Ok, since I’m new to actually having an affiliate marketing site of my own, but do want to get into it this year for another type of income stream in my personal portfolio, here are just a few keywords that others have recommended that I combine with my niche keywords in order to attract buyers who are ready or more likely to buy, not just tire-kickers still looking for information and not exactly sure what they want yet:

• Top 10 + product type = in year (eg., “Top 10 fishing lures in 2012″)
• Best + product type + in year
• discount
• coupon
• buy
• cheap
• low cost

For the more traditional advertising-free blogs, you can use these kinds of keyword combinations to simply help bring you more traffic to your quality content blog and help raise your Google rankings for those keywords.

For traditional bloggers who actually do a bit of promoting products they use and believe in, these keyword combinations may help you, too.

So, what are your favorite or most productive or best results-getting buyer keywords? Anything working for you? Or do I have this all wrong? What do you suggest?

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Thanks, Monique. I’ll check that out.

Howie, that’s an awesome suggestion! I typed that in search just yesterday. And I was a buyer with my credit card out! Good call! “Alternative/s” — gotta use that one. Got any more?

@kristi-hines  Thanks for the website!  It will be most helpful.

@louisdagosto @kristi-hines

Louis, those are all good points. Keywords in domain, title, H1/H2, and sprinkled through the article is definitely best practice stuff.

But could you do me a little favor and let’s figure out how we could edit your last big paragraph so we don’t violate club rules against direct affiliate advertising. With the cloak, it’s kind of hard to tell. I don’t want our moderators to delete your response, so just to be on the safe sie, could you just edit your last paragraph a bit. No problem recommending something, but we’re not allowed to directly solicit. So if that’s not an affiliate link, could you please just add that you’re not an affiliate, that you just recommend it. Or if you are, perhaps we need to ask Kristi how you should edit that to stay within club rules.

I love the feedback you gave here. Very helpful. So Louis and Kristi, could yall just make sure it’s ok to keep it here before someone else comes along and knocks it out?

Thanks to you both!

OK, so does that mean affiliate links are allowed here, as long as they’re uncloaked and a disclaimer accompanies them?

In this case, I’m glad the post stays. Louis offered good advice outside that link. But since most of us here have advice and affiliate links of our own, as well as millions of affiliate marketers looking for sites that will take direct affiliate links, I hope the site doesn’t become overrun by that.  Kinda wish it weren’t allowed.

If people just say they have a link on their site and direct us to that, then they could still earn the affiliate income without cluttering up this site. If word gets out direct affiliate links are ok here, then you’re going to have a nightmare spamfest here pretty quick. Just me thinking aloud….

@kristi-hines @louisdagosto

great question and thanks Howie for the “alternative” suggestion @howwhowhen @atlantarobin