How to Optimize Your Affiliate Site

We all want the number one spot on google for whatever keyword that is relevant to our affiliate site. In this post I will explain in detail how to get the throne on google for maximum targeted traffic.

There is no doubt that this is the best and most efficient way to get traffic to your site. You just need to make sure you are targeting the right keywords so your visitors will be interested in whatever affiliate product you are promoting.

So first you need to know exactly what keyword phrase you want to rank for. You can pick a few but it is best to start off with just one very good keyword. The ideal keyword you would want your affiliate site to rank for would have as little competition as possible, as many people searching for it on google, and you would want the keyword to be as close to the buying stage as possible.

Which explains why the name of a very popular affiliate product would be the best one to target since there is a lot of money to be made there.

So once you find a great keyword that you think is a buying keyword it is time to see how much competition it has. Generally the keyword for your affiliate site should be getting at least 1,000 searches a month.

In order to get an idea of how much traffic it is getting put it into google's search box and put it in quotation marks which indicates that exact phrase.

So once you do that you are going to want to look at how many pages are ranking for that keyword. If it is less than about 10,000 pages then that is a very good sign. Anything over 100,000 I would suggest skipping that keyword.

This is not the best way to analyze the traffic. It is just getting a good idea. So then you are going to want to take that keyword out of quotes and then search again.

Basically the guys at the top of google would be your competition for the affiliate site. So what I normally do is visit the top 5 pages and find out if I can outrank them. What you really want to watch out for are big sites that have a ton of pages. These are known as authority sites.

They are the hardest to outrank for since they have the most credibilty through google's eyes. Which basically means that it would be hard to outrank with your affiliate site only having ten posts altogether.

So obviously a website like wikipedia would be almost impossible for your small affiliate site to outrank for.

Just make sure that there are no more than 7 authority sites on the front page and then choose that keyword as your main one.

OK finally I can get on to how to optimize your site. There are certain guidelines you must keep in mind when setting up your affiliate site.

First of all you should always put the main keyword in the title, description, domain name, tags, and in half of the post titles you write.

You can always include some of them in your actually content but there really is no need to worry about keyword density and that BS. That is because your content is going to have keywords related to your main keyword instead.

If you go to the list of keywords you got from typing in your main keyword at the google adwords tool you should find plenty of these kinds of keywords. They are known as LSI keywords.

So I would always pick at least ten of those keywords that you can include in your content and in the other half of your post titles you make for you affiliate site.

That way google will know exactly what to list your site under so that their visitors are happy and keep using them as their source of information.

Ok so that is pretty much how to optimize your affiliate site for your main keyword. Good luck.