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How to Generate UK Traffic from Article

by spigven
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Does anyone have a view on which are the best article directories for generating UK based traffic ?
#article #generate #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author zuko
    Google!

    uk article directories high pr - Google Search
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    • Profile picture of the author spigven
      Thanks but I was hoping for something a little more specific, along the lines of "I've succesfully used directory xyz to drive UK traffic".

      When I perform a google search I get the US based directories that I'm already aware of. This is fine I guess for a backlink or two but what I'm trying to do is to drive a few visitors to my amazon.co.uk affiliate site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by spigven View Post

        what I'm trying to do is to drive a few visitors to my amazon.co.uk affiliate site.
        Ah, I see. (I'd been wondering).

        Yes, I hear you. I wouldn't think article directory marketing is exactly a "top-drawer" method of doing that, at all, though. Depending on article directories for traffic is hardly an optimal approach to article marketing.

        Your best chances are perhaps to have your articles syndicated in UK-specific ezines (there are some), and to put them all on a UK-hosted .co.uk site anyway (of course: your own site is naturally the most important place to publish articles and get them indexed before submitting/circulating them anywhere else).

        May I just ask what's made you choose UK-Amazon, with its severely limited commission payments and relatively small market, rather than US-Amazon? (I'm in the UK myself, too, but it would never occur to me to become an affiliate for UK-Amazon - mostly because of the commission-per-item ceiling).
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        • Profile picture of the author spigven
          Okay, thank you for your replies.

          I signed up to Amazon UK because I didn't know any better at the time and I sourced a .co.uk domain name (yes I'm a newbie but have stopped broadcasting that now in favour of simply asking what I need to know).

          I have since then also signed up to Amazon.com in anticiption of a future project (don't know exactly what that will be but it may be xmas related given the lag time I've experienced so far). I did wonder about scripting the site to show products depending on the source country of the visitor and while technically I'm sure I could do it I don't think its worth the effort.

          I had previously written off the site but it is getting a steadily increasing trickle of visitors (84 uniques last month, don't laugh too hard) and is rising through the ranks even though I'm doing nothing to it. It's bouncing between the bottom of page one and the top of page two currently on the uk servers.

          I should let it go as even Amazon guidelines say its fatally flawed (why didn't I read that first, the joys of nebiness I guess) however it made three sales last month making me my very first affiliate commission of £7.50.

          As an experiment I thought I'd have one last pop at driving a little traffic to see if I can make another sale.

          I have another site that is performing in a similar manner but from a US perspective. Steadily increasing trickle of traffic and gravitating to the top of google US. Originally adsense now no monetisation, if traffic doubles I will try and monetise with products from Amazon.com but would you believe the few possible products that would be appropriate that I've researched all get poor reviews.

          I guess I've taken onboard the "do one thing and stick at it until it pays" advice.

          Anyway it appears I'm more interrested in the development/programming side than the marketing side and am considering if I should progress making an income that way (currently I have a non paying client requiring an interactive web site). I'm hedging my bets really, unfortunately this is slugging my IM progress. At some point I need to concentrate on one or the other, but for now I don't know which (if any) will be profitable for me.

          Apologies for rambling off topic but I do appreciate any constructive advice.
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          • Profile picture of the author beamkiss
            I agree with what people have said about Amazon UK. As a fellow Briton, may I suggest you use 'Affiliate Window UK' instead, which is what I do. They are the British equivalent of Share-A-Sale & Commission Junction.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenceh
    100% With Alexa on this one Spig.

    Commission on Amazon UK is crazy and there is nothing stopping you signing up to Amazon U.S as an affiliate as far as I know.

    I've been promoting their products for a while without an issue.

    Again, like Al says get the articles you would have placed on directories onto your own site, and concentrate on getting them ranked.

    That way you get all the traffic, without fear of prospects being distracted by other articles or adsense plastered over the directory.
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