2nd Niche Site progress update, 1 month since launch
After nearly 1 month since we launched the site maternity swimwear, we are very pleased with the results. This is only our 2nd niche site out there although we do have the odd few that still needs working on. We wanted to update our blog with some juicy stats as we are proud Affiliate newbies 
Our main goal was to get the site to within the top 5 position on google.co.uk for the website domain keywords, as then this would hopefully make us some money. The site has been sitting at the top of page 2 or bottom of page 1, which we were happy about as the site has not long been out there and we hadn’t done hardly any linking. This was purely down to all-in-one-seo plugin on the site, the domain name, trying to use strong keywords, good descriptions and good heading titles.
Today the site ranks at number 1 position on google.co.uk when searching for “maternity swimwear” (exact) and number 2 spot for maternity swimwear (not exact) so we are well chuffed. We are also number 3 “maternity tankinis”.
I took a screenshot as proof (see below) as I’m not sure how long it will stay there for!!
I think the ranking position has got higher due to the fact that I spent the last few days doing some link exchanges for this site. Paul has also being getting in touch with his ‘feminine side’ and writing some really good content in the form of articles from his alter-ego yummy-mummy, well done Paul, or should I say yummy mummy
We are also getting an increase in the number of visitors to our site and in addition to this we have also had a pretty good month with our earnings. We have generated in excess of £1500 in sales, an average of over 5000 impressions, and nearly 30 sales, which is almost 1 every day.
We’ll see if this improves now that we are higher up on the rankings although because of this we may not get the ‘last click’ but we should see more traffic.
It is still a big learning curve for us, but one that we really do enjoy. Especially when you see results for the effort we are putting in.
Affiliate Project – Recent Success with our 2nd niche site MaternitySwimwear.org.uk
Affiliate Project have been working hard on improving our SEO for our niches sites.
Recently we launched our 2nd niche site Maternity Swimwear. It has only been a couple of weeks and our first challenge was to get our site established and up there ranking high so that we could get traffic to the site. After about a week, we’ve managed to get certain keywords ranking well. We are seeing an increase in visitors to the site and already we’ve had a couple of sales. This has generated over £400 to the merchants and we hope to improve on this.
Currently we are ranking on the first couple of pages for our main keywords Maternity Swimwear, Maternity Swimsuits, Maternity Tankinis, Maternity Bikinis and Maternity Accessories.
These keywords are fairly competitive according to Google Adwords Keyword Tool. So to compete we are working hard to write more and more articles and blogging on posts and forums. We are also exchanging links with other similar sites, preferably the higher ranked sites as this will help us with our ranking.
Currently Maternity Swimwear gets approx 18,100 exact hits for local search, maternity swimsuits 590, maternity tankinis 390, and maternity bikinis 320.
If we can get in the top 5 position on the first page for Google for all those keywords, we could see approx 8000 visitors a month come to our site. If only 1% of these convert into a sale, then we could be looking at generating approx £2500 to the merchants each month.
Check back here in a few weeks to see how we get on!!
Affiliate Project to improve SEO on niche sites = more conversions
As still fairly new to Affiliate Internet Marketing, we are learning all the time. We’ve seen quite a few sales but would like to improve this. We have therefore been revisiting our sites to try and improve on the potential for these niches.
Today we analyzed the traffic coming to our sites and the position where our niche sites are ranked in Google for particular keywords that we are targeting. Many of our keywords are ranking well, but for some of the keywords that are more specifically targeted are not ranked as well.
An example would be our site Power Plates. We are ranking very well for those keyword terms (”power plates”) and have seen a few sales from the click-throughs for those exact keywords, which is great, but are people searching for those keywords because they are looking to buy or just finding out information about what the exercise machines are and how they work. To improve on our earning potential, we think we need to try and do well on keywords where the Customer knows what they are looking for, such as a special model, like body sculpture bm1500. This way we are more likely to attract the buyer near the end of the buying process. They’ve found the model they like are are now looking for reviews and/or the best price.
Now to improve our ranking, we’ve looked at the competition, unfortunately the top ranking sites are the big sites such as amazon and ciao (comparison site) but we do like a challenge. Those big named sites do not appear to have many back links for those specific keywords and not too many internal links, so if we can get our SEO spot on for page title, meta description, keywords, and headings and try and promote through links, hopefully we can get up on the top of the 1st page. Currently we are ranked in position 16, so lets see how it goes and if this helps with extra sales.
The challenge is on
Affiliate Projects recent SEO success
Through hard work and improving on our SEO skills we have had some recent success. We have managed to get Maternity Swimwear onto the 1st page for global and UK search term “maternity swimwear” so we are really pleased at this. To get on the 1st page with SEO alone is a major achievement.
We have also managed to get our Power Plates site up on the first page for a particular brand and model name, body sculpture power trainer bm1500 and the reason we have done this is this is our best seller and a product we want to promote. Again this is through SEO alone so our skills are improving.
So for the sites we have really been concentrating on, Affiliate Project, Power Plates and Maternity Swimwear we are ranked on the 1st page of Google for the search term we are targeting for each of them and for Affiliate Project and Power Plates we are raking in the top 5. Not bad we think for two people who only recently started this.
New site launched – www.maternityswimwear.org.uk
Well after a bit of a break and some well earned rest we are back. We have created another site, Maternity Swimwear where we list the best maternity swimwear from the best retailers at the best prices including Maternity Bikinis, Maternity Tankinis and Maternity Swimsuits. This was a real challenge this one as it is the first site we have done with proper data feeds. We have pulled in the data feeds from merchants and are now pulling them out of our database using SQL and positioned them using php to create tables rather than using a table plug-in. Another steep learning curve for us but one we hope will stand us in good stead for future product related sites. We are very proud of the site and already it is ranked 6th on the 2nd page of google for “maternity swimwear” on the UK search. We hope to improve this by improving our rating and SEO. Have a look and let us know what you think.
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