Another first affiliate website...

[cpayne76]

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Hi,
This is my first website let alone first affiliate website so i'd be grateful if any of you could let me have your feelings on it:

Find Top Flowers | Find the top deals from online flower retailers.

Obviously i'm not really getting anywhere with the Google Page Rank at the moment but i have read most of the comments on here about how to get the best position. These changes are being implemented ASAP.
Your thoughts would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Chris

[Scorpioncart]

Hello & welcome,
I wouldn't worry too much about pagerank at the moment but would be looking to learn as much as possible about ppc (if your budget allows) then concentrate on SEO while you have some ppc campaigns running and spend some time link building, taking time to do it correctly.
You might also get some good results by having a couple of pages on Leeky's site and linking back to your's, at £2 for 60 days it's a cheap way to get your pages listed in the first 1-3 pages of google (assuming you do it right), Advertise your website online with our search engine friendly full page ads.
Other than that I'm sure you will get some good advice from other members & I wish you luck.
Stick with it and read as much as you can, it will pay off eventually.
regards
Kev

[cpayne76]

Thanks for your comments Kev, yeah i saw the pagerank10 thread and will probably give it a go to try and get the site 'out there'.
Thanks
Chris

[Scorpioncart]

As a bit of an incentive for you Chris I placed an ad on Lee's site at around 10pm last night and having checked on Google about 20 minuets ago its on page 4 from 9,620,000 results for some pretty big keywords, that has to be worth £10 of anyones money & I'm confident it will reach page 1.

p.s Better just say that I'm not connected with Lee or pagerank10 in any way before I get a spanking
regards
Kev

[cpayne76]

Ok will give it a go. Any extra tips for the pagerank10 page?
Chris

[Leosan]

My site Anitaria seems to be fine with Good Page Ranking, but I have started to target most networks and similar sites for free affiliation. Most effective seem to be Topsites in your neiche.

[Andrew Starr]

I would consider 'hiding' your affiliate links with a redirect script, this would allow you you to track which products your visitors are clicking

[hrbs]

I would consider 'hiding' your affiliate links with a redirect script, this would allow you you to track which products your visitors are clicking

Hi
fastclick lite is quite a good free script and uses a mysql database ( PHP Scripts from FTRSoft.com ).
Also use a 301 redirect to reduce the size of your link
eg flowersdirect/link1 could be cloaked as yoursite.com/id?1 and redirected using yoursite.com/fastclick/link.php?1 by using a 301 redirect from yoursite.com/id to yoursite.com/fastclick/link.php (assuming you have mysql/cpanel etc).

You could use this to maintain a central database of affiliate links using redirects from various sites eg
yoursite1.com/id to datasite.com/fastclick/link.php -> affiliate link
yoursite2.com/id to datasite.com/fastclick/link.php -> affiliate link

this way both sites use the same database ... easier to administer

there are probably easier ways ...

Regards

Keith
Fixed Fee Accountants and Tax, VAT, Payroll Specialists providing proactive, professional service to small businesses - HRBSaccountants.com

[cpayne76]

Hi,
Thanks for your thoughts, i currently have approx. 1800 products in the database so it would take a while to generate a new link for each one.
Chris

[Andrew Starr]

Hi,
Thanks for your thoughts, i currently have approx. 1800 products in the database so it would take a while to generate a new link for each one.
Chris

If your products are already in a database, then most of your work is already done.

Just give each product a distinct id, then on your pages the 'buy' button would point to the redirect script with the relevant product id, i.e. findtopflowers.com/go.aspx?id=9 , the redirect script then gets the affiliate link (from the database) for product no. 9 and redirects to the affiliate link

[cpayne76]

Aha ok, sorry i did say i was a bit new at this. I am using MS SQL server does this make any difference?
Chris

[Andrew Starr]

I use php with mysql, but yes you could do this with asp or ms sql.

I don't have any knowledge of asp, but I am sure there are many on this forum who do?