* In my opinion
Most traffic driven to affiliate website and landing pages is either through PPC and SEO. Wordpress blogs and SEO are really like bread and butter for affiliate marketers. Thanks to plugins, you can really boost up your SEO using wordpress. Here are a number of the plugins I find essential for SEO:
All-in-One SEO Pack - This is one of the most popular SEO plugin, as it does so much: Optimizes titles, generates meta tags, avoid duplicate content in the archives and more!
Related Posts - Links to posts related to the one you’ve written. Kind of self-explanitory.
Cross-Link Plugin - Cross linking is something you can do yourself, pretty easily (you’re actually retarded if you can’t), but this plugin makes it a lot easier.
Google XML Sitemap Generator - This plugin automatically generates a sitemap, submits it to Google and Yahoo, and re-submits via pinging every time you add a new post. Very useful.
SEO Title Tag - This super useful tool allows you to change each and every title tag on your site, which is super important for SEO. It’s really easy to use, I love it.
SEO Friendly Images - This one’s not as vital as the others, but it automatically gives your images the proper alt and title attributes. It sure as hell can’t hurt!
One of the biggest things I learned right off the bat was the importance of cloaking links. While it’s best if your visitors are idiots just begging to enter their credit card information, some aren’t, and you don’t want to miss out on a few conversions just because your links stand out as being affiliate links.
To cloak your link, create a .php file. You can name it whatever you like, but something like signup.php, trynow.php, etc are good choices. This is the only code you should have on the page:
<?php header( 'Location: http://www.affiliatesite.com/yourid45438?sub=mytracking' ) ;?>
Change the sample link to your own affiliate link.
Now, when you use the new php file to cloak your links, no one will know it’s an affiliate link, unless they’re much more clever than your average internet user.
Well, to start all this off, I figure I should give a short intro. I got into affiliate marketing a couple of months ago, and while I’m far from being a “super” affiliate, I’ve picked up a few tricks along the way, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be picking up more and more as I go.
Tune in for my random ramblings about the industry (and any other shit I feel like talking about) as well as some of the stuff I’ve learned along the way.
The benchmark for success in the affiliate marketing industry is around 1k per day, and while I’m still quite far from hitting that mark, I’m on the way, and looking to be there in the next year. We’ll see how I go!