Recommended SEO-Oriented Affiliate Marketing Techniques

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

If you want to make more affiliate sales, you have to ratchet up your traffic-generation efforts. There are a number of ways in which you can do that. You can send out solo mailing ads, you can use pay per click advertising, you create banner ads, you can post on forums — et cetera.

Of all these avenues for traffic generation, search engine optimization may be one of the cheapest in terms of the amount of time and money it will take per visitor generated. One of the biggest bonuses to SEO-generated traffic is that it continues to flow in without any additional work and money.

With that said, you are probably familiar with the many routine ways of generating traffic. You know about using tags, using keyword optimization, submitting articles to directories, getting back links, etc. This is nothing novel. You’ve tried these techniques and you’ve either gotten results or not).

At this point, what you’ll want to do is find a couple of feathers to put in your cap – a few truly novel SEO techniques that you can use to boost your results. With affiliate marketing, you have a number of interesting options.

You could use scripts to collect data and arrange it in certain ways on your site. For instance, Mr. Rat’s Amazon product feed (which you can find here http://www.mrrat.com/scripts.html) collects information from Amazon and then displays it on your site according to your own specifications.

You could purchase or create scripts similar to this that automatically collect product information and display it in a unique way. Google will take note of this next time they rank your site; and you are likely to see an improvement in your search engine ranking positions as a result.

When it comes down to it, you have many options for improving your search engine ranking positions; and doing so can often be much cheaper than using pay per click sources of traffic. So integrate some different techniques into your arsenal and put them to use generating traffic. Monitor them over a period of several weeks to see what works for your niche and what one’s don’t.

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