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How to get 10,000+ hits but no sales from affiliate links.
If you want to make money from your web site using affiliate links, your best plan is to read these ten steps carefully, right to the end. This will show you how to get thousands of hits, but no sales, due to one critical mistake.
As you read
steps 1 through 10, try to spot the critical mistake which was
actually made in real life. Then avoid making the same mistake
yourself! This may save you months of frustration and wasted
effort.
1. Select a subject for your web page which you know thousands
of surfers are searching for, and which appears on all the most
popular keywords lists - song lyrics.
2. Create an attractive, quick-loading web page about the
subject of song lyrics; test it on all platforms.
3. Optimize the html for the search engines: write a good
description, and use all the relevant keywords in the meta tags.
Avoid frames. Make sure the keywords appear often in the body of
the page too.
4. Find a good, well-known and trusted merchant like Barnes &
Noble, and sign up so you can sell CDs through affiliate links
on your pages. Write mini CD reviews for the top artists, and
include small photos of the CD covers too.
5. Promote your pages to all the large search engines, being
careful not to spam them. Buy keywords at GoTo and a few other
pay-per-click services.
6. Promote your pages to the directories, being careful to write
accurate and acceptable site descriptions, and selecting the
right categories which your site should be included in.
7. Buy regular respidering in the Inktomi engines: MSN, AOL,
Hotbot etc.
8. Achieve some sympathetic coverage in traditional media like
newspapers and magazines; promote your URL in other ways like
adding it to your email signature; get other webmasters to link
to you.
9. Watch with satisfaction as the unique visitors and hits to
your song lyrics pages rise week by week; continue your
promotion efforts and continually improve your pages with links
to new, currently popular artists.
10. Slump in despair as you check your Barnes and Noble figures:
thousands upon thousands of hits, hundreds and hundreds of click-throughs to the merchant, but not a single sale. Not one.
So, did you spot the critical mistake?
Some of you have probably made the same mistake. Or possibly
some of you are still making it, and haven't realized it yet.
The critical mistake is in step 1 (the other steps are all OK).
Choosing to try to make money from a page with the subject of
song lyrics through affiliate links is a bad move. Why?
Who searches for song lyrics? Mostly teenagers. What do most
teenagers not have? A credit card. What do you need to make a
purchase on the Internet? Hmmm.
The first step should be: think about your audience. If your
audience is one which has no means to purchase what you are
trying to sell, you will make no sales, however good your site
is and however many hits it gets. Trust me. I know. I learned
the hard way.
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