If you haven’t read steps 1-4, then you can find them below:
Step 1 - Picking a domain name
Step 2 - Research the niche
Step 3 - Building your site template
Step 4 - Building Your Gallery

Building Picture Pages
Now that you have a great optimized gallery that you can use for TGP’s. It is time to build the picture pages. Putting your pictures in html for AVS and Free Sites is the best way for search engines. It will give your site more pages for spiders to find and index (especially for free sites).

Template
It is time to get your template page out once again. You will want to size the larger picture to fit nicely on the page. Since the template already has Joe Buck and Adult Friend Finder ads on the side and bottom, you already have some ads on the page.

Meta Tags and Text Content
After you place the larger image on the page, you will want to change the meta tags to reflect the content that is shown in the image. Put a banner and text ad on the top of the page for the sponsor you are using (Remember we already picked the niche and a site from Xpays). Bold some of the keywords in the text you write. Not all of it, just some of the important keywords.

Linking
Now link the picture to the Xpays website you are promoting (use your affiliate link). If you are building for link reasons, then link directly to Xpays. If not, you want the traffic to hit your site first, then use the no follow code in the link. Also, add alt text for the picture using text that refers to the image and the niche.

Finally add a more link under the picture (more niche keywords). Link to the Xpays website you are promoting.

Repeat
Repeat this for every picture you have in your gallery. Make each one of these pages unique to your niche. Let it reflect what the image is about and use keywords for this niche.

Gallery Page
Open up your Gallery Template. Link to the pages instead of the images. Now you have a gallery that is perfect for Free Sites and AVS sites.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

If you haven’t read steps 1-3, then you can find them below:
Step 1 - Picking a domain name
Step 2 - Research the niche
Step 3 - Building your site template

Building Your Gallery
First open the template page you already made. Save it as gallerytemplate. Now you need to add a table with cells for your thumbs. I usually do 4 columns and 5 rows. Merge the middle row (row 3) to make 1 long cell. Place your Header 2 Text in that area.

Many webmasters have their own style and preferences for thumb sizes and layout of thumbs on a page. This is fine, do it your way and maybe adjust some things to optimize the content for search engines by following the suggestions in this step.

Optimize Thumb Links
Place your thumbs in the top 8 cells and the bottom 8 cells. Link them like you usually do. For each thumb add some text in the alt image field, alt=Niche Keyword Phrase. Try to use your keywords, but also explain what the picture is about. Keep it short, 5-6 words if possible.

Optimize Header Text and Content Text
Now on your top header text use your main niche keyword phrase. In a cell under that, add some text about the content and sponsor. Link to the sponsor using good keyword phrases, not just their name. If you are using an SEO Friendly Affiliate Program, use the no follow link on your links to them or if your really good at link building, don’t.

Now in the middle cell, optimize that Header 2 with another good keyword phrase. Again add some text under that with information on the image content and sponsor. Link to the sponsor with good keywords like you did above.

Other Sponsor Ads
Other sponsor ads like Joebucks and Adult Friend Finders we will be putting in the side ad box and bottom ad box you made previously. Again you need to set the Header 3 text for these boxes to use keywords for these sponsors.

Instead of using regular banners or buttons with Joe Bucks. Try using images of the products for joe bucks with some text.

For Adult Friend Finders, try just text ads. Make them look like personal ads.

For both of these sponsors, do some research if you haven’t used them before. Just like we did in Step 1. This will help you decide the keywords you want to use in your ads and text links. I know most webmasters want to build as much as they can. Trust me, if you take the time to do a little research now, you will make more for your time later.

Optimized Meta Tags and Links
Now your gallery is starting to look really good. It is time to adjust your title, meta tags and header link. Change these to fit the content you have on the page. Use the keywords you just used in the page. The header link and home link should still be the main keyword you are targeting.

Gallery Complete and Optimized
Now your gallery is ready and optimized. Look through it, check your research and tweak anything you missed. I know many are thinking, this will never work for submitting to TGP’s. But this one was built for a basic template, it will be adjusted for free, tgp and avs later. If you want to use it for TGP’s, adjust it a little to work. Save it as tgpgallery and remove the extra ads.

We will go over changing it again for AVS later. But you can head over to baddog byte’s for tutorials on that now.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

If you haven’t already read step 1 and step 2, you might want to do that first:
Step 1 - Picking a domain name
Step 2 - Research the niche

Building Your Website
If you don’t know html or how to use Dreamweaver (or similar program), well then you are in the wrong place. I’m not going to teach you that here

You will want to come up with a design for your site. Preferable something that shows some sexy content and has room for text content. A good way for beginners to start is to make a simple header image for the top of the page. The name of the site and maybe some picture of a sexy girl (or guy, depending on the niche). Place this on the page and use the rest of the page for text and links.

Now that was pretty simple. Before you go any further, put a link on the bottom of the page. This link should be Keyword Phrase Home or just Keyword Phrase. Link that to the index page of your site. Also, link the header image you just made to the index. Put in the alt tag…alt=keyword phrase. The top and bottom do not have to be the same phrase. Similar is fine. Maybe you are promoting the MILF site from Xpays. Use MILF in one place and Mothers I’d Like to Fuck in another.

Next layout the rest of the page, put an area for pictures and/or text. Add 1-2 area’s for other ads. Maybe one on the side and one on bottom. This will be our ads for Joebucks and Adult Friend Finders.

Header Text
Once you have the layout done, you can start laying out header text. Put the words Header Text 1 (set as H1 in the font settings) right under your header image. Next put Header Text 2 (set as H2 in the font settings) in the text or picture area. Finally put Header Text 3 (set as H3 in the font settings) in the ad box on the side and ad box on the bottom of the page. Now if you don’t like the big text (which I don’t) you can pick a font and a smaller font size for these.

Meta Tags
Place your meta tags in the top of the page, just under the html tag. These will be your basic tags. Here is an example:

In the classification, I usually look at dmoz and find categories that my site would match. That is what I use there. First this will help you focus on what type of site you are building, second some search engines may pick this up.

Website Template
Now save this as your index page and then as temp or template.html. This will be the page we will start with on everything else we do for the site. You will adjust things on each new page you build using the template, like keywords, title, etc. But you have the basics ready when you get that far.

We will start building more tomorrow.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

So you know the domain you are going to use. If you don’t please read Step 1 - Picking A Domain Name.

Researching the niche
In Step 1, you researched some keywords to help you pick out a domain. Now you need to use some of those keywords to find out what websites are listed for them. Check Google, Yahoo and MSN for each of the keywords that you are interested in using.

Click through to these sites and see how they are laid out. What type of words do they use? How much text do they use? How many sites are linking to them? How many pages on this site are indexed?

Search Engine Commands
Some search engine commands can help you with the task of finding out how many backlinks a site has and how many pages are indexed for that site. (backlinks - how many links they have pointing to the site)

Google & MSN Commands
site:domainname.com (shows the pages indexed)
link:domainname.com (shows the sites that link to it)

Yahoo Commands
domain:domainname.com (shows the pages indexed)
linkdomain:domainname.com (shows the sites that link to it)

Evaluate the research
After you know these things, you can decide on what keywords you would like to use. Just realize that if the keyword you are targeting has 25,000 links to it, it may take some time.

I never tell anyone to pick something easier to get. It just shows you how much link building you will need to do. I go for the tough ones, but target the smaller keywords at the same time. We will get to that after we go over building the site.

Remember, if someone tells you that the keyword has too much competition, that you should try something easier, just maybe they don’t want another competitor. How will you know whether or not you can do it if you don’t try?

Research Conclusion
You should now have an idea of how much link building you will need to do. Also, you can see how much content and how many pages most competitors have. You will want to try to get this many on your website. It will give you a good internal link structure. I will go over that when we start building the website.

Domain Name
First part of search engine optimization is your domain. Google doesn’t put much weight on this, but Yahoo still does. So you want to pick a domain that has some keywords in it that matches your niche. If you have a domain, know your niche and don’t really want to build a new domain, then you should skip this article.

Sponsors
First I look at the sponsors paysites. Xpays has many different types of paysites. You will find lesbian, hardcore, movie, gay, blowjob, MILF, teen, goth, etc. Decide which niche you are interested in promoting. This is the theme of your site.

Other sponsors like Joebucks and Adult Friend Finders are add ons. You can build very targeted sites and pages for these sponsors, but they are wonderful for any type of site you have.

Sex Pictures Pass AVS has many categories, I think 43. But go ask baddog, he may know right off the top of his head. So any niche you pick, Sex Pictures Pass should have a matching category for it. If not, baddog will get it made up if he thinks it is needed.

Keywords
To help find some good keywords you can use for your niche and new domain, you might try wordtracker if you have an account. Or you can head over to NicheBot.com (which seems to be down at the moment) and see what you can find. If neither of those work, try Digital Point’s Keyword Tool which is free.

Domain
After you pick your niche and research a little for keywords. Find a domain! Remember not to use any more then 2 hyphens (fuck-me-now). Hyphens are good with Yahoo, okay with Google.

The last thing to think about is the look of the domain name. When you have your site ranked in the top 3 listings on Google, it is nice if the domain name makes the surfer interested. You can get the #3 spot and get more clicks then #1 and #2 if you do your job now.

Domain Examples
Say Google has these sites listed in the 1-3 positions:
hot-blondes-sex.com #1
myfavoriteblondes.com #2
blondesofficialsite.com #3

Which one would you click? I know each person will have their own pick, but most will click that BlondesOfficialSite.com or Blondes-Official-Site.com. There is just something a little more special about the name, something, I don’t know “Official".

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

New Adult SEO Blog Design
Today I have a new look for the blog. The goal was to match the main site a little more. Before it looked so plain green and white. I think this look is much better.

SEO Website Tutorials
Over the next few weeks I plan on writing step-by-step website tutorials that will cover search engine optimization for adult websites. The plan is to start with building a free site, which includes at least one gallery and will also include an avs.

Next we will focus on building for a niche (you can pick your own or do one on what I pick), then we will be adding other products that could be of interest to adult surfers. Next we will start creating a website that is optimized. Finally we will do some link building.

Lastly we will analyze our positions and our conversions. This way we can improve our sites and plan for link building more.

Throughout this time, I will also be testing SEO Friendly and Non SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs. Hopefully you are interested in doing the same.

Adult Sponsors I will be using are the following:
Joe Bucks
Sex Pictures Pass AVS
Xpays
Adult Friend Finders

I may come up with others along the way. If anyone is interested in trying others, let me know I will try to add them in.

Today I stopped by Aaron Wall’s blog SEO Book. He has wrote an interesting article on Why Many People Buy Shitty SEO Services. It goes over the problem, facts and alternatives.

Many people would like to do SEO themselves. These people or companies should be reading more about search engine optimization, instead of trying to get a good SEO cheap. It just isn’t going to happen. For those that want to learn, I really suggest you buy Aaron Wall’s SEO book. It is an excellent start for anyone!

Things to think about when looking for Good SEO Services:

If you are buying SEO services for $2,000 or less a month and selling products or services that make you $50 a sale and have an affiliate program that you pay out $30 a sale. How many sales are you really expecting?

If an SEO tells you they can make you $30,000 a month and they are only getting $2000 a month. Do you really believe their services are going to make what they are promising? Think about it, they could be making $18,000 just as an affiliate.

If you are buying PPC traffic and have no organic listings, how much is it worth to you to get that traffic as well?

For any Business
Nothing in life is free. If it is, it probably isn’t worth it. Organic listings are free, but that is only if you can do the job to get them.

If you can’t do the job, you hire someone. It is that simple. Yes you will have to pay to get those “free listings". But if you hire the right SEO for the job, it will make you a profit. That is what you are looking for right?

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

The next session that I enjoyed was Shopping Search Tatics at Search Engine Strategies. Chris Bowler, Media Director and Search Practice Lead at Itraffic.com,Laura Thieme, President and Founder of Bizresearch and Craig SnyderEVP of Marchex were the speakers.Detlev Johnson, President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum.

I have chosen to go over Mr. Bowler’s part of the session. This was by far one of the best speakers I had heard all day. Probably because it wasn’t as much theory, it was based on a client case. He gave detailed enough facts that you could understand and grasp the shopping engines potential.

Chris Bowler went over a client case “Barrie Pace”. A little about Barrie Pace:

• Barrie Pace offers women’s designer and exclusive career, business-casual, and special occasion fashions

• Sold $23+ Million in apparel online in FY2004

Barrie Pace uses customer email, search engines, online advertising/direct marketing and shopping engines to obtain sales.

Mr. Bowler then went over why you should use shopping engines. This is because you are placing the products in front of shoppers that are already transacting. He also provided this chart on shopping engines:

Source: Nielsen Netratings, October 2004
So far a pretty convincing case to why you should use shopping engines to promote your products.

Mr. Bowler then discussed the shopping engines that Barrie Pace partnered with. These were Amazon, Altura/Catalog City, Froogle, AOL Shopping and Shopping.com.

Next he went over some tips for the shopping engine newbie, these were:

1. Determine your financials
2. Crawl, Walk, Run!
3. Shopping Programs do not run themselves
4. Adjusting your feed is critical (a feed is a data file with your product details, product name, prices, product images all in one file, usually line by line .txt file)
5. Store Feedback is invaluable

Determining your financials questions you should ask yourself and analyze:
What’s your overall budget for shopping?
For Click-over Shopping Engines (pay per click engines):

• What’s an allowable bid price:

By brand?
By product?

For Transactional Shopping Engines (engines that you pay per sale or percentage):

• What’s an allowable commission?

Including returns?
Without returns?
How will returns be handled?

During the Crawl, Walk, Run part of the presentation, Mr. Bowler suggested you start with something easy to setup. Shopping.com he said were the easiest to setup, price and manage. Mr. Bowler stated if you can produce a feed quickly that setup could occur in a few weeks.

Mr. Bowler also suggested that Amazon was one of the hardest to setup. They require 29 forms to be filled out before you can begin. He also said it took 2-3 months to setup with Amazon.

Shopping engines do not run themselves Mr. Bowler now went over this giving more details, like if you choose 4-5 shopping engines to partner with it will take 1-2 hours of staff time a day. This is ongoing. Staff in charge of the shopping engines will have to daily go over the following:

• Monitor feed upload and product display
• Pull-down Store reviews / feedback
• Resolve customer problems
• Track Sales, Fulfillment, Returns

These shopping engines will all need to be monitored and adjustments will need to be made. He gave an example of some items using the same images. When you build a shopping site you can have several choices for size, color, etc. In shopping engines they list the sizes, colors, etc separately. So you have the same image for several items.

Mr. Bowler also provided a snapshot of feedback on Amazon. He stated feedback is invaluable and someone should be reviewing feedback often.

Mr. Bowler ended by giving some tips for succeeding:

1. Track results at the product level
2. Take advantage of operational and customer service emails
3. Shopping sites will buy your brand keywords in search – beware!
4. Advertising – more visibility
5. Partner with the newer engines

Notes: The following is a list of shopping engines that were mentioned during this session:
Yahoo Shopping
Shopping.com
Amazon.com
MSN Shopping
Froogle
MySimon
Nextag
Dealtime
PriceGrabber.com
AOL Shopping
Altura
InStore

Also mentioned were:
Bizrate.com and Resellerratings.com

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

The first meeting I went to for the day was Organic Listing Forum at Search Engine Strategies. Bruce Clay, President of Bruce Clay, LLC and Mike Grehan, CEO of Smart Interactive (and Author of Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide) were the speakers. Detlev Johnson, President of Technology, SuccessWorks Search Marketing Solutions, moderated the Forum.

Each speaker gave a presentation for a few minutes and then they went to questions. Here are some of the questions and answers that were given (they are not word for word).

Question: Is it okay to use cloaking technology?
Answer: Yes as long as it is using the same information from your website. But don’t use it to spam keywords.

Question: Which is better to use when naming files or folders, hyphen or underscore?
Answer: All panel members recommended using hyphens not underscores. They said search engines have confirmed that they recognize hyphens as spaces. Underscores are not seen as spaces, the words will be joined to form one word.

Question: How many hyphens are to many hyphens?
Answer: You shouldn’t use more than 2-3. Preferable you shouldn’t use more than 2. Bruce Clay mentioned that he rarely uses them except for words that need to be separated, his example was mensexchange, which he used a hyphen like this mens-exchange. (so nobody would see it as men sex change).

Question: What type of redirect should I use?
Answer: 301 is the only good redirect.

Question: Can older domains be in the sandbox? (Sandbox: newer sites may face the sandbox, which means they are delayed on showing up in the search engine results).
Answer: Domains well-established or older domains do not usually have sandbox.

goodgirl’s tips:
1. For those who have many older domains that you started, but never finished, these would be good domains to use now. If you had some content and it was indexed, it is better than buying a new domain.

2. Preplan your sites. Put as much basic information on a new domain as soon as you can. Let it get indexed, build a few links and then move on to something else. Go back to it in 3-6 months and finish it off and link build some more.

Question: What is the longest filename you should use?
Answer: 12 characters for filenames.

Question: Should I use keyword Meta tags?
Answer: Yahoo still uses keyword Meta tags.

Notes: The following sites were mentioned during this session:

1. IP-Delivery.com, which was mentioned during discussions about domain hijackings.

2. cmsmatrix.com, which was mentioned during discussions on CMS systems. This site will let you know if your CMS can be spidered.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

Today I found over at GFY Dino from Adult Fantasy Artist is concern about domain specific sponsors. He asked some very good questions regarding this possible problem.

Unless I have misunderstood, this ’series’ has made claims that some sponsors do not honor affiliate code links depending on what domains the links are on (eg. a direct SERP).

Much of your ’seo’ discussion has been based on protecting oneself from getting cut out of the SE loop by these sponsors.

Can you offer some qualitative perspective on how many sponsors we are talking about here?

What percentage of sponsors ignore affiliate code links in the way that you have suggested?

Are we talking 50/50?

Or is this a rare exception?

For the amount of discussion (3 parts over several days), one could get the impression that this is a huge problem and, unless one protects their site, they may lose lots of traffic they have built through SEO to all these sponsors.

I have never heard of a sponsor not counting a properly formed affiliate link.

I have always manually checked that my links get counted in my stats and I don’t use sponsors which don’t disclose real-time detailed stats.

Who are all these sponsors you refer to (which merit this concern)?

Thanks
-Dino

Here is my reply:

Hi Dino,

There are so many sponsors available, I can’t tell you what each one does or doesn’t do. What I suggest is that you read their TOS or ask them.

Many times pay per click sponsors will monitor where clicks come from, to reduce their chance of paying for clicks that were fraudulent.

Some sponsors may be domain specific so they can monitor where their services or memberships are being offered. Reduces their chances of showing up in sites that could cause them legal problems. Can’t blame them for that either.

I’m definitely not saying they are doing this on purpose. They have to protect themselves from fraud, spammers, and sites they don’t want to be apart of.

Here is an example of just one affiliate script backend. This script is built to work with a popular store script. (Oscommerce).

Notice the Tie to URL. When set to true, this script would ignore all sales generated from anywhere other than the affiliates domain.

Many sponsors are not domain specific as far as I know. It would be hard for them to be, with as many free hosts that are being used. But I can’t say what their policies are or how their script works.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems Overview

This overview of an SEO Friendly Affiliate System is based on my experience with SEO Friendly Affiliates over the last year and a half. This will go over different stages of what I have seen with SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs.

My Experience

I started like anyone else. I built my first site in 1998 and became an affiliate to generate income off my website. Then over the past 7 years I continued to build websites and promote affiliate programs. In 2001 I began working on an affiliate system. In April of 2002 I launched my first affiliate program. So my overview is based on my experiences as an SEO, Affiliate System and Affiliate.

I understand HTML, PHP, Perl, java scripts, flash, and many other types of web related code and graphics. I have administrated several Unix and Windows based servers (MCSE). I work on over 300 websites. I have an Associates Degree in Computer Science from Sawyer College in Merrillville Indiana and a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Visual Communications) American InterContinental University - AIUonline.com.

Stage 1. SEO Friendly Affiliate System.

During the first stage of working with a SEO Friendly Affiliate System I watched as my site ranked for keywords I targeted. Usually I had several sites that promoted the affiliate programs products or services. Sometimes I would use the same affiliate link in several sites and other times I would use a different affiliate link to track how well a domain was doing. During this stage everything seems well. In the examples I am Affiliate 1 and Affiliate 2.

This is wonderful. I’m ranked and my affiliate links are ranked as well. I like this stage and would be happy to stay in this stage. But as an affiliate system gathers more affiliates and as you continue to push your domains and your links, problems develop.

Stage 2. SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems. Problem 1.

As I continue to promote the affiliate programs products and services and my own domains, I started noticing changes in the SERP’s. Now instead of ranking on Page 1 several times and even my affiliate links ranking, my sites have gained value. At this point my anchor text has promoted the affiliate link making it more important than my own sites. Google starts noticing that the affiliate link is important so it starts ranking them as important. Then Google notices that these links are all the same page. So Google ranks the most important link.

This is ok; I’m still ranking well and generating income from the Affiliate Programs. I can live with stage 2 or make changes to the way I link to the landing page and increase my domain in the ranks again. But from the Affiliate System point of view, I’m getting less traffic because now the landing page ranks and traffic no longer comes through many affiliate sites. On the other hand the traffic is going straight to the landing page which many times will have a higher conversion rate.

I also noticed during this stage, the rankings now changed. Instead of showing several high quality content provider sites that are PR 5 and up sites in the SERP’s. I now see my one affiliate link, and many lower PR 2, 3 and 4 sites taking the spots. Some are even the newest domains I recently started to promote these products or services.

Another SEO Friendly Affiliate System Problem Occurs

Now in Stage 2 with some Affiliate Programs I realize I’m losing money. This Affiliate System is domain specific. They will only pay me on clicks coming from MY domains. Clicks are now coming from Google. During Stage 1, while some of my affiliate links are ranking, I don’t realize this isn’t a good thing for some Affiliate Programs I’m promoting.

Stage 3. SEO Friendly Affiliate System. Problem 2.

During this stage the affiliate system has many links into their site. They are gaining PR and being ranked as more important. My affiliate links are generating less income. I start seeing at first the Affiliate Programs domains ranking right under my affiliate link in the SERP’s. As this stage continues I see the Affiliate Programs Main Domain ranking in place of mine. It could be their main domain or their default landing page. (It depends on the affiliate program and their internal linking structure, which link I see taking my place).

This stage pretty much sucks. My income decreases. I’m no longer getting anything for my wonderful work. Also from the affiliate systems point of view, I’m getting fewer rankings in the SERP’s.

Now at this stage I realize I need to take control back. I can either talk to the Affiliate Program about letting me customize my landing pages or I can start trying to block the affiliate link from being index.

Conclusion

Each SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems will have different problems. Affiliates and Affiliate Systems should review what they have seen or not seen. This way they can plan for these problems. I’m not saying they are bad. But I will value the Affiliate Programs that offer me Customized Landing Pages and NON SEO Friendly Links, so I can have some control over my own marketing methods.

Lastly I would like to thank awall19 the writer of SEO Book for suggesting I create some images showing the flow the stages in this article. Thank you Aaron!

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Written by T. Martin from Adult Search Engine Marketing . Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

Ways to take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

I have had a few questions on what you can do to take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs.

SEO Link Builders
It really depends on what you are good at doing. If you just like link building, then you can concentrate on building links into the landing page. So you would link with the affiliate link they give you.

But you have to be really good at building links. This type of affiliate system will be hit by a duplicate filter. You will be bunched with the systems default landing page and other affiliates pages. There can really be only 1 that will rank the best.

SEO Content Builders
Content builders need to find ways to prevent the links being spidered. They want to keep their page ranking in the SERPs instead of the affiliate programs landing page from ranking in the SERPs.

These would be all the things you have learned to stay away from like:
1. Put the link in a flash button
2. JavaScript’s added to the link, like a mouse over.
3. Maybe frames? If you can get part of the frame to be indexed and the part that has your affiliate link not, it might work.
4. Search for the SEO no no’s and see what they suggest you don’t do to your links. Test doing something like that.

How will you know it is working? Well, if currently your affiliate link is ranking higher in the SERPs than your page. Then you will need to watch for your page to start showing up in that spot instead of the affiliate link.

What SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs should think about

SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs can be adjusted to allow affiliates links not to be hit by a duplicate filter. Here are some things they may want to consider.

1. Can we find a way to make each affiliates landing page Unique?
2. Will we need to give affiliates some type of control over the look or text on those landing pages?
3. What legalities can arise from letting affiliates have some customization options for the landing pages?
4. How will any customizations to the landing pages affect conversion ratios?
5. What other ways can we make each affiliates landing pages unique without giving them too much control?

The customization would have to be enough so search engines that have a duplicate filter will not see them as the same page. Is this possible? Right now I think so, but since search engines algorithms change frequently you will need to keep watch on everything.

There are many reason that Affiliate Programs should take advantage of SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems. But there are also reasons Affiliates may need to be cautious of them. If the affiliate doesn’t understand linking or the effects of search engine algorithms then they may need some help from an Affiliate Manager.

Semi-SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs

These are programs that are getting hit by the duplicate filter but are not getting the advantages of PR transferring to the pages. These systems should look to see if they could use Mod Rewrite to become truly SEO Friendly.

They should also be able to prepare affiliates for this. With custom landing pages and a good Affiliate Manager to help affiliates with linking or customizing.

Feel free to come ask me questions or make comments. I would love to discuss this and the different degrees of this happening.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by T. Martin aka goodgirl from Adult SEM. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

Want to drastically improve your income with affiliate programs? Learn what affiliate linking SEO strategies can help. Find out exactly what you should do to take control of your traffic.

So you are marketing affiliate programs and other ad revenue programs. Is the Rebound Effect making your shots a slam dunk or is your shot a brick? Are you even in the paint?

You have done everything you can to make your site rank high in the SERPs and your site is getting good traffic. But are you losing sales and you do not even know it? Could the affiliate program you are promoting be a traffic leak?

For about a year and a half I have been watching the changes in Search Engine Algorithms and how they are changing how your affiliate program or ad revenue links rank. Take some time to read this article and learn what to look for and what you can do to take control of your traffic to increase your ROI.

Some of the things we will go over so you can see the Rebound Effect are:

• Are you losing Google PageRank to your Affiliate Program? (PR Transfer – The “Brick” – linking to affiliate systems that gain PR from you, why it can be bad and why it can be good)
• Is your Google PageRank fluxing back and forth to the Affiliate Program? (PR Bounce – “In The Paint” – the affiliate system doesn’t index well so your PR tries to forward to them but doesn’t)
• Are you losing sales because of the Affiliate Program’s tracking system?
• Ways to improve your control of PR Transfer or PR Bounce. Start creating a “Slam Dunk”. (Slam Dunk – learning how to take advantage of how each affiliate system tracks so you can keep or gain sales from it)
• Things to look for so you know if the Rebound Effect is helping you get a “Slam Dunk” or keeping your shots from being nothing but bricks. Maybe something went wrong but you now have a “free throw”. Learn how to take advantage of your linking methods.
• How this also works in “Ecommerce SEO”. If you own an online store and link to products with tracking codes, then this will show you how to evaluate your linking tactics.

Ok some of you might be thinking it doesn’t really matter, if my site ranks high then I know I’m not losing sales. Really? If your sure, well then you can skip reading this article. But before you go, lets look at some things that might be causing you to lose.

Affiliate Program Reviews

Now first, I’m not saying AT ALL that the Affiliate Program on any of these examples are doing anything wrong or are bad in any way. Also I cannot say that an affiliate system doesn’t have a good SEO. A good SEO that evaluates this and does things in their favor creating a “Technical Foul” against their affiliates or if their SEO is working in the affiliates favor. Honestly some Search Engine Marketers may not even take things this far when evaluating Affiliate Programs. (Technical Foul - an affiliate program that works knowingly to gain PR from affiliates AND set themselves up to rank higher than affiliates).

What I’m really saying is Search Engine Algorithms change and there are things you as an affiliate can do. Also some affiliate systems may want to change how they do things or offer different ways for affiliates to link to them. I know many Affiliate Programs go out of their way to make sure there are many ways for an affiliate to promote their sites.

The “Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate Programs

Now lets get started, I just put the term “MILF” in Google. And who comes up first? When you look you will see that MILFHunter.com does. Below it, you will see a link with code in it. And right below that you will see another link that says, “more results from www.milfhunter.com”. *See screenshot below.

Now lets click more results under the second link that is titled “Milf Hunter” So we can evaluate exactly what is happening. When you click the link you will see more links that are a part of the milfhunter.com website. *See the screenshot below.

Interesting that id=marcoola is higher then milfhunter.com. Why is that? Does marcoola have more weight with Google then milfhunter.com does? Can he or she (marcoola) do anything to change his or her rank? Should they? There are things they can do to make sure they get ranked higher. If they change the way they link to this sponsor they can rank #1 for that term instead of the sponsor. They will have to evaluate how they are linking to that site. They will have to come up with a better way to structure the links so they can rank higher.

“The Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate System Tips

Some things an affiliate or publisher of ads might do to improve their results with a system that can be indexed by SERP’s:

• Link with the same tracking code on all your sites. This way you are always pushing the same page. This method works best with someone that can gain weight above the main domain they are promoting. I have done this. But be warned, at times the main domain appears below your link in SERP’s, so you still may lose some sales to the main affiliate program. But you can make your affiliate link be the highest PR for that system and rank well for it. (*See next example) Good for Link Builders.
• Link with a mouse over or something that prevents a spider from indexing the link you are promoting. This method works well if you are promoting your pages more then the actually affiliate program. Good for Content Builders.

“The Brick” with Strong PR Transfer

This next example I put in the term “smooth snatches”.

As you can see the tracking link ranks high for this term. Also if you go to this link: http://smoothsnatches.com/cf_16758_A you will notice it has PR. Now what does this mean to both the Affiliate and the Affiliate Program? The Affiliate System wins because they are gaining some PR from this affiliate. Is the affiliate winning? Well that all depends on that affiliate. This type of tracking is great for an affiliate that can build many links but doesn’t want to build much content. They can put all their time into building just links and gain PR and rank in SERP’s. But to the affiliate that wants to have the traffic on their own domain and doesn’t want to lose PR, they may want to adjust their linking structure.

“The Brick” SEO Friendly Affiliate System the Good and the Bad

Also here is another problem, most affiliate systems ask for your URL when you sign up. Some require the click to come from your URL. If the click is going straight from a search engine to the affiliate systems landing page you will be losing sales. Ask the affiliate program you are promoting if they required the traffic to come from the domain you submitted to them. Or look in their faqs to find out if they mention this.

Now, if you find out that where the click comes from doesn’t matter. Then here is another plus to think about. If you can rank high on SERP’s with a keyword and they go straight to that landing page. That is one less click your traffic has to take for you to make the sale. Another big plus is you can concentrate more on link building with good “anchor text”. (Anchor Text - the keyword or keywords you use in the hyperlink that appears on the page instead of the hyperlink).

“In The Paint” Not so SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

For affiliate tracking systems that do not do well in SERP’s. You can usually link the same way you always have. But remember Algorithms change all the time and search engines are trying to index sites better. You need to be aware of how your sites and linking structure is working for you.

Getting The “Slam Dunk” Some things to look at when evaluating an Affiliate Program or Ad Network:

• Are the links being indexed? Try using the site: command on Google to see what type of links are coming up in the SERPs. Like MILFHunter.com above, site:milfhunter.com milf (term you want to see the rankings for).
• Are they showing PageRank?
• What do you do to gain Search Engine traffic? Do you build links? Do you build content?
• How do you feel about losing a little PR?
• Do you want more control over your traffic?
• How is duplicate content coming into play with this affiliate system?
• Is the system willing to work with you or add some things that will help your landing page be a little more targeted or Unique?
• Have they already made adjustments to their affiliate tracking system that will allow you to have Unique content?

After that, you need to decide how to structure your links or sites to take advantage of how the affiliate tracking system works. Really this includes any tracking system that you use for contextual ads, ad networks, e-commerce stores, and more.

The Grand Slam, Oops Wrong Game..

I could go on about many other things to evaluate or do when you promote affiliate programs. But this has become a pretty long article, so I will try to continue to provide tips and articles in my adult seo blog.

I will continue this series of seo tips with the following:

• finding out what type of linking you should do
• what type of affiliate programs will work for you
• examples of what type of affiliate systems link builders should promote
• what type content builders should promote.

But if you want to learn more in the meantime you should really check out SEO Book. It is the ONLY SEO BOOK I recommend to employees that should know some SEO, programmers, webmasters, anyone that wants to know more about SEO and text content providers.

I highly recommend Joe Bucks. Joe Bucks Herbal Affiliate Program offering you several ways to promote their products. From text links, banner ads, and branded websites.

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Written by Tanya Martin aka goodgirl from Adult Search Engine Marketing. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at Adult SEO Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Lloyd Brown aka baddog at baddog@pimpspromo.com.

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