How I managed to rank my affiliate site

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Hey guys, I work in the affiliate business, which means I create a lot of websites and test a lot of different stuff to try to make them rank and convert.
for CMS I use WordPress, where I have managed to make a website go from unindexet to #2 on Google within a few days, which I thought some of you might find interesting
A little disclaimer is that I did this on medium competition keywords, and not high competition.

It's getting closer to being a year ago where I did it, and I haven't recieved any warnings or messages through Google & bing webmaster tools and so on.
Anyways here's the "recipe" that I used to make this possible

Meta data:
It's improtant to make your meta data top notch.
First of all you wanna go to settings > general and choose the language you want the website to rank for.
URL structure is also really important, so go to settings > permalinks and choose "post name", ideally you customize it for every page though, so it's optimized.
After that is done install "Yoast" or "All in one Seo" and set that up, there is lots of guides for that, so I'm not gonna go in depth with that.

Only 1 H1

A lot of themes have the flaw that they have multiple H1's which can really harm your SEO, so make sure this is not the case with your theme, to check it
view the source and search for H1, this is very critical.

Low spam score
There's lots of factors in spam scores, here's how to avoid a few ones easily:
- Add a contact email or form, this is important
- Every article should be 1000+ words
- Do not hide or make links hard to see, this is a huge factor

Sitemap and breadcrumbs
It's important to have a sitemap, and less important to have breadcrumbs, but it's a nice little extra thing that Google rewards.
Yoast and many other plugins offer both of these things.

Pagespeed: Google insight
Pagespeed is becoming one of the biggest factors, so it's important to have an eye on it, a great tool for this is Google's own tool,
which you can find here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

It's not hard to hit a score of 100/100, all you need to do is install plugins that does whats listed below.
- Minification (better wp minify, w3 cache)
- Move scripts to footer (scripts to footer)
- Remove Google fonts and other external code (remove google fonts)
- Caching (w3 cache, super cache)

There is a ton of plugins that can do these things, I have written some examples plugins after each point
It's important to note that if your website is built with Jquery or the like, moving Jquery to footer might cause some functionality to not work.
It's a big flaw to have a website which is built with that nowadays though, so you might wanna consinder switching theme if that is your case

Backlinks
A lot of people say that links and mentions is more than half of your SEO, which is why things like linkbuilding is very important.
There is a lot linkbuilding techinques, like creating great content, infographics and much more.
Since my websites are affiliate sites, I don't have content that people naturally link to, therefor I buy links for all of my websites
In my example where my website went from unindexet to rank 2 on Google.
I have my personal favourites which I don't think I'm allowed to mention here, so I won't.
There is a ton of link sellers and websites where you can exchange links for example.

I hope some of you guys can use my little "recipe" or "guide" even though I know it's not a lot of information, it is enough to make a website rank well.
So instead of spending thousand of dollars on some seo expert, go do it yourself!

I'll do my best to answer question
Have a great day
Over and out
#affiliate #managed #rank #site
  • Profile picture of the author helloinman
    Affiliate Manager should know ?

    I'm not sure how many affiliate Managers put themselves in the affiliate's place when using Control Panels, when choosing what products to display, or waiting to sell for the first time. But I can tell you about some items - the things really look different depending on which side you are.

    So, let's discuss about 3 essential elements in understanding the affiliate behavior:

    - Affiliate typology - are all the affiliates the same?
    - Affiliates and Control Panels
    - Add-ons for performance
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Nice complied list though I use Wp-Rocket plugin for caching should I use any minification plugin then also??
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    Lol, meta data and low spam score.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    Originally Posted by jonasjhnsn View Post


    Low spam score
    There's lots of factors in spam scores, here's how to avoid a few ones easily:
    - Add a contact email or form, this is important
    - Every article should be 1000+ words
    - Do not hide or make links hard to see, this is a huge factor

    "Every article should be 1000+ words".

    Where's your data behind this? I'll disagree with this one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr los3
    1k words? Thats old school..that was the minimum when pat flynn was interviewing gary vee on his new book crush it.

    I personally go with 1 million words. but try and keep spam score very low. The speed at which is loads is kinda...slow but i use AMP which really amps it up.

    Instead of having the 1 million words in one article, i broke it up into smaller articles, around 100k-950k articles.

    I am buzzfeed.
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