Gold Can I make $20k? Affiliate Marketing Fashion Diary

[Honeybadger]

how many visitors/day do you get on an average day?

October 2k/day
November 1.5k/day

I have 10 target keywords, each one is < 6k searches > /month
6k searches x 10 keywords = 60k searches, divide it by 30 days = 2k/day
Alot of traffic comes from variation search queries

 

[Honeybadger]

are you still ranking these sites organically or are you incorporating some paid traffic as well?

100% organic traffic from day 1
Just following the Google guidelines
Most people ignore guidelines
It's very simple to rank on Google
But requires dedication and alot of tesing

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 19, 2020

Commission
Earning (today).........$78 (-$46)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$91 (-$1)
Forecast (month).......$2,730 (-$30)
Target (month)..........$3,000

Notes

• 1 week before Black Friday, final content testing this weekend
• Smartphone testing all content now for Google mobile first indexing March 2021 (Google started testing 2016)
  
• Testing new ads, getting better CTR when ads are more tuned to customer intent (1x ad sitewide doesnt work in fashion/clothing site of men & women w/many categories), read more about consumer intent on TWG
  
• New Year must return to the gym to be more active, its too many hours sit down, so store all work data in cloud and work more from smartphone, smartwatch, tablet, and voice, work on the move in 2021
  
• Started building SEO checklist for voice search SEO push in 2021 (can't find alot about Google voice searching advertising, more digging to do), found it from Metric Theory (clever headline) Ok Google, How Do I Optimize My PPC Campaigns For Voice Search?

News

• Acceleration Partners Video, Nov 11 -- > Affiliate Marketing Predictions for 2021
  
• Affiliate Summit Video, Nov 10 --> Playbook - Increase Black Friday Cyber Monday Sales
  
• Affiliate Summit Video, Nov 10 --> 12 Ways Super Affiliates Optimize Their WordPress Site
  
• Ahref Blog, Oct 29 --> Voice Search: A No-Nonsense Guide
  
• Issu Video, Oct 29 --> How to Generate Revenue from your Digital Content
• Ahref Blog, Oct 27 --> Keyword Research - How to Do Keyword Research for Affiliate Sites
  
• Awin Video, Oct 14 --> 10 Learnings from coronavirus
  
• Wordpress Infographic, Sep 3 --> Create a Content Schedule: When to Post New Content
  
• Affiliate Summit Video, Jun 8 --> Strategies to Optimize Your Site for Voice Search
  
• Ahref Blog, Jun 4 --> 7 Successful Amazon Affiliate Websites

 

[Abdul Mupit]

Cheap Web Hosting - Best Website Hosting Service | NameSilo
$36/yr I use this registrar and there have been no issues --I would assume their hosting might be good too

Thank you for your recommendation. But @EuronGreyjoy has recommend me cheaper hosting at godaddy

 

[Honeybadger]

Thank you for your recommendation. But @EuronGreyjoy has recommend me cheaper hosting at godaddy

@Abdul Mupit its cheaper but @Graybeard knows more about hosting
I just searched for you and it was special offer in your region & customer support its in your language
Best is outsource these decisions to IT professional
Always read customer reviews like Trust Pilot

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 20, 2020

Commission
Earning (today).........$104 (+$26)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$92 (+$1)
Forecast (month).......$2,760 (+$30)
Target (month)..........$3,000

Notes

1. Launched new site (submitted sitemaps to Google, Bing, Yandex & DuckDuckGo)
2. Learning the full list of Google Assistant voice commands to help plan daily workload on the move, now on hunt for Android 6.0 smartwatch - or any suggestion?
3. Backed up web & device digital files to cloud
4. Reading first Google research paper from 90's

News

• Flex Offers Blog, Nov 20 --> What You Should Know About National Free Shipping Day 2020
• Shopify Blog, Nov 20 --> Product Pages: 16 Best-in-Class Examples and Why They Work
• Forbes News, Nov 20 --> Twitter Fleets: What Brands Should Know
  
• Affiliate Insider Blog, Nov 20 --> Twitter Fleets – What affiliate marketers should know
  
• European Gaming, Nov 20 --> Exclusive Q&A with Jeton Kodia Co-Founder at Oddspedia (broken SSL)
  
• Google Search Blog, Nov 19 --> Google moves search blog content to new site
  
• Woocommerce Blog, Nov 19 --> How to Increase Average Order Size During the Holidays
• Google Search Blog, Oct 26 --> Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
• Facebook Business Blog, Oct 21 --> Creative ideas for using Facebook shops during the festive season
• Ahref Blog, Jun 15 --> 11 Proven Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website
  
• You Tube Trends --> What YouTube trends reveal about human needs during COVID-19
  
• Twitter Business --> Twitter Christmas Hub

 

[AmNovice]

100% organic traffic from day 1
Just following the Google guidelines
Most people ignore guidelines
It's very simple to rank on Google
But requires dedication and alot of tesing

Admirable! This is great stuff, really happy to read about your great progress!

 

[Graybeard]

I want to understand what question they ask so I can answer it on my site

study google suggestions for some clues
how do * cookie cutter - Google Search
then click on the search field text

 

[Abdul Mupit]

@Abdul Mupit its cheaper but @Graybeard knows more about hosting
I just searched for you and it was special offer in your region & customer support its in your language
Best is outsource these decisions to IT professional
Always read customer reviews like Trust Pilot

Absolutely, while i reach my earning and my visitors growth i will move to better hosting.

 

[Honeybadger]

Admirable! This is great stuff, really happy to read about your great progress!

I hope for you its the same success, and everyone else on Affiliate Fix

 

[Socrates]

I set up daily site audit with different software (its checking for broken links, page loading speeds, bounce rate, mobile usability, tap target accessibility on smart phone & tablet, content readability, Google rank, Bing rank, and I get email if pre-set thresholds are breached)

Can you recommend some software for this?

 

[Graybeard]

register a .com for $1 what does every year after cost?
I have probably kept my older .coms for an average of 9 years (a few almost 20 years) so it might pay to lose money the first year --the Verisign registry sold names to registrars for $8 last I checked ...

 

[Socrates]

@EuronGreyjoy What strategy do you use to find new niches and long tail keywords?

 

[Honeybadger]

Don't overspend on hosting but don't try to cheap out either ...

If it's affordable do you think Cloud VPS is a good solution for multiple sites?

 

[Honeybadger]

@EuronGreyjoy What strategy do you use to find new niches and long tail keywords?

It's good question, and I'm not expert but it's working for me ..

1. Find problem
2. Identify solution
3. Research keyword volume

1. Look for problem -->

Find problems in your category by always looking for latest trends (Google Trends), products that solve problems (there is channel with 29 million subscribers called Popular on You Tube), reading latest news (I post in thread most days)

Tips

• Stay in 1 category (example. gaming, clothing, courses)
  
• Subscribe to updates if you can (Google Trends, You Tube, blogs, podcasts)
  
• Read latest news about a. your industry, b. affiliate marketing
• Use digital calendar and create notifications to your phone

2. Find solution for problem -->

To find solutions the product or service must already exist on market, and I research best selling products (you can find Amazon Best Sellers in every category updated 24 hrs), many websites you can order product database by 'most popular', also see what company is promoting in PPC

Tips

• Make sure the product/service is selling in volume
  
• Read customer reviews (4/5+ stars or 80%+ positive)

3. Research keywords -->

Keyword research is very fast, use a tool like Wordtracker, Semrush, Google Keywords Planner and look at keyword levels to make sure there is volume in the long tail for all your deep level pages, example. gaming > games > pc games > pc strategy games > pc strategy games 2020 > age of empires, this is also your site heirachy

Tips

• Make sure you looking at correct country volume
  
• Use 2+ sources to check keyword volume
• Choose a stable keyword (beware seasonal keyword)
  
• Ignore 'difficulty' metric

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 21, 2020

Commission Earned
Earning (today).........$101 (-$3)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$93 (+$1)
Forecast (month).......$2,790 (+$30)
Target (month)..........$3,000
Breakeven (month)....$2,000

Project Notes

1. Pls make more comment, to make thread more useful for everyone
2. I will work 4 hours/day from Monday (240 productive minutes), rest of work day learning
   
3. Added 'breakeven' $2,000 to report, minimum to pay bills, this month so far $1,950
   
4. 450+ affiliate clicks (2nd highest in November) & 80+ pending orders
5. Traffic up 1,500+ today after updates, content must be fresh esp. home, category, bestseller
   
6. New site -- >Category pages indexed by Google 12 hours after XML site map submit, pics indexed in Google Images after 16 hours
7. New fashion website, launch early next week in time for Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Xmas
   
8. Google Search updates page nothing new, but found product search markup guidelines for rich snippets
9. Affiliate website creation template complete, every step from website idea to cash in account, what it means you can lose everything & start from zero (anywhere in world) to earning commission very fast, the next step is to find alternative traffic sources to Google organic (SEO) which is Ads, I will learn Ads (not just Google) start January 2021 - this strategy I learn from Entreprenuer.com --> 9 Multimillionaires Who Lost It All but Came Back
10. Found Neil Patel & Eric Siu website called Marketing School Podcast
11. Designing Star Wars motorhome interior like Disney's new Star Wars Hotel

Affiliate News

• Amazon Live, LIVE --> Latest live product videos from Amazon.com
• Neil Patel & Eric Siu Podcast, Nov 19 --> #Special - How to promote your content using tactics that work
  
• Rakuten Advertising Blog, Nov 19 --> YouTube: Why Advertisers Should Press Play in Q4
  
• Hubspot Blog, Nov 19 --> Why do 79% of blogs fail? How to make sure yours doesn't
• Semrush Blog, Nov 18 --> 6 Tips on Writing Festive E-commerce Emails That Shine
  
• Clickbank, Nov 17 --> *Free Traffic: How to Get It and Use It (*not counting your time !!)
  
• Neil Patel & Eric Siu Podcast #1560, Nov 13 --> Is AI relevant yet? AI tools you can use in 2020
  
• Clickbank Blog, Nov 6 --> How To Find The Perfect Niche For Affiliate Marketing
  
• Amazon Advertising, Oct 29 --> Guide to holiday marketing with sponsored ads
• JVZOO Blog, Oct 29 --> 5 Biggest Affiliate Problems and How to Deal With Them
  
• Semrush Video, Oct 22 --> How to Create High Converting Landing Pages
  
• Clickbank Blog, Oct 27 --> Top 7 Email Marketing Tips for Affiliate Marketers
  
• Awin Blog, Sep 28 --> 15 affiliate marketing tips to improve your campaign efforts in 2020
  
• Awin Blog, Dec 5 (2019) --> Global Cyber Monday 2019 performance
  
• Awin Blog, Dec 2 (2019) --> Global Black Friday 2019 performance

Video of the day

If you doing affiliate SEO I recommend watch this video posted last week (make notes), there is blog post if you using accessibility voice reader --> interview with Julie Adams (from Matt Diggity YT channel), she is very smart about affiliate SEO strategy

 

[AmNovice]

Make sure the product/service is selling in volume

Good tip, how do you go about finding that out? For me, I'm doing my research primarily on keyword search volume. So for my niche, most of the keywords I'm trying to rank for are getting between 3k-6K searches per month.

 

[AmNovice]

Video of the day

Thanks for linking this, funny thing is I've been seeing this recommended to me on YT for quite some time but never got around to clicking and watching it. Now that you linked it, I take it as a sign to watch it once and for all!

 

[Honeybadger]

Good tip, how do you go about finding that out?

1. Go to Amazon.com bestsellers (top 100 in US)
2. Find product (example. Adasion 12x42 Binoculars for Adults with New Smartphone Photograph Adapter, position #8 of Amazon for binoculars, & 5/5 rating)
3. Multiply number of product reviews (example. 3,086) x 10* = 33,860 sales
4. Days from product posted (example. July 28, 2019 to today) = 483 days
5. 483 days divided by 30 = 16.1 months
6. 33,860 (sales) divided by 16.1 (months) = 2,103 (sales/month)

But it's just guess, to show if its selling
Idk if 10% of customer makes a review?

 

[Socrates]

@EuronGreyjoy
Thanks for your research. As I understand it, to get into the top ten a new site needs a carefully selected keyword. When you choose a niche what frequency of monthly queries are you targeting?
Second question on content: what content structure do you choose? Is this a review? Or are you building a funnel landing page?

 

[Socrates]

3k-6K searches per month.

Its for new websites?

 

[Honeybadger]

2% maybe IDK
I would use that number (and i think it's high?)

TY @Graybeard I will use 2% in future
@AmNovice here's re-calc use in future to find sales of Amazon bestsellers
1 customer rating = < 50 > sales

For binoculars example
3,386 rating (2% of sales)
3,386 divide by 2 = 1,693 rating (1% of sales)
1,693 rating x 100 = 169,300 (100% of sales)
169,300 sales divide by 483 days = 350 sales/day
350 sales x 30 days = 10,500 sales/month