A quick note tonight as I am still really tired after the long weekend and Weddings!
I had to make a few changes to a couple of my websites tonight as I had noticed some had been dropped by Google completely, I don’t mean just slipped a few pages, I mean not indexed.
One of them is The Forex Brotherhood which was riding high for “forex brotherhood” terms. It was a holding page and list builder during the pre-launch period and the end of August. Then I decided to redirect it with a hoplink to the Forexbrotherhood.com site, so when someone clicks on theforexbrotherhood.com it goes to the official site. I did this using a php redirect script on the index page.
This worked fine for a while and the site still ranked well for my keywords for several weeks giving me lots of hops and a few sales.
Then suddenly Google updated and the robots then found nothing, no meta tags, no content, no keywords etc etc. All of the links I have built obviously still remain, but they mean nothing if google finds nothing on the site. DOH!
I have reverted to a landing page with some keyword rich content and a list builder. Lets hope Google finds it again quickly and I can get back to where I want to be on the SERPS.
So my tip is, do not use php redirect on the index page if you want it to rank in Google, if you just want to use it as a direct link for ezine or adwords etc then fine, but I want search engine traffic too.
This might not be news to a lot of experienced marketers, but if one of you learns something then I am happy enough.
JZ
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Hi James,
I am a total newbie and do not know where to begin with affiliate marketing. Where do I begin…I have been researching for weeks now and there are so many gurus or people who do not consider themselves to be gurus out there selling their programs. I am totally confused and am not sure who to trust; I have been scammed in the past and at this point I do not have funds to experiment or make mistakes. I found your blog on one of my daily searches for honest help and answers that I could use to start in the industry. Seeing ads and claims of hundreds or thousands per day via affiliate efforts is frustrating to say the least when I do not know how to even start a campaign, I have heard alot about clickbank and commission junction. How do I began? Any help/insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
ddt
Hi ddt
It is a bit of a minefield out there so be careful.
I started writing a detailed response, but you inspired me to write a full blog post about it instead.
http://www.makeaffiliatemoney.info
Thanks for the comment.
James