The Website Traffic Checklist: More Visitors, Shares, and Sales



We’ve created a website traffic checklist. We could go on-and-on about different traffic generation strategies – explaining each – but you’re a busy person. In fact, you may know how it’s done… it’s the timing and routine that’s the hard part. This website traffic checklist is to streamline your ability to reach the 3+ billion people using the Web. Follow (and check) each of these and you’ll get more visitors, likes, shares, and sales.     The AffiliatePrograms.com’s Website Traffic Checklist Does this contain every traffic generation strategy? No. You’d spend too many hours trying to do them all. You’d...

Use Google Trends for Niche Discovery: A Primer to “Get In” Hot Markets (Ahead of the Competition)



We love to use Google Trends for business research. It reveals and validates ideas. We get an inside glimpse where markets are going and whether they're in decline. If you can find a trending topic and pair it with an offer -- then you've got yourself a great opportunity to ride that social excitement and make a few bucks. Catching an early trend gives you plenty of time to begin creating content, selecting products, and making all-important, business connections. Sometimes it's a coin toss, though. Remember fidget spinners?     How many people got stuck with stockpiles because they "got in"...

How to Get Social Media Traffic in 3 Simple Steps (Based on Best Practices)



There are many ways to get a ton of social media traffic. Though, most will deliver fake clicks and no engagement. If you’re willing to put in the effort, then these techniques will work for you. The process will: Reduce low-quality pages on your site Help you earn social media traffic, without dodgy tactics Improve your branding and sales, too Here is a simple 3-step plan to get social media traffic fast.     1. Improve the quality of your content The best thing you can do is create better content. The ideal length of a blog post is about...

How to Pick Blog Categories (Without Making a Mess of the Blog Archives)



A common problem when bloggers pick blog categories is the lack of oversight. It’s having to rework blog category archives, as the blog grows, because the categories don’t match the topics. Or, they were creating new blog categories each time they went to publish. The blog became a jumbled mess. Good user experience and site navigation is the purpose of blog categories. This article will help you understand their purpose and how to pick categories that’ll best match your site (and intentions). (more…)

How to Start a WordPress Blog [2024] – A Step-by-Step Guide



Have you heard about this "make money online" thing and wanted to start a WordPress blog to get in the action? Or, maybe you'd like to share your personal experiences. Perhaps, it's building a blog for your company or freelance portfolio? All great options -- all doable with a WordPress blog. WordPress is the most popular content management system. Nearly 75 million sites use the platform for their personal blogs, business websites, and e-commerce stores. The platform is supported by thousands of developers offering as many WordPress themes and plugins. Chances are… If you want to start a blog in...

Find Free Images: 13 Indispensable Sites for Eye-Catching Media



Are you looking for free images for your blog? Perhaps you’re in search of photos for social media posts? Or, maybe you need free stock images and high quality- media for an e-commerce site? A lot of bloggers make the mistake of using Google to search for free images. Newbie (and some veteran) bloggers take to Google Image Search for photos that go into their posts not realizing many are protected by copyright. Knows what happens when you use these “free images” without permission? The copyright trolls show up. Uh-oh! There’s no easier way to kill a blog than getting...

18 Click-Worthy Headline Formulas (You Need to Try)



Why agonize the creation process of your blog post headlines when you could use headline formulas known for getting clicks and shares? You may be thinking: Wouldn’t this make my post look generic? Surely, it wouldn’t work for my community! Human love patterns because they’re easy to understand. It’s why we develop routines. There’s a safety in patterns. This carries over to those headlines you’d use for blog posts, oddly enough. The guesswork is removed when using headline formulas. 80% of people never make it past the headline – which would you choose… Risk it by creating something on your...

Updating Old Content: A One-Two Punch for Fresh Traffic and Engagement



Updating old content seems like a chore considering many content ideas are in the pipeline. You figure, “why bother when I could just create something new?”. I get it. There’s the idea of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. What if I told you… Updating old content would increase traffic and engagement. Something done in half the time compared to what you’d place in creating new stuff.   A Real Example of Updating Old Content here on AffiliatePrograms.com Can you believe there are over 1,500 blog posts on AffiliatePrograms.com? Makes sense considering the site has been operating for well...

Affiliate Manager Questions That Will Make You a Better Affiliate Marketer



Asking the right affiliate manager questions will help you find what's working. The affiliate manager is there to help you, the affiliate, promote to the best of your ability. Questions take the guesswork out of affiliate marketing. These affiliate managers have a great amount of data and this data can help you align your promotions. Doing so will help it to hit the right, targeted individuals. While using the right affiliate promotions. How so? Many new affiliates joining affiliate networks base their promotions on what's "hot". Or, what's showing the highest EPC. This is a decent starting point but it's hard...