Affiliate Blog Marketing - Why am I failing already?

Yes, I already have one when people register but I will try to get a front page thing going.

 

Yeah i agree with a lot of what has already been said...the make money online is probably the most saturated niche.

Also, it seems in every post you are trying to "sell" something and even the most greenest of newbies will recognise this and this is off-putting to anyone and this will explain the low page views per visit..People are coming to your blog, reading a post or 2 and bam! are being hit with a subtle sales pitch in every single post!

Your content is actually fairly good, but one thing it took me a long time to learn was that once you STOP trying to sell to your readers, this is when the success will start! Most people will realize if someone is trying to sell something to them, no matter how subtle it is and will not want to continue reading!

What you may want to do, is use your other idea...of the "stop smoking" blog and actually have a blueprint of that on this blog...so the readers of your make money blog can follow your progress with your "stop smoking" blog. This way you can take them through exactly how you set up a wordpress blog, promote something like hostgator to host your stop smoking blog, show them where you are getting your content from, talk them through keyword research. Then for traffic to your stop smoking blog, show them the sort of articles you are writing for backllinks and traffic, use Socialmarker.com to speed up the bookmarking of posts (and again promote this!) for more traffic and backlinks, show your readers how you will use something like Yahoo answers and blog commenting..etc..

i think the main thing is stop trying to sell in every post you make, just make it and enjoyable and informative blog to read and follow.

 

It take great skills and patience to succeed in affiliate marketing. It's gonna be a rough road. Don't lose faith.

 

I dont sell in every single post (in alot yes, but i only link to them) and i just don't know which niche to pick after this (i don't actually want to write about quitting smoking...)

I heard achne is very popular so I dont want to write about that. Hopefully Ill think of something.

 

One thing you might consider doing (if you haven't already) is start compiling a mailing list. Also, you may think of using Twitter to do a bit of marketing with as well (sort of like a list, but you have to approach it differently).

 

Yeah, Im going to get a wordpress plugin for that. Btw, your sig.... there is an easy way to make money? never heard of it... lol

 

if your so good at it, then how do you sell a product without selling it?

 

I think this one says it all. In fact, a lot of so-called MMO blogs are sharing the same problem.

I don't seem to agree with the term saturated niche. I think every niche has a space for everybody.

Here is a guest post from Daily Blog Tips about a saturated niche - Is There Such a Thing as a Saturated Niche? and I agree with it.

A niche that has a lot of competitors can be an advantage too. As mentioned in that post, competitors can also be your partners. After all, if your niche has low competition I suppose you will also have few customers.

Sometimes, a lower traffic can be better as long as you are converting most of them to sales; comparing to a high traffic that is NOT making you money.

 

Finally someone who is not on the same side as everybody

Ill read the article and see if i can use it in my own way. Thanks!

but i still need to know how to implement links into my posts without "Selling"
the product

 

"Last week I was looking for some software to help me generate longtail keywords for a project I was working on. After a couple hours of searching and working with the usual free tools (Adwords, Overture, etc) I ran across. Keyword Elite (affiliate link). I was skeptical about spending over $100 on a piece of software, especially since there are so many free scripts out there. However, seeing that it came with a 60 day money back guarantee, I decided to purchase it and test it out. The results exceeded my expectations...yadda...yadda....yadda....

 

The plugin alone won't get people signing up for your newsletter. They just won't do it and the end of the story. You gotta give something away, drop a hook with a free worm and maybe they'll bite.

It was not addressed to me but I'll be cheeky and answer You sell without selling by creating a desire. You need to get your visitors to follow you cryin' "hey, vinogradov, do you know where to get this "stupid Guru ebook that is full of rubbish" I really really want it and I'm dying to get it?"

Now replace the "stupid Guru ebook that is full of rubbish" bit with the piece of crap you're trying to sell and go and create desire. Think the way your customer would think... and stop selling!

 

As an SEO, if I were to inherit your web site today the first things I would do would be:

1) Delete the LINKS page linked to in the top navigation. Having a links page is so 1996 it's not funny. While you did take the safety measures of nofollow'ing the links, why have it? WTH does Cancun Car Rental and a FEMA assistance blog have to do with with making money online?

2) Delete the VV Network page linked to in the top navigation. Why on earth would you advertise that you are part of some 'network' of sites? To make it easy for Google and others to track down linking schemes between those sites later when they are manually reviewing yours or one of the other network sites because of a spam report? I know you are not linking to them presently, but that might change in the future. And with pages from your site being archived at places like Archive.org you never know how what you post now may come back to haunt you later.

3) Delete the link to LinkMarket.net in the right navigation. This link is dofollowed... Bad move IMO. You are linking to a site that actively promotes link exchange schemes and violating Google Webmaster Guidelines. You are opening yourself up to possible issues w/ Google penalties should your site be manually reviewed by a Google Quality Rater as a result of a random spot check or a Spam Report. Not worth the risk IMO if your goal is to rank at Google.

4) Maximize on page optimizations.

<title> Element:
Your <title> element is the most influential on-page ranking factor you can control. You <title> is weak to say the least. The keyword phrases you're attempting to rank for are too varied IMO and shouldn't appear in the same title. I would suggest you do your research and focus the subject of your home page and its <title> element.

The word "money" only appears 2 times out of the 11 or 12 words in your <title> (depending on whether you throw out the word "at" as unimportant). That's about a 15-16% keyword density. You want the keywords that make up the main targeted keyword phrase to be as dense as possible in your <title>. I typically have a single keyword phrase in my <title> of each page... but sometimes use 2 or 3 phrases if they are VERY similar (see examples below).

Were you aware that "make money online" gets roughly 5x as many searches at Google than "earn money onine"? And that targeting "make money online" means you're competing w/ roughly 231,000,000 other pages for the top 10 positions? Targeting "earn money online" means you're only competing w/ 15,900,000 or so other pages.... MUCH less competitive.... And still a VERY significant volume of searches.

If you decide you'd rather compete w/ 16MM sites instead of 291MM sites, consider a <title> like "Earn Money Online" or "Earn Money - Earn Money Online - How to Earn Money". Both would be decent <titles>... and much stronger and focused than the one you have now IMO.

The <title> of the home page should be the "head" (competitive) terms your site is targeting. Typically these are 1 and 2 word phrases and very competitve. The <title> of your category pages should enforce the <title> of your site but get slightly more specific. Typically these will be 2 and 3 word keyword phrases. The <title> of the posts in each category should target your "long tail" keyword phrases. These will typically be 3-5 word keyword phrases. The deeper I link into the site, the more long tail the targeted phrases should be.

Header Elements:
The <h1> element is the 2nd most influential on-page ranking factor you control (<h2> is 3rd, ..., <h6> is 7th). Your <h1> should reinforce the keyword phrase(s) targeted by your <title>.

Unfortunately your site is using your blog name as the <h1>. You're wasting the 2nd most influential ranking factor under your control. The <h1> "Revenue Bin" is not going to do a lot to make you rank for "Earn Money" or "Earn Money Online". While Latent Semantic Analysis would relate the term "Revenue" w/ "Money", the word "Bin" is worthless.

IMO your <h1> would serve you better if it were more focused on the same keyword phrase as your home page <title>. It would help if it were something like "Ways to Earn Money Online".

You ARE doing a good job using <h2> and <h3> elements to link to your post and categories, respectively. However, when coming up with names for your posts and categories I would continually look for opportunities to use the keywords and keyword phrases "Earn Money Online", "Earn Money", "How to Earn Money", "Earn", "Money", and to a lesser degree variations of those words like "Make Money", "Revenue" "Earning", and "Making".


Navigation:
Google uses the link text (hyperlinked words) of a link as a STRONG hint of what the targeted page is about. You should put thought into the link text you use when linking to other pages on your blogs. You should use the exact keyword phrase targeted by the <title> of the target page some of the time. But you should also link to the page with slight variations on the targetted phrase... Mix it up a bit.

I could go on... but hopefully, this helps a bit.

 

Wow, this help out A LOT! Thank you so much, i would pick your answer as the best answer if we were on yahoo answers. Very detailed too. Btw, I Did everything you said and I think my blog is going in the right direction soon enough.

Also, thanks to everyone for replying, im going to look for a new niche when the .99 cent go daddy sale comes our way

Anymore tips, please post

 

If you can get organic traffic and lots of it, you will surely be profitable. Try the techniques I use. Check my siggy

 

I am not really sure what you mean by without "Selling" the product. Does this mean you don't want to be sound obvious to your visitors that you are selling a product? Are you not proud of the product?

As far as I am concern, the best way to sell a product is to sell it. The term sell here however is NOT as simple as it looks though. There are a lot of ways of sell a product. One is to pre-sell it, which means you have to inform your visitors how efficient your product is and how it can help solve their problems.

If you are afraid that your visitors might walk away if they learned that you are selling a product, then it means they are just readers of your blog and not potential customers.

I think the better statement for your concern is how to implement links into my posts to sell a product in the most professional way.

Well, I use Go Codes and it seems effective for me.

By the way, I really think the guest post at Daily Blog Tips can help you somehow.

Good luck!

 

What makes your blog stand out from the rest? (the other 1mil+ make money online blogs)
Content/Design/Service?Ask your self these questions.
Why do people wanna go to your site instead of problogger/tylercruz/carlocab/johncow and all the others?

 

Cool... Glad to help... WebmasterWorld and Google Help Forums are my normal trolling grounds... I'm a full time SEO for a brand name site that 85%+ of you know about if I were to mention. I recently stumbled onto this forum, and wanted to contribute... Enjoy!

 

Well done sir. One of the best posts I've read on DP in a long time. I knew much of these strategies already, but there's some really good stuff in that post which will probably help me (and many other people) moving forward.

Positive rep added.

 

I'd recommend installing some plugins such as platnium SERO to protentially get traffic organically for extra longtail keywords like buy wholesale weight loss pills

 

You should also take a look at your site from a SE perspective, just being on it for a few minutes I see some problems.