September Focus - Article Marketing
This month I am going to concentrate on Article Marketing- Here is how I am going to do it.
Find an affiliate product on clickbank or commission junction or another affiliate website. Create a small 5 page website. Write articles on topics within that niche.
For example: If it was a dog training product, I would create a dog training website and write dog training articles. The articles will link back to my mini-website which will have the affiliate product(s) on it.
People would find the article, read it, hopefully like it, click on the link to my website and some will buy the affiliate product. It is as simple as that.
If you don’t want to make a 5 page website for the articles, you can make a blog to go along with the product instead and link to the blog. Either way, it works the same.
I personally like to make websites and I host them on my HostGator account because I can host as many websites as I want for $10 a month.
If you want to save money when buying domains, you can get a more generic domain name. For example I can use get-your-reviews.com to make a lot more subdomains out of to save a bit of money.
If you had a generic domain name you can create free subdomains on it such as the name of the product: productname.get-your-reviews.com or dogtraining.get-your-reviews.com etc…
Find a product you like, create a website, write articles for keywords relating to the product. You want to choose keywords that don’t have too much competition. For example, type the keyword in to google with “quotations” and see on the right side how much competition there is. You want to stick with 25,000 a less competing pages if at all possible.
Some people even recommend going with phrases that have less than 10,000 competing results, but I have gotten good results with the 25,000 number.
What is your September focus?
Progress Overview
Hi, I was inspired by your blog to start my own blog. I just wanted to stop by and say hi. My september focus is to work on my blog. Stop by my blog at http://www.countdown-to-making-a-living.com
Hi Amy -
I have enjoyed reading your blog and today have re-started from the beginning reading every post. I have a question about todays post. When you create a website like this do you plan to go back and add more pages or more articles to keep it fresh and in the minds of people? Also, doesn’t google and other search engines like sites that get updated and such. How will you handle that with all the other niche sites and things you have going on? I am very impressed with what you have done.
I make too many websites to go back and update them on a regular basis. That is why I choose websites over blogs. I also use RSS feeds within the websites to keep fresh content automatically coming in on auto-pilot.
Hmmm, not sure what using RSS feeds within the websites means exactly but I am definitely going to look into it as it sounds like a good plan.
Congrats.
I have a hard time getting everything done in a day. Do you have a schedule set for each day?
I have a daily to do list, but I don’t always get through it every day. I have to do a lot of things holding a baby and it makes me pretty slow at getting things done.
OF COURSE niche marketing is the way to go…it is better to be a lion in a small jungle than a rat in a forest..
i sent u the mail amy but u din reply sweets..
Resend your email. I don’t think I ever saw it.
Hi Amy,
First of congratulations on your goal achievement of last month.
One question about something that you mentioned in one of the reactions above
“… I make too many websites to go back and update them on a regular basis. That is why I choose websites over blogs …”
It is the last part of the sentence, you prefer a website over a blog. What do you mean here (as a blog is a website)? Why do you prefer a site over a blog?
Richard
Richard,
These are my own thoughts, not scientifically proven. I have seen many websites 1+ year old high in google searches, but when it comes to blogs, they are dated. Someone visits and if they see your last post was from 2006 they may not respond as well.
Plus, I almost never see old blogs in the search engines. Blogs get indexed in the search engines easier than a website, but do not have the permanence of a website.
However, these are my opinions and observations.
Amy,
Congrats!
You are doing a wonderful job. I am working on my first blog and hope that I will be making some money this month as well.
This is a good idea for a September focus. Mine is to go through the process outlined in the Thirty Day Challenge and choose at least ten niches to work on so I can test and create my own products. Also, I am working on an ebook project.
It’s fun coming up with business models. I jotted your idea down in case I felt like doing it or something like it in the future.
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