As an affiliate marketer, I discovered that getting on the front page of Google isn’t as hard as you might think! Today I was searching for a keyphrase for an affiliate program that I’m in and discovered one of my splash pages on the front page of Google. I didn’t realize it until today that Google’s search engine results will relate certain keywords with others in their results.
The splash page didn’t even have the keyphrase that I was searching for anywhere in the content!
I’ve also discovered that having an account at Myspace.com has major advantages when posting in your blog. I read an article on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that explained when you first put up a site, you should post in blogs that are on sites rating a 6 or higher, linking back to your new site. The search engines look at the rating of the site that links to a new site and will submit the new site to the search engines faster!
Since I have a Google toolbar, I decided to check the ratings for a few of the social sites that I belong to. Myspace rates an eight on that little green bar!
I had a mini-site for an affiliate program, that reached the number one position in about a week for the acronym and the full name. I was able to keep it there because I posted at Myspace.com and several other social networking sites whenever my site dropped to number two on the results page.
One of my fellow associates for the same affiliate program, was smart enough to create a profile at Myspace with the actual name of the affiliate program. Her profile stayed near the top because of the:
- Name of the profile - the affiliate program name.
- The content on the profile - contained the affiliate program name in several locations.
- The number of friends that linked to the profile - search engines pay attention to favorites and backlinks.
- Display Name - the affiliate program name.
Besides that, she was wearing a bikini. The search engines didn’t pick it up, but the members of Myspace.com did!!!
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