Affiliate Musketeer

Many of you will know that my bar stools affiliate site is giving me a real run-around when it comes to its rankings in the SERPs. 4 days ago, I was on page #1, now I’m nowhere. I’m now going to explain what you need to do to get out of this situation if you’re experiencing it

I’m absolutely confident that this is happening because of a lack of trust and quality being appointed to my site. Before today, I had the following domain stats:

• 292 Pages indexed in Google’s index (typing the command ‘site:www.yourdomain.co.uk’ into google)
• 66 Yahoo Backlinks (See them here)
• A link profile that contained links from: ezinearticles.com, high PR profile links, A4u forum and approximately 10 small individual site reciprocal link exchanges.

I am pretty sure the bouncing SERPs are due to a lack of good quality link profiles due to a fairly restricted number of sites.

Fixing The Problem

Today I spent about 5 hours searching google for Bar Stools related sites and individually checked each site to see if they had an individual link exchange program. About 60% were listing ‘links’ or ‘resources’ on their site so in each of these cases, I added a link to their site on my own ‘extras’ page and then sent them an email asking if they’d be interested in exchanging links and showing them I’d already added their link to my site. Although many were in the same vertical, I explained how the links would be more beneficial for us than detrimental. So far I have had no responses but I am hopeful for at least 50%.

These links will add some good quality to my backlinks because they will sit on very specific, niche, related sites and I’m pretty sure that’s what google’s missing from me.

In addition, I also paid £25 for a directory listing on a home improvement site that allowed me to add in the title of my website and a link back.

When It Works

When I have good proof that this fixes the problem, I’ll write some detailed instructions down on what to do and then outsource the work to someone for about $10.

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