If Your Affiliate For Profit Website or Blog Isn’t Making Money….

If you have a for profit website or blog - no one has to tell you that you need content and not only that, you need content relevant to your site or you will be buried in the supplemental (supplement-HELL) results and in short - no one will find your site, your affiliate programs will make nothing and you will be another bewildered person that put a lot of work into setting up a site that isn’t selling diddily.

There are ways to remedy this situation so that your affiliate marketing programs will start paying off:

Be Unique
Google loves uniqueness and richly rewards it.
Sounds easy enough right? Take a minute and take stock. Are you using an unchanged template for your site? Change it so it isn’t leaving a duplicate footprint with Google and other search engines.

Is your content the same as everyone else’s? Change it. There are numerous ways to do it. Use a content spinner. A content spinner will take your articles (content) and then you choose to change the keyword and the content spinner will “spin” your article into something unique. Read what it spits out though- sometimes content spinners get it all wrong and come up with some interesting phrases.

Another option is to use limited edition private label rights (PLR) content. That’s a great way to get quality content. There are PLR companies where you can pay a monthly membership fee and also places like Keyword Content’s PLR where there are no fees, content written by professional writers and a TON of freebies.

Don’t use RSS feeds to fill your site with content. Those feeds are not unique to your site and won’t help your rankings at all.

Beware free article databases - yes the content is usually pretty good, yes it’s free, but it’s been out on the net for who knows how long and putting on your website won’t do a hill of beans worth of good for your own page rank or traffic building. If you want content, you’re either going to have to pay a writer, go the PLR route (always a good choice), or write it yourself. Yes, I said write it yourself.

If you’re wordy, you can write your own content. For my own content, I hit Google Trends and talk about things that are relevant to whichever one of my affiliate sites that I’m working on that day. Which brings me to another point, I know some people say you can put up a site, throw up Adwords.com advertisements and walk away - I have never had that luck. I find if I log into my sites once a week and put up content - it works and it works beautifully. It keeps the site fresh, the content relevant and the traffic coming which equals PPC + affiliate marketing $$ - and that’s a good thing.

After you take your website content up a notch, check your affiliate programs. Is each and everyone relevant to your page - if it’s not and you really feel the affiliate program has merit - create another site or blog. Try to not have more than 1 to 4 programs on a site - more than that is really over kill and tends to make people choose nothing. I have had the best success with 1 to 2 affiliate programs in my own humble experience.

And that’s just a little overview for today, I’m going to be talking about Adwords and how to get the most bang for your buck in my next post.

Have a super day!