What am I doing wrong??

[SouthernGuy]

Hey everyone, first post here! So I have recently gotten into affiliate marketing, and to test the waters I set up an amazon affiliate account because it seemed to be noob-friendly. My first product I am marketing is the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson. I found the search analytics for keywords (the term "rework" gets around 10k-100k searches a month with low competition), started my first affiliate website, threw in the proper keywords, created some backlinks on high priority websites, started a Facebook page, and went through google analytics to get my website crawled.

Now for the problem... My website DOES appear on google when I search for "5 reasons why rework is the essential business book" (my website/article title) which shows it's on google at least somewhere. However, google analytics shows it's not even on the map for any keywords at all. My goal, of course, is to get my website on the top of google for keywords like "rework" and related terms, but I can't do that if my website is invisible! Sorry for the rant, I'm just a major noob at SEO and any tips/help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

 

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[SimplyMatt]

SEO words is on my hit list of things to get educated on, but I would check this link out: SEO Fundamentals | Pluralsight (Pluralsight is a subscription based software development video education site). I am sure you can also look up SEO on google and youtube and get some free guides on how to get your desired results. Apologies for not being able to help more.

I do a little work with google analytics and usually you need to include some custom javascript code into your website for your statistics to properly work. The whole catch on google analytics is that the software needs to run on the CLIENTS machine to properly capture the data, and that's why they use front facing javascript.

-Matt

 

[100k]

Hi... read un-scripted & the millionaire fastlane .

The fact that becoming an affiliate for Amazon is so "easy"... let's you know - erhm.... you are helping AMAZON build THEIR business, you are being a cog in the machine. Build your own machine.

That being said.... with SEO it takes time (weeks/months) to rank for terms (usually long tail keywords) and even longer to rank for 1 word keywords like "rework".

Things that help speed up the process.

Have the main keyword in the title.

Have the keyword in the meta descriptions (title/description/image titles/descriptions), H1, H2, H3, bold, italics, underlined.

Basically make it super easy for machines (google search engine) to know what the heck your site is about.

Have a link or two to authority sites (like wikipedia, amazon etc.) related on the topic.

Then you want to have amazing content so that when people land on your site they share it and help to build you links and generate traffic.

Lastly you want to build high quality links from sites that are in the same niche as you.

Ideally you want backlinks from domains are are in the top 10 results of the keyword you want to rank for.

So let's say you want to rank for "Rework Review".... then you want 2-3 links from the pages that are currently ranking in the top 10 for that term.

Lastly, get some high quality private blog links with HIGH PR (normally have to pay some decent coin for this or build your own private blog network).

Do all of that, then wait and pray and see if the nice people of Google will think your stupid site is worth ranking. Only to get hit with a F&*cking panda update 2-3 months down the road... ARHHHHH .... okay, sorry, sorry... I'm ranting.

Point is... its an expensive, time consuming venture and you are not guaranteed to see results.

Maybe you should just hire someone to make you a nice modern, mobile friendly landing page. Buy PPC traffic from Google Adwords or Facebook Ads optimize your site for conversions and get results within 2 days instead of waiting 3 months. Also, perhaps you want to give the "full review" to people that decide to sign up for your e-mail subscription (i.e use it as a lead magnet) so you can stay in touch with the people that are interested in business/management etc. and "recommend" them other books, courses, tools through e-mail and of course give them free useful tips too (not just sell, sell, sell...).

Good luck to ya buddy. Affiliate marketing is one hell of a beast.

 

[ZF Lee]

Hey everyone, first post here! So I have recently gotten into affiliate marketing, and to test the waters I set up an amazon affiliate account because it seemed to be noob-friendly. My first product I am marketing is the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson. I found the search analytics for keywords (the term "rework" gets around 10k-100k searches a month with low competition), started my first affiliate website, threw in the proper keywords, created some backlinks on high priority websites, started a Facebook page, and went through google analytics to get my website crawled.

Now for the problem... My website DOES appear on google when I search for "5 reasons why rework is the essential business book" (my website/article title) which shows it's on google at least somewhere. However, google analytics shows it's not even on the map for any keywords at all. My goal, of course, is to get my website on the top of google for keywords like "rework" and related terms, but I can't do that if my website is invisible! Sorry for the rant, I'm just a major noob at SEO and any tips/help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

Good Lord...
Rework is already offered for FREE on many channels..and it is a very basic read. Even some crap marketers might be already using that shit to build up perceived value. I know because that was how I found it!
That's why the search number were damn high! It's FREE and its easily available with NULL barriers to entry! Did you do your due diligence???

And on articles and content marketing, you have to build up a portfolio. You have to write, write, write and build up so that you are considered significant. I mean, look at this forum. MJ didn't give two shits about SEO, but because we talk about everything from Tai Lopez (oops!) to business, Google considers us good material to put up. And actually you might not need to build up content marketing...you start on it ONLY when you have sales and a steady market reputation, or you are a specialist in a certain niche (such as the copyblogger and I will teach you to be rich blogs) or let other bloggers or Youtubers spread the word at no cost to you! There are other marketing methods you can use without requiring content marketing.

Besides your article is very general. I ran into similar articles on many freelancer blogs, so you might be facing crowd noise unless you do have some tips which are UNIQUE.

Seriously, read UNSCRIPTED . Read the damn book again. Just work on helping people, even if it comes to unscaled stuff and you have to go door-to-door. The online stuff can be handled later or hired out. IMO, the Google mechanics are not something you can control and are more akin to passive effects rather than active.

@100k , this is why I don't worry too much about online biz. The insanity behind it is just not worth it....
I smell danger...

EDIT: BTW Jason Fried and the other guys wrote Rework as a side material to not only convince the market of their value, but also as a market awareness or puller. If you are using market puller material to get cash, you might be in danger of going down as you are using a derivative rather than real stuff. You won't enjoy the full benefits of a real Fastlane, if any.

 

[GuestUser450]

(the term "rework" gets around 10k-100k searches a month with low competition)

I'd check those numbers again.

 

[azntitan]

I have never heard of Rework.

Why would anyone buy it from you instead of just heading straight to Amazon?

SEO takes months and months of hard work. I don't think it's worth it for a measly book affiliate site. SEO basically requires you to game Google's algorithms. You have to build relationships with other reputable sites and get them to give your site links, and they aren't gonna do that for free.

Otherwise you just need to build the content up on your site and wait (months or years).

By which time Google could have changed their algorithm again and you'll be out of luck.

My hunch is that you should just try marketing something else.

 

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[ddzc]

I suggest reading the book asap so you can drop everything you're doing and save time/money.

 

[bfields]

Hey everyone, first post here! So I have recently gotten into affiliate marketing, and to test the waters I set up an amazon affiliate account because it seemed to be noob-friendly. My first product I am marketing is the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson. I found the search analytics for keywords (the term "rework" gets around 10k-100k searches a month with low competition), started my first affiliate website, threw in the proper keywords, created some backlinks on high priority websites, started a Facebook page, and went through google analytics to get my website crawled.

Now for the problem... My website DOES appear on google when I search for "5 reasons why rework is the essential business book" (my website/article title) which shows it's on google at least somewhere. However, google analytics shows it's not even on the map for any keywords at all. My goal, of course, is to get my website on the top of google for keywords like "rework" and related terms, but I can't do that if my website is invisible! Sorry for the rant, I'm just a major noob at SEO and any tips/help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

Hey! My guess would be to see where on your page you're placing your keywords at (the URL, H1, H2, body content, title tags and meta descriptions are the main areas to use your keywords) as far as off page, try building links using those keywords if you haven't already.