Make Money With Affiliate Marketing – Getting Exposure to Your Review Blog Posts
February 7, 2010 by Alan
Filed under Affiliate Marketing
In my previous article about promoting affiliate products using your blog, I explained that writing review posts featuring affiliate products was a good way to promote those products. But, the simple act of writing those posts won’t make sales. You need to get exposure to those blog posts.
So, how do you get people to see your review blog posts?
Some very basic marketing comes into play here, but the first thing you need to do is do some keyword research. For starters, go here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type in a relative search term used to describe the product you’re promoting. For example, if you’re promoting a weight loss program, you might want to type in “weight loss” without quotes.
From there you’ll be provided with various search terms people use that contain the term weight loss in them. You want to find a keyword phrase that gets a moderate amount of traffic. Around 1,000 should be just fine. The more searches a month, the more competition that phrase will have, so keep that in mind.
Once you find a keyword phrase, you want to use it in the title of your blog post and sparingly throughout the post. This will optimize your post for that keyword phrase. You’re not done yet, though. Now it’s time to build backlinks to the post.
Backlinks are simply links on other sites pointing back to your site. The more backlinks you build to your website or particular web page within your site, the higher it will rank in search engines. But, it’s important that when building backlinks you use the keyword phrase for that page.
So, in this example, if your keyword phrase was “weight loss made easy,” you want to build backlinks that contain that exact phrase. Doing so will drive your blog post higher up in the search engines for that phrase and will bring targeted traffic to the post and eventually sales.
Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.
