Posted June 19th, 2008
Kirsty over at Affiliate Stuff has posted a great all-in-one how to guide for getting started in affiliate marketing.
This is some extremely useful information for anyone, like me, who is trying to get into the world of affiliate marketing, and it’s great of Kirsty to put it all there in one place. As usual the post makes for great reading and has some really valuable info.
I’d advise anyone who’s just starting out to read through thoroughly and, if you haven’t already, subscribe to her feed!
Posted June 17th, 2008
This might be old news, but I only just stumbled across it. GoDaddy have a sale on .info domains at the moment, just 50p for a year registration (+ 10p ICANN fee)!
Sounds like a perfect opportunity to get in a load of domains. I’m going to have a think about some niches i’d like to set up a site in then try and get a decent keyword rich domain. I’ve registered 3 already, but to be honest those are in an extremely saturated market (video games), but I thought i’d give them a go anyway, not much to lose! My plan is to get an affiliate mashup site on those and see if I can drive some traffic to them. If i’m not getting any return after 6-9 months then maybe i’ll try and sell the domains/sites. The way I see it, they only have to make 60p each to break even, so anything after that is profit, however little that may be.
Posted June 3rd, 2008
I haven’t really touched any of my sites in the last couple of weeks as i’ve been really busy with other stuff. I really want to try and keep up some momentum and try and get things going so i’m going to make some time this week to work on some things.
So, I have a couple of mashup sites up working nicely, but now obviously I need to start getting traffic to those sites. SEO isn’t something i’ve done much of in the past so I think it’s time for me to dedicate some time to get clued up.
From what I’ve read I guess these will be what i’ll focus on to start with:
- Submitting to search engines - so far i’ve only submitted to Google and set up Google sitemaps (using this sitemap script).
- Submitting to directories - i’m not sure how easy this will be for a mashup site. I guess the content can be valuable to visitors (that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?), so hopefully it won’t be too much of a problem.
- Getting links - this is the main thing I need to learn about I think, where to get good links back to my sites.
There’s probably a ton of other stuff I need to do to really help build traffic, and i’m sure i’ll pick up loads of information as I look into this, and i’ll post anything I think could be useful for anyone else who’s starting out. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
I’ll attempt to get an hour of reading in now while my 2 year old son buries me in toy cars…
