Affiliate Marketing Blog - Category: Seo

Alright, so the title sounds extreme but this wayward reference to a popular skating game from the 80s illustrates the point that backlinks are a vital part of your overall SEO strategy. Without them no amount of on-page search engine optimization will get your site ranking. In fact, some SEO experts claim that about 80% of your ranking is determined by...

PageRank has been with us for awhile now and it seems the years have bred a host of stories: some true, some urban legend and others a mix of the two. This doesn't surprise us – anything that has to do with Google and SEO is bound to be misunderstood or misinterpreted simply because Google guards its results formula with a zeal normally reserved for...

You know that there's lots of free software out there – but you also know that some of it is better than others. So when you're first starting out, how do you choose what to use? And isn't software you pay for always going to be better? Not necessarily. While there is of course a lot of really great paid software out there, there are also many free...

Its one thing having to deal with a leak but quite another to be in the embarrassing situation of being blissfully unaware you're leaking until someone kindly points it out. For all affiliate marketers busily trying to boost their website’s SEO and PageRank, there’s a common problem that could be costing you precious link juice.

“What the …?!? Link juice? Never heard of it.” If this is the...

As we all know SEO is hard work (even harder if you’re not using tools like Traffic Travis) so us being humans we naturally are drawn to the path of least resistance and avoid work like the plague (and clichés if we can help it).

So it’s with great interest I came across a story from Brad Fallon (co-founder of StomperNet) who mentioned Google’s “Universal Search” initiative, which allows all Google-owned properties to be searched at any given moment.

What does this mean?

1. When choosing...

Before I get started I just want to say (maybe by way of disclaimer) that I'm very new to the affiliate industry so there's bound to be some gaps in my knowledge. That said something I have learnt is that affiliates share much in common with a lot of other business models, particularly in the online world. Affiliates face the same challenge of effectively guiding their affiliate site through the maze of technical hoopla along with the usual requirements of running a business.

The

Want to know where your website ranks in the search engines? Don't want to spend hours entering each keyword into Google, Yahoo and MSN to see if your page appears in the top 10?

No problem -- SEO Software can do it all for you.

How to do it:

If you haven't downloaded Traffic Travis... it's free, and you can grab it at http://www.traffictravis.com

1) Click on "Search Engine Tools"

2) Create a project

• Click the "Add project" button
• Give your project a name, and enter the address of the...

If you've been plying the waters of the web design community for a while, you might have heard people talking about your "text to code" ratio, and how it can affect your SEO rankings.

This is the idea that the more text and less "code" you have on your page, the easier it will be for the search engines to understand, and the better they will index it as a result. You'll see a lot of discussion on SEO forums and blogs about this, and you'll even find text to code ratio calculators...

For those of you out there battling to reword your PLR articles, or struggling to turn the articles supplied by merchants in their affiliates areas into unique works of art (fit for the SEO gods)... I just want to make sure you've seen this tool.

It's been lurking in the Affilorama Tools area for a little while now: Unembellished, unassuming, and possessing the most prosaic...

If you've heard any of the noise surrounding Google's supplemental results feature, you could be forgiven for thinking that some sort of plague had hit the SEO community. "But my site has lots of quality content! Those are my main information pages! Why are they being sent to supplemental?"

This isn't exactly a new issue. Google introduced their "supplemental result" directory in 2003. It serves as sort of a "last chance" reference for more obscure searches. If you search for something and...