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Artificial Link Building for SEO – Good or Bad?

by Mearo on March 15, 2010 in Affiliates, SEO with No comments
Link Building

Inbound links are hugely important for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) purposes. The are the foundation of “PageRank”. If you are Mashable or Techcrunch then building a network of backlinks really isn’t a problem. However, if you are a small business working in a niche category then getting backlinks is likely to be a difficult task.

In simple terms there are three pillars of SEO….

1) Code – Make sure your site is written correctly using clean code and META Tags, ALT Tags, Permalink URL’s etc.
2) Content – Have plenty of it! Unique and written for humans, not search engines.
3) Connections – The authority of your site measured by backlinks and the “page rank” of those links. Continue reading →

Seasonality in Affiliate Marketing

by Mearo on March 7, 2010 in Affiliates with No comments

I currently have one affiliate site in the health sector – Whey Protein Compare. I started this site up in January 2010 and I had a great first couple of months. Then just as my traffic was really gaining momentum the conversions, and thus revenue dropped significantly. This was my first vital lesson in affiliate marketing: don’t be reliant on one site. Continue reading →

My First Month In Affiliate Marketing

by Mearo on February 21, 2010 in Affiliates, Marketing, SEO, Wordpress with No comments
Affiliate Marketing

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. Continue reading →