February Affiliate Article Marketing

January 18, 2011 By Lisa Angelettie 6 Comments

February Affiliate Article Marketing

February is a great month for affiliate article marketing because the relationship, dating, love market has always been hot and will remain to be so as long as people are looking for their soulmates. (awww!!) Trust me when I say that this is a niche that is NEVER going to go stale. The great thing about the human spirit is that collectively, it never gives up hope of love and success.

The only problem that many marketers have with this niche is the saturation factor. Which means that a LOT of people promote in this market. For example, if you do a Google search for “dating” in quotes, you will get a return of about 217 million sites. Yikes!

Yet, don’t let that statistic scare you though. There are plenty of brand new affiliate marketers out there that are making a great supplemental income writing articles in this niche. The key to success is to drill down deep and find great long-tail keywords AND a great product to promote.

Here are a few long-tail keyword rich phrases in the dating niche to get you started. Just download this absolutely free, no opt-in required, ultimate keyword list (PDF) to get going.

Click To Download: Ultimate Keyword List Research: DATING

Word to the wise…use the list! Don’t just download this freebie, glaze over the list, and go to your emails. Uh-uh!

Write a few articles to grab some of the February traffic looking for love and you will be mighty proud of yourself by March. And while you’re at it, think about your own website or blog. Are you reaching the thousands of free search engine traffic in your niche by targeting the right keywords? Now is the time to to a little keyword research and make sure you that you are on target and that your competition isn’t the only one benefiting from free search engine traffic.

Last Thing
If you write an article targeting this niche using one of the keywords in this list, feel free to link to your article in the comment section below. Be quick about it though. I close comments to my articles after a specific amount of time.

How To Use The New Google Keyword Tool

December 2, 2010 By Lisa Angelettie 7 Comments

New Google Keyword Tool – Overview

As much as many entrepreneurs complain about the all powerful Google, you have to admit, they are constantly revamping and improving the fabulous free tools that they offer webmasters. Well, they’ve done it again because the same goes for the new and improved Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

First, I want to explain that you do not need to purchase Google Adwords nor do you even need to set up an account in order to use the new Google Keyword Tool. It is completely free to use.

Second, I want to assure you that if you’ve ever used any of the older Google keyword search tools that this is not a drastic departure from that model but rather a pleasant merger of the original keyword tool and the search-based keyword tool. *Please note that they are phasing out these tools older and this will be the keyword search tool of choice.

Now as a side to the first point I made – if you do have a Adwords account you will have access to a few more features including the ability to get more results and more details on those keyword results if you are signed in as an Adwords user. Registration is free – so no worries there.

New Google Keyword Tool – What’s New In Search?

1. You can search for keywords using a combination of keywords you select, from a website, or from categories. The old tool allowed you to search using a website and keywords, but the website option wasn’t very prominent and I don’t recall there being any choice of getting to generate keywords from categories.

2. You have more flexibility in how you can download the keywords you find. You can download only keywords that you select, the entire list, or keywords based on selective queries.

3. You can see stats for mobile search. I love that!

4. Use the filter options to define both the Max CPC and Daily Budget for traffic estimates, estimated statistics (impressions, average CPCs, etc.), search volume (Global Monthly Searches, etc.), and competition types.

5. Compare stats for your keywords with one or more match types at the same time.

New Google Keyword Tool – How To Use

1. When you first open the tool which you can find at: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

2. You will see two text boxes for inputing keywords or a website url. If you want to see what kinds of keywords a site similar to yours is using -you can use the website feature. If you know your major keyword or something close to it and want to discover dozens or even hundreds of more keywords related to your term, then you should use the keyword box. That’s the one I use most often.

3. For this article, I researched my favorite type of cake “red velvet cake” and was given 100 keyword results. If I had logged in with my adwords account (which is free to set up), then I could have gotten many more results. Hundreds more. But these the top 100 results are a great place to start!

4. When you conduct a search you also have the option of using “advanced features” such as getting keyword results based on country, language, adult-content, and my favorite – mobile search.

5. When Google returns their search results, they segment them into several different columns. First is “competition”. This result shows if there is low, medium or high Adwords competition for your keyword. This is good to know even if you don’t use Adwords, because it gives you a sense of how popular your keyword is. High popularity means that you are probably focusing on a keyword that converts well.

6. The next column shows the global monthly search volume for that keyword. We’re looking for about 100 searches a day although I may compromise on that number depending on how small but profitable the niche.

7. The next column shows the local monthly search volume for the keyword, which is the country that you picked for your search results. So in my case, the red velvet cake results were U.S. based. I could also tell by comparing the global to local results that most of the searches done for red velvet cake keywords were done primarily in the United States.

8. The final column shows you the search trends for that keyword, which gives you an idea of how popular research on that keyword is per month. Keep in mind that this column will certainly fluctuate depending on your niche. Red velvet cake results were much higher in December than in any other month.

Conclusion
While I do have and use powerful keyword tools like Market Samurai, I still like to use Google’s Keyword tool to do quick keyword research which then gives me a large list of words that I will dig deeper into with my paid tools. Frankly it moves quicker then any of the computer software keyword tools I own and I have always seen great results with article which I have written around keywords which I have researched and used via this tool.

Do your research. Pinpoint a hot 25, 25 or 50 keywords you love and go start writing articles for them.

*Special thanks to reader Gwen Harris for this article idea

What Are Long-Tail Keywords?

September 4, 2009 By Lisa Angelettie 7 Comments

Q: Lisa, I was wondering what exactly are long-tail keywords and does it make sense to use them on my own site that doesn’t get much traffic? I don’t understand what would be the point.

A: This is a great question! Long tail keywords are keyword phrases that typically consist of 3 or more words. The general idea is that the longer but less competition your long-tail keyword phrase has, the more likely you are to rank high for it in the search engine results.

So the answer to the original question is that it makes a tremendous amount of sense to use long-tail keywords on your website or blog, because it is rare that if you are new to the web that you are going to rank for any one or two word phrases in your niche. There’s just too much competition now. It’s better to try and rank for longer keyword phrases, that have less competition, from lesser-known websites.

For example, if your niche and keyword is diet, I can pretty much guarantee that you are not going to rank in the any of the top 5 or 10 spots for that single keyword:

1. It has over 145,000,000 results in Google.

2. A site with the url of diet.com holds the number one spot.

3. The next tops spots are taken by web heavy hitters such as WebMD, eDiets, etc.

Now if you take a subniche within the diet niche, and try to rank for that, you will have much better success. For example, let’s use the long-tail keyword phrase: grapefruit diet weight loss

1. That returns only 667,000 results in Google. It may sound like a lot, but this is actually a number that you could easily penetrate if you know what you are doing.

2. Web biggie, About.com holds the #1 spot, but then there seems to be some possible openings to squeeze into the next few spots.

Using long-tail keywords is absolutely essential if you are new to the web or if you are in an already saturated niche. It is your key to gaining visibility in what is fast becoming the enormous content-rich life of the wild world wide web. Stake your claim now with long-tail keywords!

February Affiliate Article Marketing