I definitely dont want to completely rely on SEO, but its good to incorporate it in my strategy none the less and I think thats the point you are trying to make

Now I've looked into your posts and I found out what the method you are referring to by this sentence you wront on one of your posts in another thread:

"I wrote a 1,200-word article last week called "Cauliflower Soup Regurgitated: How Not To Poison Your Kids", for the "cauliflower soup recipes" niche (let's say - I've made up this "niche" just as an example! ).

The article has a witty opening, heaps of controversy and entertainment all the way through, laughs in all the right places, and a real sting in the tail.

"I published it on my site straight away and had it indexed there. Then I sent it out to my network of "syndicators of cauliflower soup recipe articles"."

Can you elaborate more on this? from a newb prespective? can you direct me to a thread that discusses this method in more details?

I really like the way you write, its very intriguing and to the point, I think thats one of the reasons you are successful

Thank you!!
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- Zaflow 10 years ago
  
  I also want to Add, if you submit your article on your website and then submit it to another URL, wouldn't that penalize the article and the site with duplicate content?
  
  I'm sold that this way is better to promote the article but I also don't want to sabotage my website rank if I want to go that route.
  
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dgui123451

10 years ago

PR is the Google ranking of the website, more or less it tells how popular and well optimized a website is. Launching your website and doing your own SEO will not be easy, you have be prepared to put a lot of time into optimizing your website. First you should research the different ways to optimize your website such as off-page optimization and on-page optimization , this should get you started.

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guitarizma

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Zaflow

Hello warriors, I just want to start by thanking you all for the priceless info on this forum

I'm launching my very first website / blog to review and sell a few physical products at amazon and I need help from you in ANY way you can.

I need to discuss ways to plan keywords, how competitive they are, and how many people look for them, I want to do it using google keyword planner and looking at the websites manually and analyze them, and also using Amazon itself for the most part, but I need to figure out how much work I have to put into SEO to have them show up organically and then I can look into PPC in the future.

What is a "PR" status of a website or page? and how do you find that out on a specific website?.

As you can see, I'm at the planning stage and I need ideas from everyone

Kind Regards
Sam

Welcome to the forum

Do not focus on PR for now. It's no longer as important as it used to be. Focus on quality content for now and try to please the Panda 4.0. Once that is done focus on social media marketing.

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promo87

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Zaflow

Hello warriors, I just want to start by thanking you all for the priceless info on this forum

I'm launching my very first website / blog to review and sell a few physical products at amazon and I need help from you in ANY way you can.

I need to discuss ways to plan keywords, how competitive they are, and how many people look for them, I want to do it using google keyword planner and looking at the websites manually and analyze them, and also using Amazon itself for the most part, but I need to figure out how much work I have to put into SEO to have them show up organically and then I can look into PPC in the future.

What is a "PR" status of a website or page? and how do you find that out on a specific website?.

As you can see, I'm at the planning stage and I need ideas from everyone

Kind Regards
Sam

Hey Sam, first of all congrtz for you new blog, and tell you waht for planning out your approach over the keywords use Google Keywords Planner tool with the Google Trends. Its going to help you out with most of the problems you are currently running on to.
And yes don't start concentration more on the PR keep doing your work and PR of your page will started increasing on your own. Well, anyway if you are trying to draw out the idea about what actual SEO is all about get to the searchengineland and read all the post over there I am sure that will be enough to help you out with ....

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Zaflow

Can you elaborate more on this? from a newb prespective? can you direct me to a thread that discusses this method in more details?

There's a little list of links inside this post, which might help a bit. My only other suggestions are "following threads from link to link" (I've often linked, when answering questions, to earlier/recent threads on the same subject), or you could perhaps even try the search function, looking for my posts containing the word "syndicated" in the Main Marketing Forum only, listing the results as threads rather than posts? (Not sure about this one

).

Originally Posted by Zaflow

if you submit your article on your website and then submit it to another URL, wouldn't that penalize the article and the site with duplicate content?

No! There's no "duplicate content" there. That isn't what "duplicate content" means. This post explains (read carefully): Article Marketers – Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

Originally Posted by Zaflow

I also don't want to sabotage my website rank if I want to go that route.

You won't.

Sam, overall, if you want to earn affiliate commissions, you need to stop thinking about SEO and store-fronts, and start thinking about attracting targeted traffic and building relationships with subscribers. There's very little (if any) money without that.

Originally Posted by dgui123451

PR is the Google ranking of the website

This is wrong - it isn't at all. You're confusing SERP's results with page ranks. Page "ranks" and website "rankings" are two different things.

Page ranks are just one very small, minor, mostly-outdated, unimportant factor affecting SERP's results. We can all see this for ourselves from the ever-increasing regularity with which lower-PR pages outrank higher-PR pages in Google's SERP's results.

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Zaflow

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

There's a little list of links inside [

No! There's no "duplicate content" there. That isn't what "duplicate content" means. This post explains (read carefully): Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All - Internet Marketing and Publishing Blog

You won't.

Sam, overall, if you want to earn affiliate commissions, you need to stop thinking about SEO and store-fronts, and start thinking about attracting targeted traffic and building relationships with subscribers. There's very little (if any) money without that.

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Very well Said, Thank you!! this cleared a lot for me

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nettiapina

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Page ranks are just one very small, minor, mostly-outdated, unimportant factor affecting SERP's results. We can all see this for ourselves from the ever-increasing regularity with which lower-PR pages outrank higher-PR pages in Google's SERP's results.

If you're talking about Google's Pagerank(tm) - the statement above is still not exactly true, at least not the way you put it. Of course PR is not the whole algorithm, but it's one of the more important factors. Your page usually needs to have some kind of PR to rank high enough for anyone to see the link in SERPs. When competition increases, so does the need for quality backlinks.

Of course lower PR pages can outrank higher PR pages. Higher-ranking page can be be better targeted, more relevant or even more popular (in Google search) for that particular keyword. That doesn't really prove anything about PR, just that there's quite a few variables in play.

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