Author: misamaliraza94
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Cracking the Code: Algorithms
Google has made many algorithm changes over the years. It recently announced that it makes 500 to 600 algorithm changes a year. Some have had devastating effects on the income of affiliate marketers. Some have been just mediocre. An algorithm is a set of precise rules that a computer (in this case) must follow to…
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Google Tea Leaf Reading
Google has more than 88 percent of the search market. You are relying on organic traffic (traffic from people searching for information) rather than paid Google AdWords ads, so as a new affiliate marketer you need to follow Google’s guidelines. In some respects, SEO is like trying to read Google’s tea leaves. SEO experts use…
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Understanding the elephant in the room: Google
When people talk about what’s important to search engines, they usually mean what’s important to Google. Google is the elephant in the search engine room. Google dominates the search engine market with 88.47 percent of the search market. So when Google talks about what’s important to its search engines, affiliate marketers need to listen. The…
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Choosing the right location
SEO is like the icing on the cake. Your web presence and/or strategy needs to be on point or you’ll miss the mark. For example, you didn’t do a lot of research to find out if the location you’ve chosen has enough searches and a “hungry crowd” that you can easily reach. If you tweaked…
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Before focusing on SEO, there are some issues to consider
While good SEO practices are critical to your success, you need to handle some other issues for your business first. If you don’t get them right, all the SEO in the world won’t make you successful. In the following sections, we discuss choosing the right niche for affiliate marketing and provide some insight into the…
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SEO: Search Engine Optimization
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. When it comes to affiliate marketing, search engine optimization has probably been written about more than any other topic. For some affiliate marketers, SEO has almost reached the status of the holy grail of success. This is because the success of your affiliate marketing business largely depends on the…
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Having a website is not as expensive as you might think.
Often you may hear people say that having a website is expensive. This is no longer true. You can register your desired domain name for $10 to $14 per year. Low-cost hosting that can serve you well in the beginning of your affiliate marketing career starts at $3.95 per month. Some may respond by saying…
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Speaking of which, you don’t have a social media persona.
Perhaps you are not active on any social media platform and therefore have no followers. How do you use social media platforms? You can still do it, but it will take a little more time and effort. Find groups that speak to the same target market you want to target. Use the search function of…
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Leverage the followers you already have
Are you active on social media now? Do your friends and family follow? You don’t have to be a celebrity with millions of followers (although celebrities do affiliate marketing). You can start your affiliate marketing efforts right where you are with your followers. You might not think of what you’re doing right now as starting…
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Getting started when you have followers (and when you don’t)
Setting up a website for your affiliate marketing business requires some money, time and expertise. So the prospect of starting your business without a website and its burdens is really attractive to new affiliate marketers. But can you do it? Can You Do Affiliate Marketing Without A Website? In the following sections, we explain how…