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12 Weeks to Lift-Off
For any of you that have been following this blog over the last few months, you’ll have heard about how my latest affiliate site experienced a nice boost in traffic in the first 4 weeks of its existence but then completely disappeared out of the SERPs. I explained how I believed this was due to [...]
Continue reading...Head Down. 3 Hours Hard Graft.
22. March 2010
If you read my latest post about being totally disenchanted by the prospect of having a couple of affiliate sites making no money, chances are you’ve experienced that very same feeling. My new affiliate site has been online approx 6/7 weeks now, has dropped completely out of the SERPs and has only made £49. This [...]
Continue reading...What To Do When Nothing is Working
21. March 2010
I’m reaching a point now where the enthusiasm I had a couple of months ago is dwindling. This is primarily down to one factor: my new affiliate site is not making any money. Actually that’s a lie, it’s made £49 in about 7 weeks. The sad thing about this £49 is that it all came [...]
Continue reading...Building Backlinks via Press Releases
10. March 2010
I set myself a goal this month to build more backlinks to my affiliate site. I plan on using three very basic and accessible methods to achieve this. First, I’ll be looking for reciprocal link exchanges with other sites directly in my niche. Second, I’ll be making comments on blogs (even though they’re nofollow) directly [...]
Continue reading...1 Month Old Site Lost It’s High Rankings
7. March 2010
I’m sure many of you reading this have started a new site in the last few months. Now maybe your situation is different to mine but I’ve heard tales of this particular affliction hitting all fairly new sites after a short period. My new affiliate site over at www.barstoolsuk.co.uk had in the last month been [...]
Continue reading...Why Am I Still Waiting For My First Affiliate Sale?
17. February 2010
My new affiliate website has been online now for approximately two weeks. For those of you that are following my ‘How To Make a Money-Making Affiliate Website From Scratch‘ series, you’ll already be familiar with the site and the domain name I’m using. I want to open up today’s post with a couple of stats [...]
Continue reading...How I Researched Keywords For My Affiliate Product
13. February 2010
Once I had chosen my product and had a gut instinct ‘feel’ for whether or not it had traction on the internet, the next obvious thing to do was to actually find out how many searches per month were being carried out for my product and what variations of it existed. The culmination of this [...]
Continue reading...3 Easy Steps to Improve AdWords Quality Score from 3/10
14. November 2009
If you refer to one of my earlier blog posts about opening up a new AdWords account and throwing the net large and wide from the off, you’ll see that I made some serious mistakes with that campain. The result was that all of my keywords, despite being in extremely tight AdGroups, were getting a [...]
Continue reading...Stop Poor AdWords Quality Scores Forever
8. November 2009
I set up a PPC campaign for a relatively competitive group of keywords this week (avge £2 per click, about 5m results, PPC ompetition of 8/10) and I was reminded of a very important rule to observe when setting up PPC campaigns with AdWords and, more specifically, what NOT to do when setting them up.
Continue reading...SEO for WordPress Sites
16. September 2009
I have chosen to make my affiliate sites using WordPress – it’s free and infinitely scalable – which is just awesome. I generally create them with custom themes that I have developed to suit each niche I’m working in. Whilst doing this, I have come across three distinct wordpress-related problems regarding SEO but thankfully, they’re [...]
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19. April 2010
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