At the start of 2010 and having worked in digital media for going on 5 years I took the plunge and setup my first affiliate website. Having investigated a few niche’s I chose nutrition supplements and promptly setup WheyProteinCompare.co.uk. Not being one to do things by halves I have found myself creating, by my own admission, a pretty complex website built on the WordPress.org CMS platform using a theme kindly donated by Woothemes.com.
My first month was largely spent writing content, fiddling with the design and generating price comparison deeplinks manually. Any affiliate marketers out there will know what an arduous process this is and I will certainly be using Easy Content Units going forward! Or maybe a MySQL database if I really feel brave.
Month one saw me sell 10 products which was a strong start and gave me a taste for the powers of using on-page SEO alone to rank on page 1 of Google for low funnel, search terms. Something I now know as exploiting niches. However, my goal is to make this a much bigger site and rank on Page 1 for some of the bigger generic terms. I now find myself about half way through month 2 having already trebled my affiliate commission from month 1 so it’s been a great start but I now find myself with a nice looking, content rich site and very few backlinks. So I have commenced my foray into off-page SEO or generating authoritative backlinks with a high page rank (PR). I will save my exploits here for the next blog post but suffice to say this is proving to be the hardest part of SEO and somewhat of a dark art!
What I will say is that I am hooked already. I have been busy registering domains in other niches and have plans to expand and start outsourcing content production. Whilst I won’t be giving up the day job anytime soon I must say the earning potential has now become very real! Stay tuned for my next update.
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