To start making money from affiliate marketing, you need to use funnels to build your affiliate marketing subscription lists and blogs to increase your chances of attracting as many targeted prospects as possible. And to maximize your affiliate marketing leads, you need to use every possible form of search engine optimization (SEO) both on your blogs and on your squeeze pages that lead to your affiliate funnels.
These days, quality backlinks from related sites are a big part of off-page SEO, and can go a long way toward improving your affiliate marketing results by helping your affiliate blogs and squeeze pages rank. higher on search engine result pages (SERPs). . As search engines see it, if related blogs in your same niche feel worth linking to, then there must be some good content on your site, content that the engines should display on their SERPs.
Commenting on other people’s blogs can be a powerful source of quality backlinks if you know what to pay attention to. The first step is to find the top 20 or 30 blogs in your niche. That’s not hard to do: just enter your main keyword or keyword phrase followed by ‘blog’ into your favorite search engine. Go through the results and find blogs that fit your site’s theme and seem to be updated regularly.
Then look for posts that already have comments and use ‘View > Page Source’ in the top menus to see the page coding. Scroll down to find the comments and find the link to the commenter’s site. By default, WordPress blogs add a snippet to these links that says: rel=’nofollow external’. This tells search engines that it is an external link and that your spider should not follow that link. Why WP would be so hostile to commenters is beyond me, and obviously many others as well, as there are dozens of plugins available to get rid of that ‘nofollow’ attribute.
So, from your list of the best blogs in your niche, immediately ignore any blog that still uses the ‘nofollow’ tag; just cross them off your list entirely. Smart affiliates don’t mess around with partial results – you want potential traffic to click on your link AND search engine boost, so only pay attention to blogs that give you both.
Now that you have a list of blogs that target your niche and use one of the tracking plugins, start visiting them and leaving comments regularly. Understand that your goal is to get traffic from that blog’s audience and get another backlink. As such, you should leave intelligent and relevant comments. Good blogs have comment moderation, which means your comment won’t show until it’s been approved, and junk mail or spam won’t be approved, so don’t waste your time or the blog owner’s time.
The more often you comment on a blog, the greater your exposure to your readers and the greater the chances that they will click through to view your blogs and squeeze pages. Don’t use links in your comments: the blogging software will link your username to your URL automatically. Pay special attention to blogs whose comments also link to your latest blog post and/or your Twitter account, as these are bonus values for you.
If the site displays that it’s using the CommentLuv plugin, you’ll see a link to each commenter’s latest blog post below their comment, using their post title as the anchor text. When sandboxing blogs with this plugin, make sure to use your keywords in your blog post before heading off to leave your comments; This ensures that your keywords will be part of the anchor text that links to your own blog, another benefit of SEO blog commenting activities.
