I forgot to add, I think in general you need a dozen or so links for your content to start ranking and to create a platform to build on, but after I've achieved that I generally try to invest in my content and let that do the talking. Also usually when you hire premium writers they have their own blogs/social accounts where they can tweet or link to stuff they've written, which helps on the SEO front and also justifies the higher cost. It'a also true that relationships, industry and blogger contacts are really important for SEO. I think by building a more authoritative site with high quality content and value, it's easier to build relationships with established industry leaders who are more happy to link out to you. I think the biggest problem affiliates on this forum make is they build entire portals with content that they're paying around $0.03/word for, when if they stretched their budget by 50-100% then most of their content would probably be link-worthy, sharable and panda-proof.
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Good article bud, I agree with pretty much everything, especially leveraging your sites traffic and position to make the affiliate companies to give a little. Before I add an sites which has approached me, I setup a call (I'm old school, and establishing a personal relationship is essential) and I discuss terms. I make it clear that I don't just throw up some reviews and hope for the best. In essence, you have to sell yourself to them. I want to be in a position to offer something special to my members/visitors, and when I add a new room for promotion I will be putting in a lot of time and resources to ensure the new rooms gets attention. Our time is money, and if I'm going to add a new room and promote a new room, then I expect to be giving special considerations. Not just in payment terms, but one of the most overlooked aspects of dealing with any company of this nature, is that they have access to a wealth of customer information. Everything from geo location, demographic info, and of course you can also get some extra lead time on upcoming promotions. So as you mentioned, it's important to turn your new partnership into a relationship.
Awesome article man. When I first started I made the mistake of not taking the CPA deal. Its something I would recommend to new affiliates and of course when promoting programs that have a low retention rate.
Great article! Agreed 100% for newer aff's to take CPA deals. Rev share is risky. Love the idea of minimum guaranteed rev share agreements as well. I have not used that before. Also, sweet domain!
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[QUOTE=addz123;bt5660]Thanks for replying to my post. Thought it would take you longer to digest :) 1. G+ isn't popular. This is just a fact. It doesn't matter if you're involved in SEO, if G+ isn't popular then Author Rank can't be effective.[/QUOTE] I felt inclined to respond to this and apologies in advance - I haven't read everything in detail so you may have covered this already. G+ has two sides, there is G+ the social network, and G+ the social layer. Both are very distinct and one does not require the other to work. Just because G+ the social network is dead and is only updated by marketers does not mean that the layer is underused as well. Author rank can work without the social network being a success. Authorship is hugely popular amongst all bloggers whether they're talking about SEO/marketing or something benign like '[URL="https://www.google.co.uk/search?pws=0&gl=uk&q=cool+cat+teacher"]cool cats[/URL]'. My advice would be to get on G+ authorship and save your energy with the social network for now.
I'm always 50/50 on articles like that. On one hand, it really bugs me when the author treats theory/speculation as fact. The way it reads, it's like he time-traveled to the future, saw for sure that author rank was an actual thing, saw tests proving it, saw statements from Matt Cutts stating that it is all real, and then came back to write about it. In reality he heard the latest SEO buzz word enough times, made some crazy assumptions and then wrote them all as fact. It's fine to theorize things like that - but to write it as if it is inevitable and will go exactly the way he predicts is always a huge turn-off. Which is a pity, because I found it a well-written article in terms of structure. However on the other hand, it's always amusing watching people blindly follow it. About 90% of those comments are basically people saying "Wow you opened my eyes" and then doing everything he said in the article without even a second thought. Anyway - great replies Adam, and it's good to see that Mike is willing to get in a discussion with you about it.
Thanks for replying to my post. Thought it would take you longer to digest :) 1. G+ isn't popular. This is just a fact. It doesn't matter if you're involved in SEO, if G+ isn't popular then Author Rank can't be effective. 2. How does authorship even help users? Also there is a VERY HIGH probability that G+ authorship will re-direct traffic away from blogs/newspapers to the G+ profile page, where people will leave comments. As a webmaster I would hate that. Author rank is just a lazy way for Google to rank content. It's an assumption that most of the content on the web is a feature article/opinion piece with lots of social signals. It's depressingly arcane. It should be the website/brand which receives credit for high quality content and social signals, not the author. Hypothetically, if Author Rank was launched then it would revolutionise the content and media industry. Google News would turn into Google Author News, users would subscribe to authors rather then the Newspaper brands (which the newspapers would vehemently HATE and want to prevent from happening) and it opens up privacy issues across the board. If every online publisher is linking to his personal G+ profile don't you think that could become dangerous? Honestly I can see large media giants who spend billions marketing their publishing brands 100% against giving power to authors and losing traffic to G+ Author News.
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