The Affiliate Marketing Cashflow Cheatsheet 2016

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The Affiliate Marketing
Cashflow CHEATSHEET
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AFFILIATE MARKETING IN 2016 5
RANKING ORGANICALLY IN GOOGLE 5
MAIN CHANGES FOR 2016 5
HOW MUCH CAN YOU EARN WITH AFFILIATE WEBSITES? 6
QUICKLY RAMPING UP TO $50,000/YEAR 6
QUICK TRAFFIC FORMULA FOR SUCCESS 7
QUICK START ROADMAP 9
THE ROADMAP 9
NICHE RESEARCH 14
CHOOSING A TOPIC 14
WHERE TO FIND IDEAS AND AFFILIATE OFFERS 15
KEYWORD, PROFITABILITY & COMPETITION RESEARCH 19
KEYWORD RESEARCH 19
BUYER INTENT 22
PIGGYBACKING OFF KEYWORDS AND BUYER INTENT 24
VISITOR PROFILE 24
COMPETITION ANALYSIS 26
DOMAIN NAMES 30
BRANDABLE DOMAINS 30
DOMAIN HISTORY 31
EXACT MATCH DOMAINS 32
PURCHASING AGED DOMAINS 32
CHECKING IF AN AGED DOMAIN IS CLEAN 33
BUILD YOUR WEBSITE 35
WEBSITE STRUCTURE 35
USING A PERSONA 37
WRITING ARTICLES YOURSELF, OR OUTSOURCE? 42
CONTENT STRUCTURE FOR YOUR WEBSITE 37
GOOGLE-APPROVED QUALITY CONTENT 44
EXAMPLE OF A PRODUCT PAGE 48
ON-PAGE SEO 52
ON-PAGE RANKING FACTORS 53
OFF-PAGE SEO 62
YOUR BACKLINK PROFILE 62
WEEK BY WEEK LINKING PLAN 63
BLOG COMMENTS 66
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING 66
SOCIAL SITES 67
WEB 2.0 SITES 67
YOUTUBE VIDEOS 68
PRESS RELEASES 69
FORUMS, QUORA, YAHOO ANSWERS 69
SOCIAL PROOF 70
INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC DIRECTORIES 70
FEEDER SITES (PRIVATE BLOG NETWORKS, OR S) 70
USER ENGAGEMENT 75
BENCHMARK YOUR COMPETITION 75
GUEST POSTS 79
AND BEYOND! 79
ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC SOURCES 80
STAYING AT THE TOP 81
WANT MORE AFFILIATE MARKETING TRAINING? 82
Affiliate Marketing in 2016

Today, building websites for affiliate commissions is a lot different from how you
older linking
strategies no longer work, and your website the search engines loved yesterday they
now hate today.

However, through all the years, there has been a common pattern to building
websites and ranking them that has not changed, and this is what we will be
teaching you here.

There is good reason why this business model is one of the oldest and most popular
in the Internet Marketing industry it is the closest you will ever get to truly passive
income! Once you rank in your niche, and using the methods taught here to stay
ranked on top, you almost have to do nothing, and you will be making income
month after month after month.
Ranking Organically in Google

Ranking organically in Google is actually EASIER today than it was a few years back.
This is because you no longer need all the complicated linking software, spun
articles, fine-tuned site structures and SEO optimization, and thousands of backlinks
in order to appear in the first page of the listings.

low-quality websites for quick spikes
made spammers and less-than-ethical Internet marketers lots of money before they
were shut down and had to start all ove

Today, in 2016, Google has vastly improved their spam and black hat filters with
possible to do black hat SEO, but much more difficult.

White hat SEO, or , involves lots of work with high quality,
useful websites with excellent content that people will love. This is what we will
mainly be focusing on, because your long term goal is to build a viable, useful
business promoting products that people are searching for.
Main Changes for 2016

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If you are already familiar with this guide, here are the main updates for affiliate
marketing and ranking organically for Google SEO:

 Exact and partial match in keyword links has actually gone UP a bit (there has
until recently been a trend of it going down) The overall ratio of your link
profile has been tweaked slightly to reflect this change
 High quality, unique website content is even more important and powerful
than ever before (2000+ word articles) ie one website with ten 2000 word
articles will rank much better than a website with fifty 500 word articles using
content only as a ranking factor
 I repeat, high quality content that attracts search engine clicks (and results in
low bounce rates) is becoming more and more important as an SEO ranking
factor
 Expanded section on outsourcing your writing
 Expanded section on content
 Website Mobile-friendly factors

How Much Can You Earn with Affiliate Websites?

With one site, you can easily make $500/month initially, and with the inclusion of
more content, a mailing list, other avenues of marketing and paid search, the
amount you can make is unlimited.

In one profitable niche, I am currently ranking a $300/month website with only a
dozen backlinks. Another website I own, with about 80 links total from a variety of
late 2012, and in 2015 I have added a total of 8 new articles and periodically answer
15 hours in ALL of 2015
on this website. Talk about truly passive income!

For the purposes of this Cashflow Cheatsheet, I will focus on building one niche-
specific website and gaining traffic purely through organic search. I will list other
traffic-generating methods, but only briefly,

Quickly Ramping up to $100,000/Year

Using the methods covered here, there is
of $100,000/year from your affiliate website business. Building 12 websites, you need
to make only $277 per month from each site to achieve this. (I would concentrate on
building 9 sites your first year.)

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Personally, I feel I can build 3 websites at a time. So, my own strategy to building up
my affiliate business is the following all will be discussed in detail:

1: Create a big list of potential niche ideas, and choose the best 3.

2: Buy 3 good, brandable domain names new or used.

3: Build all 3 sites in Wordpress, each with different themes.

4: Spend at least 4 months on SEO, slowly and organically building up your
link profile. Continue on it (or even better, hire somebody) to build links and
add content for the next year.

5: Once you reach around 100 visitors/day, expand and maintain.

6: Go back to Step 1 and begin building 3 more websites. Repeat all.

Keep in mind that, for whatever reason, do not expect all of your websites to be
flaming successes. I suggest building 9 sites over the course of one year (three every
4 months), and expecting at least 5 to generate over $200/month, 2 to generate over
$1000/month, and another 2 to not work out, for whatever reason
, and
!

This is why I suggest only 3 at a time. You will then have the energy and time to
devote the proper attention to all your sites throughout the year.
Quick Traffic Formula for Success

In point 5 above s just a
ballpark figure. In fact, one of my websites generates $600/month with only 20
visitors a day. However, my affiliate offer for that site nets me close to $60 per sale.

formula I use:

 A good conversion rate is 1%.

 Thus, you need 100 visitors to make $25.
 Which means you need to make 20 sales to reach $500 per month.
 Therefore, you need 2000 visitors per month to achieve this, or 67 visitors/day.

$25 per sale x 20 sales/month = $500

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To Reach $500/month:
Commission/Sale Conversion # Sales Needed Traffic/Day
Rate Needed
$5 1% 100 333
$10 1% 50 167
$15 1% 33 110
$25 1% 20 67
$50 1% 10 33

I would suggest find an offer that pays you at least $15 per sale. Most of my offers
are around the $25 - $60 range.

Note that this guide will discuss ways to rank only in Google, using only organic SEO
methods. You can EASILY get to your traffic goals through a variety of other
methods!

Organic SEO is the holy grail, though, as once you rank well (and stay there), your
cost and effort afterward is literally nothing! Here is a graph of the traffic from April
2015 to April 2016 for a website I built in late 2012 using these methods.

in that time period is add eight new articles and answer
the occasional blog comment (the website is in a health niche, and nobody thinks
of their health before Christmas, thus the drop during the holidays!)

So, l three)!
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Quick Start Roadmap

This is an overview of how to build an affiliate website from scratch. We will get into
much more detail below, including how to organize everything and build it into an
actual business.

When building your site and building links, there is one key phrase to remember:

Be slow, be steady, be sloppy.

Basically, be as natural as possible. Vary everything you do. -optimize. No
so- sure nothing you do is cookie cutter or spun. That
might have worked a few years ago, but the search engines are now only ranking the
just as they should be doing.

Throughout this report, we will be building a fictional website that is selling the
gives
an average commission of $36. I am not suggesting this is a great product to sell, or
even i a good niche

The Roadmap

1. Niche and Keyword Research
List 10-20 profitable niches you are interested in. From there, whittle them down
to 3 sites.
up the work of building up this site to its full potential.
fertility problems Pregnancy Miracle - If
somebody is searching for that exact title, then they already know about the
product and are either in the research phase or they are ready to buy (or else they
wouldn't have typed to title into Google!)
After finding great keywords, find out your visitor profile. Will they buy? If so, then
make sure the competition isn't too high. In the top ten, look and see if there are
already affiliate-type websites listed. If there are, you can be there too!

2. Domain Names
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Look for a domain name that has a partial match of the keyword you wish to rank
for, but not super-
business, not a spammy site.)

Ie. look pregnancyjourney Pregnancymiracle

3. Build Your Website
Using Wordpress, build your site. Add 1 home page (1500+ words), 2-3 product
review pages as posts (1500+ words) and 4-8 supporting posts (1200+) words.
Vary it a lot. If it takes 500 words to write a post, use 500. If it takes 3000, write that.
Don't limit yourself.
Sample website:

Home Page: Introduction, info on fertility, my story of being unable to conceive
a child, how I became pregnant and had a healthy baby, how I succeeded (link to
the product review page), how you can have a baby too (link to the actual
Clickbank product), if you have any questions please leave a comment ...

Product Page(s): In-depth, keyword in your title but not optimized:

NO Pregnancy Miracle Is i pregnancy-miracle-
review)

YES My Pregnancy Miracle How I Increased My Fertility and Had a
Healthy Baby -pregnancy-miracle-healthy-baby)

Supporting Pages (adds bulk to your site, authority, useful content. Start with 8)

12 Best Fertility Foods
A Guide to Fertility Charting
Getting Pregnant with PCOS
Etc.

Some supporting pages link back to the home page, some to the product page
if it makes sense. Most pages will have links to other authority sites (medical,
government, university, hospital sites.)

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