Jay Wessman
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Make Money Promoting Digital Products With SEO
In this guide I explain how you can easily promote any digital product with simple SEO methods and tactics. These sites can make you some great money each month and you can simply clone them with a new product.
Products
Most of the products that I promote through affiliate programs are physical products rather than digital products but every now and then I come across a digital product that I like so much that I decide to set up a little niche site to promote it.
One of the biggest advantages of promoting a digital product over a physical product is that you can get a much higher commission. A 50% commission seems to be pretty standard with digital products and some go up even higher to rates like 75% which is completely unheard of in the physical product space.
So here's a REAL LIFE example of how it can be done!
1) Do A Search For The Digital Product In The Google Keyword Tool
First I look for a digital product that I like and want to promote.
For this case study I promoted a premium WordPress theme called 'ShopperPress' that makes your WordPress blog look more like a shop.
Then I headed over to the Google Keyword Tool to see how many times it gets searched a month:
According to this 'ShopperPress' gets searched around 3,600 times a month which shows there's definitely quite a bit of interest in the theme.
But even more useful is we can see that 'ShopperPress Review' gets a total of 320 searches, 'ShopperPress Review' gets a total of 140 searches and 'Download ShopperPress' gets a total of 91 searches... I'll be incorporating all three of these keywords into my site heavily!
2) Set Up A Website Promoting Those Keywords
Next we just set up a simple website with a few pages that target these keywords.
You can do this really easily by just setting up a WordPress blog (watch this if you've never done it before).
For this example though I've just downloaded a free template online and then edited it using DreamWeaver and the finished result is ShopperPressReview.com:
As you can see the site is targetting the keyword 'ShopperPress Review' but I also have a page on there to target both 'ShopperPress Coupon' and 'Download ShopperPress'.
The review is lengthy and comprehensive and designed to point of the perks of the product to encourage people to buy. It helps to choose products that you have used and know well as it'll show in your review and be much more convincing.
3) Build Lots of Links to the Site
Now we just continue on SEOing the site like normal. I'm not going to get too much into building backlinks and getting your site ranking here because I have already written a tonne of material on this already.
Instead here are a few links to a few SEO guides that I've written:
> Using Knowem to Find Authority Sites to Build Backlinks On
> Using Footprints to Build Super Relevant Backlinks
> How to Steal Your Competitors Backlinks
> A Huge List of Sites to Build Backlinks On
After a bit of SEO work you should eventually get a ranking like this:
And that's it! Once your site is ranking well your traffic should convert extremely well (provided that your content and reviews are good). And because the commissions are super high with digital products even a small trickle of traffic can work out to some decent dough!
For example ShopperPress.com is just a small 5 page site but it brings me in an extra $50 - $100 each and every month on autopilot and can be replicated over and over and over again:
Not bad for a site that only took me a couple of days to set up and promote!
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