Being an Affiliate for almost 6 months now, do we qualify to help other newbies?

Well we’ve learned so much in that short space of time and its all fresh in our minds, so we think we can offer a certain amount of advice from what we have learned along our journey.

Our newbie in Question is Simon, a former colleague who is also technically savvy so didn’t really need a lot of explaining to tell him how things worked.

He has decided for his first niche site – Kettlebells. An up and coming trend in the fitness industry. This niche is maybe slightly more competitive than some might think especially for someone just starting out. Targeting only 1 keyword for the product itself as well as some long tail keywords for specific products, this will be a challenge, but one which could be a worthwhile investment.

Lets look at the competition:
There are approx 40,800 search results on Google with Kettlebells in the title.
1st and 2nd spot is taken up by 2 sites with strong keyword usage, with the keyword in the title, description meta tags and the domain name.

No 1 spot is kettlebells.co.uk and has a great domain name for that keyword. It has approx 700 backlinks and is approx 6 years old so may be hard to beat that position.

As part of our journey and interest in Affiliate marketing, we want to be successful and become SEO experts. Helping Simon and hopefully getting his site to the top 3 on Google will prove how much we’ve learnt and how much we may still have to learn.

Good luck Simon on you adventure.

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