Comments on: Ask Kirsty – How To Improve Traffic & Conversions On My Affiliate Site?

By: Ski Resorts

Ski Resorts — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:12:14 +0000

Finding forums about the topic area of your site is an easy way to get a little traffic to your site. But there are a few things to remember. Just posting in forums saying “Visit my site” is considered SPAM and one should not do it.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:34:25 +0000

Lawnmowers if a tough niche to tackle, as not all people would buy a lawnmower online as most lawnmowers now need to be sold in person as of this year all the major quality high brands have taken their lawnmowers off the internet. I realise that people are still searching for them online, I would recommend on top of Kirsty’s great suggestions registering with the garden directories – if you look there are a lot out there. I would possibly review other lawnmower brands that you do not promote, good luck with it.

By: Philip Voice

Philip Voice — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:23:00 +0000

Hello again Kirsty

I cannot see my comment – just my name

By: Philip Voice

Philip Voice — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:26:21 +0000

I am just starting to put the ‘juice’ to work from my two and bit year old http://www.landscapejuice.com blog by trying to direct some traffic to my new affiliate site where I hope to sell lawn mowers, strimmers and lawn associated products.

I have a slight dilemma though. I use webgains as one of the affiliate companies and utilise the mow direct brand because it seems to have a greater range of products.

The problem is I get a lot of US traffic and webgains does not serve the US (unless I am reading it wrong). I thought about Amazon but their range of products is not strong enough.

Can you think of a way to convert traffic wherever it comes from and is my site optimized well enough?

Thanks in advance

Phil Voice

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:45:00 +0000

Hey folks, thanks for the great comments!

Just a bit of feedback for you all.

I’ve since implemented some of Kirsty’s suggestions onto the site, and I’m happy to say they’ve have had an immediate impact, returning great results. Needless to say, she knows her stuff!

After improving the internal linking situation between pages on my site, Google quickly indexed the lot! now over 200 pages are appearing for the ’site:www.LawnmoweRreview.co.uk’ query, after just days of making the change.

I’ll keep you updated with anything else that might proove useful for you guys.

Kop Khun kha Kirsty!

By: Elijah

Elijah — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:56:52 +0000

As my experience grows I’m finding that deep linking produces premium results when used with incoming links. I tried this recently on a niche site I have – I wrote a few articles for ezinearticles.com and rather than linking directly to my home page I linked into my sub-sub-categories and within a week noticed that several pages became indexed in google and yahoo for terms I didn’t even research for.

@Reece

I agree with you completely. When it comes to focused niche sites, unless the adsense is placed strategically within your content, there is minimal gain to have adsense blocks placed on sidebars, headers, or footers because all it is doing is directing the traffic away from your site, when your ultimate goal should be to keep surfers on your site for a maximum amount of time.

The earnings off of adsense are minuscule compared to the potential earnings off of targeted affiliate products. Adsense in the sidebars screams “pay me please” and unless you have a site which generates 10,000 unique hits a day, the earnings are sub-par.

By: Viqi French

Viqi French — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:00:53 +0000

Excellent post! You captured them all and explained them well. A great SEO refresher and reminder.

Best,

Viqi

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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:55:59 +0000

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By: robert

robert — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:50:42 +0000

@ Hadi – the index page for the lawnmower site is “forbidden” – it’s not working…however, if you visit the individual review product pages, they are working.

@ Kirsty – congrats on making a GBP45.00/month. Some affiliates make a living by making several of these mini sites.

By: Reece

Reece — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:40:37 +0000

It doesn’t appear to have been mentioned above, but it comes up regularly in forums; isn’t it a bad idea to have the Google Adsense banner on the site?

You are basically encouraging people visiting your site to go to other sites to buy! It might be better for you to use a content widget (from affiliate window) so that people buy from YOU & you earn commission, rather than them going off your site & you earning a few pence from Adsense.

Good luck