Affiliate Musketeer

Blistering Start to the Month

A few things are contributing to an overall positive feeling this month. 1) I’m only 5 days in and already have £300 in revenue from my PPC site and 2) my infamous bar stools site has re-appeared in the SERPs and is now ranking #6 on Google.co.uk for its domain name.

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The Battle to Rank

As I write this post my affiliate website is not ranking for any of its target terms in google, not even its own site name. In yahoo, the site is showing that it has 23 backlinks from other sites. In google’s webmaster tools, it shows 11 incoming links. In terms of pages indexed, according to [...]

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Warning to Affiliates : Don’t Trust Anything!

Bollocks! I knew it was too good to be true. 3 days ago my affiliate site re-appeared in google’s SERPs and since then, sold 3 items. That was giving me real hope for the future. In the last 3 days I’d been averaging around 25 visits per day where, for the previous 6 weeks, I’d [...]

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Little Things Please Little Minds!

Two days ago I wrote a post about how my site had returned to the SERPs for the first time in about 6 weeks. It’s a new site so I was expecting the ‘blackout’ period. Anyway, since gaining back its rankings a couple of days ago, I’m overjoyed to say that it’s made a sale!

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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 [...]

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What To Do When Nothing is Working

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 [...]

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What Does Google SearchWiki Mean For Your Site?

I’ve just done a search for one of my many sites and spotted a new googleism in the SERPS.  The ability to ‘promote’ or ‘delete’ a result from the results pages!  Admittedly, it is customised for my preferences, using my google ID as the epicentre, but is an interesting move towards user-generated content, pulling the [...]

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