My Honest Affiliate Black Book Review
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The video below is just a short lead generator I made to lead into the Affiliate Black Book review. The link to the actual review is below the video. I spent several hours on this review. It’s not just some slapped together piece of garbage to try to get you to buy it. I took the time to detail my likes, dislikes, and each component of the course.
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My Full Affiliate Black Book Review and Bonus Details
My 3 Pronged Promotion Jumpstart
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Every time I decide to promote a new product as an affiliate or need to promote one of my own sites or products, I have 3 steps that I take first. The great thing about this little promotion strategy is that it’s simple and it works quite well.
First off, I always do my keyword research. I’m not going to get into the ins and outs of keyword research here but my research is usually pretty simple. I just use Google’s keyword tool to search out relevant keywords to the product I want to promote. I try to find something that isn’t too competitive but that has a decent amount of searches each month (at least 1000-5000). Here’s a real rough way to do this:
1. Go to Google’s Keyword Tool – just type "google keyword tool" into Google.
2. Search for your main keyword phrase. Look for a phrase that is 3-5 words long with a decent amount of advertiser competition and at least 1000 monthly searches. Here’s an example:
In this example, I like the term "xbox 360 red light fix" for a couple reasons. First, it has a good amount of advertiser competition which tells me that people are paying to get traffic for this phrase. Second, it is a 4 word phrase that probably won’t be too difficut to rank organically for. Lastly, it has 4400 avg searches per month. Not great but still a decent amount of traffic.
3. Make sure you have the SEO Plugin for Firefox installed on your Firefox browser. If you don’t have it, you can get it here: SEO Plugin
4. Make sure the SEO Plug-In is activated. You should see it in the bottom right corner of your browser. If it is in color, it is on…if it is grey, then you need to click it to activate it.
5. Go to Google.com and type in your keyword. In this case, it’s "xbox 360 red light fix"
This SERP tells me a few things. First off I look at the upper right hand corner and see that there are only 422,000 competing pages for this search term. Anything under 500K is usually relatively easy to rank on page 1 for…so this is good.
Secondly, I can use the tools provided by the SEO Plugin to get info on all of the ranking sites. I can click the question marks (?) under the listing to get info like: pagerank, # of yahoo links, # of diggs, etc. For the most part, I look at pagerank, # of Yahoo links, age, and how many diggs or bookmarks the page has.
Now scroll down the results page and look at the title of each page. In the above picture, the #1 ranked site has the title "XBox 360 3 Red Light Fix – Red Light Fix". This is the title tag of this page. Your title tag is very important to ranking in the organic results. I’m not too worried about the #1 guy, I just want to make sure that not every result on page 1 has the keyword I’m targeting in their title tag.
The next thing I notice is what kinds of sites are ranking here. In this case I see that there are 2 YouTube videos that rank highly. I do this because I want to know what kind of sites rank well so that I can use similar sites to attack this keyword phrase. In this example, I would not use YouTube to go after this keyword phrase as there are already 2 YouTube videos ranking. I would however use other video sites such as Google video, Revver, Viddler, etc as I know Google ranks videos highly for this phrase.
Before I start any promotion, I need to build a page that will be my money page. I recommend building the page on a WordPress blog with a very basic theme. Be sure to get the "All In One SEO Pack" plugin for your blog…and when you build the page that will be your money page (a presell page or name capture page) be sure to put your keyword phrase in the title of the page. For this example, I would use a title like:
XBox 360 Red Light Fix – How to Fix The XBox 360 Red Light
(hint: use your keyword at the beginning of your title and repeat a variation of the phrase later in the title. keep title tag at or under 65 characters)
OK, I’m getting a bit off track here. I want to tell you my first 3 promotion strategies. I always use these in this order. :
1. EzineArticles.com – I know, article marketing is old school. Nothing new here. But it works. Go here and submit an article using your keyword in the title. Be sure to use the "resource box" of the article to link back to your money page with your keyword phrase. in this case the keyword phrase would be "xbox 360 red light fix" You can put 2 links back to your page with this anchor text in your resource box.
2. WordPress.com blog – Setup a free blog on the wordpress.com site. I do this because wordpress.com is seen as an authority site by Google and their links are counted highly. Wrie up a quick blurb about your topic using your keywords. Make the info good and useful. No more than 3-4 paragraphs…and link back to your money page. I usually only use 1 link at the beginning to avoiod looking like a spam blog. Setting up this blog is super easy…just a few clicks and you’re up and running.
3. Squidoo.com – Setup a lens on squdioo.com using your keyword phrase. For many keyword phrases, you will be able to get the exact phase as your URL for the lens. Again, write some decent content and link back to your money site using your keyword phrase. If you’ve never used Squidoo before, don’t worry about it. It is very straight forward and easy to figure out. Just sign up and follow the steps they give you.
Bonus Tactic: OK, I said 3 but what the hell, I’ll give you one more that’s extremely powerful. Make a video! I usually use a screen capture software such as Camtasia to make a quick video talking about the problem and solution. If you don’t have Camtasia, use Animoto.com to make a video using just pictures. It is fun and easy…they allow you to make 30 second videos for free and download them to your computer.
Send your video out to as many video hosting sites as possible. I use Traffic Geyser to do this but it can be a bit costly at $97/month. If you don’t have Traffic Geyser, then use a free service like TubeMogul.com. It won’t get you on as many sites, but it’s still quite effective.
That’s It! You’ve effectively kicked off your promotion. For many keywords, I will see page 1 rankings on Google just by doing the steps I outlined above.
Now get out there and kick off a new promotion!
Chris
