Chapter 6 Section C

The Content of Your Site

Let’s start this section the same way as we did for The Structure of Your Site, with the home page...

Your Theme-Based Content Site is made of a home page that gives the “what’s in it for me” about your site. It elaborates on the VPP by expanding upon

What specific and high-value information does your site deliver?
What is your unique positioning for this delivery (i.e., what is your angle of approach)?

It accomplishes this while focusing on your Concept Keyword. What do I mean? Well, like I said above, you have two audiences, your visitor and your spider.

Choose your Specific Keywords from the Master Keyword List of high profitability keywords that you developed during chapter 3 (and continue to develop). Each of your Web pages will focus upon a Specific Keyword to do double-duty

as the preselling topic for the page and
to rank highly with the engines

The term General Keywords refers to more generic words that are associated with your Specific Keywords. You’ll never win the Search Engine war for General Keywords by themselves, you don’t really want such nonspecific traffic anyway.

But many people use word combos to search. They’ll enter a Specific Keyword and also a General one. For example, a searcher might enter any of

"penny stocks and investing”
“+penny stocks +investing”
“penny stocks investing”
“investing penny stocks.”

As I said, you’ll never win at the engines for the General Keyword investing, there is just too much competition. In any event, even if you win, the traffic is just too non-targeted to be interested in your specific niche.

But if you include the General Keyword investing in some of the major parts of your Web page, you’ll do well when searchers use word combos. And these are excellent, highly targeted visitors!

So blend some General Keywords with your Specific ones. You only need to include them once or twice, you’re not trying to win the war for General Keywords, just for the word combos. So no need to use them nearly as many times as your Specific Keyword for that page.

This is definitely worth doing. Why? Let me repeat, word combos bring excellent, highly targeted visitors.

Your home page delivers the above content to your visitor. The other pages of your site, your Keyword-Focused Content Pages, deliver content about high profitability topics.

As you write each Web page, you focus upon using a single keyword slightly more than your high school English teacher taught you was good English. This is the keyword that you want the Search Engines to rank highly. We’ll call this word the Specific Keyword from now on.

For your home page, the Specific Keyword is your Concept Keyword; “factory outlet stores” in our example.

I mentioned that your home page establishes your VPP. In other words, it answers what specific and high-value information you deliver, and it develops your unique positioning, your unique angle of approach. That does not mean that you should start like this

Welcome to Worldsbest- FashionFactory-outlet-stores.com, your home for news and information about fashion outlets. I have spent a lot of time searching for information and will be giving all the best of it right here.

No-o-o-o-o-o

Keep it fun, bright, intriguing! Bring out the appropriate emotions for whatever your topic happens to be. For example

Ever been on the road, far from home, when what do you see? A mall jammed with fashion outlet stores! Clothes outlets by the dozens. Shoe discount stores. Tommy Hilfiger. Polo. Other big names, and some intriguing ones you’ve never seen before.

Nirvana, right? The pulse quickens in anticipation.The wallet tingles in fright!

Is that you? If so, welcome! You may be reading this at home, but you’re on the road, a cyber-road to Outlet Heaven.

Yes, you can write like that. Really, it’s a snap since you have lived this stuff. First, just feel the emotions that you feel. What are they? How do you feel? When do you feel them? You know this, right?

Now, put yourself into the skin of your reader. Put those emotions into your visitor.

The few intro paragraphs above establish your VPP while quickening the pulse of your reader. From here on in, you’ll deliver the benefits of your site, you’ll answer the “what's in it for me” question that every visitor asks when arriving at a site.

As you do this, you continue to work your Specific Keywords (and, to a lesser degree, your General Keywords) in everywhere and often, but not too often. Where, exactly?

TITLE tag

Must contain your Specific Keyword at least once, no more than twice, and with some kind of variation or synonym. Try to include your most important General Keyword, too.
Up to 70, even 80 characters. Get your most important message in, right at the beginning. If the engine cuts your title off at 60 characters in its listing, you’ve still fired your big gun. Meanwhile, some engines will show up to 90 or so characters.
Remember, the title appears as the link in Search Engine listings. It must get the click, so make sure it’s attractive, without being misleading. Getting your Title right for both your reader and engine is the single most important thing you can do.

META keyword tag

Simple. The page is about “factory outlet stores.” Don’t dilute your META tag with a million synonyms.
You could add a few General Keywords that people might add when they search (“discounts, shopping”).
And consider adding a common synonym that has the a near-exact same meaning (”outlet malls”).
if you do put more than one keyword in this META tag, separated by commas, always put your most important one, the one that this page focuses upon, first. Here’s an example of an expanded META keyword tag

META description tag

META description tag = <META name=“DESCRIPTION” content=“Ever been on the road, far from home, when what do you see? A mall jammed with fashion outlet stores! Nirvana, right? Welcome! Take this cyber-offramp to “Outlet Heaven.”>

The META description is the other half of what searchers see in the Search Engine’s listings. So, like the Title tag, make sure it’s attractive, without being misleading. A gentle, good-natured tease, like the above, will do well.
150-200 characters. Some engines cut off the title listing at as little as 140 characters. So again, make sure you get your #1 benefit statement up front. Remember, a benefit statement does not have to be in your face.
Should contain your Specific Keyword at least once, try twice if it fits and see how it ranks. Include one or two of your most important General Keywords. Also, use common synonyms 2-3 times more (“outlet” and “mall”). Synonyms will work better and better as engines become more and more sophisticated. But your first priority is to place sufficient focus on your Specific Keyword.
Remember, do not repeat the TITLE in this tag. The reader will just see the same phrase twice in the Search Engine’s listing, once in the title and once in the description. That’s wasting valuable “word real estate.”

H1 and other header tags

H1 and other header tags = Fashion Outlet Stores Nirvana

The headlines are more important than your regular body copy. That’s true for both human readers and for the engines.

And remember this... some engines don’t use the META description tag to form the second part of their listings (after the Title) in their search results. In those cases, they will usually use the first words on the page, which are

Your H1 tag (first headline), and
The first words in the body copy after that

Contains your Specific Keyword at least once. Try to include an important General Keyword, too, different from the one you used in your Title.
No longer than 80 characters, 40 is better. Long headlines feel rather hypey.
Helps to get the click, so make sure it’s attractive, without being misleading
Does not contain your Title. Otherwise, if the engine uses your H1 tag, your listing and H1 tag will both say the same thing, needless repetition.

Body copy

First the Title appears as a link:

WORLD'S BEST Fashion Factory Outlet Stores, The Cream of Cyber Discount Fashions

This is followed by the H1 tag and the beginning of the body copy:

Your intro paragraphs establish your VPP while quickening the pulse of your reader. After that, you’ll deliver the benefits of your site, you’ll answer the what’s in it for me question that every visitor asks when arriving at a site.

And you’ll do it while blending in your keyword. You should not only work “factory outlet stores” into your copy, but also common synonyms and variations like “outlet stores” and “fashion outlets” and “fashion malls” and “discount fashions” and “discount outlets” and “discount malls.”

And also work in General Keywords that would likely be associated with your keyword (ex., shopping, shops, savings, discounts, etc.). If someone searches with part or all of your Specific Keyword and one of these General Keywords, you’ll have a good shot at being found. And you’ll have a high-quality, interested and motivated visitor! Remember though, that synonyms and variations should not reduce your main keyword (factory outlet stores) to near invisibility. Establish your main keyword and then sprinkle in the synonyms and variations.

How long should a page be? As long as it needs to be, but no longer! Don’t worry about what the Search Engines think about length, that’s only important to your reader. One technical consideration: For technical reasons, don’t make your page too long. Vector-based analysis could start to hurt due to its compressions algorithms. Keep pages to a reasonable length and you’ll be fine.

It makes no sense for an engine to score a short page any better than a long one. If length is of any importance, it’s minor. As I said before, use your Specific Keyword more than your high school teacher would have liked, this keyword density is of some importance. And so is keyword prominence, make it a point to use your Specific Keyword more heavily in the opening two paragraphs (it must be in your opening sentence), and also in the closing paragraph. And then, like a good chef, sprinkle throughout!

In general, it's a good idea to position your Specific Keyword near the beginning of every piece of your HTML: Title, META description, headline, body copy, etc.

Your scatter pattern should look like an hourglass, bigger (more frequent) on the top and bottom, and less (but still present) in the middle of the page. Change your approach somewhat from page to page. Experiment with different numbers, frequencies and patterns of keywords until you find what works best. Use common sense, and avoid abuse. Keep your content focused to a single theme per page.

Do not, ever, get off-target. Keep each page focused on material related to your keyword. Never, never, never introduce a second theme to a page, no mixed messages. Each page focuses purely on its keyword topic. And that goes for your site as well. The more you laser-beam on a single theme, the better you’ll do with the Search Engines.

Now here’s the hard part, the body copy has to do double duty as a Search Engine-optimizer and click-through- generator. While emphasizing your keywords, you must build original, valuable information. Meet the needs of a visitor who was searching for that keyword. This will convince the reader to clickthrough on your links. Don’t make the page read badly, or all your efforts to get your potential visitor this far will have been for nothing.

Link tags

And it’s not just your readers who see the links. The engines do, too. So include your Specific Keyword, and variations and synonyms thereof, in visible, blue-underlined text in your links to your merchants.

What about your links to the next tier down? Don’t just say “Click here.” Say “Click here for the best outlet malls, region by region.” The word “outlet malls” in the link to your “outletmalls. html” page reinforces “outlet-malls.html” for its Specific Keyword.

For that matter, even try to get your Specific Keywords included in the text of INcoming links. For example, if you are link-exchanging, specify that you would like “factory outlet stores” (or whatever the keyword of your “receiving page” is) to be contained in the text of the link.

Every little bit helps you get the edge on your competition.

File name/domain name

“outlet-malls.html”

The full URL, therefore, would be http://www.Worldsbest-FashionFactory- outlet-stores.com/ outlet-malls.html The only exception to this, of course, would be your home page. The home page must be named “index.html” but that’s OK. We already have its Specific Keyword included in the domain name, because it is your Concept Keyword!

Image ALT tag and name of image

OK, that’s basically how to put together a high-value content page that hits both key points.

Deliver valuable content to your readers
AND
tasty content to your spiders.

We concentrated on the home page, but the approach is the same for the TIER 2 and TIER 3 Keyword-Focused Content Pages. While the home page, of course, focuses upon the fundamental Concept Keyword, the other pages each focus upon one of the HIGH-PROFITABILITY keywords that your master keyword list has identified.

Ultimately, you create Keyword-Focused Content Pages that

fit with your Site Concept and VPP
have a good supply/demand ratio
that you enjoy writing about.

Each page wraps a high-value topic around each Specific Keyword, following the guidelines outlined above.

QUESTION:
How is this different from gateways or doorway pages?

ANSWER:
Tons of people use trick sites called gateways or doorways. In general, these are low-value pages that score well with the engines but fail to deliver good content. They may get the visitors, but they don't get the click through, the purchase, the repeat visit, or much money.

Some use better content, so do better. Still, they use tricks like “invisible links” to lead the spiders through a site. I know. I used to do it quite successfully. Tricks, though, die a painful death. And they usually have poor side effects (like visitor disdain and engine bans). And then you have to start all over.

Your site, on the other hand, will both overdeliver great content and play fair with the engines. It will lead the spider just as reliably through your site. By planning your site out in advance, visible links do just as good a job, and will never fade in effectiveness. Actually, there’s no way that I would call your fashion site a “gateway” site. You’re building a true content-driven site. And you’re simply writing it to maximize your chances of being ranked highly by Search Engines. You’re selecting content on the basis of its profitability.

Important notice:

Gateways simply try to pull the engines. Put a page in front of the visitor. Most have little or no value content. Even if they have content, they don’t tie all together into a theme. They are built backwards, basically, thinking about how to fool the engines.

You are creating real content, not spider bait! That’s a big difference. It yields a huge, long-term advantage over doorways.

QUESTION:
What is the future for Search Engines?

ANSWER:
Dr. Ken Evoy says:

In Make Your Site Sell! (first edition), I “slammed” my own Phase II Gateway Sites since their pages were really nothing more than billboards.

Yes, they provided a bit of content. And no, they did not fool anyone. So they were ethically OK. But still, the content was low “copy-and-paste” quality for many of the pages. And the SEs were bound to object to “being stuffed.”

And, in fact, these kinds of gateways are losing their effectiveness.

I also talked about how Phase III Keyword-Focused Content Pages were the way to go. Each page was individually written for a certain keyword, much like above. But the pages did not necessarily all tie together into a theme. As we’ll see in a moment, this is a powerful step forward.

Meanwhile, though, while Phase III gateways are effective, it is not so easy to

create the site and write the pages optimally
submit the site to the right Search Engines and according to their policies
track the rankings at the Search Engines
make changes as necessary
follow traffic and click through rates

And that’s where the idea for Site Build It! was born. To create a technology that makes all techie stuff disappear and that allows people to focus purely on content. And to tie all that content into the wave of the future... themes.

How do I know themes are the wave of the future?

Instinctively, it makes sense. If you work with the engines, and construct your site and pages in such a way that they score you well, how could it not do well? Some serious SE guys have weighed in. These guys are on the cutting edge of Search Engine analysis.

Ralph Tegtmeier, from fantomaster.com, puts out a newsletter, FantomNews. It’s full of challenging, cutting edge info about SEs, spiders, etc. Here’s what he says in a recent issue

However, this basically linear approach is gradually changing now: as mathematical linguistics and automatic content recognition technology progresses, the major search engines are shifting their focus towards "theme" biased algorithms that do not rely on analysis of individual web pages anymore but, rather, will evaluate whole web sites to determine their topical focus or "theme" and its relevance in relation to users' search requests.
Ralph Tegtmeier

So he’s not the most accessible read. But it all boils down to theme based sites.

Ammon Johns, The Dark Knight wrote a brilliant article on theming.

Note this paragraph

What themes should do is make sites with more content about a subject rank higher than any single page site can do, no matter how well optimized. Vertical Theme analysis should greatly reduce irrelevant results, and will virtually eliminate those doorways where a few irrelevant keywords are thrown into the mix just because they are popular words. For those of us who want to attract qualified leads for sales, themes are generally a good thing.
Ammon Johns

Bingo! Theme-based sites will be the perfect affiliate tool.

Finally, Michael Campbell is less academic, he concentrates on practical applications of the theory to build sites that pull traffic. I can actually understand what he says sometimes! Like the other experts, he talks about how the SEs will become very theme-focused.

He goes on to discuss concepts like “term vector databases” and “page vectors”. Major technological changes are coming over the near future. Those with old-fashioned gateways will be swept aside as the irrelevant billboards that they are. But those with theme-focused content sites will be singing.

I’ll skip the tech stuff, because all this is built into layman-understandable online help in Site Build It!. But here are some of Michael’s important ideas and conclusions

Name your web site purpose in two words. Can you do it? What is your web site theme? Two words, three max. Themes are the new big winner in long-term search engine positioning.
What's a theme? It's all about narrowing the focus of your site, and the links to, and from your site, down to one keyword phrase, and alterations of that one phrase. You want to leave NO DOUBT, to the search engine, what your web site is about, in two or at the most, three or four key words.
if you have and entertainment section on your web site and a business section on your web site, you should in theory, split the topics into separate web sites. Otherwise your site may not to get listed at all if you are not closer to any one category than another.
What's really scary is the next wave of compression. It will be set up to eliminate redundancy "across" vectors. Translated this means, the removal of nearly identical pages for slightly different keyword phrases. The days of copying and pasting keywords in and out of an html template, for similar keyword phrases, may soon be over.
Terms (keywords) are collected and weighted within the document and corpus (collection) of documents. This means that keyword density will continue to be important not only on each page, but across your entire site.
Bottom line... Pick one topic and stick with it. If you need to focus on another topic, put it on another web site.
How much time do we have? Well, based on the history of things like link popularity, click counting and PageRank, new stuff gets implemented fairly quickly. Usually within 3 to 6 months. And some these new technologies are already in place on a couple of search engines.

Michael Campbell

The experts have spoken, emphasizing two crucial points

Site Build It! is perfectly timed. Don’t worry if all the above seems very complex. Part of Site Build It!'s job is to make all that invisible to you. The big point is theme-based sites will be the way for affiliates to succeed over the next few years, starting right now!

All those spammy, self-replicating, duplicated gateways will be compressed into nothingness. In a preview of things to come, a couple of major companies have seen their sites dropped from AltaVista for this very reason.

Ultimately, people with passion who produce themed sites with their own, original content, produced from their own brains, will win. And that’s the way it should be.

Mastering the Search Engines is getting more and more complicated. But if you love a good technical challenge, here are a few more resources that I would recommend

Planet Ocean
WebPosition Gold

As I said, if you enjoy the challenge, these are excellent resources, as are the ones quoted above.

But if you just want to write great content that meets the needs of searchers and engines, with all the technology working behind the scenes, hidden from you.
Site Build It!

QUESTION:
What does Michael mean when he says ‘ ... if you have and entertainment section on your web site and a business section on your web site, you should in theory, split the topics into separate web sites. Otherwise your site may not to get listed at all if you are not closer to any one category than another.’?

ANSWER:
That’s a critical paragraph. Engines will focus on themes more and more. If your site is about “factory outlet stores,” it’s fine to use all the variations and synonyms that we discuss above. It all reinforces the main theme. But If you add a section that starts talking about Saks Fifth Avenue and other highend retailers, you start to water down your site. The more off-theme your content, the greater the risk.

Focus on your theme and stick to it. That’s why an ideal site is 50-70 pages, no more. That should just about cover any niche. After that, your time will be more profitably spent by building the next content site on your mini-portal list.

QUESTION:
What about design? How important is it?

ANSWER:
Not as important as most folks think. Sure it’s important not to use 18 garish colors and spinning dojiggies. But take a look at these highly successful content sites

A clean and welcoming look and feel is a good start. A half-decent logo is a nice plus. Make it fast and easy to navigate. Then get out of your own way and let your words do the talking.

QUESTION:
Can I follow this approach on a free Web hosting service?

ANSWER:
Absolutely. But remember that success is much more than just putting up a site. Free sites have two huge strikes against them, they’re treated with disdain by both the visitor and the engines.

Let’s talk about humans first. When I notice that a site’s URL is at a free hosting service, I don’t bother clicking to visit. If I have a special reason, I might go, but I arrive at a free site with doubts. Most folks harbor the same kind of bias.

And what about the engines? Free sites don’t get treated with much respect by the Search Engine spiders, and Below zero respect by the directories like Yahoo!.

Here’s what Danny Sullivan, the most well-known Search Engine guru on the Net, had to say about free hosts, in a past issue of the Search Engine Update

... get your own site, under your own domain, rather than doing it within Tripod.com or any place offering "free" home pages. Sites offering free home pages are often looked upon with suspicion by search engines, because search engine spammers also make use of them. It's like sharing a house with bad roommates. Move out, get your own house, and you'll probably do better with search engines.

Even better, I feel, is Site Build It! Why? Because it delivers a solid, simple approach that removes all the complexity and technology away from view. Site Build It!'s through-the-browser SiteBuilder makes it so easy to build a site. It removes all the technical difficulties. You end up with a site that is a powerful traffic-builder and customer-converter.

Low cost, but since it's a totally normal site, it has all the credibility of an expensive, ISP-based site. Create as many pages as you like, no HTML or FTP knowledge is necessary! The SiteBuilder includes

Page Creation and Editing

Analyze-It!

Look and Feel Selector (including logo creator)

Link Library

Graphic Library

Tracker Library

Site Navigation Options

Online help

But Site Build It! goes way beyond the call of duty. Its InfoCenter provides

Traffic Stats

Click IN Tracker

Click Through Tracker

Automatic Search Engine Submission

Search Engine & Keyword Reports

Directory HQ

Pay-per-click HQ

And of course, the Site Build It! Manager tool makes the Master Keyword List child's play. It even does the demand, supply and breakout windows for you automatically, turning hours of work into minutes, as it builds and researches your Master Keyword List. (This service would cost you $18 per month, significantly more for extra domains, elsewhere, for less functionality.)

And there's more and more ways to build traffic: e-commerce capability, affiliate program- builder, ability to do mailouts, all are coming in the very near future!
Site Build It!

Even on the Net, there's no such thing as truly free. Think about it, a company has to make money to survive. One way or another, hidden or not, it costs you. But the low credibility of free sites costs you way too much. Your time. If engines don’t spider you, or if customers don’t respect it, or if advertising lures your customers away and hurts the sales-effectiveness of your site, you’re wasting your time. And that’s way more valuable than $20 per month to host your own site. You must, must put a value on your time if you want to succeed. All successful people will tell you that time is their most precious commodity.

A non-free site with your own domain is a prerequisite to build credibility with your readers and with the Search Engines. So find a good Web hosting service and put up a real site. For the $20 or so per month, it’s worth it.

QUESTION:
Many experts seem to be trying to convince folks not to market marketing programs. Rather, they should build sites of passion, write about what they know, and then marry that to profitable affiliate programs. Doesn’t that leave SiteSell.com, that you're recommending so highly, out in the cold?

ANSWER:
No, not at all.

True, experts are saying don't setup web marketing sites, and I agree. One thing the Net does not need is another Web marketing site! But here’s a neat little twist for you to think about. You think that only consumers search for “fashion model” or “fashion designer” or “fashion design”??

Of course, not!

Quoting from Dr. Ken Evoy, the developer of SiteSell:

When I was marketing my first product, PennyGold (penny stock investing software), I must have done thousands and thousands of searches on “penny stocks”... all on the major engines.

Why did I do that? Because I wanted to see how PennyGold was doing on these engines, and I wanted to see who was beating me! And in fact, that’s exactly how I found lots of competitors!

Come back in time with me, to when I was just starting out with my penny stock software.

Let’s say that, when I was doing my searches for “penny stocks,” you had already created a Theme-Based Content Site that was all about aggressive forms of investing... “theaggressiveinvestor.com.”

After doing your demand and supply research, let’s say, too, that you had dedicated one of your site’s pages to “penny stocks.” You wrote it to provide high-value content and to also appeal to the Search Engines.

What would have happened?...

I’d still be golfing today! Here’s why...

I surely would have found your page sooner or later, likely several times, on one or more of the engines. Really, there’s no magic involved. After all, you simply followed the basic principles of how to please the Search Engines.

This is not rocket science. Nor is it spam -- you have simply created good content that is of high-value to me, your potential visitor who was searching for your info, and that the engines have ranked highly. So I would have found you listed in the engines’ search results pages, no doubt about it. And...

If you had written a compelling title and description, I would have certainly clicked to your page. If your content about aggressive forms of investing was high-value, and if you recommended Make Your Site SELL! as a wonderful book that would help me succeed in my PennyGold business venture on the Net, guess what?...

Sure! I would have bought Make Your Site Sell!. And that way, I wouldn’'t have had to write it... or the newly expanded second edition, Make Your Site Sell! 2002. And I’d still be golfing!

You can do exactly the same thing. Except do it for a topic that you know and love like “fashion.”

If you write a wonderful page about “fashion design,” lots of merchants will find your page. After reading your excellent content about fashion design, you lead into a recommendation about SiteSell.com products, especially

So not only does your fashion-passion site generate income for you by sending fashion consumers to a select group of fashion merchants, you can also send fashion merchants to sitesell.com, creating an additional income stream!

For example, first, you write your content. This content must deliver good “information value” about fashion design. Since this is your area of expertise, that’s a snap. Your content closes by leading to in-context text links (those caught using banners will have a detention!) for merchants and consumers

For fashion merchants
Do you teach fashion design? Or are you a designer looking to sell your fashion designs on the Web? I’m pleased to tell you about the very best resource of its kind, at any price, about how to sell on the Web. It’s a book called Make Your Site SELL! 2002 -- at under USD$30, it’s far better than products costing 10 times as much.
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For fashion consumers
Are you looking for a top-notch school of fashion design?

(Please e-mail us if you feel that your fashion school or college belongs in the directory.)

This is just an example, but I hope you get the idea. You’ve created multiple streams of income, from both merchants and consumers, in an area that you love and know about and in an area that is not nearly as competitive as Web marketing (where so many people seem to congregate).

Still not convinced?

You still think that you can build a bigger business by targeting Web masters and others who are specifically interested in Web marketing? No, really – you’ll do far better by working your niche of passion. So many people get sucked into the web marketing game. They get interested. They read a lot. Pretty soon they figure that they’re experts and that they can sell what they know. Well, they are good, but Web marketing info is a jam-packed highly competitive arena. And you’re competing against pros, many of whom are extremely good at writing to please Search Engines.

Here’s just one simple indicator of the ultra-high level of competition. If you look up “e-commerce” in AltaVista, you’ll find 983,905 possible competitors (probably many more by the time you read this!); there were only 167,192 for the word “fashion.” Not only is there much more competition, believe me... the competition is tougher.

Still doubt me? Go to Overture.

Look up both “e-commerce” and “fashion.” See where it says Cost to advertise at the end of each listing? See how much the #1 spot costs

(amounts will be higher by the time you read this).

Since these amounts are bid by the companies, it’s another indication of how hot an area is. Finally, look at the kinds of companies on the first page for each of these terms. Seriously, you’ll do far better competing against “fashion” merchants than e-commerce pros.

That's why you should not be intimidated when you see that you have 21,307 competitors for the word “fashion designer.” Most of them very likely don’t know very much about ranking high at the Search Engines.

A second reason why you’re better off when you focus on a special “concept niche”...

There are tons of fashion-related merchants who’d love MYSS! 2002. And you’d have them all to yourself! What do I mean? Well, people looking for Web-selling information have quite likely already heard about it. But only fashion-related industries market to these people, they’re all dying for a great source of Net-selling information, you can provide that.

The niche concept site is a flexible strategy that anyone can do. Bend it and twist it -- add your own ideas. You really will do a great job with this.

Every now and then, Allan Gardyne focuses on successful affiliates. You can review his back issues for the success stories.

He gives several examples of high-earning affiliates. One way or another, they all follow the “fashion” strategy outlined in this chapter. However, each has their own little twist and add-on strategies.

Here’s the bottom line. Every single success story has focused on a niche that the affiliate knows and loves, finance, insurance, children, etc. That’s the fastest road for you, too.

And while you are on this road, if I can have just a small piece of your attention, I’d be most delighted. The WIN-WIN 5 Pillar Affiliate Program treats affiliates well financially, and provides them with outstanding tools, support, and education. I’d love to have you as a partner-in-sales.
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