This is the first of a 3 part series where I interview 3 successful affiliate marketer and get them to reveal their methods and strategies. In this interview, I have with me James Pruitt, someone who is sort of a legend over at Affilorama forums. He has the highest number of posts by far (even more than the moderators!) and when he talks about his experience in building and leveraging relationships in affiliate marketing, he speaks from experience.
So anyway, here’s a quick run down of some of the points covered in the interview:
- how James started out in affiliate marketing
- how you can easily earn money while working on your affiliate sites
- why freelancing might not be something you want to do long term
- the importance of building up your trust factor
- why it is important to focus on only a number of sites when just starting out
- how to target your SEO efforts for maximum effect
- James’ highest converting pages for his sites
- an important principle to have when doing your product reviews
- James’ method of creating ‘hybrid’ affiliate sites
- how to build a social traffic funnel to your money pages or squeeze page
- why blog posts are better for encouraging interaction with readers
- the one crucial thing people often miss when writing their articles
- two critical resources for anyone who wants to practice good SEO principles
- why you should optimize for other search engines in addition to Google
- the importance of building sites for people, not search engines
- why you should never be afraid to give out your best stuff to people
- the Authority myth
- how you could be sabotaging yourself by setting yourself up as an expert
- the proper way to utilize forums
- when is the right time to create products
The interview also comes with an transcript and action plan worksheet as well. You can grab it through the link below:
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Hope you get a lot out of it and let me know in the comments what you think, thanks!