Comments on: Getting Started in Affiliate Marketing Using WordPress – 2nd Edition Part 2

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:05:21 +0000

It’s my absolute pleasure Winalot – and the very best of luck in your endeavours!

By: Winalot

Winalot — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:30:40 +0000

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I’ve seen your landing pages and once again they’re not like the norm. I see you show a few of the top products and then a big button to see more which redirects to the merchant.

When I think about it your overall approach makes sense as it gets the user to the merchant as quick as possible. Why would you want to keep them on your site? Content is good for search engines but the user wants to buy.

Thanks for your transparancy and advice which I’m hoping to apply to my sites.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:47:39 +0000

re: large datafeeds – yes we do tend to use all products. Most of our sales aren’t generated via the feed section – I have very targeted landing pages elsewhere on the site. Most people looking at how I do things see the feed section and think that’s all there is to it, lol.

Re: Feed Updates – well, as you’ll have noticed we’re currently hideously out of date due to firefighting on other issues that were left dangling when we renovated our house earlier this year. *sigh* we’ll get there. We usually update monthly, and sort by preferred merchant. We usually know which ones give best EPCs and sort accordingly!

By: Winalot

Winalot — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:53:24 +0000

One more question

On your datafed sites, how often do you update the product feed? I see some dead images, links, etc. on your sites and it’s obviously a tricky thing to keep on top of.

Do you also prune out products that underperform, move performing products to top, etc.? On your pages I cannot see any discernible sorting (not price, name, etc.) so wonder if you sort manually, another way?

Thanks for all your time.

By: Winalot

Winalot — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:49:53 +0000

Hi Kirsty, Thanks for your reply and interesting approach on the large collection pages; I don’t see many affiliates doing it that way.

If you’re using a very large datafeed for a specific brand or category do you still show all products on the page, paginate or prune them to the most popular?

Thanks

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:31:53 +0000

Hey jack – I have indexed my categories but I’ve also put unique content into them and ensured only an excerpt from the posts is shown. Works fine for me!

By: Lloyd Burrell

Lloyd Burrell — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:26:03 +0000

Great post, thanks for sharing. I’m interested in the paginator plugin, it looks like something I shouldn’t miss. And it’s a good solution to adapt to Google’s indexing strategies. I’ve never thought orphan pages could get a different relevance.

Lloyd Burrell
Publisher
Office Desk Reviews

By: jack

jack — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:07:45 +0000

sorry, first paragraph should have ended “images on your category pages” not “pages on your category pages”

By: jack

jack — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:34:53 +0000

Nice post Kirsty. You mention that you use Thumbnail for Excerpts to put pages on your category pages.

Does this mean you have indexed your categories in WP? I thought this was a bit of a no no and most seo plugins use “no index” for WP categories to avoid dup content. Is that not the case?

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:08:07 +0000

Glad to see another couple of people are finding the paginator plugin useful. It can have quite an effect on the number of indexed pages on larger sites.

Winalot – I find that the product or collection articles don’t generate as many sales as my pages dedicated to covering large collections. My real strategy is to have pages for each large product section i.e. long leg boxers and one page per brand i.e calvin klein underwear. The vast majority of sales will come from the brand related pages for obvious reasons.

I use the product related blogs to create content around my brands so additional articles of relevance will be pulled onto the page.