We have just started a campaign on Affiliate X Files to generate traffic to the site. We have been asked on many occasions to tell people exactly what we do to rank highly in the organic search engines. So here it is.

Firstly so there is no confusion the Affiliate X Files site has been registered for twelve months and was used initially to market an affiliate product. However the webmaster had let the site go and it had lost all of its rankings. So the first thing we had to decide was which market did we want to use this site for and I think it is pretty obvious with a name like affiliatexfiles.net. Yep you guessed it Affiliate Marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a huge and very competitive niche to enter into but we also thought that it would be an excellent choice when teaching you how to get quality traffic to your website. If you can get quality traffic in this niche then you can do it in any market  you wish to.

We decided that we would like the site to be interactive so the decision was made to use Semiologic Pro, this is wordpress blog on steroids if you would like to know more just follow the link.

Here are the stats for the first month and you will see that we currently have an average of 9 unique visitors a day and a returning visitor rate of 30% this is very important for the stickiness of the site and the search engines.

As you can see it has only taken seven days to get this site back into the search engines and we only had to use some very simple tools to do it…

The first tool in our arsenal is called Need An Article and it is probably the most powerful. You see the key to everything online is getting your visitors to return to your site and as you can see we have a 30% hit rate and 26% of our visitors are staying on the site for 5 minutes or more. Again we don't have a lot of time to be writting articles for websites so we give it to the professionals to handle and it is extremely high quality content and very affordable.

The second tool is just as powerful Unique Article Wizard and works hand in hand with Need An Article I can't go into much detail about this but if you are looking to get 100's of one links to your site this is the way to do it. Below I have attached a screen shot of the technorati authority for this site and it has only taken a month to get that all with Unique Article Wizard.

Now for the final tool that I have found very effective is 3 Way Links this is very powerful and is a system that is totally automated and supplies you with 3 way links that are maintained and updated constantly. No more having to check whether your links are active on partner sites it is all done for you. Leaving time for the important things making money.

So where are we ranked currently in this one month period how many pages are indexed in Google®

And for Yahoo® we also have a very good showing in the early stages…

With MSN or Live Search  we only had our index page showing as indexed.

Lastly the links to these third party sites are affiliate links which yes we will make money if you buy through them, it does not cost you any more money and it is the most practical way for us to keep this site alive without having membership fees. If you don't believe in affiliate links then maybe you are in the wrong business.

If you have any questions please let us know…