Just a quickie by way of a follow up to my post on how to write content at the product level, and get some of that lovely longtail traffic arriving at your affiliate site.
I thought it might be useful for you guys to see some examples of the traffic I got through to the blog after writing that particular article. Now, bear in mind that I wrote about a certain type of swimsuit right in the middle of a page with an affiliate marketing article in it, and without a swimwear relevant page title.
Despite this, I have had around 30 search engine referrals for swimwear and Calvin Klein relalted search terms to AffiliateStuff in the last 30 days.
Some Other Examples I Found In My Stats: -
Halterneck swimsuit 50’s leg
Retro swimsuit
Low leg swimsuit
Retro Swimwear
So Some Surprisingly Good Rankings There!
This incomg traffic demonstrates exactly how you can build up a stream of highly relevant, lucrative traffic to your affiliate site without it being stupidly difficult. Yes, this blog probably has good incoming links and page rank… but it’s also not relevant at all to swimwear! I think any site with a few decent incoming links could rank similarly.
So Here’s Some Traffic Maths..
Think it’s too hard to create a good, free stream of SEO traffic? That article took me ten minutes to write. If you spend ten minutes per day for a whole month and get similar amounts of traffic from each of your carefully crafted articles you’re looking at 930 UV’s to your site. Do it every day for a year… 11,160 UVs per month for ten minutes work per day.
Now Lets Talk About The Money…
OK, what would that equate to in earnings? Lets take a really conservative example and say £8 per hundred clicks. £892.80 would be your bottom line.
Look, I know this isn’t a terribly scientific example, but what I am trying to demonstrate is that if you just spend a very small amount of consistent time each day putting something out there that will make you money…. that’s what will happen! You’ll build a successful income stream.
Would You Like £892.80 extra to spend every month?
Well, you know how to do it now don’t you. So get into it and write that content! There’s loads of longtail traffic out there to be captured, you just have to step up and do the necessary to get it.
Easy eh? 
July 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am
Oooh you really know how to motivate people Kirsty!
July 1st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Interesting article. 30 hits in 30 days is not an earth shattering amount of traffic but suppose it is a start
Interesting thing about SEO is I find that I optimize for one keyword phrase and find that I rank for others I wasn’t targetting
SEO does work but it takes time and quite a bit on know how to make it work
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 am
I’m about to head off to bed (that seems to be when I enjoy stopping by!) I just wanted to leave my two cents - CONTENT IS KING.
Plain and simple. text is the backbone of SEO, articles are the gathering of text. Search engine spiders love useful, unique content. Period.
Example: I have a niche site, and the top 3 highest ranked pages in regards to Google are well researched articles that contain several longtail keywords. These pages get indexed fasted, and get the most hits. I even climbed through 30,000 existing entries for a particular key phrase on Google to the number one spot in a week.
A simple hyper link within the article to a resourceful niche related book on amazon generates consistent income on a monthly basis. 100 clicks a month on that one little bit of anchor text! Doesn’t sound like much, but thats just one page on a very big site.
SEO works, it always will. If you research well using Wordtracker or a similar service and use your research when compiling your content, meta description, title, category names, and you update your sites content at least once a week, you will be kicking butt in the search engines within 90 days.