After the flurry of activity that accompanies the acquisition of an affiliate site, you often hit maintenance mode. You continue publishing content and building links, all while waiting for your SEO efforts to pay off. I call this period the steady state. Once you’ve...
The hardest part of SEO is waiting… When you’ve done everything you can think of to make Google like your site better, it sometimes feels like all that’s left to do is sit tight and wait. But your work as an SEO is never really done. There are always additional steps...
Search engine optimization (SEO) requires constant testing to be effective. If you don’t understand what changes drive growth (or why visitors respond the way they do), you’ll waste your time guessing at solutions while your competitors leave you in the dust. In this...
If you’re like me, once you start building a new affiliate website or acquire an existing one, you do everything in your power to put the site in a position to succeed as fast as possible. You might even call it a healthy obsession… So last month’s case study...
The first 4-6 weeks after acquiring an affiliate site are always action-packed… In the first installment of Project Cashflow, you learned everything from choosing a niche to basic site valuation and negotiation. Now it’s time to start getting our hands dirty with SEO....
Throughout this case study, you will learn the techniques that were used to increase transactions on an e-commerce website by over 90%. This was done by building a custom, but replicable, strategy for a long-standing client of 2 years. You will soon learn the...
Making a move into a new affiliate niche is never a decision to take lightly. I know I don’t. No matter your level of affiliate SEO experience, achieving success in a profitable niche takes a significant investment of money, expertise, and — that most finite of...
I’m about to interview one of my favorite SEOs in the world, Julie Adams. I first learned about Julie’s story in The Affiliate Lab, where she shared her experience of quitting the digital marketing agency that she worked at and switching over to affiliate...
Foreword by Matt Diggity In a moment I’m going to introduce you to Mico Martinez. He had caught my eye in The Affiliate Lab member’s group by posting back-to-back SEO wins. In his latest win, he took a unique approach to starting a new site. Instead of...
You’re about to get the strategy behind one of the most challenging SEO campaigns my SEO agency has ever run. Why was it so challenging? 3 reasons: First, the niche is massively competitive: A make-money-online infoproduct in the financial niche. Nuff said. Second,...
This is a list of the tools and services that I'm currently using to rank my own sites. Everything you find here has been tested and proven to show value in the many tests you've seen on my blog.