Marketing  Our Affiliate Programs

Now that we have our personal affiliate website uploaded to our hosting space we need to make sure that it is visible to our potential customers. At the moment our site is just sitting there. We have to start marketing our affiliate programs, and do some work to get it indexed by the search engines if we are to have any chance of making money in affiliate marketing.

Once I have built my own sites,  I have around seventy at the moment, I submit them to the major search engines. There are thousands out there but the main ones I use are, which account for most of the traffic coming to my sites.

You are at liberty to add your domain to as many search engines as possible but I find the ones above account for most of the traffic. I have hot linked to the submission pages so you can go directly to them. There are several companies that offer a submission service for a price, personally I would recommend you do it manually, it doesn’t take long.

Moving Along…..

It also helps to get backlinks to your website from other sites that are offering services that complement your own. There are plenty of companies that offer software and services for obtaining backlinks. I have used many over the years. Including but not limited to :-

  • WSN (Stand alone software)
  • Arelis (Stand alone software)
  • Links Manager (Monthly Subscription, first 30 days free)

Also software programs that incorporate a link program such as XsitePro, and SEO Elite which also carries out a number of other useful functions. If you do a little searching you will find there are numerous articles and opinions on linking, this can be confusing to say the least. Backlinks from reputable sites will do no harm at all, just don’t try to fool the system. So called Blackhat systems may work in the short term but eventually will fail and all your hard work could be for nothing.

If funds are low and you have the time you can manage the links manually yourself, but after a while you will find that it can become an extremely boring  process. Nevertheless adding just a few links over a period of time will increase the amount of traffic coming to your site.

The saying is that Content is King, so we need sufficient articles/text to build a good website. If you can generate your own that’s the best route to take, if not you can choose to use other people’s articles, the criteria here is that you would normally have to retain a link back to the authors site. The alternative is to either outsource or purchase Private Label Rights. If you know where to look you can get plenty of articles for free although if you have a small niche market you may have to search for some time to find the articles you are happy with.

Another method of obtaining backlinks is to write articles and post them to the top ezine sites. This will not only give a one way link back to your site but over a period of time if your article is well written it will be picked up by other webmasters looking for additional content and using it on their site.

Even Microsoft says reciprocal links build traffic and may improve search engine return position. The Microsoft How To Get Links To Your Site page is totally direct and out front on this, stating that “your business may have the most finely crafted, informative, and useful Web site ever, but it won’t do you much good if no one can find it.  That’s why you need to know about links.  They’re what guide users from one Web site to another.”

You must be aware that the Internet continues to evolve and you must keep up with the times or you will inevitably fall behind.

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Keep on learning,  and it doesn’t hurt to experiment with your own ideas thrown into the mix……. More next time………..