The Affiliate Journey

It’s easy to feel we need to be doing 100 things in a day to feel we’re being productive when affiliate marketing. I know this because I fall into the trap of feeling if I don’t have a to-do list as long as a novel I’m not doing enough.

I want to introduce you all to the concept of doing quality over quantity when it comes to marketing online.

Most of us are so IN IT all the time we miss just how powerful what we’re doing really is.

Let me give you an example:

You’re targeting the word BLUE WIDGETS

That keyword gets about 2000 searches a month, and from your testing you know it converts at about 3%. You make $35 for each conversion (sales, lead, action what ever it is).

Now the way many of us work is we build a site about widgets and just do a LOT of work of submitting articles, adding more content, trading links etc. although not with any real reasoning behind it. It’s a lot of work to continue to write and syndicate content, swap links etc.

WHAT IF you created a better game plan and went about it like this.

You know that if you ranked #1 you could probably get 50% of those 2000 searches for the term BLUE WIDGET. You also know that you convert @ 3% and make $35 bucks a sale.

so simple math tells us that the #1 spot for you here is worth 2000 * 50% * 3% conversion * $35 per sale = $1050 a month.

That’s over $1000 bucks in your jeans if you can just get down to focusing on that one task of getting the #1 rank for Blue Widgets.

So what do you have to do to attain that #1 ranking?

-Build Links
-Syndicate Content
-Press Releases
-Buy Links etc.

There are lots of things you need to do to get that spot, but you can now put your head down and do it knowing what the payoff is going to be.

So what’s my point with this post?

You need to stop throwing a bunch of S^%T against the wall hoping something sticks and trade that mentality for a logical plan of finding keywords that work for your campaigns and then doing what it takes to own those keywords.

Then simple RINSE - WASH - REPEAT

Doing this this way allows you to have a focused and structured TO-DO list of daily goals and tasks that will lead you to your end goal which is likely increased revenues and commissions.

Look at the BIG picture instead of the fast payoff and you’ll start to see some really bright lights at the end of the tunnel.