Write Write Write

I've been writing a lot lately. I've not only been writing reviews for the affiliates that I'm associated with, but I've also been writing articles to promote my niche, home decor.

I truly believe writing is the key to success in affiliate marketing. It's critical to build relationships with the people you are selling to. You have to let them know that you're a regular person that's trying to help them out by giving them something they need.

Writing will also help you get your link out to more sites. The more sites you are linked to, the higher your potential traffic will be.

I got my article about buying home decor online and saving money published at Ezine Articles. I'm going to try and write another article this weekend if I have time.

Writing articles is a great way to get links back to your site and promote your area of expertise. I've gone ahead and submitted the article I've already written to a few other services, but so far I haven't heard back anything yet.

I'm still churning away at Facebook marketing, but so far I still have no sales as a result of it. I'm going to carefully monitor it this weekend and then I'll decide if it's worth it or not. My feeling is that people might be clicking the links by mistake and that's costing me.

I think money with Google advertising would be better spent, but I'll let you know what I find. Enjoy the weekend!

To Google and Beyond...!

Lately, I've been working diligently to get quality content onto my site affiliate marketing site. Last night I decided to submit it to Google with the hope that it would list it in their directory someday.

I woke up this morning and tried a Google search and to my surprise the site was listed! Given, it's not a top ranked site and the search words have to be quite specific, but it's better than nothing.

I thought it would be much more difficult to get listed. I checked Yahoo! and Bing later on and so far I'm not listed on either. I've read from other sources that if you're listed on Google, then you will show up on other search engines soon after, but I decided to submit my URL to both just in case.

It takes time to generate quality content and adapt the site to today's standards, but it's definitely worth it. I haven't received substantial traffic yet, but things are definitely looking up.

Affiliate Marketing Revisited

So again I'm trying affiliate marketing with a new approach. This time I've created a website and I'm promoting products through thoughtful reviews.

I can already tell the hardest part about this will be getting listed within search engines. It's quite a process today to try and get your site on google, yahoo, bing, etc. So that will be my next goal.

In the meantime, I plan to add more content to promote the home decorating niche. I chose this niche because it is something that I enjoy and it has the potential to be lucrative.

There are also many topics on this niche. For example, I can focus it on furniture, lighting, faucets, hardware, etc. These are resources people want to know more about and having a comprehensive site with reviews to ensure they are safe will accomplish this task.