If you want your affiliate website to make money and get traffic for your golden keywords, here are a few SEO tips that will set you up nicely in 2018 and rank your webpage. It involves on-page and technical SEO and content writing tips.

Marketing product online, generating sales  and making affiliate commissions is a tough task in this super competitive field.

This take action Search  Engine Optimisation Quick Guide is full of actionable tips and if implemented well – can make you money with your  “amazon affiliate website”  “blog”  or “Hobby website”.  Below are tips generated by online marketers that work right now in 2018.

Essentials for SEO

· Fast webhosting speeds or servers ( your pages should load fast)

· Google Console setup – to check any technical site issues

· Canonical urls are important ( check yours on google eg info:wordpressaustralia.com.au)

Affiliate sites: On-Page SEO for 2018

1. You should add the main keyword in the first 200 words.

2. The internal links are best added in first 200 words.

3. Brand name in the title tag works really well. Eg: best Modem reviews by Gadget Australia.

4. The Meta title should have an exact keyword.

5. The Meta description can be ignored for keywords as a ranking value, but you can still use for description and filler content. It’s important to have a good CTA on it if Google is fetching it for page descriptions.

6. H1/title must have exact keyword.

7. H2 must have your exact keyword or long tail related to your main keyword. (Check H2 is not used for terms/pages like contact us, about us). H3 should have a partial match keyword or LSI or long tails or trending terms on google.

8. H4 for conclusion of your article or page. H5 and H6 are not needed as H1 to H4 titles should do the job.

9. Any LSI should be added in first 500 words and at could also be used at the conclusion of article

10. Keyword in URL is very important, but do check what is happening in your niche.

11. Use your keyword in your alt tags. Write a nice alt tag. Don’t overdo it

12. Silo helps with proper internal linking and can work wonders. The Relevancy of keywords and link juice is transferred with internal links. It helps google understand you site better.

13. Content on the site is different for each niche. A coupon code site would need just minimum content in articles. But in some niches you will need to make 5,000 word pillar content. For eg. If you’re writing a guide to do something then FAQs are must. Research top 10 results and see what is working in your niche.

14. Dwell time – if you increase the time the person stays on your page, google will like you and rank you better. Backlinko has detailedd this same tip on his SEO blog. This can be done with YouTube videos, graphs, detailed pricing tables and good info graphics.

15. Hyperlink H3s and lists that’s you create. It helps SEO and also helps you score links if copied by others.H#3 links also help give you site links as seen in Google search

16. Menus are important to Google bots. A proper structured menu with good keywords can do wonders for your blog rankings. Use keywords where ever possible as menu links are crawled a lot.

17. Outbound links to Wikipedia or authority sites should be at the middle or bottom of article. This also prevents cannibalising your link juice and click to these other o/b sites.

18. Structure your blog posts – H1 Intro, H2 Sub-Topic, H3 Further drilling down into subtopic, H4-Conclusion

19. Content writing – While grammar and spelling is important, what is more important is if your content give value to your reader and if they learn something from it. If they get value from it, that’s a sure sign that it can rank well. Research word counts for what’s working/ranking in your niche.

20. Review writing and conversions – Write your experience with the product, product features and specifications are less important for conversions in comparison to this. Real images build trust rather than product images.

21. Breadcrumbs are great for SEO and Google bots crawling.

22. Indexing categories and tags – You can index categories as they play a part in Silo and url structure, however tags are not important and can do more harm if indexed ( if they are many tags)

23. Always do more research on your posts/articles – compare with competitors and do further conversion optimisation (CTA, Structure, Page design, Technical analysis) to make your post better than top competitors.

24. FAQ – Some niches are doing really well with FAQ’s attached. Determine if your niche requires an faq.

25. Incoming backlinks need to link from relevant content and if the title of that page is relevant as well, it might help further.

If you liked this post and content, you can follow more SEO tips and me at my blog here at DF media. Some more bonus  tips and are given below.

Search Engine Optimisation for affiliate Websites

Silo and Url structure example :

mysite.com/microwaves/reviews/samsung-Ba63249

Want a Google snippet In Search:

Optimize your content and format to get a featured snippet in google. The most popular formats for position zero are:

paragraphs (an HTML tag <p>

tables (an HTML <table> tag

lists (HTML header tags h1 or h2)

Search intent:

This is important in creating  content for your blog and articles

 i.e. understand your audience to give them the best results.

Sometimes you might spot a particularly juicy keyword when conducting your research. But just because a keyword has high volume, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be a good one to rank for.

You have to consider what the “intent” was behind the search.

Voice search:

Google home amazon alexa etc are all scouring the internet for answers. Create your content asking yourself – what you would ask google home for your niche related questions.

Find Questions that Need Answered…Then Answer Them With Content

Q&A sites (like Quora) are a great source of keyword/content ideas.

The trick is to look for questions that have been asked many times. This indicates that there’s currently no good answer to be found on Google

Build your content around those answers

Total Organic Clicks:

Organic traffic is important for conversions and ranking.

In the Search Console, navigate to Search Traffic -> Search Analytics, and you will see a report that will give you a clear idea on the number of clicks you received on your site and from which search queries.

Compare the date range for the last 28 days to the previous period and you will quickly identify which queries are generating direct clicks.

References:

Black hat world –  https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/easy-as-fuck-on-page-seo-guide-checklist.1025148/

Digital Frog Media – http://www.digitalfrog.com.au/how-to-rank-no-1-in-google-in-2016/
Link Assistant – https://www.link-assistant.com/news/google-ranking-signals.html

SemRush – https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-important-seo-metrics-to-consider-in-2018/

Ahrefs Blog – https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-tips/

Technical Seo Audit –  https://ignitevisibility.com/technical-seo/