Affiliate Marketing
If you begin niche marketing you’re going to need to understand affiliate marketing and how they fit together. Once you begin generating traffic from your niche marketing efforts you’ll need a way to make money from your traffic. You can make money using advertisements that pay per click or performance based (pay per sale) affiliate system.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
To explain affiliate marketing the best I can I should start by telling you what an affiliate in relation to a product or service. An advertiser is a company who is selling a product or service and collecting payment from the customer. If an advertiser has an affiliate program, they are able to allow affiliates to market (sell) their product or service for a commission of the sale.
How to start in Affiliate Marketing?
Once you’ve begun to generate traffic using niche marketing you’re ready to sign up as an affiliate to promote products offered by an advertiser with an established affiliate program. You have a choice to become directly affiliated with the advertiser or to use an affiliate network such as clickbank. An affiliate network is a middle man between the advertiser and the publisher, as an affiiliate you publish the advertisers content. As an affiliate you get paid per sale or lead conversion.
How to get paid in for Affiliate Marketing earnings?
All you need to provide is your social security number or federal tax ID along with your name, addresss, phone number, website, experience and method of generating traffic. Be honest when registering for an affiliate program, if you’re new but are already generating traffic they will understand if you explain it to them. As an affiliate you can expect to be paid at least 40% commission on a product or lead conversion. If you generate over $1,000 worth of volume, you should be paid every week and if you generate you can expect to be paid net 15 or net 30. Most affiliate payments are sent via check, bank wire or ach deposit.
In order to start affiliate marketing you need to make sure you have traffic, before you worry about what products you’re going to push make sure you have an audience. The key ingredient to converting leads or sales via affiliate marketing is creating an audience that will respond to what you’re trying to sell.
Niche Marketing
Now using a keyword such as niche marketing in your website url is very important when trying to rank for that keyword. It can help tremendously if you have it in your URL and even more if you have that keyword in your domain name. A lot of people new to niche marketing choose niches where they can purchase a domain with their primary keyword in the url, so they rank easier in the search engines – especially Yahoo. So make sure you understand your options when choosing a domain name and what kind of factors will come in to play in your niche marketing efforts.
Niche Marketing Examples
For example, I rank on page 1 of Google for the keyword niche marketing for my domain name http://nichetitans.com/. There are quite a few backlinks pointed to the domain name for that keyword and Google recognizes this properly. However, on Yahoo the domain is ranked on page 3 or 4 (receiving no traffic) for that keyword what so ever. Now go here if you don’t yet understand what are backlinks and how they will help you rank in the search engines.
Niche Marketing Strategy
The basic niche marketing strategy is to choose a niche that you think you can compete in for organic traffic – essentially search engine referrals. You want the popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN, Ask, etc to recognize your site and rank you for the keywords you’re trying to target in your niche market. The strategy begins with how to choose your niche market then continues with creating content and building backlinks for your target keywords. These keywords should have relative content and make sure you research your target keywords so you can try to choose ones that will generate more traffic for your site.
Niche Marketing Examples
Some excellent niche marketing examples can be found on other pages on this site, most which have already been linked to inside this post. An good example of niche marketing can be found on this post anchor text link building near the bottom of the page – nw atv rentals. This guy literally knew very little about SEO and link building but once he put in the work he was able to target his niche market well and rank on the top spot for multiple keywords in Google.
Here is a video that may help you find niche markets and give you some basic information if you don’t learn well when reading.
Hopefully this helps you understand niche marketing while giving you some examples and a strategy to get started.
How often should you update your blog for SEO
This isn’t a new question, webmasters continue to ask how often should you update your blog for seo to increase your rankings in the search engines. Most niche marketers would probably agree that the more you update your blog with fresh relative content, the more frequently you’ll be indexed by major search engines and they may increase your ranking accordingly. Also the more you update your blog the more content you’ll have on your niche site – which means more pages to be indexed, more content for your visitors and more ways for you to be ranked.
Now even blogs that are full of computer generated content such as autoblogs, niche article feeds, and spun content will get traffic eventually. If you generate your content you’ll have more pages indexed and a lot more content but to the search engines it won’t appear to be high quality content or at least it shouldn’t according to them. Usually the more often you update your blog the more SEO benefits your website will receive in time.
Some things to consider when updating your blog
- Do it as frequently as you have time.
- If you don’t have time, consider hiring cheap labor to do it for you.
- Quality is better than quantity, I have sites with 10 pages that rank at the top spot for multiple keywords.
- Try to create your own unique content and make it relevant to your niche market.
- Once you’ve updated your blog with new content, build links for SEO benefits.
If you don’t update your blog, will you still gain an seo benefit?
The answer to this question is most definitely yes, all the major search engines take in to consideration how long your sit has been indexed and factor this in their SEO algorithm. It’s better to have your site hosted and indexed on the web, even if you’re not actively building links for seo for this reason alone. Getting your site setup, creating your first content and backlinks is the single most important thing you can do in niche marketing.
Update your blog for SEO and relative content
So the more you update, the more chances you have to rank on Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc and the more relative content you’ll have on your site related to your niche. I hope this answers your question on how often to update your blog for seo because I’m ready for bed but I wanted to get another update on this blog – if you know what I mean!
