Simple Strategy For Affiliate Commissions Part Two

Posted at August 30, 2009

Ready for part two? If you’ve missed the first part of this Simple Strategy for Affiliate Commissions be sure to go back and read it.

To quickly recap, yesterday we chose a clickbank product to promote, started to do a little keyword research to make sure it’s a viable product and registered a domain that we then forwarded to our clickbank affiliate link.

My little test bunny for this project is http://www.cookrestaurantrecipes.com/

Now we’re not going to make any affiliate sales until we start driving some traffic to this domain. That’s exactly what we are going to start doing today.

Our first step is to write a few articles and submit them to high-ranking article directories. Our goal is to get these articles to rank in the Search Engines (like google, yahoo and msn / bing). Let me give you an example…

One of the keywords that comes up when I do some research using http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com is “copycat restaurant recipes”. It is searched about 19 times a day making it a decent keyword to write articles on. Next I went to google.com and searched for “copycat restaurant recipes” with the quotes around it. In the upper right hand corner of the screen you will see the results

Results 1 – 10 of about 17,300 for “copycat restaurant recipes“

This means that there are just a little over 17,000 pages out there that have this particular keyphrase (copycat restaurant recipes) on it in this particular order. That’s not a log of competition all things considered.

Next it’s time to sit down and brainstorm some article topics around this keyphrase. Here are a few ideas of the top of my head.

  1. How To Find Copycat Restaurant Recipes
  2. Top 7 Copycat Restaurant Recipes
  3. Top 3 Places To Find Your Favorite Copycat Restaurant Recipes
  4. Why Are Copycat Restaurant Recipes So Popular
  5. Copycat Restaurant Recipes – The Low Budget Alternative To Eating Out

Next it’s time to sit down and write an article on each of these topics. The topic is actually the title of the article. Do you notice how I worked the keyphrase in there? That’s done intentionally. The title of your article is a main part in ranking for a particular keyphrase so be sure to work it in there. After that just write naturally. I like to write articles that are between 350 and 500 words long.

At the end of the article you will put your resource box which is your chance to include your link to your new domain. For the articles above my resource box will look something like this:

Are you ready to jump in and cook your favorite restaurant recipe? Then visit http://www.cookrestaurantrecipes.com for a cookbook that includes some all-time favorites including Outback Steakhouse’s Coconut Shrimp and Olive Garden’s Chicken Marsala.

Now go write at least one of those articles. I’ll go write mine and we’ll meet back here ….

… got your article? Perfect.Let’s talk about what we’re going to do with it. The first thing I like to do is submit it to an article directory.

We want to submit it a high ranking article directly. Here’s a list that’s frequently updated.

Since I am quite well know by name in the cooking and recipe niche online, I’m going to use a pen name for any articles I’m submitting for this case study. This way there won’t be any bias when someone reads the article (and end up buying the ebook based on the fact that “Susanne Myers – The Hillbilly Housewife” recommended it). It will also make it easier for you to follow along and see exactly what I’m doing to promote this cookbook.

I had a little fun with this and came up with the name Marie-Claire Arceneau (pretty isn’t it? I just couldn’t help myself, I’ve always wanted a french name).

Since Ezinearticles.com doesn’t accept articles that promote an affiliate product, let’s focus on a few of the others first.  I like goarticles.com because it is very simple to submit articles with them, so let’s start there. Submit your first article, then sit down and write another one and submit it to articlesbase.com.

Here’s my article on GoArticle.com

Why Are Copycat Restaurant Recipes So Popular?

My Article Base Article hasn’t been approved yet. I’ll come back later and update it with a link to the live article.

Then sign up for an account at Ehow.com and sit down and write an article with a title of “How To … ” These are usually shorter than the articles I usually write and shouldn’t take you very long at ll.

For example, “How To Find Great CopyCat Restaurant Recipes” or “How To Make Chicken Marsala Olive Garden Style”.

Here’s the article I wrote “How To Find Great Copycat Restaurant Recipes”

Submit that article as well and then sit back and relax. Tomorrow we’ll look how much traffic the articles are starting to generate.

Susanne Myers

P.S. Come back tomorrow for some more strategies.

P.P.S. No money spent on this today. It took about 10 minutes total to sign up for these three article sites and took a little over an hour to write the articles – your milage may very depending on how fast you write.

You may also like to read:

  1. Simple Strategy For Making Affiliate Commissions
  2. Building Hub Pages For Affiliate Commissions
  3. Creating Viral Reports For Affiliate Commissions – An Advanced Strategy
  4. WordPress Redirect Plugin – Makes Pretty Affiliate Links Simple
  5. How To Earn Affiliate Commissions With A Free Report

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