Today’s lesson is by Ed Dale
First, don’t forget to do the back-linking, and keep it up so grow traffic to your sites.
Mistake #1
I was asleep during Wordtracker/Google/GTrends training. Failure to do proper research on your phrases. If you don’t do the research none of the rest of this is worth your time. Do the research.
Mistake #2
Strategy problems with a market; figuring out what people would buy. Most people want to sell something without finding out if someone wants to buy it. Do people buy in this niche? If so, what do they buy? If people don’t buy in your niche, go on to another one. Researching sales sites in your niche was part of market research.
Ask yourself is people are really going to buy stuff in this niche. Is the niche a seasonal one or a temporary one? Is it a continuous market? You need to know the answers to these questions.
Mistake #3
Not using your exact umbrella phrase in your URL, blog name, in the first paragraph (preferably first sentence in bold), and again at the end of your first post in italics.
Put up one post in your new blog and leave it alone until Google indexes it, about 24 - 36 hours. Then add more posts, but no more than three per day per phrase.
Mistake #4
Failure to do enough competition research, especially on the blog site you’re using. If someone else is already using your phrase as their URL, maybe find another platform. There are many good blog platforms to choose from. Instead of competing in the same platform, maybe find another one.
The other alternative is to put dashes or underscores between each word in your phrase.
Mistake #5
Putting your affiliate link at the top of your post instead of down towards the bottom. That’s like making an indecent proposal to someone and will probably result in no click-throughs and declining traffic.
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