To recap, Week 1 of the blog development involved keyword research and identifying if the niche wasn’t too competitive and that there were enough products for it to advertise. Week 1 closed with the installation of the blog, selecting a theme and adding a home page and article. The blog is set up to use a static home page. So now to week 2:
Week 2:
If you’ve taken a look at Cheap Electricity Options, you probably noticed that there are no ads on the site and no affiliate links. That’s because I’m seasoning the site for the first month. By that I mean that new content will be posted to the blog every 2-3 days so that the search engines will see that it’s an active site and, when they spider it, they’ll see it’s a content-driven site providing real information for visitors and not an affiliate or ad-driven site trying to get money out of visitors. Read the rest of this entry »
George Montague Brown may not be a name you’ve come across (even though it is memorable). He’s been in the internet marketing business for about 2 years and is the author of Google Sniper, which describes a method for building profitable affiliate sites.
He’s just come up with a way of pulling a huge amount of traffic using YouTube. No, you don’t have to create your own videos and upload them. The method is ingenious and he details it for free in these videos (the link takes you to Video #3 but you should watch Videos #1 and #2 first):
The Terms of Service (TOS) for Google Analytics basically say that they can do whatever they want with the data they collect from your sites and this includes using that information to determine search engine rankings.
By installing the Google Analytics code on your site, you are giving Google a back door window into your traffic patterns and they will quickly determine that your (affiliate) site is not the kind of site they want in their index. You see, Google doesn’t really like affiliate sites. Perhaps I should qualify that assertion a bit more. Google doesn’t like little-guy affiliate sites; they don’t seem to have a problem with the big guys and large corporations running affiliate ads on their sites.
