Several ways. Depending on the competition. For me, I rank my keywords just by going for lower competition shit. But what you can do, you can always create backlinks. High PR backlinks with a good trust flow, and low OBL will definitely help you there. Social bookmarking could help too.

But definitely on-page SEO is important. Check the alt img tags, h1's, and so forth.

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whether you will need links or not depends on competitions you are facing .

OKay. Where do I start. I'm not a fan of posting pictures but whatever. It's inspired some or a lot whatever, and a lot of you know I don't offer a service. I've helped tons of people in the past all for free. Now that I got a job (internet marketing), I'm probably going to be even more busy that I won't be posting here as often. Maybe then I'll start a site/service whatever. Until then, you can bug the shit out of me folks before things get hectic.

Here's a screenshot of the amount of stuff I sold

This isn't total, this is during a specific date. What date? Who cares. The thing is that I followed a system that WORKED for ME.

I work with a business partner. My best friend actually. He researches the products, and I write them. I don't build backlinks, the only thing I do is ping them. I don't even use all-in-one SEO. I don't even rename my alt-images even though I recommend people to do so. I just go for these low competition products and I don't even utilize the Google Keyword Tool.

I devote about less than 4 hours a week with my Amazon sites. What does that mean? 1) I'm lazy as hell. But that's changing ever since I started working =P. 2) A LOT of potential to grow more. And I've stated in the past and I'll state again that I am OPEN to other ideas. I don't CLOSE off other opportunities. I'm open to starting backlinks, I'm open to finding higher competition keywords that generates thousands of visitors. But I'm just sharing with what works for me, and that's targeting low keywords.

And yes, the strat that I learned the most from was Wolfmmiii and Sojourn. I signed up to that amazontrainingacademy whatever, and haven't learned much to be honest. Or the fact that I already learned everything from Wolfmmii (great start up guide), where I can just expand on my own and utilize my own strategy.

Seriously though, I'm not sweating tears, I'm not crying, and I'm making "ok" amount of $$. Enough to quit a 9-5 ? HELL NO. Potential to in the future? If I spend more than 4 hours a week on my Amazon sites sure. And perhaps testing things out.

All I know is that there's so many ways to make something work. Same thing as what others say, so many ways to skin a cow or some shit? Cat? I forget. Whatever. Just stick to it, believe in what you do and just GO FOR IT.

Making real money on amazon is not about backlinks. Of course you can build a few good backlinks to strenghten your domain & innerpages but it is essential that you have LOTS of content. Amazon is one of my main income sources and the only secret I learnt so far is... Have a plan how you will create masses of articles.

Ha ha... I love these Amazon rants.

1) Mass target low comp or...
2) Mass linking to high comp

In post #5 above in this very interesting discussion, Nik0 points out that the post title "husqvarna hu625hwt review" has a search volume of 0. But when the word "review" is removed, the search volume is 58.

Wolfmmii, it looks like you just automatically add "review" to all your reviews, but by "low search volume" as regards the above example, are you referring to 58 rather than 0? If so, is this because you expect Google to rank your page on the basis of the keyword phrase "husqvarna hu625hw?"

All other things being equal, does this generally work out for you, that Google ranks your posts according the keyword minus the word "review?"

What WP template do you find to be the best for Amazon marketing?

I prefer several from theme-junkie but none in particular. Content drives conversions. What I WOULD say is to stay away from all of those "-zon review" style themes. They look spammy and not legitimate.

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This thread is all over the place....lol

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Right on. At the risk of looking a cliched ass, I'll type THIS ^^

Wolfmiii what theme do you recommend for amazon affiliate ? Should I use Azontheme, affilo theme?

Any of those themes would probably work well Roger. The content is more important than the theme.

Hey Roger, wolfmmiii answered that question already in this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...te-themes.html

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Elegantthemes for the win.

wolfmmiii I know you are selling an amazon theme? is that theme your most profitable theme? for amazon?

Well, I have been using Wolfmmiii's strategy, and right now I can't say that things are rosy for me (my site is 3 months old). I even got some back linking done, but still things are not going north. I have over 100 low competition product reviews on my site. Being a content writer with over 10 years of experience, I can't say that my content is bad. It is extremely well researched and at times I spend over 2-3 hours understanding the product, and then write about it (I have a strong science background).

Out of all those reviews on my website, at present, about 20 are on the first page, some on the second page while many are buried deep down the Google results. Why is that so? How come they all don't show in the first page. The first page shows too many low quality websites. Is it because their backs linking is very strong? These websites have scraped content from Amazon. It seems they have just copied and pasted it. But still they are pretty high in results. While my well researched content is nowhere close to it.

It is too confusing. How long will it take before my sites gain any momentum? Do I need to create Web 2.0 websites to support my site? Or should I wait for a few more months for the domain to age?

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@manishak....

If you aren't ranking, the strategy won't work. Rankings are obviously key. PM me your site and I'll take a look and see what's up and what suggestions I can make. I suspect competition is stronger than what you realize for the products you are targeting.

That bestlawngarden.com site I used as an example earlier is ranking for virtually every target term and the content is terrible.

Tom

Wolf please post what was the problem with Manishak's site. As you know I already ordered a site from you I don't want another failure after 3 months of work and after writing 100s of reviews.

Let me start by saying this. The only thing that ManishaK purchased from me in this case was the site build. I had no hand in actual product selection or content creation. As such, most of what ManishaK is doing is out of my control completely.

@manishaK....

There are a few issues with your site. I won't reveal the niche but will say this is probably THE most successful niche of all my clients.

I'm noticing a few things:

1. Your homepage is ranking for some terms that your inner pages should be ranking for. I didn't get into troubleshooting but that's a problem. Your inner pages are what you want ranking.
   
   
2. I noticed that some products you are targeting are higher competition. Without backlinking (internal or external), ranking for more competitive products will be difficult.
   
   
3. I also noticed that even when I search for your exact post titles in quotes, your site turns up for very few of them, even when there are only a handful of results. This is typically indicative of some sort of penalty, which would be usually be caused by an issue with content/linking.
   
   
4. I haven't looked closely at the content but the weird way in which things are ranking almost looks like Panda or Penguin. That said, I can't be sure.

I suggest adding your site to Google Webmaster Tools and seeing if they provide you with any info.

@nnr21...

ManishaK did not purchase the same offer as you. There was no earnings guarantee or product list supplied by me. As such, there is very little within my control regarding the site in question.

As for three months of work and "hundreds" of reviews, I'm not sure where you are getting that info from. You will know after 20 reviews how the site is going. ManishaK is doing something different than what we'll be doing.

Wolf. I got scared when Manishak mentioned 100 reviews and 3 months (just wrote one s extra). If he has written 100 reviews and 3 months with no traffic undoubtedly he is doing something wrong as I have seen more success than failure with your strategy.

If sites having content like bestlawngarden.com rank then anysite with decent content should rank. That is the reason I am taking guidance from you regarding product selection and site building. May be I will also buy some fivver gigs from you for my future products.

One more thing. I can see more contents on the site bestlawngarden.com? Do you have any plans for that site or you are keeping this as a case study?

If you have tested the recent ones, then they won't show in results. But the older entries do show up. I am following your strategy to the dot, then how can I have high competition keywords? Could you provide me with some low competition keywords - like you have them on your site for Oct 2012?

Know what man, I don't even know why I'm debating with you. You follow me around the forum and show up every time I post. If you want to exert your energy telling everyone that a PROVEN strategy doesn't work, go ahead. You clearly have some sort of personal vendetta and that's cool. I'm just gonna take the high road from now on.

Ok all. Party's over. Nik0's right. Targeting products/terms that nobody else is targeting makes absolutely no sense when it comes to rankings and has nothing to do with how easy it can be to rank.

It makes more sense for the newbie to target "laptop reviews" and pay a VA to help build 20 sites a month to target that term while also spending hundreds (or thousands) on your own private blog network that you have no idea how to build.

Be sure to buy your high-PR backlinks from Nik0!

I'm done here. Nik0, you are free to continue. Debating you is not worth my time.

For anyone else paying attention, I leave you with this:

Thinking it through logically...

When you target a term that nobody else is targeting as evidenced by a first page of search results that includes 10 sites with no backlinks (or very few) and PR of 0 or NA, do you think your chances of ranking for that term are "good" or "bad"?

Your answer tells you all you need to know about the low-comp strategy.

Thank you both for taking a look at my website. I think if things are more-or-less ok, it is just a matter of time. Tom, I will continue using your strategy (since I am already following it) and post an update after a month. If things go better before, I'll update earlier. It could be possible that the products I am reviewing do not have many takers... Or perhaps it's just my stars...

And oh! The content is not poor. It is way too good as compared to similar review sites!

Awesome Thread. Alot of Wisdom Here.

If i were a newbie and were to take any advise out of all from this. It would be to start on a low competition keyword. See results and work your way up to more competitive search terms.

You can see how competitive a search term is by doing a quick search in google, and having a look to see how many competing pages there are. This should give you a good indication if you have a good or bad possibility to rank for a particular or not. When you see results. Keep Going.. Move onto the next one.. Make sure you are tracking everything! And try different things (backlinking, link swapping Etc) And see what works and what isnt. Testing is a huge part of this business. Have to Keep that in mind.

Best to your Success!

Matt

Yes, I always start with onpage SEO - use SEO by Yoast and input meta tags, keywords description, etc. for every single page or post. Then find good keywords, and place them withing your blog posts. Do not overuse the keywords, and try to write longer posts, not just few paragraphs. You'll see the longer the content, the SEO by Yoast will indicate the level of SEO quality - when you see the color "green" you did the onpage SEO well. And ofcrouse the rest of the SEO - link building, social bookmarking, article writing, submitting - the usual staff...

Ha ha... I love these Amazon