I’ve been having difficulty trying to figure out how the entire affiliate marketing thing works. It takes a lot of time, there are no shortcuts. But, every time I’m spending an hour or so trying to get a couple more links or write an article, I think to myself, there must be an easier way.
I did some looking around and I found black hat seo. I’ve read a couple of articles now and it’s brought some light to my eyes. For example, there are ways that you don’t have to write your own content, or maybe I can create my own sites to create links for me.
The latest thing I’ve discovered are content databases. The concept is that you can buy or find a database or database table that contains some simple information in it, like artist songs. The idea is you take this table of information and create a simple website that creates hundreds or thousands of pages. In my first attempt, I have a website with over 19,000 pages. It took me a while (week at night) to do the first one, and I’m almost complete. Then on each page, put a link or two to your pages. If you are able to get a listing of all the pages on your other sites, you can essentially put an entire sitemap of links for several sites onto this site. In addition, you can point to your affiliate sites. Heck, I even put those sitemaps on the pages. So, now, I have links to pages that point to my affiliate programs. And, in addition, have links that point to sites, that then point to my affiliate program sites.
It’s really pretty cool. I haven’t quite mastered it yet, but I’m learning. I’ll fill you in on more as it arises.
So, the deal is, to get more visitors to your site, you have to have more links to your site. Well, this is extremely time consuming. So, I went out looking for a plugin that would help me do this. Looking around, I found OnlyWire. OnlyWire allows me to submit my posts to several accounts each time I publish an article. I find this extremely helpful.
In order to get it running on WordPress, I had to install the OnlyWire Multi Autosubmitter. Then, I had to add a link to OnlyWire to my site. Have OnlyWire verify it and I was up and running. Granted, you don’t have to do this if you want the paid version. I can stand one more link for free services. 
One good thing about OnlyWire is that I was alerted to several other feed networks I haven’t been using. So, a lot of my time with OnlyWire was actually signing up for these other services.
Also, in case you’ve been following my most recent posts, the changes made here have produced some good results. Granted, this isn’t the most popular site on the internet, but here are some results after one week of changes.
Statistics for a week ending 12/13/09
At this time, here are a list of all the services OnlyWire will Distribute to:
- Ask.com
- Bebo.com
- Bibsonomy.com
- BlinkList.com
- BookMarkSynch.com
- Connotea.com
- Delicious
- Digg.com
- Diigo.com
- Facebook.com
- Fark.com
- Faves.com
- FriendFeed.com
- Google Bookmarks
- Hi5.com
- JumpTags.com
- LinkAGoGo
- MisterWong.com
- Mixx.com
- Multiply.com
- MySpace.com
- Newsvine.com
- Plaxo.com
- Plurk.com
- Propeller.com
- Reddit.com
- Simpy.com
- Slashdot.com
- Spurl.net
- StumbleUpon
- Tumblr.com
- Twitter
- Yahoo Bookmarks
When writing an article, it may come easy or hard. I find it pretty easy once I get the first sentence. But, if you want your web page to be found on the internet, you have to do a little bit more. I know some of what I’m going to say may sound pretty obvious, but somehow I forgot these simple things. So, here goes:
Use Header tags
Structure your page with different sections. For example use the h1, h2, h3 tags. This tells search engines a little bit more about your page and what are the important aspects of your page. So, add these before different sections.
Use descriptive links
Whenever you’re creating a link somewhere, don’t have the hyperlink text say “Click here”. Instead, make it state what the link is about. It may seem hard at first. At least it is for me, so I’ll make 2. In the sentence I’m writing, I’ll describe where the link will take them (make that a hyperlink) and then make a click here hyperlink. For example, If you want to know more about part time webmasters, click here.
Get the point across in the first 2 sentences
Most people won’t read beyond the first 2 sentences. So, get the point across and capture their attention. If the person is interested, they’ll read on or click somewhere else. As a matter of fact, that’s a pretty good concept. If someone isn’t interested immediately, give them something else to click on… hmm that should drum up some ideas.
Keep the minimum word count to at least 250
A lot of people say to keep it even longer. But, sometimes, I just don’t feel like writing an entire document and just want to send out a tip. But, the more text you have the better off you are.
If you are an Information Technology (IT) company, and you’re looking to make your mark. Now is the time to get a domain name with the .IT extension. It is an extension for Italy, but it would really be impressive to have as a technology company.
They’re on sale now for $13.31 at JoesWebShack.com
Ok, from what I’ve read, twitter is the way to go. So, we just added ourselves to Twitter. We’ll see how it affects our statistics. Once we signed up, I added the Twitter Wordpress plugin. You can now see the latest twits? on the right hand side. Best!
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