Are you short on traffic?  Not feeling any love from the search engines.

Well its about high time that a service has finally come along that makes it easy to get your site noticed in the search engines.  The Relativity Syndication Co-op allows you to leverage your articles in the search engines to gain more traffic and more listings in the search engines than you probably thought was possible.

The Relativity Syndication Co-op pairs you with a number of other people who want the same thing as you do …. More visibility, more traffic and more money. 

The Way the Co-op works, is it syndicates your articles through the co-op network so that more people are syndicating your work and submitting the work to social networks, so that in the end your work is being picked up by the search engines faster, and it is give a high weight factor. 

A great example of the power of the Relativity Syndication Co-op was found on their website.  Assume that you publish 5 pieces of content per day for 365 days and also submitted those 5 articles a day to 10 social networks.  At the end of the year you would yield 18,250 results per year.  In the Co-op network, assuming 10 people are in the network, you would be getting 48,000 new search engines results from less than 2 articles per week.

If you are interested in this service sign up for the Relativity Syndication CO-OP.

Affiliate Marketers can bring in money in various different ways. Pay per Click, direct advertising, email, and through search engines.

The reason I choose the search engines is because it is free, and it is a long term strategy. I feel that pay per click affiliates can do very well using SEM, but it is short term and there is no safety net. A few bad weeks in a row and you might be looking for a day job.

Search engine optimization allows you to develop strong web pages and rank them for the keywords of your choosing. Much like SEM, you must use your keywords wisely and attempt to target your keywords to your selected audience. At least if you start ranking for keywords that don’t convert well, it won’t cost you.

By using SEO you can take advantage of holidays and other special events throughout the year. These occasions make affiliate marketers a lot of money.
One of the great SEO sources I have found is SEObook. It would be wise for you to check it out. Written by one of the leaders of the SEO industry, Aaron Wall, SEObook is very resourceful and won’t let you down. I use their free tools on a daily basis, and I fully recommend both their book and their tools.

Jessica Bowman joins Yahoo to work on their in-house SEO campaigns, coming over from a successful stint in the same position from Business.com.  Jessica Bowman’s duties include working with the business side of Yahoo! and with the in-house SEOs that work on all of the Yahoo! properties.

Here is a quote from Ms. Bowman:

“I’m happy to announce that I’m joining Yahoo! in late October to work as an in-house SEO evangelist. The official title is “Sr. Technical Marketing Manager”, but the gist of the position is working with all of the in-house SEOs that optimize the various Yahoo! properties, such as Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Autos.”

As most people know, organic searches are the best source of free traffic.  But how do you get your Affiliate site ranked well in the Search Engines, and for the terms you want to rank for?

Sorry to say there is no easy solution.  Quite a bit of grunt work is necessary, but it pays off in the end.

Creating a link building strategy is the best way to gain authority in the Search Engines.  You must get other sites to link you with your keyterms as anchor text.  This is not an easy process, and it surely isn’t exciting, but it will provide you with many visitors to your site as the Search Engines display your site.

Your task for today if you are disappointed with your Search Engine rankings, go out and find some link partners.  Send out at least 20 requests today to linking partners.  If you build it, they will come.

The new service offered by Google is called “Google Custom Search Business Edition” and is a middle ground between Google’s Custom Search Engine and Google Search Appliance.  The new application will cost $100 and requires three minimal steps before visitors can begin searching for information.

People can search 5000 pages deep for a particular site for the $100 fee.  For $500 you can search 15,000 pages deep, and the scale continues sliding to the left.  The data is offered from the same computers that run normal Google searches, essentially offering a collection of information that Google has crawled for their normal search engine.

This search engine is being marketing towards small businesses that require a lot of information at their fingertips.  It is also an effort to phase out Google Appliance which costs $2000 and isn’t very effective.

Vertical Search Engines are being utilized more than ever, and yet they still are just a fly on Google’s back. But not for long.

Vertical Searches allow the user to find a targeted listing for the search term/s entered. Vertical niche searches can allow the user to apply advanced settings related to their search to find the best possible match. Two industries where vertical search engines have taken off are the HealthCare and Engineering industries.

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I received a question from a commenter asking about Denver Fabric’s struggle in Google since making page updates 5 months ago.  Just to preface, we lost our two main keywords in Google rankings, each falling back from the 1st page to the 80th page.

Here is the question:

Just wanted to know how everything worked out with your company when you lost your positions with Google? (more…)

Blogs are a great tool for Affiliate Marketers. Those affiliates using blogs to their advantage have made a killing in affiliate revenues and profits.

Using Blogs To Supply Targeted Affiliate Traffic
Blogs are ideal for creating content and offering a pre-sell on a subject that is related to your merchant’s product/service. You can develop unique content that will put a potential buyer in the purchasing frame of mind after they click on your affiliate link. (more…)