Can You Use SEO Tactics For Affiliate Marketing?
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Affiliate marketing is the practice of pre-selling other people’s product and taking a commission for your efforts. Affiliate marketers have traditionally used a variety of means to distribute information about the products they are promoting, but they always use an affiliate ID code of some sort to prove that traffic is coming from their efforts. They then are able to get their commissions for their efforts. But what part does search engine optimization play in the affiliate marketer’s bag of tricks?
First, if you build a website, write a blog, or do any online promotion then you should always be thinking about SEO. You should do the write about of research to uncover the best keywords for what it is you want to sell and promote. That’s no less true for affiliate marketers than it is for anyone else.
The first place to start is with the website of the product that you want to promote. If you are selling a product or service through an affiliate program then you should find out what keywords are being used by the the company you are affiliating yourself with. After that, look for related keywords. Everything you do online should be optimized for those keywords.
Category: SEO
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Comment by Ted Duboise
Made Thursday, 22 of January , 2009 at 4:28 pm
Excellent article! Thanks for spelling out what affiliate marketers should. I do affiliate marketing and assume that keywords were just as relevant. Good tip about checking the product owner’s site to see what keywords they use.
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