Right for the past couple of months I have been an affiliate for a certain product. I currently rank 10th for keyword x related to this product and it gets me some nice sales. However now I am about to release my own product that is pretty much the same as the other product and I will be writing articles targeting keyword x for this product as well. Now considering both of the pages will be on the same site ie. mysite.com/affiliatereview, mysite.com/myownproduct will the fact that I rank high for keyword x on mysite/com/affiliatereview help me when I try to rank mysite.com/myownproduct? Let's use an example to clear things up because I confused myself with all of that keyword x stuff. Say my site is a bodybuilding site called bodybuilding.com. currently I review a product called Great Abs which is located at bodybuilding.com/greatabs. Whenever I write articles or try to rank any keywords I try to rank "ab toning". Now however I am releasing my own product which I will put n bodybuilding.com/myabproduct which I also want to rank for 'ab toning'. Now I want to rank my product for the keyword without deleting the other review from my site (as my site is mainly a review site and if I start deleting other reviews in favor of my own product I will lose credibility) So basically my question is will the fact that I have been trying to rank the affiliate product help me rank my own product for the same keyword?
I think they are independent. Google will index your page in different place, and it should give independent result if someone search "ab toning" for each of your product.
why dont you gfy and go back to making 1200 a month with your site that looks as if a two year old took a shit in notepad
What a pointless reply. Google will see each page individually and so will rank each page seperately... but the newer page will most likely be (much) lower than the original page. From a business point of view, why would you market someone else's product when you have your own? Create the new page for your product and 301 redirect the old to the new. Or just don't hope to sell yours rather than your competitors product..... It certainly won't 'help'.
What about if I was ranking for a different keyword? Would the fact that my site has all the inbound links help? As in google will look more favourably to my new page because I have lots of backlinks to other pages on my site
Yes, if the keywords are related. More IBLs means a more spidered & targeted site so that's a good thing.
Leave the other review there. Don't delete anything. I would recommend placing a link on each of the different pages to the other one so that Google recognizes that they're related. That way both pages can share traffic. As far as keywords, it IS possible to get both pages ranked for it, but I wouldn't recommend that. Try a variation of your keyword on the second page. So for example: if your keyword is: ab toning use "ab toning" on one page and then "firm your abs" on the second one you'll soak up more traffic that way. You'll need to do research to find out where the traffic is though...it's pointless to use keywords that people are not looking for. Good luck.