49 SEO & Affiliate Marketing Tips

To build a successful affiliate system you need to use good SEO, so with that in mind; here are 49 SEO and affiliate marketing tips that you will need to know and put into practice in order to make money from affiliate marketing.

    URL related SEO considerations

  1. Use your primary keywords in your domain name
  2. Don’t use sub domains if you can avoid it
  3. Use a search engine friendly URL structure
  4. Use short but descriptive file names or post names
  5. Use a hyphen (-) to seperate words in files names

    6. Writing SEO content

  6. Write plenty of content for Google to index
  7. Write content about niche topics that are in demand
  8. Create pages about specific keyphrases
  9. Write fantastic quality content
  10. Publish new content regularly
  11. Update your most popular content
  12. Target long tail keywords with relevant content
  13. Make each page focussed, don’t go off on tangents
  14. Don’t overuse keywords, make your content sound natural

    15. On page SEO tips

  15. Carefully write page titles that get clicked on
  16. Experiment with headings to reduce bounce rates
  17. Use H1, H2 and H3 tags appropriately
  18. Keep your HTML code simple and lite
  19. Use em and strong tags to emphasis important keywords
  20. Use alt tags to describe any images you use
  21. Make sure your site loads quickly
  22. Write unique keyword & description meta tags on each page

    23. SEO friendly site layouts

  23. Make your site navigation HTML based
  24. Use keywords for navigation instead of images
  25. Make every page accessible within 2 clicks of the home page
  26. Include a site map listing every page and it’s URL
  27. Design your site for the most common screen resolutions used to view it
  28. Well thought out categories help users and search engines to navigate
  29. Have a good looking, simple site design that people will enjoy viewing

    30. On site links

  30. Include links to other pages in the body of pages
  31. Use keywords for link text, instead of things like “click here”
  32. Link to other relevant sites that might interest your readers
  33. Link to your most popular pages to boost them even higher

    34. Simple link building strategies

  34. Publish articles on top article websites
  35. Offer guest posts to bloggers in your niche
  36. Invite bloggers to guest post (they will probably promote it on their own blogs)
  37. Work tirelessly to make your content the best it can be
  38. Offer to exchange links with one or two highly relevant blogs in your niche
  39. Write about popular bloggers in your niche and tell them about it
  40. Links within the body of a page are more valuable than links elsewhere

    41. Checking for errors

  41. Regularly check for broken links
  42. Regularly check for broken images
  43. Don’t link to irrelevant or spammy sites
  44. Check for syntax errors in your HTML

    45. Miscellaneous SEO tips and tools

  45. Sign up for Google webmaster tools and then use them
  46. Customers and Readers first, SEO second
  47. Quality is more important than quantity
  48. Be patient, SEO results take time
  49. Keep coming back to this list, SEO isn’t a one off process

Summary

What have I missed?
Please join in and share your thoughts. What SEO tips have I missed?

So there you have it. There are plenty more tips that I could add, but having too many different ideas isn’t helpful, and any other tips I could add would add little extra value. My recommendation is to focus on the most important tips and do them really well.

You might also note that a lot of these tips don’t seem to relate directly to SEO. A lot of SEO now a days is all about making your site the best it can be for your users. SEO should never come at the expense of user experience.

4 Responses to 49 SEO & Affiliate Marketing Tips

  1. Switzerland traveler on October 11, 2011 at 11:17 am

    This is a well structured and really clear list. I have known about some of the things you listed, but you gave many new ideas as well. Thank you. Good SEO tips are always precious.

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  2. dhanna on October 24, 2011 at 1:40 am

    Thanks for sharing brief tips on how to succeed in SEO marketing. They are surely worth my time reading. I’ll keep them in mind. :)

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  3. Nick on October 31, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Such a nice list on SEO tips you share with us. I’ll try to follow your tips in my blog.
    Thank you for sharing your insights.
    I loved this blog; first time here. Definitely a bookmark!
    Keep on the good work!

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  4. Maddy @SEO Delhi on December 7, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Precise yet Powerful list. Great Work

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