As I have said in other posts, affiliate marketing can be so many different things. A lot of times, systems will take off and grow rapidly, drawing a certain type of people, simply because the person creating the program knew how to find the people he was looking for. They all fall right into his niche because he knew how to attract people who thought like him, believed like him and even would run a business like him.
Seeing how each of us is so unique, it is beyond me why people pay for keywords. There are things about ourselves, our ideas, convictions and values that no one else can understand, but those are like minded to us. And there is no one else in the world like each one of us. We should be able to attract others, who think similarly to us, without professional “optimization” ever being a matter. And no one knows this better than the “professional”. Fortunately for him, so many people are not in touch with themselves, that he’ll never be out of work.
When you have an seo professional optimize and draw traffic to your site, he wants to know everything about you and what you see your business becoming. But the most important thing he’s looking for, is how YOU want to succeed and how YOU want to relate to your buyers and your business partners. He ‘literally’ goes out and finds the people who you should be doing business with and the customers who are only interested in what you or someone a lot like you has to offer.
This is why we hear the term ‘duplication’ a lot in internet marketing. There are so many people going in so many different directions, thinking so many different and contradictory things, that if not for the silence of thoughts, the world would even crazier than we could possibly imagine. Ideas would clash and never meet their fruition, because they would be shot down by alternative ideas appearing as the exclusives. Of course that happens a lot now, because of all the people who feel they need to ‘think out loud’. The best thing we can do is collect our thoughts, let go of what we know is not for us, take up our chosen affiliation and ‘root out’ those who will join us. The law of probability is obsolete online. We should use Google to find exactly who it is we are looking for. Ask the questions relevant to ourselves, our niche, our business and our goals. (or not necessarily in that order) Only we can know, but the questions are out there. The answer is in you. Find the keyword phrases and answer the key questions for the person who is looking for you. Use Google Search Related Keyword Tool, Google Alerts, Gmail or Google Reader, FeedBurner and Adsense. But first, what is the real question? Perhaps that is the question.
I would like to share these Google Alerts results for my key-phrase-questions. They are based on “internet marketing” and “affiliate marketing” and all of their key-phrase results acquired from Google Insights. Just click on each entry, reply to these highly relevant key questions and leave your link. You should get some traffic to your site:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/google/dVSv
…but remember, these are very general questions.
