How Long Has It Been Since You've Heard My Affiliate Marketing Strategies? + Screw Micro Niche Sites!

The person above is both a male and a female. Starting off as a man, Ranma, of Ranma 1/2 turns into a pretty red headed female when splashed with cold water. He turns back to a "he" when she's splashed with hot water. Let's face it, dude is going to have a tough time getting a date. And not just because his father hooked him up with one of his friend's daughters. Several other transformations occur as well- like the aforementioned father turning into a panda when splashed with cold water and back into a human when hot water touches him. All of the transformations are caused by falling into "cursed springs". If you fall into a cursed spring of drowned buffalo, then you'd turn into a buffalo, just like Ranma, who fell into the cursed spring of the drowned girl, turns into a chick, when splashed with cold water. The series is written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, and has been a long time favorite of mine for its hilariousness and surprisingly nice action scenes (for an anime that began in the 90s, anyway). Ranma deals with being both sexes at once while also being a master martial artists whose engaged to Akane as a guy and Kudo (well, not formally engaged, Kudo just wants to hit that) as a girl.

But you're likely more interested in my affiliate marketing strategies so let's keep going with that shall we?

Okay, so I've had no motivation the past two weeks. I have pretty much just died since New Years, honestly. I realize that my time is dwindling down, as I now have right at about six months to get to 3k per month online and I'm barely squeaking out $100 a month right now. A 30x increase in that amount of time is possible, I'm sure, but I'm going to have to really buckle down and implement my affiliate marketing strategies. Keep in mind, I'm aiming to dominate that keyword.

However, I think I'm slowly swinging back into the groove of things. I started another blogger blog for my most successful product, because my articles had stopped ranking, and I've come up with what I think is a pretty solid link plan. I need $300 to start it full force, so if you want to donate... Just kidding, I'm working on ChaCha to raise the cash, but the last time I tried Linkvana, it worked wonders for my website that was targeting a mildly competitive keyphrase. Now I'm sitting at 10-12, 10-12, and 11-14 for the 3 related keyphrases my Google Sniper site is targeting. I've determined I just want to get this site ranking above the fold so I can see if George Brown's Google Sniper's presell methodology works. And yes, I did just relentlessly plug Google Sniper. Speaking of which, someone actually bought the Google sniper program a while ago from me, so let me just say thank you, (wo)man, and good luck with it. If you need any help getting started feel free to comment and I can see what I can do. We wouldn't want anyone asking "Is Google Sniper a scam?"

Come on, who didn't see that coming?!

As for the second part of this post's title... I've decided I'm done with Micro Niche sites. There are several reasons for my huge 180 regarding them being viable:

1. I can't seem to rank effectively with blogger blogs any more. It may be that I just need more aggressive linking (I will admit, I have hardly done any marketing, but one of the 3 blogs I made as a test is ranking on the 3rd page... And neither of the other two have done anything for their keyterms).

2. Google (which is the only search engine that matters) is moving away towards lending these guys any kind of power, and ranking seems seriously impossible with them.

3. I just no longer like the idea of having to manage a hundred sites to get to a hundred dollars a day. Maintaining the rankings by adding new content, link building, and, eventually, having to outsource a ton of other stuff to just keep up with (much less all the work that comes into improving them) is a major turn off.

4. And, finally, Authority Sites seem so much simpler right now. I've recently kept a constant track on the pages ranking for a 2 word keyphrase that gets a buttload of searches a month, has a couple dozen advertisers, and a decent CPC according to Spyfu. The sites on the first SERP are all very "mom and pop" and don't have professional SEO done to them, and, at the same time, they have fewer links to individual pages (I think the most was 1000, which sounds like a lot, until you realize you can definitely build at least 1000 medium quality links in 6 months- some had less than 300). As a result, I've decided to focus on affiliate marketing strategies that involve authority sites. I'm going to chase down this two word keyphrase by building articles every day on the domain I purchased. After I raise some money, I'm going to go full steam ahead with my link building strategy (depending on how it works I'll give you guys the skinny- who knows, maybe I'll hit the jackpot and be able to rank instantly with some super SEO formula, lol) and try and nab first place for related key terms in the market. I figure by the time 3 months is up, adding just 1 article a day, I'd have 90 pages of powerful, fully backlinked and indexed, keyword rich content. Each page making $1 a day would be great, and feasible for the longer tailed keywords. Then it's just a matter of replication. I'm fairly certain I could handle upkeep on ten of these authority style sites.

So, basically, I'm moving away from the old "niche site" model. I'm also doing the same with my clickbank blogger blog, I think. Not sure if I'll add 90 articles, but I do think I'll try and do more than just 5 or 6 pages of worthwhile content.

So these are my basic affiliate marketing strategies. What has everyone else been doing while I've been sitting on my butt? I hope it was fun!