Today I am gong to share my experience of starting
WayFinance.com an Internet Affiliate Portal. I call
WayFinance.com an Internet Affiliate Portal because the whole portal contains nothing but Internet Affiliate links and the respective company's product information. Back in April 2005, when I wanted to start an affiliate portal, I was finding for products to sell. So I assume that the highest commission payout must be from financial service like loans, insurance, credit cards and investments. Well indeed it is true, some company pay as much as $100 pound sterling per successful sales. Of course I miss out on a few realities that I found out later but well today's topic is more on
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) so lets focus more on the SEO results.
Lets examine all the SEO methods and how I applied them in WayFinance.com :-
SEO Step 1 - Determining Your Best Keywords & Optimise your website
Keyword is a term that a person enters into a search engine to find specific information. Your most important keywords are those best and most relevant serach phrases you want your website listing to be found for on a search result page.
To find the most search keywords, use the
Overture Keyword Selector tool. This tool tells you how many people search on related keywords you specified. From the keywords selector results, optimise your site to target on that particular keywords.
Search Result for Keyword related to loans using Keyword Selector tool
Followings are the most popular keyword search by surfers
- Home Equity Loan
- Payday Loan
- Home Loan
- Student Loan
- Auto Loan
- Personal Loan
Now optimise your page to target those keywords by repeating using those keywords as frequent as possible in your website. To check how frequent you use a particular keywords in your website, try use the Keyword Density Analyzer tool.
SEO Step 2 - Create Sitemap and link all your pages together
Link all your page together with a sitemap page and make sure each page are also links with each other.
SEO Step 3 - Exchange Links effectively (Reciprocal Links)
Before you start this step make sure your website must contain high-quality, useful, timely content that people will actually want to link to.
Incoming links is the most important part in getting your website listed in search engine. You need ast least 1 incoming link before you are listed in any search engine. The more incoming links you have the higher your ranking will be in search engine. To increase your incoming links you need to exchanging links with other website. In Internet marketing terminology this is call reciprocal links. Reciprocal links is a tedius, time consuming, and ongoing process but there is no choice you need to do it.
To start your reciprocal links program, follow the following steps
- Create a link page. You can call it related links, useful links, resources, or directory. Example link page in WayFinance.com :-
http://www.wayfinance.com/finance-link.shtml
http://www.wayfinance.com/finance-link1.shtml
- Find website to reciprocal with. There are many exchange link directory available, just search google for one and try to contact them to initiate the exchange links.
- Add the links of your exchanging party and hope they add you back. Make sure you only focus on sites that is related to your site.
- Exchange links to as many sites as possible. If you exchange with 2 sites a day, by the end of the year you will have 600+ sites linking to you.
- To check who is linking to you and how many are linking to you, use the Link Popularity tool.
SEO End to End Checklist
q Determine the best keyword phrases for your site (Keyword Selector Tool)
q Create lots of pages. Better to have 20 short page than 5 long page.
q Make sure each all your page has at least 200 words minimum.
q Optimize each page for your keyword phrase (Keyword Density Analyzer)
q Create a sitemap page to link to all your pages
q Make sure all page has a link back to the main page
q Cross-link between pages that discuss the same topic.
q Submit your site to Directory, Forums and Classified
q Setup a reciprocal links program and start exchanging links
q Check back regularly and fine tune those pages that did not do well in the serach engine
And Finally WayFinance.com Report Card
Google PageRank : http://www.wayfinance.com has PageRank 3/10
Link Popularity : 6696 total links, (google 132) (MSN 3,712) (Yahoo 2,720)
Revenue generated : Averagely USD 100 per month
Website promote cost : USD 0 per month (Free all traffic comes from SEO)
Where can I get an Internet Affiliate Portal?
Please contact
Ascent Solution for more detail. They will help you setup one in no time.
